Art MUSE
“THIS IS MY HOUSE. My handprints are all over it,” says owner Kristi Jernigan from her San Marco home in the Venetian Islands. Her 180-degree gaze stretches across Biscayne Bay, to the city of Miami, where she chairs the Miami City Ballet. If her handprints are all over it, then architect Darrell Russell’s footprints are all around it.
The two met in Memphis where, in the early ’90s, Russell designed an art gallery Jernigan admired. On the heels of an introduction, Russell was commissioned to design her Memphis home. They then collaborated on the fusion of a new public library
