An Art and Design Lovers Santa Fe Hit List

Stay

Glampers will take plenty of Instagram-friendly pics at KitFox (www. staykitfox.com) 20 minutes from Santa Fe. Chic safari and bell-style tents are surrounded by high desert, and the property’s general store sells locally made items.

Travelers looking for luxury and timeless Southwest style will love the 58-room Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi (www. rosewoodhotels.com), showcasing handcrafted furnishings and traditional wooden ceilings downtown near Cathedral Park.

Eat

The upscale Compound Restaurant (www.compoundrestaurant.com) — a fixture in Santa Fe fine dining for decades — still draws design-loving locals and visitors for its 1960s redesign by famed textile designer Alexander Girard. New executive chef Weston Ludeke worked with Jean-Georges.

Aesthetes flock to the second floor Opuntia Cafe (www.opuntia.cafe) in the Railyard for the industrial loft-like space with an indoor koi pond, views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and the best tea selection in Santa Fe.

Kakawa Chocolates (www.kakawachocolates.com)specializes in re-creating original Mesoamerican and colonial chocolate recipes like drinking chocolate elixirs and architectural truffles using local ingredients such as goat cheese and sage.

Shop

At Shiprock Santa Fe gallery (www. shiprocksantafe.com) on the historic Santa Fe Plaza, fifth-generation art dealer Jed Foutz, who was raised in the Navajo Nation, sells a curated collection of historic and contemporary Navajo rugs and blankets, Native American jewelry, Pueblo pottery and sculpture.

The appointment-only shop Santa Fe Vintage (www.santafevintage.com) is a treasure trove of vintage art and fashion that results in the perfectly unpolished Southwest look like worn-in western boots and 1950s leather-fringe jackets.

A former assistant milliner at the Santa Fe Opera makes custom hats through her company Ramblin Rose Hat Co. (www.ramblinrosehatco.com), but they’re so popular, you have to get on a wait-list.

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. - Luther Burbank Stephan-Hill invites you to view our summer collections along with this stunning cabochon peridot and diamond 14k yellow gold Quattro® pendant.