I found it when I was little," says a young man leading two small boys through a technicolor forest of giant red hibiscus flowers and fat spikes of purple buddleia at San Antonio's Brackenridge Park.

When you’ve got to fake it, you might as well flaunt it. Take a look at the resurgence of faux bois (pronounced fo-bwah) which means, unglamorously, fake wood. Beyond concrete imitations of wood, faux ...

Connecticut-based artisan Michael Fogg has so perfected the historic craft of faux bois— sculpting and carving furniture out of concrete to mimic the look and texture of natural wood— that each piece ...

San Antonio is poised to reclaim and reacquaint its residents with at least part of their artistic legacy. The concrete sculptures of Dionicio Rodríguez — still in existence around the city — are ...

Much of Diane Husson’s new love evolved from her long walks in the Michigan woods as a child. Other sparks of inspiration came as recently as last year in the garden of a hospital during her father’s ...

Starting with a basic steel frame, Houston artist Donald Tucker sculpts stumps, logs and branches from the most durable and perhaps least likely of sources: concrete, mortar and cement. If all goes ...

Family • Husband, Mike, with two grown children Cassandra and Mason What she makes • Marci sculpts with concrete. Her business is Marcella Marie Faux Bois. To view her items, visit ...

“I give these as presents to people because they are so beautiful” ...

Faux bois is something of a lost art. It’s also everywhere. French for "false wood," faux bois encompasses anything that reproduces the appearance or texture of wood. Though only a handful of artists ...

I amassed quite an assortment of early 20th-century concrete faux-bois furniture after I bought my house in Maine more than a decade ago. I thought that using this heavy, unusual, rustic, artisanal ...