The Design Lover’s Guide to Marfa
The stars at night are still big and bright—at least in the heart of West Texas. After all, the region boasts the darkest (read: least light-polluted) skies in America, a fun fact that underscores its relative remoteness and vast swaths of vacant space. For first-timers, it might seem made for the movies, complete with tumbleweeds bouncing across barren roads and the howls of coyotes piercing the silence after dark.
In the town of Marfa (population: 1,900), this badlands allure has attracted an eclectic, seemingly unlikely pack of creatives—artists, musicians, and a handful of celebrity devotees—who’ve helped transform it into a thriving minimalist arts mecca. In the past 50 years, the landscape of dusty deserts and crumbling façades has evolved into a living canvas, if you will, for galleries, picturesque outdoor installations, and, more recently, a local restaurants and bar scene.