Blaine L. Davis

2 months ago | architecturaldigest.com | Kathryn Romeyn |Blaine L. Davis

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For the Sheinmans, their property on Shelter Island isn’t merely a vacation home. It’s like a history book chronicling their family of four’s tenderest and most important moments together.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson |Blaine L. Davis

By Design takes a closer look at the world of design, in moments big and small. NOT LONG AFTER buying their home in the early months of the pandemic, a young couple from New York City brought in a shaman. Lights were turning on and off without explanation, doors were spontaneously opening and closing.

Oct 8, 2024 | calfnews.net | Blaine L. Davis |Tayler Durst

By Blaine Davis, Contributing EditorTraversing again through the proverbial “ranch gate,” I am on another trip south to the Gulf Coast. This time to celebrate my wife, Tammy’s, birthday and a gathering of her five best college friends at our “Happy Place.” As the miles rolled by, the title of an AC/DC rock number, Highway to Hell, came to mind.

Sep 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nick Haramis |Blaine L. Davis

IN OCTOBER 1976, the artists Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian Buczak met at a SoHo loft party. Hendricks, then 45, was associated with the Fluxus movement, a loose affiliation of 1960s conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Yoko Ono, who rejected traditional practices like abstract painting in favor of elaborate performances.

Jun 10, 2024 | calfnews.net | Blaine L. Davis |Tayler Durst

By Blaine Davis, Contributing EditorReturning from two back-to-back road trips to the “Third Coast,” I discovered yet another facet of the Lone Star State: its proclivity for solar farms. As I have often remarked about an extensive field of solar collectors adjacent to Anson, Texas, just north of Abilene, I just discovered an even larger installation outside of the small town of Paint Rock in Concha County of west central Texas.