SARAH K. BENNING’S VICTORIAN HOME IS A PLANT-FILLED SCENE STRAIGHT OUT OF HER ART
Jul 09, 2020
3 minutes
Words by LARA WATSON
Photography:
MEGAN HALEY
“I stitched the spaces I longed for: interiors full of colourful textiles, mid-century furniture and plants.”
Embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning lives with her husband and business partner Davey, and their adopted cat Quiqueue, in a three-level Victorian house in Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Much like the textures and layers of her fibre work, there’s plenty to take in and capture the imagination in their decorative home, which has come to mirror the scenes of Sarah’s stitched interiors in a satisfying case of life imitating art.
“At the beginning of my embroidery career, when
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