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Penn and Teller. Fred and Ginger. Simon & Garfunkel. Sonny and Cher. There has been no shortage of powerful creative duos throughout modern history, and their success makes sense: Bouncing ideas off another person gives us clarity and a fresh perspec

Since 1977, acclaimed American artist Hunt Slonem has had more than 350 exhibitions at galleries and museums around the globe. His first solo exhibition in Denver—at LoDo’s K Contemporary gallery—features more than 200 of his vibrant, Neo-Expressioni

5280 Home: Your home is on the 23rd floor of an Uptown building. What drew you to sky-high living? Keia McSwain: Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be in a high rise in the city. Everything about me says high rise. And what does your home

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1. Skip white ceilings. “If you’re going maximalist, the number one thing you need to remember is don’t forget the ceiling,” Schumacher says of the all-important “fifth wall.” In this study, she employed China Seas’ iconic Lyford Trellis wallpaper in

5280 Home: Your work is almost sculptural in its appearance. Tell us about your process. Kristen Abbott: I love working large-scale because there’s so much room on a large canvas or wood panel to experiment. I bounce around between acrylics and oil

Every so often, a vacation sweeps you off your feet so completely, you fantasize about staying forever. Peter Newlin saw it happen when his friend, affectionately called Surfer Dave, fell in love with Bocas del Toro, Panama, and moved there with his

At designer Lindsey Jamison’s house in Steamboat Springs, the family dines at a ping-pong table—not atop the turf-green surface you’d find in a rec center or college dorm, but on a lustrous walnut slab whose leather net is removed during mealtimes. I

Who: “It’s that clichéd story of the dishwasher who worked his way up,” Dane Hiett says of his 16-year professional journey in the restaurant industry, which led him to open luxury catering company Chef Dane’s Kitchen in 2017. The list of dishes he’s

Gretchen Bruno stood in the middle of her new-to-her Cory-Merrill home and tried to figure out why it felt wrong. “It was 2014, and I had totally fallen in love with the house when I toured it. It had a great flow and pretty light,” she says. “Then w

The minute Ashley Rheingold set foot in this late-1800s Victorian near Boulder’s Eben G. Fine Park, she knew it was the perfect place to settle with her three kids. “It was the first house I looked at, and I loved the small spaces and the light,” she

With an ancestor as worldly as Louis Comfort Tiffany—a renowned stained-glass artist and avid collector of Asian and European art—it’s no wonder that Nadia Watts naturally gravitates toward decor from around the globe. “I think incorporating multicul