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Summer in the Valley, Ojai's booming food scene, seaside style essentials,

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80 OFF THE GRID

Written by Kelsey McKinnon Photographs by Sami Drasin

92 KING OF THE COAST Written by Lorie Dewhirst Porter Photographs by Sara Prince

104 ON THE WATERFRONT

Written by Joan Tapper Photographs by Michael Haber

116 RIVIERA SUMMERS Written by Lorie Dewhirst Porter Photographs by Nik Wheeler and Kerry Wheeler

130 BACK PAGE Catching waves with photographer Jeff Divine in the ’70s 28 s u m m e r 2 0 2 2

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hen you live in a place that exudes summer vibes all year long, it is hard to see a shift in seasons. But the longer hours of daylight do make a difference, and savoring them is the best way to capture the full Santa Barbara experience. I still remember fondly the summers of my youth at Hope Ranch beach, where we spent full days on the sand with friends, from early morning to a night capped off with a bonfire. Though responsibilities have now set in, I cherish those memories and still fill these slower summer months with barbecues and seaside get-togethers. Our cover subject—actress, writer, photographer, and now jewelry designer Nikki Reed—clearly enjoys her getaway in Santa Barbara County with her husband, actor and regenerative Bourbon entrepreneur Ian Somerhalder. A vintage Airstream, organic gardens, and an assortment of cows and chickens all play a part in the perfection. In “Off the Grid” (page 80) we visit her private nirvana, where she revels in nature and walks barefoot among the sunflowers, and where she has never been more radiant. When it comes to capturing memorable moments, you can depend on Nik and Kerry Wheeler. The father-and-son photographers are behind The Wheeler Collective, a portfolio of iconic images from the ’60s to present day. Their work in “Riviera Summers” (page 116) is sure to set the tone for leisurely warm-weather dreaming. When the sun sets late, there’s nothing

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ON THE COVER: Nikki Reed. Photographed by Sami Drasin.

ILLUSTRATION: DAVID DOWNTON

better than a long day on the water—and there’s no better place to set sail from than the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this season, as noted in “On the Waterfront (page 104). Prefer to stay on shore? The club’s location by the breakwater in the harbor offers a prime view of picturesque vessels in the channel. Artist Stanley Boydston has his own take on ocean panoramas. He celebrates the dramatic waves of Rincon (the ultimate surf spot!) in a most beautifully abstract way. In “King of the Coast” (page 92) we stop in at the fascinating Montecito studio where he creates his colorful masterpieces. Whether you are on a surfboard or sailboat, surrounded by gardens or with your toes in the sand, any time spent here during these long light-filled days is precious. Soak it up.

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“I’m ready to book my next trip to Ojai, Los Olivos, and Los Alamos,” says the L.A.-based photographer and former deputy photo editor at Travel + Leisure, who captured new culinary havens and shops across the Valley for much of our Live section (page 39) and Ojai for “A.M. to P.M.” (page 50). “I love how walkable all these towns are.” S.B. MUST DOS Spot dolphins at Loon Point Beach in Summerland. • Entertain your kids (and yourself!) at MOXI museum. • Little Dom’s Seafood in Carpinteria.

KELSEY Mc KINNON

“Nikki Reed has such a sweet, gentle demeanor and might be the only person who could make living on a farm look this glamorous,” says the Modern Wedding author and longtime senior editor of C Magazine, who penned “Off the Grid” (page 80). S.B. MUST DOS I adore William Laman’s charming furnishings and tabletop décor in Montecito. • Coffee at Pierre Lafond Market, then treasure hunting at Upstairs at Pierre Lafond. • Peanut butter smoothies from Blenders In The Grass.

“I loved getting to capture Nikki in her element,” says the L.A.-based fashion and portrait photographer who shot the star for the cover and “Off the Grid” (page 80). “It was so much fun running around a farm with a bunch of animals.” S.B. MUST DOS A walking tour of architect Jeff Shelton’s downtown Santa Barbara buildings. • Wine tasting in the Funk Zone. • The Lark in Santa Barbara for dinner.

Contributors

CAITLIN WHITE

After spotlighting a new Oceanside hotel in “O’side Opens Up” (page 69), the food and travel writer says, “It’s one of the coolest up-andcoming neighborhoods in Southern California.” White—who also covered the flourishing Palm Springs hospitality scene in “Desert, Three Ways” (page 72)—adds, “There’s so much to love about Greater Palm Springs.” S.B. MUST DOS Walk the historic Presidio neighborhood. • A sweet little vermouth nightcap at Loquita. • Lucky’s in Montecito for steak and a martini.

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DEAN ALARI

“I’m a sucker for a fancy meal, so laying out the Taste pages is always fun,” says Santa Barbara Magazine’s contributing graphic designer. “I take mental notes on where to stop next time I’m in Santa Barbara County.” When the Costa Mesa resident and Westmont College alum isn’t working, you’ll find him surfing, taking pictures, and searching for new coffee shops. S.B. MUST DOS Visiting friends and hiking in Summerland. • Grabbing a bagel sandwich at Java Station. • Sitting in the sunshine on the Santa Barbara County Courthouse lawn.

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WE LIVE IN PARADISE

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Prince Harry makes his polo debut in Santa Barbara

Prince Harry and friend, fellow polo player Nacho Figueras, lead the Los Padres Polo team in tournaments throughout the 12-goal season this summer. "We are thrilled that Harry chose to play with us this season,” says David Sigman of the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club. In May, Harry and his wife, Meghan, hosted a star-studded match benefiting our own local charities Heal the Ocean, Food Bank, and CALM. The SBPRC is open to the public and welcomes everyone to come enjoy and learn about the sport of polo. Check sbpolo.com for weekly schedules and special events.

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he queen of California cool is at it again. With an ever-expanding portfolio of U.S. boutiques, a recently published second book, and a distinct voice in the fashion, beauty, entertaining, and home décor realms, JENNI KAYNE shows no sign of slowing down. The lifestyle maven’s eponymous brand and its unmistakable relaxed-meets-refined aesthetic were on full display—quite literally—when she unveiled the Jenni Kayne Lake House in Lake Arrowhead in 2019 (which she since successfully sold). Now, the designer has debuted her second experiential showcase property—an idyllic retreat nestled on a hillside in Santa Ynez. Renovated and decorated to a T, the serene

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CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Jenni Kayne; inside the designer's Santa Ynez ranch house; on-site activities include farmto-table dining; the Pacific bed, $4,395.

20-acre Jenni Kayne Ranch will be a hub for branded and invitational events. Plus, fans can enter a forthcoming social media giveaway that will allow members of the community to stay at the abode and fully immerse themselves in the Jenni Kayne world. Pieces from the interiors collection mingle with one another in the space, while outside, horses, baby goats, and donkeys roam the landscape. “I grew up in Santa Ynez, so when picturing an escape from L.A. for my family and friends, the location felt like the perfect place to bring the growing Jenni Kayne Home brand to life,” says Kayne. The launch is just one of Kayne’s latest endeavors in the region. In August, she will open the doors to a home store in Montecito, and come fall, JK’s Oak Essentials skin-care line will take center stage at The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern spa in Los Olivos. J E N N I K AYN E .CO M . ANUSH J. BENLIYAN

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Home Sweet Homestead

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Live Catch of the Day

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Bar Le Côte "Royal" caviar; executive chef Brad Mathews and general manager Gracie Gates; Helvey Design Studio did the interiors; day boat scallop crudo; soft-shell crab.

reminiscent of European coastal cuisine and an on-point international and local wine list. In addition to serving dinner Wednesday through Sunday, the restaurant now offers lunch with casual fan favorites like arroz verde (vegetarian paella), fried-oyster po’ boys, skate-wing sandwiches, peel-and-eat shrimp, and BLC spiced fries. There’s happy hour, too, with halfpriced bottles of sparkling wine to pair with oysters or caviar. 2375 Alamo Pintado Ave., Los Olivos, BA R L E CO TE .CO M . ANNA FERGUSON-SPARKS

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hen BAR LE CÔTE opened in Los Olivos in September 2021, it marked the second Santa Ynez Valley establishment led by Michelin-starred restaurateurs Greg Ryan and chef Daisy Ryan— the award-winning duo behind Bell’s in Los Alamos—this time with culinary partner and chef Brad Mathews. The impeccably designed seafood tavern, part of the much-lauded Companion Hospitality restaurant group, features a modern menu

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What started about 10 years ago as a quest to create the ideal camp blanket has resulted in four rental cabins in Joshua Tree, an online home-goods shop, and, more recently, the opening of the first CAMPOVER store in Los Alamos. Consciously sourced, handcrafted housewares and “modern shelter supplies” line the shelves in the retail space that reflects the company’s utilitarian-design ethos and approach to hospitality. Coming soon: An expanded array of online offerings—including proprietary Campover products— and a handful of Campover-renovated Central Coast accommodations. 235B Centennial St., Los Alamos, CAMP OV ER.COM.

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A.F.S.

Elder Flat Farm, the 102-acre property organically farmed by Carla Malloy, has famously supplied many of the region’s best restaurants. It now offers its goods to home cooks at the ELDER FLAT FARM SHOP in Los Alamos. Open Thursday through Sunday, the farm store displays Elder Flat’s bounty of organic produce and flowers and farm-fresh eggs along with curated collections of artisanal products and provisions. The venue also hosts live music and other events, including classes on cheese-and-charcuterie-board styling, “how-tos” on raising chickens, and canning workshops. 325 Bell St., Los Alamos, ELDERFLATFARM.COM.

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inemaker Rob DaFoe’s passion for wine originally took hold more than 25 years ago, when the Santa Barbara County native toured France as a pro snowboarder. Now after more than a dozen vintages, eponymous DAFOE WINES occupies one of the newest tasting studios in Los Olivos, an intimate space lined with mementos of DaFoe’s well-lived life. Here guests can savor the label’s minimal-intervention, classically made wines, which include Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, concrete-aged Grenache, skin-fermented Grenache Blanc, Albariño, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay. Tastings also showcase DaFoe’s second label, ATTIC SALT WINE CO., under which he produces dynamic varietal blends. Photos and boards—of the surf and skate kind—adorn the tasting room’s interior, while an airy deck in front allows for outdoor tastings. 2901 Grand Ave., Ste. C, Los Olivos, 805-429-0070, DAFOEWINES .COM.

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Live I Walk the Wine An active wine-tasting experience awaits those who embark on the new hiking tours at renowned ALMA ROSA WINERY. The appointment-only hikes traverse the historic El Jabali estate, a 628-acre property in the Sta. Rita Hills appellation. The two tours—Caracol Hike ($75 per person) and Attente Hike ($95 per person)—vary in duration and intensity and showcase different sides of the estate, rewarding adventurers with spectacular mountain and valley views plus glasses of wine, followed by a private wine tasting and cheese plate at Alma Rosa’s ranch house. Alma Rosa will offer a similar hiking excursion on July 23, during its third annual Peace of Mind: 10,000 Steps in the Right Direction fund-raising walk to benefit both One Mind and the Mental Wellness Center in Santa Barbara. A L M A RO S AW I N E R Y.CO M . A.F.S.

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t DUTCHESS, part of Santa Monica’s Rustic Canyon restaurant group, pastry chef/ partner Kelsey Brito takes full advantage of Ojai’s Sunday farmers market. She turns out classic French breakfast pastries, from pain au chocolat to almond croissants filled with fragrant almonds from Fat Uncle Farms. Heading into berry and stone-fruit season, she’ll be baking lemon-blueberry scones and gluten-free and vegan apricot muffins. “I want the pastry case to show off the full bounty of what’s growing locally,” says Brito. Come dinner, chef Saw Naing steps in with an appealing California-Burmese menu. 457 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai; 805-640-7987, For lunch, head to PINYON OJAI, the joint project of chef Jeremy Alben, baker Tony Montagnaro, and natural wine buff Sally Slade. Don’t let the casual ambience fool you; the food is seriously good, all made from scratch. Alben breaks down a whole lamb every week, braising the shoulder and neck for barbacoa hoagies, turning

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The seasonal menu at Rory's Place ranges from crudos to fresh pastas; the crew; offerings from the raw bar; the beverage list includes a "Citrusaid."

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Taste locally harvested shellfish in a sumptuous fruits de mer seafood tower that includes rock crab, uni, and rock shrimp. Meave tops a grilled tartine with lemony sunchokes, raw ahi tuna, aioli, and capers, and pairs a roasted half chicken with woodfire escarole. For dessert, drill into the seasonal dark-chocolate gelato with candied kumquats or the goat-milk banana cream pie, maybe with a natural wine from the list curated by Roni Ginach. 139 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, R O R YS PL A C E O J A I .CO M . S. IRENE VIRBILA

the leg into meatballs, and curing the belly pancetta style. Baker Tony Mont is a firm believer in long, slow fermentation focusing on regional whole grains, which gives Pinyon’s buns, rye sourdough bagels, and wood-fired pizza crust their flavor. A bottle shop tucked into a nook is devoted to both domestic and imported natural wines. Says Mont, “We’re using old world techniques in a new way to produce something different and delicious.” 423 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, P IN Y O N O J AI. C O M . For dinner there’s RORY’S PLACE from sisters Rory and Meave McAuliffe. Chef Meave has a resume that includes Gjelina in Venice, while Rory, a former film producer, manages and runs front of house. The pair’s indoor-outdoor space features custom woodwork (bar facade, banquettes) made of redwood and fallen Ojai oak, ceramic sconces handcrafted by Meave, and a live-fire hearth. The standout raw bar highlights

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hen a restaurant space with a sprawling patio and room for a big kitchen came up for rent at Coast Village Plaza, Michael Sheldon jumped. The retired tech CEO had an itch to open a restaurant for the community—and did just that. LOCAL invites the Montecito set to dine, drink, and lounge (with live acoustic music at night) from 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and until midnight on Friday and Saturday. An avid cook who’s eaten all over the world, Sheldon, with chef Jonny McDermott, has designed a menu of his favorite comfort foods and more sophisticated dishes from his travels. The best seller—no surprise—is the double burger (a short-rib/brisket blend), which comes with French fries and a garlicky aioli. There’s also a lot to like about the Korean maple-glazed chicken wings, crudo from the raw bar, a shrimp po’ boy doused with Crystal hot sauce, shrimp Louie salad, and pan-seared salmon in red-curry coconut broth. The latest menu additions are a Snake River Farms Wagyu rip-cap and Alaskan halibut with caviar beurre blanc. And there’s more to come, promises Sheldon. Pastry chef Peche (who goes by just one

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name) turns out a mean panna cotta and chocolate peanut butter pie. Almost everything on the menu is gluten free, including batter for the Nashville fish and chips. You can even get a gluten-free burger bun if you ask. Live music—perhaps a pianist, guitarist, or jazz trio—often starts around 7 p.m. in the bar, next to the grand piano. Cue in a late-night menu that includes that double burger. 1187 Coast Village Rd., Stes. 8 and 9, Montecito, 805-770-2269. L O C A L M O N TE CI TO .CO M . S.I.V.

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In 2018, chef-owners Denisse Salinas and John Burnett launched HOOK & PRESS donuts inside Mosaic Locale, a shared pop-up space in downtown Santa Barbara. Their seasonally inspired handcrafted gourmet donuts—made using high-quality ingredients and from-scratch fruit glazes, custards, marshmallow fluff, and beyond—immediately generated buzz and garnered a cult following. (Their Instagram account has more than 17,000 followers and counting.) Lines out the door and early sellouts of their mouthwatering confections caused them to quickly outgrow their shared off-site kitchen, where they were baking into early morning hours. So, after closing their Mosaic Locale outpost last August, the local duo finally opened their own brick-and-mortar location in April, a stone’s throw away from where Hook & Press was born. Here, they churn out a rotating menu of their signature brioche and cake donuts from their very own kitchen, with fan-favorite flavors like passion fruit-orange-guava (available in a vegan version), browned butter, s‘mores, everything bagel, strawberry old fashioned, and more. The expansion has also made it possible for Salinas and Burnett to expand their menu with breakfast sandwiches (like the bacon, egg, and cheese on a brioche bun or glazed donut bun) and tartines (a 54 s u m m e r 2 0 2 2

Inspired by the Ojai Valley’s many organic enterprises, longtime resident and Native American Cindy Convery began to create drinks infused with wild marine collagen in her home kitchen. “After the age of 20, we all lose 1-2 percent of the collagen in our bodies, so adding a daily dose of high-quality collagen is really important,” she says. She launched PUREWILD CO locally in 2019; her organic, sustainably made juices—mango turmeric and lime agave ginseng, to name just two—are now found in 25 states and in ﬁve-star hotels, including the Ojai Valley Inn. For Convery, the wellness opportunities didn’t stop there. With Mendocino County grapes and the help of a Sonoma Valley winery, she has created a white wine alternative that is “healthy and delicious,” she says. PureWild Co’s ﬁrst marine-collagen-infused Chardonnay is a low-alcohol option that has only 60 calories and zero grams of sugar per glass. California rosé and Pinot Noir are coming soon.

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at the mart. The collectively owned, women-run, online apparel label collaborated with L.A. design team Nickey Kehoe to create the shop, inspired equally by the area’s Spanish Revival architecture and midcentury design. Ojai artist Rebekah Miles added her hand-painted patterns—reminiscent of those adorning her ceramics—to the earthy shop walls. S H O PD O E N .C O M . Fight the glare at CYNTHIA BENJAMIN

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s the sun reaches its apex, daylight hours stretch, and shadows shrink, a spin through the newest additions to the Montecito Country Mart (1016 Coast Village Rd., Montecito) beckons. Slip into a light-as-air prairie-printed frock from sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland of DÔEN, who trace some of their sharpest and most influential memories to their youth in Santa Barbara. It seems particularly fitting that their voluminous blouses, pretty swimwear, printed shorts, gingham dresses, wispy skirts, and a host of organic cotton staples are now housed at their new brick-and-mortar shop

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eyewear boutique. After more than two decades working with specs, Benjamin and Cynthia Montoya have a sixth sense about frames and fit. Their new shop, co-owned and operated with Jordan Feldman, stocks a curated collection of luxury glasses from an array of independent lines as well as one-of-a-kind vintage, new old-stock frames from the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s with sun or optical lenses. Richly colored Kirk & Kirk

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optical glasses are also on offer with embellished hinge pins. As the longest day of the year approaches, Cynthia notes, “Salt Optics is releasing a new collection of titanium Aviator sunglasses made in Japan, just in time for summer drives along the Pacific Coast.” CYN TH I A - B E N J A M I N .C O M . Another new addition, HEATHER TAYLOR HOME, is stocked with all manner of cotton tablecloths, napkins, tea towels, coasters, and place mats in stripes, ginghams, and plaids ideal for coastal gatherings. Taylor, who vividly remembers childhood visits to Montecito, is also conceptualizing an exclusive pattern for the pop-up shop, which is filled with all the accoutrements—designed in Los Angeles and handcrafted by artisans in Chiapas, Mexico—for alfresco dinners in town and picnics near the water. H E ATH E R TAYL O R H O M E .CO M . Carrie Schei’s MONTECITO MERCANTILE general store is filled with the sort of finds she sources for sister shops Salt House Mercantile on Washington’s Bainbridge Island and in Sag Harbor, New York. Photographer Dewey Nicks’s summer snaps are on display, as are a variety of ceramic tablewear, linens, gifts, Parker Thatch bags, Peter Beaton hats, what Schei calls the “ultimate white shirt” from Sarah Alexandra, and key apothecary items from Bamford, plus cards, books, and magazines. M O N TE C I TO M E R CA N TI L E .CO M . ELIZABETH VARNELL

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et on three terraced levels with manicured gardens and ocean views, HOME CRUSH’s new Summerland showroom is a statement in coastal luxury. Oyster-shell-encrusted birdbaths, neutral-toned woven chairs, and sleek Belgian outdoor heat lamps round out the alfresco vignettes curated by Montecitobased Aimee Miller (a California residential designer for more than 20 years). “Walking up through the trumpet trees, visitors can see different designs and furnishings as they ascend to the top terraces,” she says of the quarter-acre venue. The interactive lifestyle and outdoor center—or “deconstructed store” as she describes it—is an extension of Home Crush’s downtown Santa Barbara shop and design studio. Find everything from padded picnic blankets from Germany and linen beach towels from Rome to herb-scented citronella candles and

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A visit to the desert is all about escape—relief from the mundane. Tucked away in a hidden corner of L’Horizon Resort and Spa’s manicured grounds, HERMANN BUNGALOWS offer the kind of decadence that eclipses ordinary life. Proprietor and Montecito resident Steve Hermann has continued his vision for indoor/outdoor living in this new venture. A pathway leads to his hotel’s incredibly private, completely enclosed mini resort. Inside the property, an 85-foot, zero-edge wading pool lined with deep blue tiles lends a tropical aura to the whole area. Situated in the shadow of the San Jacinto Mountains, the enclave has been landscaped with romantic olive trees and equipped with crisp white lounge chairs, along with a private bar available only to guests. The 24 bungalows arranged around the glistening water feature comprise studio suites, junior suites, and a presidential suite that includes a living area, bedroom, and private hot tub on a large enclosed patio. TOP TO BOTTOM: The zero-edge pool at Hermann Bungalows boasts serene mountain views; the Custom dark wood and magnificent tile 24 smartly appointed bungalows feature floor-to-ceiling windows.

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round out each bungalow’s luxe desert feel, while Venetian terrazzo floors, gold fixtures, and even TOTO smart toilets add to the sense of opulence in every room. Each bungalow is slightly different from the others, but they all include private outdoor spaces and plush furniture. A select few boast soaking tubs and outdoor showers. An ideal desert oasis, Hermann Bungalows ups the ante for L’Horizon’s guests, doubling down on its already celebrated hospitality. From $1,000/night. 1050 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, 760-323-1858, HERMANNBUNGALO WS. C O M .

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Azure Sky With just 14 rooms, AZURE SKY is a newly renovated microhotel embracing a midcentury modern ethos in South Palm Springs. Originally built back in 1959, the hotel, now operated by Santa Barbara’s Acme Hospitality, features serene grounds that have been thoughtfully transformed. A grassy meadow, formally the original pool, features an inviting fire pit. The expansive new pool area is now the focal point of the property with unobstructed views of the San Jacinto Mountains. Restored and redesigned with a neutral palette, muted black finishes, and glossy wood, the accommodations include plenty of natural light. Boasting custom-built beds, the spacious suites—12 of which feature kitchenettes—call to mind an airy apartment more than a hotel room. With a lobby that doubles as a retro living room, complete with a cocktail bar, guests don’t have to leave the property to enjoy all the desert has to offer. From $299/night. 1661 S. Calle Palo Fierro, Palm Springs, 760-469-4498, A Z UR E S K YH O TE L .C O M . C.W.

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enough reason to draw you here. Since reopening in 2018, this boutique property by designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard has become exceedingly popular. Bullard’s vision for the hotel, which encompasses 46 rooms, embraces a Moroccan take on the desert, with arched entryways, intricate patterned-tile inlays, and art deco flourishes. The on-site restaurant and bar, The Pink Cabana, is a glittering haven that serves Mediterranean cuisine with Moroccan influences. Select rooms include balconies or private patios, and custom-built furniture carries the hotel’s playful decor through the property. From $329/ night. 44-985 Province Wy., Indian Wells, 760-321-3771,

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Off the Grid Feature - Nikki Reed

NIKKI REED on living the simultaneous life

of an eco-entrepreneur and country girl

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Nikki Reed wakes up each morning at 5:30 a.m. to tend to her farm animals and get through emails before her daughter, Bodhi, wakes up. “One thing that I really try hard to do is separate from the phone or the iPad when I’m with her,” says Reed.

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Despite the fact that Reed has a fine jewelry company, she insists she is “not really a luxury gal, [though] the irony is not lost on me.” OPPOSITE: Reed savoring a peaceful moment on the porch. Jewelry seen throughout by BaYou With Love, bayouwithlove.com.

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n a recent morning, after Nikki Reed tended to the 15-plus farm animals that roam her biodynamic property, she and her 4-year-old daughter, Bodhi, trailered two horses over to a friend’s plot of land where the family, including Reed’s husband, actor Ian Somerhalder, were planning to camp for the weekend. It might not sound like it, but Reed was actually taking the day off from work, running her sustainable jewelry brand, BaYou with Love. “I live two lives, the life of a businesswoman and the life of a farm girl—on top of being a mom,” says Reed, 34, who still looks like she could play the lead in a Western. By the time Reed was in her midtwenties, she had already achieved the Hollywood success many hope for in a lifetime. Reed broke onto the scene with the 2003 film Thirteen, a Euphoria-like account of her childhood in Culver City. Then in 2008 she landed the role of Rosalie Hale in The Twilight Saga, which catapulted her into tween stardom. She worked for a few more years before focusing on a simpler life in the Santa Barbara countryside. “To be fully transparent about it, I really did not want to be in the public eye anymore,” she says. Since she was a little girl, Reed has been an animal lover, bringing home rescue kittens and spending time at her grandmother’s farm in northern Malibu. She found her kindred spirit in Somerhalder (Lost, The Vampire Diaries, V Wars), and the pair married in 2015. “He and I together actually have always been a little bit dangerous when it comes to the animal situation. I remember when we were first dating, I called him, and I was, like, ‘So there’s this cat,’ and he's, like, ‘Say no more. Bring him home.’ And I was like, ‘Uh oh, this is gonna be really bad,’” she says laughing. The pair’s move to the countryside has allowed Reed to flourish. In addition to BaYou with Love, she is the creative director of Løci footwear (a vegan sneaker line), a strategic advisor for the clean medicine company Genexa, and an ambassador for Leica Camera. “California has the ability to offer seclusion, but you can also be in driving distance to these major cities at the drop of a hat,” she says. In many ways, Reed thinks of BaYou with Love as her first child. “The first place Ian took me was to the Louisiana Bayou, where he grew up. I just always thought that that was such a beautiful name. And I thought if I ever have a

Feature - Nikki Reed “I live two lives, the life of a businesswoman and the life of a farm girl—on top of being a mom,” says Reed. child I would [choose that] name,” says Reed, who launched her company two months before her daughter was born. For its jewelry, the company uses solar-generated diamonds from California and recycled gold, including metal recovered from discarded computers through a partnership with Dell. Reed takes all the photography on the BaYou website with her Leica, which she brings with her everywhere. Her art prints (which are available on the BaYou site) feature dramatic landscapes printed on tree-free, cotton-fiber

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The sun is a constant source of inspiration for Reed. Her new jewelry collection takes its name from her daughter’s middle name, Soleil. OPPOSITE: Reed wears the BaYou with Love Rayon De Soleil necklace.

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“I love the notion of being regenerative and not just sustainable. If you're not constantly seeking out how to do better, then you're not winning,” says Reed.

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Reed’s dramatic landscape photography (printed on tree-free, cotton-fiber paper, no less) offers a glimpse into her profound connection with the natural world.

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“At the end of the day, there's just nothing like Southern California,” Reed says. “It's really just such a beautiful place.” OPPOSITE: Reed, a lifelong animal lover, with one of her horses.

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Her goal is to connect with nature and show their daughter the beauty of the world, so that she too will see the value in protecting it. Reed says, “I think nature is the key to happiness. Nikki Reed Really. I do.” paper and offer a glimpse into her profound connection with the natural world. “If I could like tell you my dream, it would be to achieve total food autonomy, to have zero connection to a supermarket, to city water, to anything like that—to be able to live without relying on any system. So, you know, we're not too far off from that,” she says. Reed’s sustainability practice includes rain barrels to catch excess water (she also drinks water from her own well when she can), hydroponic veggie gardens, and composting. For her daughter’s birthday, she suggests hand-me-downs as gifts, she hasn’t had a car in two years (she’s waiting for the Cadillac electric SUV), and she recycles clothing. If Reed has one indulgence, it would surely be the luxury Fleetwood RV that the family loves to travel in. (“When we go off grid, we are off the grid.”) Her goal is to connect with nature and show their daughter the beauty of the world, so that she too will see the value in protecting it. Reed says, “I think nature is the key to happiness. Really. I do.” ●

Heading back from the corral. OPPOSITE: Reed has more than 15 animals on the farm, including llamas, goats, chickens, horses, dogs, and her beloved cow, Lily.

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Artist stanley boydston captures the waves at Rincon through canvas, surf, and athletic tape WRITTEN BY LORIE DEWHIRST PORTER PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA PRINCE 92 s u m m e r 2 0 2 2

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Artist Stanley Boydston’s studio is part of an old Montecito estate and formerly served as a green room where musicians would prepare for performances. OPPOSITE: Rincon, Low Tide, 2022.

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Rincon, Low Tide, 2022. OPPOSITE: A view of Boydston’s studio with works in progress.

rtist Stanley Boydston’s obsession with Rincon Point is as intense as any seasoned surfer’s. For several years, he has produced work based on the famous sets of parallel waves generated by the “Queen of the Coast,” a location coveted by surfers worldwide. But not everyone who views his paintings actually sees waves depicted in them. “When I say they’re wave sets at Rincon, [patrons] look at me like I’m speaking Greek,” says Elizabeth Gordon, whose eponymous gallery on Gutierrez Street in downtown Santa Barbara represents Boydston’s work, along with Chase Edwards Contemporary gallery in Bridgehampton and Palm Beach. “But that’s the neat point,” Gordon adds. “People’s impressions are all across the board.” In reality, the artist’s vibrantly hued canvases verge on abstraction, but upon careful

circuitous path to Santa Barbara that included a childhood in Dallas, a decade in Spain, and a year in New York. He was a self-proclaimed “juvenile delinquent,” but his grandmother gently directed him toward painting, which he studied at the University of Texas at Austin, only to drop out after reading artist Salvador Dalí’s book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. “With those 50 secrets, I was more inspired than by what I was learning at Texas,” Boydston says. His parents, concerned by this turn of events, offered European travel and study as an alternative. He happily complied, and ended up living in Spain from 1980 to 1990, primarily in Madrid. The years in Spain were productive. Fluent in Spanish—thanks to a beloved childhood family housekeeper from Acapulco—Boydston was in his element. “I made a point to learn as much as I could,” he says, “I started reading a lot and really got into French philosophy and German existentialism.” At the time Spain was still emerging from dictator Francisco

“When I say they’re wave sets at Rincon, [patrons] look at me like I’m speaking Greek,” Feature - Boydston says gallerist Elizabeth Gordon. examination telltale details—a horizon line, the frothy seafoam—emerge. Which is exactly how Boydston approaches his favorite subject: “I’m looking at the light, and I’m looking at the horizon, and I’m looking at the color relationship between the sky and the horizon. As abstract as these paintings get, I’ve seen that.” Boydston’s color scheme comes straight out of the sixties. His penchant for pairing bright orange with dazzling pink stems from a childhood trip on Braniff Airways and his memory of female flight attendants clad in Italian designer Emilio Pucci’s avant-garde uniforms in eye-popping colors. Another influence was pop artist Peter Max, who specialized in psychedelic imagery painted in Day-Glo colors. “For me those colors were associated with something forbidden, because there were drugs involved and sexual awakenings involved,” the artist says. “I think that lingers in my art, the feeling that you’re doing something exciting.” An Oklahoma native and a member of the Cherokee Nation, Boydston, 62, followed a

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Franco’s brutal regime, “and everyone was just blossoming.” Boydston became a regular at Madrid art openings, particularly exhibitions by Americans such as Robert Rauschenberg and Keith Haring, both of whom he met while there. He also began exhibiting his art there, primarily collages culled from newspapers, magazines, and street posters. An exhibition of Giuseppe Panza’s collection of conceptual art inspired Boydston in another direction, so he headed to New York for a year and focused on conceptual art and performance. A romance with an opera singer led Boydston in 1993 to Santa Barbara, where he began painting landscape. The love affair ultimately failed, but Boydston discovered his cherished Rincon. At some point, he eliminated the curves from his compositions and began working exclusively with straight lines, using athletic tape for the waves. The tape reminds him of his father, who was a football player. (His mother was a beauty queen.) “Whenever I can use the athletic tape, there’s a joy in it,” he says. In 2019, ten of Boydston’s Rincon-based

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The artist in the doorway of his studio.

The quirky locale suits the artist, who says, “I just knew it was something special.” works, entitled Creation/Emergence, were exhibited at the inaugural Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art in Menton, France. This led to a special invitation to exhibit one of his paintings during the Venice Biennale. “It was just amazing,” he recalls, noting that the Venice experience was heightened by the discovery that his wife, Alicia Elizabeth, was pregnant with their son, Evan Star. (Boydston is also stepfather to daughters Violet Eve, 8, and Ava Love, 10.) Given Boydston’s life experiences, it’s perhaps unsurprising that he managed to rent an outbuilding of a rambling old Montecito mansion for his art studio. The Palladian-style building with its majestic columns was evidently used as a “green room” for musicians who gave performances for the mansion’s owner. The quirky locale suits the artist, who says, “I just knew it was something special.” And the residence’s grand wood-paneled ballroom is a perfect venue for displaying his paintings. Boydston continues to work on his wave paintings. “They’ll start out with a band of color,” he says, “and usually it’s orange. And then I’m basically weaving in and looking for my Rincon, within that.” ●

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Boydston in the estate’s former ballroom adjacent to his studio. OPPOSITE, TOP TO BOTTOM: A whimsical display in a corner of the studio includes a bust purchased at El Rastro de Madrid; the artist’s tools (far left and far right), and Marcado, a head of a Domecq bull that the artist immortalized in bronze.

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“My on-site sketches are always evolving in both intention, execution, and meaning,” says Boydston. “I don’t take them too seriously because that might get in the way of discovery.”

The artist’s vibrantly hued canvases verge on abstraction, but upon careful examination telltale details—a line, the frothy Featurehorizon - Boydston seafoam—emerge.

The studio includes a collection of objects Boydston has gathered over the years. The framed piece above the doorway, from his early days in Madrid, is a fragment of a Keith Haring papered-over billboard that Boydston salvaged using a box cutter and palette knife. “I took the best corner,” he says. OPPOSITE: Another view of the artist’s unique studio.

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Four beautiful schooners racing in the channel in the early 1920s. Many of these large boats came here from the Los Angeles area to compete.

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On the Waterfront

The Santa Barbara Yacht Club turns 150

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WRITTEN BY JOAN TAPPER PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL HABER ARCHIVAL IMAGERY COURTESY OF SANTA BARBARA YACHT CLUB

here’s a lot to celebrate this summer at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club—150 years of history, to be exact. It was in 1872 that Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts, the repository of maritime records, noted the establishment of SBYC, making it the second oldest yacht club on the West Coast. That milestone is not to be taken lightly. And for those of us who associate the yacht club mostly with those picturesque sailboat races on Wet Wednesdays, it’s an opportune time to look at the bigger, splashier picture. For one thing, it’s useful to remember that the yacht club is not just the on-the-sands building, which dates to 1966. No, the SBYC is and has always been, in the words of the current commodore, Eli Parker, “a great group of people who share a common interest in being out on the water.” And those interests have long been intertwined with the history of Santa Barbara. Think back to the year 1872. At that point the town and its 3,000 or so residents were just beginning to be connected to the wider world. The railroad had not yet arrived. But that year the construction of John Stearns’s 1,600-footwharf meant that travelers arriving by sea no longer had to transfer to a small boat and then be carried unceremoniously through the surf to the beach. Tourism was on the horizon as wealthy visitors—including many boating enthusiasts from the East Coast—began to visit

and stay. Members of the fledgling yacht club, who seem to have gathered in private homes at first, paid an initiation fee of $20 and annual dues of $10. Undoubtedly, they sailed for pleasure and raced for fun, taking good advantage of the wonderful climate and predictable afternoon breezes on the ocean. The first regatta, a three-part racing event, was held here in 1907, and Milo Potter, a sailing enthusiast whose impressive hotel graced the waterfront, donated an elegant cup for the winner. The Potter Trophy, which is still awarded on Wet Wednesdays, is just one of the gleaming goodies that fill the pristine glass shelves of the yacht club building, which has undergone a top-to-bottom renovation just in time for anniversary festivities. Other notable trophies are here as well, including the ornate Sir Thomas Lipton Cup, donated in 1923 by the Lipton Tea owner (and five-time America’s Cup contender) himself. That towering trophy of pure silver boasts shields, a yachting scene, a dolphin, a mermaid, Sir Lipton’s shamrock flag, and the yacht club burgee—its signature pennant. Also in the trophy case is a cup given by Italian premier Benito Mussolini in 1931. Stored in a closet during World War II, it was permanently retired and is now on display as an intriguing part of SBYC history. Not all the awards are serious though; the Royal Dolt-On trophy (a chamber pot) goes to the skipper with the biggest “goof of the year.” The year 1923 also saw SBYC’s first clubhouse, a 20-foot-by-35-foot cottage at the

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CLOCKWISE: The newly renovated Santa Barbara Yacht Club; an array of burgees hang in the Ocean Room; a ship telegraph. OPPOSITE: A fleet of Geary 18s (aka Flatties) race at Lake Cachuma in the 1950s.

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The club's palapa bar is open on weekends. OPPOSITE: At the 1948 Commodore’s Ball (the annual changing of commodores) at the Coral Casino, outgoing Commodore Wiley Cole raced incoming Commodore Russell Boner. They used an electric fan for wind.

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The Star Lipton trophy—crafted from pure silver on an ebonized pedestal— was specially designed for the SBYC. OPPOSITE: Commodore Ken Urton and Miss Semana Nautica, Patricia Burke, with the Star Lipton trophy circa 1957.

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Other notable trophies are here as well, including the ornate Sir Thomas Lipton Cup, donated in 1923 by the Lipton Tea Feature - SBAmerica’s Yacht Cup Club owner (and five-time contender) himself. end of Stearns Wharf that was destroyed in a storm just one year later. That was yet another reminder of the need to protect boats in a permanent harbor in Santa Barbara, which was the impetus for a decades-long campaign by club members to erect a breakwater here. They had organized a survey in 1921 to determine if and where they would construct a yacht harbor, and a year later the commodore, Earle Ovington, successfully lobbied town leaders by hosting a barbecue for about 300 on Santa Cruz Island. Major Max Fleischmann, the yeast company scion and a local philanthropist, wrote a check for $200,000 to the city, and by 1928 the initial breakwater was complete. Fleischmann and others, who purchased the wharf in 1927, commissioned famed architect Winsor Soule to build a clubhouse for the yacht club in 1929. The years that followed were anything by smooth sailing, however. The Great Depression ravaged the club’s finances, leading to bankruptcy, and there were rifts among the members. Then with the onset of World War

II, Stearns Wharf came under the control of the U.S. Coast Guard, and the harbor was closed to pleasure boats until September 1945. By 1946 the yacht club had another building for its home, one of several that it would occupy for the next two decades. Even more important, wartime technology and the development of fiberglass meant that suddenly boating was no longer just a rich man’s sport. Today the SBYC membership has grown to include families who enjoy racing—including women skippers and crew—and embrace water-oriented and social activities. The club holds about 200 races each year, among them the Wednesday evening and weekend races, as well as events that draw other competitors beside local sailors. Since 2005, the annual Charity Regatta in September has raised more than $2 million for Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of Santa Barbara. Also important are the youth activities that the yacht club has supported, from Sea Scouts and Mariners to the Santa Barbara Youth

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TOP TO BOTTOM: Sweeping views of the Pacific from the Sunset Deck; the harbor in 1948, after World War II. (During the war, members kept a "shadow club," meeting in people's homes or offices.) OPPOSITE: The revamped SBYC still maintains its historic charm.

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It was in 1872 that Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts, the repository of maritime records, noted the establishment Feature SB Yacht Club of SBYC, making it the second oldest yacht club on the West Coast. Sailing Foundation, founded in 1968, which encourages youngsters to learn to sail, build self-reliance, foster teamwork, and gain water-safety skills, and offers scholarships to local children for after-school and summer sailing programs. “This is a club of volunteers that are totally engaged,” says Dennis Friederich, who served as commodore in 2004 and is chairman of the club’s milestone anniversary committee. “We’ve been valuable and contributing members of the community for 150 years.” Of course, there have been memorable parties over the years, too. Trish Davis, a longtime member, remembers events honoring commodores that turned the dining room into a Greek wedding and another that transformed the place into an Italian restaurant, complete with singing waiters. “One big party is the luau in September,” she says. “The club is so old with such great traditions. There’s a diverse group of people, and we try to be welcoming. Something about being on and near the water sets us aside.”

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This year, to celebrate the anniversary, the season kicked off at the beginning of April with a blessing of the fleet and the dedication of a commemorative plaque. There are three special races (the third of which is scheduled for August 3) with a 150th anniversary trophy to be awarded, and a video history of the club is slated to be finished by summer. Watch for a tall ship event as well, thanks to club members Roger and Sarah Crisman, who acquired a schooner—to be renamed the Mystic Cruzar— and have brought it to the Central Coast, where it will be used for scientific, history, and educational programs. “To be part of the folks guiding the yacht club this year is an honor,” says Parker. “I’m thrilled that we were able to muster the resources and collective will to get the remodel done. It will serve us well for the next 30 or 40 years. It’s where we go to socialize and hang out. And it’s been great to see new, younger members. That’s our future.” •

The club-owned Caprice took an estimated 20,000 club and community members to the offshore islands and coastal waters before it burned and sank near Santa Cruz Island in 1925. OPPOSITE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Club members cruise aboard the Caprice with Commodore Ed Gourley in the early 1920s; Samarang, a 56-foot schooner, was built around 1933 and purchased by Pasadena banker Rudy Caspers after his Aloha was lost.

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Lensmen Nik and Kerry Wheeler recently launched The Wheeler Collective, offering framed prints (from $250, through wheelercollective.com) of select works from their remarkable archive of fine lifestyle and travel photographs, including A La Playa (seen here), taken by Nik Wheeler in 1992.

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La Piscina, 2022, Sayulita, Mexico, photographed by Kerry Wheeler.

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Giardini Poseidon Terme, 2017, by Kerry Wheeler, shows bathers at a wellness resort in Ischia, Italy. OPPOSITE: Sunbathers on the sands of Praia da Rocha beach on the Algarve Coast of Portugal, photographed by Nik Wheeler in 1992, entitled Heatwave.

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A local favorite swimming cove in Southern Puglia, 2021, photographed by Kerry Wheeler. OPPOSITE: Summer Cabanas, 1992, Atlantic Coast, Spain, by Nik Wheeler.

anta Barbara’s resemblance to the European Riviera can’t be denied, because the visuals are so strikingly similar: ocean, beach, dramatic coastline, and beautiful people— which is why travel guides have dubbed the region the "American Riviera.” And like its European counterpart, our Riviera (and the lifestyle it embodies) is as much a state of mind as a geographic location, a duality of perception and reality. From the 1950s onward, the public’s perception of the Riviera lifestyle was largely the creation of one man: American photographer Slim Aarons. His Technicolor images of the international café set living la dolce vita were splashed across glossy magazines like Town & Country

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and Life. His ability to access high society was key to his success; “I knew everyone” he told an interviewer several years before his death in 2006.Today, fatherand-son photographers Nik and Kerry Wheeler offer a contemporary take on the Riviera lifestyle with The Wheeler Collective, an online platform for purchasing the duo’s custom-framed photographic images for the home. And there’s plenty to choose from: Their archive contains more than one million images from the 1960s onward, with subjects ranging from scenes of European leisure to celebrity pictures and photos of lost worlds. (A percentage of every sale goes to the World Land Trust.) Like Aarons—who covered World War II as an army

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Hammonds From Above, 2022, Santa Barbara, by Kerry Wheeler.

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Santa Barbara’s resemblance to the European Riviera can’t be denied, because the visuals are so strikingly similar: ocean, beach, dramatic coastline, and beautiful people— which is why travel guides have dubbed the region the "American Riviera.”

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Sunbathers at the Plage du Martinez Beach Club along the Croisette in Cannes, 1995, by Nik Wheeler. OPPOSITE, LEFT TO RIGHT: The father-son duo at home in Montecito; Nik started his career as a combat photographer in Vietnam.

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photographer—British-born Nik Wheeler began his career as a combat photographer. Initially based in Vietnam, he later covered conflicts in the Middle East for Newsweek and Time Magazine and eventually pivoted to travel photography. In 1999 he moved to Santa Barbara; since then, he has visited more than a hundred countries on assignment for National Geographic, Travel and Leisure, Islands, and others. He also produced several coffee-table travel books over the course of his career. Nik’s son Kerry grew up in Santa Barbara. After attending USC, where he majored in global communication with a film minor, he spent several years in the entertainment industry. During a much-needed break, he traveled to Europe, taking photographs and posting them on Instagram, where the comments likened Kerry’s images to iconic images by— no surprise—Slim Aarons. Given his upbringing, Kerry basically trained in photography from the time he could walk. The Wheeler family spent summers in Europe, based in a small village in the Languedoc region of France, where Nik had purchased a home in the 1970s. The family would take long road trips in an old BMW (affectionately known as the “red bomb”) for Nik’s travel-magazine assignments, and Kerry remembers his irritation with his father’s camera bag that “always had to be in the middle of the console by the stick shift, and it was so annoying because we were constantly stopping so he could get a shot.” (In true father-like-son form, Kerry continued the tradition with his own camera bag on his last European jaunt.)

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But Kerry fondly recalls the exciting social environment the family enjoyed during those summer sojourns. Thanks to his father’s career renown, and the fame surrounding his glamorous mother, Pamela Bellwood (whose acting credits include a regular role in the wildly popular 1980s television series Dynasty), Kerry notes, “We were constantly engaging with very interesting people,” a group that included aristocrats, artists, writers, and journalists. In short, a world similar to what Slim Aarons documented decades earlier. The Wheeler Collective emerged from a confluence of two disasters. The Wheelers’ Montecito home was inundated with mud from the 2018 debris flow, and Nik’s studio, containing 50 filing cabinets of slides— nearly the entirety of his oeuvre—was the first room to be hit. Kerry visited the site shortly after the disaster and vividly remembers having to inform his father that the file cabinets were likely destroyed. “It was pretty devastating,” Kerry recalls. “At the time we thought everything had been lost.” Fortunately, further inspection revealed the mud had been too thick to penetrate the filing cabinets, leaving the slides intact. Two years later, when COVID took over the world, Kerry moved back home to Santa Barbara. Locked down and with time on their hands, Nik and Kerry began sorting through the trove of rescued slides, with Nik assuming he’d “digitize the good ones and throw the rest out.” But Kerry was intrigued by a batch of Nik’s lifestyle images. “I showed him a couple of his photos from Cannes,” Kerry says, and his father replied, “Why would anybody want a picture of an umbrella or somebody lounging on a lounge chair?” They would soon find out. Kerry was contacted by an art collective seeking an iconic beach scene for a client, who selected one of Nik’s images (blown up to 9 by 13 feet) for the lobby of Florida’s Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Fort Lauderdale. And voilà, The Wheeler Collective was born. ●

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