Having grown up on a farm, Dave Stine knows a thing or two about working sunup to sundown. Now, he spends his days harvesting wood from the surrounding forest in the tiny town of Dow, Illinois and crafting custom wood furniture that is nothing short of stunning.
Read MoreBob Bernstein of Nashville’s Bongo Productions remembers a customer coming to one of his restaurant/coffee shop hybrids and saying, “This place is great—you should franchise it.” Bernstein immediately responded, “It’s just too weird to franchise.”
Read MoreA photo essay by Attilio D'Agostino.
Read MoreChef David Kirkland of Turn by David Kirkland shares his lemon-lavender biscuits with carrot curd recipe.
Read MoreChef David Kirkland, formerly of Café Osage, is putting down roots of his own in a new restaurant space, in addition to consulting at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ café and running his own catering business.
Read MoreTwenty-nine-year-old Lauren Ash understands firsthand the necessity of safe spaces for marginalized populations, specifically women of color. Thus, she founded Chicago-based Black Girl In Om.
Read MoreSt. Louis-based artist Lauren Michelle Tracy works in indigo and batik, a method using wax-resistant dyes applied to cloth. Her method results in quirky, beautiful objects and art that still reckon with the diverse histories of millennia-old traditions.
Read MoreBorn in 1976 in Kenitra, Morocco and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Mariam Paré has made art all her life. Scanning her vivid panoply of paintings and multimedia canvases, one is struck by at once their accessibility and wild variety.
Read More"In an instant, in the space of a conversation with a doctor, you go from moving through your life in a relatively normal way to being right at the edge of life. It’s so jarring. It’s as if you found yourself on the moon, in an instant. "
Read MoreNashville shop Two Son captures the essence of Americana through independent, locally sourced fashion designers.
Read MoreThis poem is excerpted from the book BLOOM written by Jay Erickson, who wrote it after being diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer in 2013. 100% of the book profits go towards rare cancer research. Erickson lives in Pawling, New York with his wife and two daughters.
Read MoreA storied firm isn’t built overnight, and is often helped by an unlikely turn of events or two. Such is the case with this architect. In the time since Zeitlin took on his very first project, he has built a firm with 15 architects and a space in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville, which doubles as an art gallery.
Read MoreThe story of Kansas City-based ceramic artist Emily Reinhardt begins like this: she graduated from Kansas State University with a BFA in ceramics, stayed in the college town of Manhattan, Kansas for two years, and then moved to Wichita for six months before heading to Omaha for a relationship. “We have since gone our separate ways,” she says, openly and without melancholy.
Read MoreCheck out exclusive extras from our photo shoot and story featuring Allison Gettings of Red Wing Shoes, written by Dan Michel. Part One details the landscape, and Part Two shows extras from our tour of the shoe factory. All photography by Attilio D'Agostino.
Read More"Who ever made music of a mild day?"
Read MoreCharacterized by creativity, careful craftsmanship and sustainability, designers and artisans in the Middle of America are merging a locally made ethos with forward-looking originality.
Read MoreStine’s woodworking shop is a short walk from the family farmhouse, one of many dotting the cornfields and gentle knolls of Dow. The scene is so beautiful that it subverts the potential for cliché.
Read MoreDiane Yang, executive pastry chef at Spoon and Stable in Minneapolis, shares a delicious and comforting recipe to break the grey of winter.
Read More“Keep it simple.” This has become the fundamental principle behind chef Diane Yang’s much-lauded approach to desserts.
Read MoreMuhammad Austin might go by “Mvstermind,” but his countenance is quite humble. In person, he’s one of those rare artists with both a chill affect and sincere ardor.
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