Summer 2023

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
I was reminded recently about the joys of receiving a postcard from someone traveling afar. In that small amount of space on a postcard, a story gets told. The note often alludes to the photo on the front, or else it recounts places seen, experiences
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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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Featured Designers
“Imagining Home” p. 98 “Shore Lines” p. 108 “Somewhere In Time” p. 120 “Modern in Málaga” p. 132 “A Welcome Home” p. 144
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The Mighty Oak
I have always been enamored of 18th-century English oak furniture, the uncomplicated style of dark, well-patinated-over-the-centuries country wood in all its rudimentary forms. The pieces speak to me, and I respond with a must-have attitude. There is
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Creative License
Visual artist Lisa Hunt pays attention to what she sees in the world. “I’m constantly observing patterns in my everyday life that find their way into my work,” says Hunt, from her studio in East Orange, New Jersey. “When I started out, I knew I wasn’
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FORWARD Thinkers
Not only is the design world still talking about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement he launched in the late 19th century, but we’re also still living with and loving the patterns and motifs he and his artisans created. Jessica Clayworth
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The French Connection
It is 11 a.m., and the unmistakable beat of a helicopter announces itself overhead. In short order, another arrives directly from the airport at Monaco and settles onto the helipad at La Bastide de Moustiers. An arrival on this scale ought not to be
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Going NATURAL
Coastal shorelines, rocks spilled along beaches, drifting clouds, trees filled with wind, these and other natural phenomena were for Edvard Munch (1863–1944) not just elements of the earthly landscape, but ones with a life of their own. For him, they
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A Greek Idyll
Creative people seem to always have a favorite place and a favorite muse. They are mainstays to which an artist continually returns, actually and spiritually. For photographer Miguel Flores-Vianna, who has been everywhere in the world and has met, se
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In Full Bloom
The best experiences of the outdoors were found indoors at the 33rd annual Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville in February. MILIEU was honored to be the national media sponsor of the opening keynote lecture, “The Beauty of Home & Entertaining with Ae
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Imagining Home
WHEN CHARLOTTE AND Angus Buchanan purchased their Edwardian-era London townhouse, it came with inhabitants. The couple heard and even felt the breeze of pigeons flapping by that had taken roost in the attic, having flown in through the windows absent
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Shore LINES
EVEN BEFORE THIS NEW HOUSE was built, it came with a decorative accessory that would have to be accommodated: Lake Michigan. The moment interior designer Victoria Hagan began her work on the rooms and just as architect Randy Correll started to draw t
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Somewhere IN TIME
IF MICHEL ROCHEFORT AND Marc Lecomte had been asked 10 years ago about their interest in taking on an ailing house in the village of Saint-André-de-Cruzières (population 460, give or take) in France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, they would have almo
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Modern In Málaga
BORN AND RAISED IN MÁLAGA, one of the oldest cities in the world, designer Pablo Paniagua invariably turns to his hometown’s spectacular history as inspiration for the interiors he creates wherever he works. Everything he does, he says, is rooted in
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A Welcome Home
WHILE IT WAS LOVE that compelled a New York arts patron to relocate to Charlotte, North Carolina, it was interior designer Cindy Smith who made the transition feel so seamless. Smith had decorated four of the woman’s previous residences and just happ
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Go Shopping
Interior design: Angus and Charlotte Buchanan, Buchanan Studio, buchanan.studio Photography: Alicia Waite, aliciawaite.com Doors: ENGLISH SALVAGE LTD, englishsalvage.co.uk. Tablecloth: Ticking Rose, color: Monochrome, BUCHANAN STUDIO, buchanan.studio
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Schultze & Weaver
Between 1921 and 1931, the New York architecture firm led by Leonard B. Schultze (1877–1951) and S. Fullerton Weaver (1879–1939) produced some of the largest and most lavish hotels of the first decades of the 20th century—among them The Waldorf-Astor

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