Home + Design

Meet the Craftsmen

For two days, the men behind the furniture are on the floor Photography by Lily Siemens Once a year, builders from wood shops in northern Indiana drive down to Tulsa to Amish Crafted Furniture’s showroom. They stand amongst furniture made with their own hands and meet the people who take it home. This Meet the Craftsmen event now in its eighteenth year, is happening once again on September 11 and 12. For those two days, the men who cut the joinery will be working the floor. "The biggest...

Arts + Culture

Timeless Design by Hand

Designer and craftsman David D'Angelo Caldwell Photography by Heather Broomhall His first sewing machine was a Singer that his mother had won as a teenager at the Oklahoma State Fair sewing competition. It was old enough to be built from real metal. “It sewed like a dream,” says David D’Angelo Caldwell, who learned to run it as a boy in Choctaw and promptly turned it on his own wardrobe. Wide-leg jeans were hard to find in Oklahoma then, so he cut his open along the inseam and set in extra...

Food + Beverage

Well Dressed Wine

The Kir, the Kir Royale, and the Black Velvet prove that wine belongs at the center of the glass, not beside it. Article by James Andrews | Photography by Lily Siemens Recently there’s been a resurgence in people learning to make their own cocktails at home.   Many have rediscovered both the fun and value of home mixology as opposed to the expense of going out for drinks and entertainment. When discussing cocktails, the default assumption is it will be made with traditional spirits like...

Education

Where Every Dog Belongs

Woodland West Pet Resort offers dogs a school of their own, where training, play, and a whole lot of love means every dog belongs. Photography by Lily Siemens By the second week of August, the house has gone quiet again. The kids are back in school, the parents back in the office, and the one member of the household nobody thought to prepare is lying on the living room floor. The dog's summer, full of company, chaos, and someone always home, has evaporated overnight. Kent Clark has watched...