AT HOME WITH HISTORY
Mar 14, 2019
3 minutes
By Lauren Northup
AN ENCHANTING PAINTING HANGS IN A QUIET CORNER OF ZOË AND BRYS Stephens’s Charleston, South Carolina, sitting room, depicting the library of Zoë’s childhood home, the circa-1772 William Gibbes House, with its brimming bookshelves and French wallpaper awash in afternoon light. The scene provides both a glimpse into the past and a powerful reminder of Zoë’s generational perspective on life in an old Charleston home. “We are all only stewards of these houses for a short period,” she says, “and time is so
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