Fall 2017

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
AS AN INTERIOR DESIGNER MYSELF, I understand what it means to design a home for a client versus one that you create for yourself. While every design project is a unique endeavor, there’s something especially freeing about being able to realize your t
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Featured Designers
Min Hogg was the founder and the editor for twenty years of The World of Interiors magazine, one of the most novel and influential design publications covering the industry. She recently designed and launched her extensive SeaWeed collection of wallp
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To the Touch
In Italy, the best collaborators are simpatico. Perfectly fitting that description is the relationship between Fabscarte, the Milan-based company that produces exquisite handcrafted, handpainted wallpaper, and the New York artist Martyn Thompson, who
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My Island
It was the indigenous hunting hounds with their long-eared lugubrious expressions that gave the Canary Islands their name, and not the little yellow bird. Around the year 80 A.D., in ancient Rome, author Pliny heard tell from explorers of the Atlanti
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Garden to Guest
Something about the crisp autumn air whips up an appetite—especially when you’re able to select your own heirloom tomatoes to slice into the arugula salad. Such is the case at the Red Rooster restaurant at Vermont’s Woodstock Inn. During the growing
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Paper Cuts
E very job has its hazards. For Hattie Newman, it’s paper cuts. Given that the London-based set and image maker fashions entire villages made of paper, as well as skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building, snowy mountain ranges with skiing crocodiles co
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Letter Perfect
When Rosalind Wyatt begins her version of calligraphy, she uses neither ink nor pen. “I sketch with a needle and thread,” says the young British artist, whose chosen palette is words rather than paint or crayon. Not unlike the way a portraitist gazes
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Object Lesson
We all live with things in our homes. Beyond the actual furniture on which we sit and sleep, those objects we collect—flower vases and throw pillows, Oriental rugs and painted bowls—often assume a function other than just practical. What we admire as
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At Home In The 1920s
The Roaring Twenties. The Jazz Age. Couples really were doing the Charleston and F. Scott Fitzgerald was chronicling the real-life goings-on of the privileged class while “flappers’” dresses rose above the knee. The 1920s in America were among the mo
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Min’s World
I FELL HOPELESSLY IN LOVE with this house thirty years ago, in part because of its garden backdoor. I was staying with my great friend, the decorator Christophe Gollut, in the village of Ingenio on Gran Canaria, one of the seven Spanish Canary Island
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the RIGHT MOVE
CAROL GLASSER UNDERSTANDS the power of antiques, how something old has the ability to renew. “I’d rather have an eighteenth-century piece than something new,” says the noted Houston-based interior designer from her spacious, light-filled loft-style a
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A Tale From Wales
OUR FIRST IMPRESSIONS of houses we meet are just as important as those we have of people. When the interior and furnishings designer Penny Morrison and her husband, the noted art dealer, Guy Morrison, first walked into “a complete wreck” of a 1790 ho
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Living Large
INTERIOR DESIGNER CHRIS BARRETT has long understood how to live large in a small space. In fact, she has always preferred to occupy smaller spaces. With two grown children launched and established in their own careers, she’s consolidated and curated
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Outside the Box
THE ABANDONED OFFICE BUILDING sat empty for years at a busy downtown Austin intersection. Built in the 1960s, the boxy, three-level, red brick structure was occupied by a long succession of tenants, the last of whom left—or fled—under cover of night,
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The Goods
1. The brass-finished Bergman floor lamp (19″ w. • 19″ d. • 72″ h.) from Mr. Brown London is noted for its multi-faceted, diamond-shaped enclosure. The base measures 12 inches in diameter. mrbrownhome.com 2. One of the most effective ways to introduc
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Pastoral Perfection
THE AIR, heavy in the late afternoon South African sunshine, hums with the work of countless bees in the garden of Babylonstoren, a family-owned and run inn and restaurant. Here owners Karen Roos and Koos Bekker grow over three hundred varieties of e
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Charlotte Moss
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST PROFESSION? Wall Street was the first “career-path” type job I had. It was my on-the-job training MBA, I had no idea at the time of the significance of all that I learned until I started applying it in my own business. THE COCKTAI

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