Style + Design
Brazil Meets the American Riviera
The love story behind Forte Stone’s Santa Barbara success... Photos and story by Carly Otness Some businesses are born out of an idea followed by a strategy and perhaps a business plan. Forte Stone was born out of a love story, a case of mistaken identity, and the...
An Artful Life
Jeff Wapner, founder of Santa Barbara–based Paradise Is Divided Into Blue and Green, featuring bespoke surfboard bags and one-of-a-kind totes
Sheds of Distiction
Lifestyle upgrades for the back yard By Hana-Lee Sedgwick Genuine Sheds and Studios is the vision of husband-and-wife team Ryan and Valerie Yates, who have spent over a dozen years building high-quality spaces for individuals and families looking to expand and grow....
Home, Sweet Floating Home
The floating structure was rebuilt using structural insulated panels, heavy steel frames, and industrial-grade piping to withstand humidity and harshness of the weather and resist termite infestation.
William Laman Furniture.Garden.Antiques
William Laman with the most recent offerings of some 50 annual sourcing treks to England, France, Italy, and Belgium.
Yes Store comes home at last
It’s known as “the nation’s longest running seasonal arts & crafts cooperative.” But The Yes Store can’t make that claim anymore, since it’s no longer seasonal. It’s year-round. And it’s not nomadic anymore, because after 55 years it’s found a home, at 1100 State Street, in La Arcada Plaza.
Seated in history
A working museum of vintage barber chairs Jorge Salgado bought his first vintage barber shop chair in 2011 from an online auction. It was a Koken, made in the United States in the late 1890s. The frame was made of wood with copper and nickel trimmed accessories. It...
domecíl
By hand, beautiful and natural by Leslie A. Westbrook It’s perfectly “natural” to want to touch everything in Stephanie Payne-Campbell’s lovely home and natural lifestyle boutique, domecíl, tucked into Santa Barbara’s Victoria Court. Each and every beautiful and...