From Capitol Hill and Uptown to Curtis Park and Ballpark, there is a neighborhood in downtown Denver for almost every lifestyle. Especially if you want to enjoy one of the more than 200 stores and 300 restaurants in the city, not to mention a performing arts center, sports arenas, and galleries. And if you are […]

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Eero Saarinen’s “Tulip” collection, Denver’s One Home is co-hosting a party with Dwell magazine and Knoll, the furnishings company founded in 1938 by Florence Schust Knoll and Hans Knoll that has been producing Saarinen’s designs since the 1940s.
The son of architect and Cranbrook Academy of Art director Eliel Saarinen and […]

A unique collaboration between Craig Mayer and Peter Blank, Mile Hi Modern is the only real estate service in Denver specifically dedicated to modern architectural properties — from mid-century modern to new builds and everything in between.
Mayer, who has degrees in landscape architecture and environmental design, is a member of the Denver Board of […]

In a former life I was an editor at another local magazine and when I told people where I worked they said, “Oh, Colorado design — that’s antler chandeliers, animal-skin rugs, plaid flannel and log furniture, right?” And, unfortunately, that’s also what many design denizens in larger, eastern cities think of when they think of […]

Seventy degrees one day, snowing the next: Welcome to spring in Colorado. With un-melted ice in heaps all over the city, it is hard to believe that winter really is almost over. Echter’s Garden Center, Greenhouse, Nursery & Patio has been planning for it, though. This weekend they are hosting their lawn and garden “Echxpo,” […]

Bold, colorful and metallic are the current trends Sarah Ashford has noticed in the walls of the well-designed homes of Denver lately. And it’s her business to pay attention — she and her team of artists at Sarah Ashford Studios have been finishing the walls of Denver’s elite homes since 1990. She knows firsthand the […]

Dubbed by its creator as “an exercise in sustainability that reincarnates existing products,” Rehabilitated Dishware by Sarah Cihat is a line of far-from-ordinary ceramics. Cihat, a graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York City, imagined and established the collection as part of her thesis project. She takes dishes from second-hand shops and […]

For some people prefabricated architecture conjures up images of swerving around double-wides on the highway and neighborhood landscapes filled with cookie cutter homes. Others envision sleek, modern marvels direct from the pages of Dwell. Whatever your experience has been, it is probably as varied as prefab itself.
For the uninitiated, prefab is a loose term for […]

The birthdays of two of my close friends fall less than a month after the holidays. After having spent most of November and December … okay I lie; after spending at least a week contemplating, locating and purchasing the perfect gifts for family and friends, the last thing I wanted to do was repeat that […]

I like to think I’m an organized person and, in my own way, I am. I know exactly which pile of loose papers I should be able to find that receipt or torn-out magazine page and in which corner of my bedroom floor my favorite pair of jeans may be resting. I live in organized […]