Design In The Desert

September 26, 27 and 28, 2008

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Join Linda for three days of art-filled fun and design knowledge in Santa Fe this fall -- the perfect time of year to visit the beautiful Southwest.

In addition to Linda's full-day workshop of architectural and interior and exterior design principles, we will visit art galleries and antiques shops, enjoy local foods, tour the Santa Fe Design Center, and have an unprecedented opportunity to see two homes that have been featured on the cover of Su Casa magazine.

All in one weekend!

Seminar Agenda

Linda joins with Waxlander Gallery and Sculpture Garden to host an evening welcome reception in the gallery's 150-year-old adobe on Santa Fe's famous Canyon Road. The gallery was founded by watercolorist Phyllis Kapp 23 years ago and has been exhibiting an energetic and unpredictable arrray of contemporary works in a wide range of media. Housed in a beautiful old adobe and poised behind a garden of beautiful life size bronze sculpture and mesmerizing kinetic art, Waxlander invites you into a world of vibrant color. The Gallery offers collectors a wide variety of contemporary art in watercolor, oil, acrylic, mixed media, kinetic outdoor and bronze sculpture. No visit to Santa Fe and the Santa Fe art community is complete without a leisurely stop at Waxlander.

Before lunch, we will tour the home of artist Kirby Kendrick in Santa Fe's historic Garcia Street neighborhood. Linda worked with Kirby on the remodel of her 1932 artist's compound, which was featured on the cover of Su Casa magazine's Fall 2007 issue.

The rustic adobe is filled with old vigas, colorful, hand-painted niches, fabulous artwork and outside, a secret Santa Fe garden.

For lunch, we will head over to the Santa Fe Design Center. Linda will lead a tour of some of her favorite shops, including Diseños, which carries exceptional Spanish Colonial art and antiques; Sparrow Antiques, which offers vintage textiles and crafts from across the U.S.; and Gloria List Gallery, home to an amazing array of ethnographic or sacred art from throughout the world. Guests will have the rest of the afternoon to explore on their own.

The Design Center is a two level shopping center, and the perfect stop for home furnishing and art collection pieces. The Design Center is housed in an art deco building that was formerly a Chevy dealership. This retail space provides large, high ceiling rooms for stores to best show off their works. The Design Center houses over twelve galleries featuring fine photography, antiques, folk art and fine art.

Seminar guests are invited to a private tour of Linda's own 1930s adobe home, Casita Alegria, on Santa Fe's historic east side. The home is featured on the cover of the Spring II 2008 issue of Su Casa, New Mexico's premier design magazine, along with an article written by Linda about her personal discovery of Santa Fe and the transformation of her home. You can read the article by clicking here.

Wine and delicious New Mexican specialties will be served on the Casita's patio.

Linda's slide presentation will include before and after photos of Casita Alegria's transformation, showing step by step how she updated the floor plan and function of the living spaces, while respecting the original architecture and retaining the character of the old structure. The presentation will focus on the principles of good design, and illustrate application of these principles to a range of styles including contemporary, Traditional, Mediterranean and European Country, among others. Her discussion will include:

The registration fee is $295 per person, and includes the welcome reception on Friday at Waxlander Gallery, a visit to the Santa Fe Design Center, a tour of the Grande Dame and a tour and evening reception at Casita Alegria on Saturday, seminar presentation, materials, lunch and a cocktail reception at La Posada on Sunday afternoon. To register, please visit our website's Seminar page. You can register online via PayPal or credit card, or print the registration form and mail it to us with a check. If you have any questions, please call us at 415.331.2040. We will be happy to answer them!

If you can't be here for the entire weekend seminar join us on Sunday. A registration fee of $150 includes the sunday seminar classroom day at La Posada de Santa Fe, the 2009 Color Trend presentation by Sherwin Williams Paint Company, a fabulous New Mexican lunch in the La Posada Garden and a Cocktail Reception at the end of the day sponsored by Sherwin Williams Paint Company plus a gift bag and notebook

Santa Fe has hundreds of choices of accommodation in every price range. Click here for a list of some of the accommodations near La Posada. Please book early, as the city's rooms are expected to fill up for the Wine and Chile Fiesta.

See you in September in Santa Fe!