Spring 2019

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
The new and the renewed. That is the theme and idea we chose to focus on at MILIEU for this spring issue. There is an obsession, especially among the millennial generation, for all that is new, but much of what is considered new actually has its root
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Featured Designers
Kay O’Toole, who runs her namesake antiques business in Houston, likes to say of the items she acquires, “I try to buy things that are dramatic, that make a difference in your home, and that represent a personal connection.” She describes herself as
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Close Knit
Thomas Callaway Pattern Works’ Left Bank Collection is a line of handprinted Belgian linen fabrics with a decidedly mid-century French feel. “It’s been a long time since I designed things in a painterly, print-making way,” says Callaway, “but the pro
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INDIAN Itinerary
I have been to India more than fifty times, and I never go without visiting Delhi. Many visitors just stop there overnight while recovering from jet lag, enroute to see the Taj Mahal in Agra or the Pink City of Jaipur. What a mistake! Scottish writer
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Checking IN
Some see it as nothing less than a simple miracle. What was once a long-abandoned Catholic church and school in New Orleans’s Faubourg Marigny neighborhood is now filled with life and devotees of good design. Pilgrims to this new boutique hotel are s
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Yellow FERVOR
Giuseppe Ducrot spends much time in his Rome studio getting to know popes and saints, emperors, kings, the occasional angel, even Hercules, Minerva, and other figures from mythology. In fact, it is Ducrot himself who breathes artistic life into these
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Charlotte Perriand
Some architects think of furniture as architecture. And some architects, such as Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), design furniture that has an architectural presence within a room. At a time in the 1920s and ’30s when a female architect was as rare as
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Interior VISIONS
Upon waking from dreams, we attempt to shake off the fleeting images our subconscious minds have constructed from fragments of memory and imagination. Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) spent his life putting those fragments on canvas with luminous colors th
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Going Dutch
Inside Dutch design firm Scholten & Baijings’ studio, one half of the firm’s namesake duo, Stefan Scholten, is staring intently at a chair. Specifically, the back of a chair. It was woven, or at least attempted to be woven, by his own hands. He’s spe
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A Light TOUCH
CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS are born in many ways. The one that produced Kay O’Toole’s home in Houston began one Saturday morning over a cup of coffee. Architect Kirby Mears stopped into Kay O’Toole, a shop renowned for its fine European furnishings from
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French Retreat
KATHRYN IRELAND’S house guests were arriving. Some came with evidence of their professional lives, such as the BBC filmmaker who arrived with a camera, the yoga instructor whose mat was curled and tucked under her arm, and the L.A. interior designer
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GETTING Personal
WHENEVER A NEW piece of furniture arrives at a client’s home, Shannon Bowers likes to be on site. “My intention always is to make a client’s home personal, tailored exactly to their lives,” says Bowers, a Dallas-based interior designer who is also MI
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HOUSE Within a HOME
EVER SINCE RAY BOOTH and his client began their work together eighteen years ago, they have been speaking the same language. Each of them refers to it as simpatico, the Italian word that means a comradeship, a mutual understanding of each other. “The
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High Style In The Lowcountry
“THERE’S NOWHERE I’d rather be than in my house in Charleston,” says the Boston-based owner of her historic “home away from home” in the Holy City. And who could blame her? Located in the fabled South of Broad district, the three-bedroom house offers
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Go Shopping
Photography: Simon Brown, simonbrownphotography.com. Upholstery and slipcovers by: Melanie Williams, melaniewilliams.co.uk Beaton sofa, SOANE, soane.co.uk, covered in Osmunda Frond linen, Azure, seat cushion covered in Osmunda Silhouette linen, Azure

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