Style + Design

An Artful Life

An Artful Life

Jeff Wapner, founder of Santa Barbara–based Paradise Is Divided Into Blue and Green, featuring bespoke surfboard bags and one-of-a-kind totes

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Home, Sweet Floating Home

Home, Sweet Floating Home

The floating structure was rebuilt using structural insulated panels, heavy steel frames, and industrial-grade piping to withstand humidity and harshness of the weather and resist termite infestation.

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Yes Store comes home at last

Yes Store comes home at last

It’s known as “the nation’s longest running seasonal arts & crafts cooperative.” But The Yes Store can’t make that claim anymore, since it’s no longer seasonal. It’s year-round. And it’s not nomadic anymore, because after 55 years it’s found a home, at 1100 State Street, in La Arcada Plaza.

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Seated in history

Seated in history

A working museum of vintage barber chairs Jorge Salgado bought his first vintage barber shop chair in 2011 from an online auction. It was a Koken, made in the United States in the late 1890s. The frame was made of wood with copper and nickel trimmed accessories. It...

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domecíl 

domecíl 

By hand, beautiful and natural by Leslie A. Westbrook  It’s perfectly “natural” to want to touch everything in Stephanie Payne-Campbell’s lovely home and natural lifestyle boutique, domecíl, tucked into Santa Barbara’s Victoria Court. Each and every beautiful and...

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