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Notre Vue Estate in Windsor. Below: Pond Farm Pottery in Guerneville.
A Harvest of New Attractions THE BUBBLE ROOM, Bubble Bar and Bubbles Lounge—and Bauhaus plates—are among the updates from Sonoma County’s wine country.
ARTS + CULTURE THE SEQUOIAS HAVE long been the draw at Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve in Guerneville but now there’s another: tours of Pond Farm Pottery, the home, school and studio of renowned 20th-century ceramicist Marguerite Wildenhain. The first woman to graduate from
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Germany’s seminal Bauhaus as a master potter, Wildenhain left Germany in the 1930s and taught hundreds of students at Pond Farm, now a National Treasure. The Museum of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa unveils Sonoma County Stories, a permanent exhibition that encourages the public to engage with the county’s past and contribute to its future: Oral histories, videos, recordings and images span two centuries of Native American, Latino, Asian, African American and European cultures.
PHOTOS COURTESY SONOMA COUNTY TOURISM
Sonoma County’s recent vintage is but one of its latest lures. / BY BENJAMIN EPSTEIN /
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