A sunset over a Mediterranean beach, the ocean meeting the sand, golden light reflected on crystal blue waters. At Vidrio, …
Plated Pottery
Imagine gazing at the face of Audrey Hepburn, Willie Nelson, Bill Murray or Waylon Jennings, glazed onto your plate, halfway …
Art with a Heart
Twenty-seven artists, 27 pieces of art, 27 years: Works of Heart returns this month, with some changes, after a six-year …
Dishes, Deconstructed
A squiggly line of green acrylic paint is a chili pepper in “Chiles en Nogada.” Sand is a hamburger bun in …
Trophy Brewing’s Morgan Street Monsters
Baseball cap-wearing basketballs and fedora-clad pyramids intermingle with wide-eyed, fuzzy-edged monsters on a colorful new mural on the wall of Trophy …
The City in Color
As adults with jobs, bills and countless other stresses and responsibilities, it can be quite alluring to harken back to …
Inventive & Imaginative
Pantone, the ‘color bible,’ chose Ultra Violet 18-3838 as the color of the year for 2018. The New Jersey-based color …
If The Sneaker Fits
JUST TWO YEARS AGO, you’d be unlikely to catch a corporate vice president pairing a velour hightop with a flash y suit, or …
Flitch Furniture: Luxurious Lounging
Each piece created by Flitch Furniture is built with purpose, longevity and nature in mind. The Raleigh-based company is named for …
The Art Handler
Behind-the-scenes museum work requires a cool hand. For Raleigh’s premier art museum, that hand belongs to Tom Lopez. On a recent …