Baked Earth: A Day In the Life of a Ceramic Terracotta Commission Artist It’s a random Tuesday afternoon in September of any year. I am sipping ginger tea and trying to figure out what to do with the tail end of an already long day, when the phone rings and it’s a number I don’t recognize….
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Musings On Design: Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Part 1
Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture and the Spirit of Place The spirit of a place. This concept comes up throughout our interview with Jeffrey Gordon Smith, principal architect of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture based in Baywood-Los Osos, CA. There is a respect and celebration of space throughout the work of Smith and his firm….
Eye of the Day’s Fermob Outdoor Furniture in C Magazine
Eye of the Day is in C Magazine! The California lifestyle magazine celebrating the best in fashion, beauty, and home recently profiled the Carpinteria abode of Stephanie and Dewey Nicks, a lifestyle and fashion photographer. The couples’ oceanfront “high modernist-meets-New England traditional” style home has beach life touches from a surfboard hanging at the front…
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of the Romantic Garden
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Long time Eye of the Day customer Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Company recently installed three Italian terracotta Sako balls in a Santa Barbara garden. The three globes, provided by Eye of the Day, were custom colored by the company’s Service department. Null describes…
Top Your Pot with Tumbled Terracotta
TOP YOUR POT WITH TUMBLED TERRACOTTA You have a beautiful citrus tree and a beautiful pot, together making a perfect statement piece, but maybe there’s something to make it even better from a design standpoint and for water conservation. Design professionals typically use under-planting to finish the look of a tree or tall plant in…
Groundskeeping: Brent’s Eye on Austin
GROUNDSKEEPING: Austin, Texas Being from California, born and raised, I have always had a prejudice towards Texas. They were cowboys and we were beach people if not surfers. They like six guns and we like bongs, they eat TexMex and we eat real Mexican food. Girls in Texas have big hair and wear lots of…
