Unexplainable 1970s Wicker Plant Stand
PS owns a whimsical five-foot-tall wicker giraffe plant stand found buried in her late grandmother’s planting shed. When she restored it, she found that somebody painted over the natural buff …
Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation
Deborah Bertling talks about the Santa Barbara Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation.
Your Personal Psychology Around OBJECTS
I received FOUR questions from FOUR clients: How do I furnish a home on a budget in this market, when I spent ALL my funds on the house itself? I’m …
Weaving a Tale About Kilim Rugs
FG sent me a photo of her little dog perched on two ottomans covered in a tribal style wool fabric. She wants to know about them. That flat weave tapestry …
“All in the Timing”
Anna Kotula and Steve Grumette discuss “All In the Timing,” an award-winning collection of one-act comedic plays running at the Ojai Art Center Theater through May 15. Watch the Video
Gerstner and Sons Toolbox Shows Off Tools
FG owns a H. Gerstner and Sons toolbox from the 1950s at sixteen inches, tall, nine inches wind, twenty-five inches long, found in a Goleta garage. Its origins go back …
Gagaku and The Accessible Outdoors
UCSB Professor Fabio Rambelli talks about the Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan, One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art …
Piero Fornasetti and Practical Madness
HH sent me a box with a distinctive classical Renaissance PalladianPalladian print superimposed upon it, with a unique perspective, I see a near illegible signature beginning with “F” and ending …
TIPPING POINT: Too Much / Not Enough
Guest host RT Livingston speaks with artists Tom Pazderka and Marlene Struss about the TIPPING POINT: Too Much / Not Enough show all three exhibit in at Abstract Art Collective through …
Why a Fruit Bowl Lamp?
JP’s fruit bowl lamp at about twenty-four inches tall looks like a strange combination for us to see today. It’s a bowl of fruit sculpture and a lamp; Why? This “period …