Marina Jack has always been about the view. In fact, it sometimes feels as if the Sarasota bayfront fixture has been around as long as Sarasota Bay itself. For years it’s been the first place many of us have taken visitors for a taste of coastal living, as well as for that staple from the [...]

In the 1960s, boyish-looking, athletic President John F. Kennedy took one look at his fellow Americans and decided it was time for them to get in shape. “We are under-exercised as a nation,” he said. “We look instead of play; we ride instead of walk.” Kennedy wrote an article for Sports Illustrated called “The Soft [...]

On Exhibit 99 ½ Won’t Do Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design will open the New Year with a new work it has commissioned Leslie Fry to create. The foundation of her installation, titled 99 ½ Won’t Do, is Quercus Emancipation, the large head seen here. Piled over and around this head [...]

When architect Jonathan Winer bought a 1950s ranch near Southside Village as an investment rental property, he had no idea it would one day become his home. “I relocated to a condo in Sarasota because I had lived in apartments in New York and California all my life,” Winer explains. “I hadn’t even considered a [...]

Interior decorator Mark Dalton, ASID Allied, created the handsome look of the new Burns Court Villas in downtown Sarasota. Now he’s working with the developer, Westwater Construction, on their newest project, Moda, 12 three-story contemporary townhomes to be built behind Avenue of the Flowers on Longboat Key. In the 20-something years since moving here from [...]

When internationally renowned interior designer Pamela Hughes unlocks the door to her Sarasota pied-à-terre, her persona is magically transformed. She’s no longer viewing every object and room from the exacting perspective of how it will work for a client; for once, these rooms and furnishings are not about some other person or time. This is [...]