The Garza Update

October 20th, 2025

Photographer, chef, gardener, interior designer, shop keeper, mother, grandmother, wife...all these monikers do not begin to encompass the talents and pursuits of our dear friend Lindy. This week she came by the shop to try on the new Fall Collection by Proche, adding model and muse to her list!

Lindy can wear clothes like no one else we know, is an avid collector of Navajo rugs and lives between Marfa and Little Compton, Rhode Island. We chatted with her about creative endeavors while she put together looks from Proche's fall pieces. Featuring deadstock cottons & vintage denim in effortless silhouettes we thought the NY-based brand would be perfect for Lindy paired with her collection of Navajo rugs, now for sale at Garza.

Lindy in Proche Cashmere & Wool Abigal Coat & Plaid Sunday Pant

GARZA: You’re a photographer, house and garden designer & collector, among many pursuits. Do you feel like these are all part of the same creative project ? 

LINDY: Each is an integral & equally important part of who I am. I like having different & separate endeavors to be involved with. It keeps me going...

GARZA: When did you first start taking pictures ? And how about designing spaces and collecting rugs ?

LINDY: I first started making photographs when I was 16. I had an amazing teacher, Joyce Neimanis who shot a lot in Nigeria. I found her and her work fascinating. She was my inspiration! Designing spaces, always. My Mother & I were constantly moving furniture around the house, painting things, transforming environments. So much fun!

GARZA: Can you tell us something about your Navajo rug collection ? How it came to be ? Are you still on the hunt for them ? 

LINDY: Collecting Navajo pieces started when I was 15. I would go to these huge, amazing rummage sales in Winnetka, outside of Chicago, where I grew up. This yearly event was a highlight for finding treasures. The first Navajo blanket that I spotted at a rummage sale had a tag on it that said Indian design. It was 5 dollars. They had no idea what it was and I didn’t really either. All I knew was that it was the most incredible piece of woven beauty I had ever seen and I had to have it. My grandmother appraised it for me and we found out it was from the late 1800s. I still own it. For me, there's an inherent soul in each woven piece and a reminder of those who came before us. And YES, I will always be on the hunt for them!

Lindy in Proche Denim Barn Jacket w/ Removable Boucle Scarf & Pleated Sadie Pant

GARZA: You lived in Germany for many years, how did this influence you? 

LINDY: Living in Germany, being exposed to everything in Europe was a very expansive experience and transformed me into another being in every way. It was like living in a fairy tale which certainly affected my creativity. I loved it!

GARZA: What are you currently excited about working on right now ? You mentioned working with your photo archive and also setting up a loom for weaving.

LINDY: My photo archive needs my attention now, after years of building, renovating and tweaking spaces. It’s a documentation of my whole life. Also, I want to weave again, which I studied a long time ago. I'm planning to set up a loom in my Marfa space soon. Exciting.

Garza Upholstered Saddle Leather Bench, Proche Pointelle Jumper & Upcycled Pleated Denim Jeans

GARZA: What do you love about Garza Marfa & about Marfa itself ?

LINDY: Constance and Jamey’s collections
are a reflection of their warmth, generosity and good taste. They create textiles and furniture that you want to live with and have in your home. What do I love about Marfa? The people, The landscape, The art, The community. A very special place on this earth.

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Cheers, GARZA MARFA

September 15, 2025

Fluorescent flowers, harlequin patterns and still lives, Meghan Gerety’s relief paintings are an exploration of the dialogue between the natural world and abstraction. Inspired by Dutch vanitas and memento mori paintings, Gerety uses skulls,
flowers and symbolic objects to confront  the passage of time. Employing the processes of drawing, carving, painting and print making, her carved-plywood works simultaneously embody qualities of painting and the three-dimensionality of sculpture. Meghan has evolved her woodblock printing process over years of studio practice referencing nature and the history of art to create a formal language all her own.

A long time resident of Marfa, now based in Brooklyn, this week we visit with Meghan Gerety in her Brooklyn studio and chat about the evolution of her artistic process. Her exhibition, Weather Poems recently opened at Gensco and a new series of works entitled Street Weeds is now on view at Garza Marfa.

GARZA: What are the primary mediums you use in your practice?
MG: My current medium is acrylic on carved plywood.

GARZA: What are the themes or subjects you're working with when you're thinking about a work or a series?
MG: I read a lot about nature, poetry, art, biographies, listen to music, yoga, philosophy, spirituality, so all of that, everything that interests me in my life and the pursuit of truth in my life goes into my art, it is me.

GARZA: Why paint and wood as your chosen mediums?
MG: My work over the years has progressed to this current point. After making drawings for 15 years I began making large wood blocks on plywood, which I would use to make prints. But I considered the blocks the finished pieces as much as the prints themselves. The work then evolved into painting on carved wood and the printing part was not always present in the work. That has evolved to where I am now which is carved and cut plywood, painted.

GARZA: What are you currently excited about working on right now in the studio?
MG: I just created a new body of work entitled ‘Weather Poems’ which I'm showing at Gensco in Marfa, TX. The word "raga" comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "color". The resulting music is intended to evoke specific emotions or "color the mind" of the listener. This work is the freest work I have ever made and feels like the most direct line from my creative unconscious to physical form while being aware of the weight of art history and accumulated knowledge. I'm creating archetypes of landscape, nature and art history; abstracted memento mori, landscape as memento mori, the ephemeral fused with the concrete to get to the essence of my truth through art.

GARZA: What are you doing when you are not making art ?
MG: When I'm working in the studio I feel most aligned with myself. When I’m not making art I’m living my best life! Running, swimming, raising my son, loving, cooking, eating, playing, laughing!

September 29th, 2025

Fifteen Years of Garza

It was fifteen years ago that Jamey Garza and Constance Holt-Garza introduced their iconic Round Saddle Leather Chair to the public, a design they had been thinking about since their move to Marfa, Texas from CA in 2003. To celebrate the fifteen year anniversary of The Garza Round Chair we dug into the evolution of how it came to be.

Inspired by the Acapulco chair, after the 1950’s jet-set destination, with a bucket shaped seat woven in colorful nylon cord, the Mexican model uses techniques from indigenous Mayan hammock weavers. By re-imagining the original handwoven seat with vegetable-tanned saddle leather and adding an inverted wishbone-shaped base, the Garza’s transformed a breezy bohemian beach lounger into a rugged and refined rendering for The High Plains Desert. The Garza Round Chair merges the ethos of West Texas cattle ranching culture with the cerebral aesthetic of minimalism, embodying the contrasting worlds that inhabit the town of Marfa.

The Garza’s came to Texas from CA to work on a redesign of The Thunderbird back in the early 2000’s. Constance had a previous life in fashion and Jamey in fabrication and design. Their partnership is as much about love and romance as it is about innovation, self-determination and vision. Plans to move back to Jamey’s hometown of Austin shifted when the Garza’s found the arid expanses of West Texas to be a productive home base to work out creative ideas.

The Garza’s collaborate on all their furniture pieces through a repetitive process of sketching, building and critiquing until both agree on the final design. Prototypes are built in Marfa while production fabrication is done with help from local craftspeople at their studio in El Paso. Final finish work and assembly on each piece is completed by Jamey before shipping.

In 2010 after years of testing, tweaking and refitting till the leather sat just right the Garza’s launched The Round Chair with powder coated steel legs in their signature color palette. With this first original design, The Round Chair became the starting point for Constance and Jamey’s saddle leather collection ultimately released in 2012 at the Heath Ceramics ‘Marfa Amigos’ exhibition in LA, which included fellow Marfa artists whom Jamey & Constance invited to take part.

Fifteen years later Jamey and Constance continue to fabricate and produce their furniture in West Texas. We wanted to celebrate this fifteen year milestone to acknowledge the journey. We also wanted to thank the community of Marfa, Garza’s first customers and supporters as well as those who just found us. Garza Marfa may be fifteen years out but we're just getting started...

For inquiries feel free to reach out, we personally answer all customer emails. Thanks for being here, stay tuned for more updates!

Cheers, THE GARZA MARFA TEAM

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August 25th, 2025

Garza Shawls in Maine

Our Khadi linen shawls produced in India through fair trade co-ops are hand-spun, hand-woven and hand-dyed exclusively for us. Composed of three ply linen yarn in our signature Garza striped hues, Khadi shawls are family heirlooms in the making. We brought our desert collection on vacation in Maine this August to see how they fared in the chill of a New England summer.

Sandra Thaxter, Maine born and bred, sits in a Victorian garden chair on the lawn of the summer house built by her grandparents in 1892 on an island off the coast. Eighty-two years young, Sandra, grandmother of four, lifelong activist, poet and adventurer wears the Rainbow Shawl from our Desert Collection.

Garza shawls made from handwoven Khadi linen, known for its ability to keep the wearer warm in the winter & cool in the summer, fits right into coastal Maine life. Sandra wears hers for evening walks to the beach and afternoon naps on the porch.

Thaxter’s family has for generations summered in the same houses built by their ancestors. The island is less than a square mile with no cars or stores, only walking paths. Every spoon, chair or bag of groceries must be transported by human hand, therefore, islanders favor furnishings built to last and attire that can weather the elements like our Lilac Linen Shawl.

Equally at home in the desert as they are at the sea, Garza shawls are family heirlooms for the generations to come. Follow along with our Instagram stories this week to see more island friends & family sporting their shawls in the wilds of Maine.

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