Spring 2023

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
Change. Some people love it, others prefer that it not happen. But as the expression goes, the one thing in life that always stays the same is change. Right now, at this time of year, the seasons are changing, and that is one of nature’s most wonderf
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FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PAMELA PIERCE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Shannon Bowers EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Masello ART DIRECTOR Regina Throop DESIGN DIRECTOR Leslie Newsom Rascoe EUROPEAN STYLE EDITOR Katrin Cargill COPY EDITOR Roger Harris DIGITAL DIRECTOR Saray
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Homes In This Issue
“Moving Into Town” p. 110 “A Lasting Legacy” p. 124 “Observing History” p. 134 “Our House” p. 148 “In Progress” p. 158
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Fitting In
Andrew Trotter remembers his first building. Just as any of us recall the first experience of something new and joyous, so, too, does Trotter continue to cite with affection the first real building he designed as an architect. “In some ways, of cours
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FORWARD Thinkers
Sophie Lombardi understands the demands and joys of motherhood, so much so that she decided to found her own company, Poppy and Honesty, in response to what being a mother meant and involved. While she was living in Perth, Australia, in 2012 she gave
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A Newt Experience
The sun is setting gently on the county of Somerset, and I am careening round a bend on the back of a golf buggy driven by a man named Ken. “If you look to your left,” says Ken, one of the guides at The Newt, “you will see our herd of fallow deer and
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Working MAN
After George Dunbar had exhibited his artwork in New York, where he had earned a certain reputation for his Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist canvases, he returned in 1955 to his native Louisiana. He quickly founded, with a group of like-minded a
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Moving Stillness
Illuminating the often misunderstood role of an interiors stylist, Colin King’s Arranging Things (Rizzoli) is a masterful look at the numinous, even sacred, nature of objects and an introspective musing on their dynamic placement. King writes how sty
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Showing the Colors
Bungalow Furniture, of Scottsdale, Arizona, in partnership with MILIEU magazine and LEE Industries, hosted a festive gathering on November 10th, celebrating classic American style and all things red, white, and blue. Bungalow’s owners, Linda Criswell
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Moving INTO TOWN
EVEN WITH JUST FLASHLIGHTS in hand, designers Serge Castella and Jason Flinn knew they had found the right new home for themselves. Although the two, partners in life and in business, had lived not far from the tiny Spanish village of Rupià for more
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A Lasting Legacy
BETSY BROWN QUICKLY discerned something about her client: “She is at the core of a lot of life.” Indeed, the homeowner, who had lived in a house in Mountain Brook—a leafy, venerable suburb of Birmingham—for some 27 years, had a personality and presen
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Observing HISTORY
AS A DESIGNER WORKING mostly in New England, Abby Yozell invariably leans toward the colonial character of many of the region’s homes for inspiration in the interiors she develops for clients. “I let the original architecture guide me, and since so m
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Our House
ALTHOUGH THE HOUSE hidden within the mountains above California’s Carmel Valley was built in 2006, three generations of the same family have already lived there. “All family members wanted a place where they could be at peace, where things felt calm
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In Progress
“THIS WILL SOUND counterintuitive considering what I do,” says interior designer Becca Casey, “but as a new homeowner, I moved in, made a quick mental list of the renovations needed and thought, “I want to get all this done right now.’” Casey shares
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Go Shopping
Produced by: Katrin Cargill Photography: Simon Brown, simonbrown.london Flowers made by Melanie Williams Background paper: Sarah, Color: Rose, IMOGEN HEATH at Supply Showroom, supplyshowroom.com. Floor: Méridor, Color: Red, NCW4494-04, OSBORNE & LITT
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Philip Trammell Shutze
Even though Philip Trammell Shutze (1890–1982) designed hundreds of structures during his career as a distinguished American architect, it is the grandeur of Swan House—the edifice, the setting, the grounds—for which he is best known. Tucked away in

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