nChase Reynolds Ewald has been writing about art, travel, design, food, people and western lifestyle for more than 25 years. She is a contributor to Western Art & Architecture Magazine, Big Sky Journal, Mountain Living, Tahoe Quarterly, and Cowgirl magazines and is the author of 16 books. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, she lives in Northern California and wanders the West whenever possible.n nRooted in the dirt of the American West, Audrey Hall is an internationally exhibited and collected visual artist with a dozen design books to her name. She brings the rigor of her fine arts background to the challenges of creativity, resulting in a growing collection of publications, images, films, and fine art installations. Modern West is the seventh book she and Chase have collaborated on together.n