Permanent Elective
Sometimes the smallest decisions lead to the biggest results. Heading for a degree in sociology and anthropology from Virginia Commonwealth University in the mid-1980s,…
Mane Attraction
The house introduces itself quietly, its long and low profile resting comfortably in the heavily forested landscape at the northwestern edge of Polk County….
A Clear Path
Glass, that most quotidian feature of our manufactured environments, is a playful medium. It can stand by quietly to allow light to pass through…
Crescendo Collection
Keyboardist Brian Turner has more than 60 pianos in his West Asheville studio — quite an accomplishment, considering that the studio is a…
A Shift in her Stars
More than a decade ago, Melissa Moss was living in Los Angeles and not loving it. She was an executive in the production end…
Tuned to Tradition
One day some years ago, the musician Becky Cleland asked her husband Ben Seymour to find her a plucked psaltery, a many-stringed zither of…
“The Modern Tribal Experience”
Wood sculptor George Peterson first stepped on a skateboard in 1972, when he was just six years old. Back then, the layered plywood under…
The Boatman
When Terry Dickinson went salmon fishing on a northern Maine lake almost 40 years ago, the water was dotted with the pontoon planes that…
Writing Her Own Script
The actress and former model Patti D’Arbanville lives with her Pomeranian Bisou Marie Antoinette D’Arbanville in a shingled, white-trimmed cottage in one of Tryon’s…
Sculpting Personalities
More than 40 years ago, just after her first child was born, Akira Blount found herself fashioning peculiar stuffed toys from old socks for…