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"Discoveries by Designers\nArchitectural Digest's Editors Present Designers' Sources\n\"She has a fabulous eye,\" Karin Blake says of Laura Fisher. \"I go to her for antique hooked rugs and quilts, and there are always little surprises to be found.\" Manhattan's historic Cirker's Hayes Warehouse is the new home to Fisher Heritage, an in-depth collection of period Americana and textiles. Early-20th-century wool Pendleton trade blankets share a room with Fisher's new line of hand-hooked geometric rugs, which can be custom-made to match a hard to find original or to meet the needs of a larger space with a particular palette. Other rooms are brimming with braided rugs, handwoven blankets, Navajo weavings, vintage tablecloths and folk art discoveries.\nBefore Doppler radar and even before the barometer, the weathervane was the surest way to forecast a change in climate. Now the decorative finials are collected as folk art and serve a more ornamental purpose. The ones from Ken and LizAnne Jensen's West Coast Weather Vanes are free-form and repouss\u00E9 copper, each handmade to order. The small Santa Cruz, California, workshop has over 500 designs, and clients range from the White House to Warner Bros.\n\nThe Red-Shouldered Hawk's beak, talons and wing banding are gold-leafed.\n\"In a land known for its gardens, lawns and lagoons, it's appropriate that this is where you find the finest in all things gardening,\" Marc Charbonnetsays of Marshall Lee's Marsh Garden D\u00E9cor. The New Orleans shop has a well-edited selection of antiquities and curiosities for the garden.\nIn his Rocky Mountain workshop, Don Giminaro creates custom architectural elements forged from copper, bronze and iron. Using a new 300-ton metal press, Giminaro produces limited editions from his repouss\u00E9 molds. The heritage-quality sculptural designs range from copper sinks to tables. \"Don has done it all for me: architectural lighting, kitchen hoods, appliance panels, 12-foot hammered copper entrance doors, custom hardware and architectural details,\" says Donna Livingston (with Giminaro). \"He is a true artisan.\"\nThe 12,000-square-foot gallery in Nova Scotia, which once housed a fish market, is now flush with the work of over 40 folk and outsider artists from the surrounding area, Quebec and the United States. Horses Pulling Farm Roller by Ontario native Jacob Roth reflects the artist's Mennonite upbringing.\nSince 1974 Todd Piker has been producing exhibition-quality pottery, as well as pieces for the kitchen and garden, at Cornwall Bridge Pottery. The hand-tossed pots are fired in a kiln that has its roots in a 10thcentury Chinese design. The sculptural designs reflect Piker's varied influences, which range from early American salt-glaze jugs to French provincial jars from the Berry district to pots from the Chinese city of Suzhou.\n\nTodd Piker tends the wood-burning tube kiln, which was built in 1974.\nCornwall Bridge Pottery\n\n 69 Kent Rd.\n\n Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754\n\n 800-501-6545\n\n www.cbpots.com\nBetween the Black Hills and the Badlands in South Dakota lies a treasure trove of art and objects that preserves the heritage of the Northern Plains Indians. Prairie Edge inhabits an 1800s frontier building, which has been restored to house the handcrafted creative works of the Plains artists and craftspeople, including those who represent the Lakota, Crow, Cheyenne, Shoshone, Arapaho and Assiniboine. Prairie Edge's Sioux Trading Post also offers craft supplies, such as beads, shells, hides, feathers, botanicals and silver, to encourage the artistry of the Native Americans.\n\nMichael McLeod, a Chippewa and Lakota, created Top Hat to commemorate one worn by Sioux chief American Horse."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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