Winter 2024

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
As we continue to celebrate our 10th anniversary with this Winter issue, I think of the people who inspired me and helped MILIEU become what it has over this last decade. And of all of the extraordinary people I have met through the magazine, there a
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Milieu
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
“The Nature of Things” p. 96 “Making Good Choices” p. 106 “Modern Vintage” p. 116 “Montecito Mellow” p. 126 “In Full Color” p. 136 ■
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A Pattern of Life
Geoffrey Bennison’s antiques and decorating business was expanding, his reputation was growing, and new design commissions were taking him farther afield—all while a blizzard of paperwork in his London shop stacked up like so many fabric samples. It
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FORWARD Thinkers
Just as a woman might fasten on a necklace or don a pair of earrings, so, too, can a room wear a piece of jewelry. Belgian jewelry designer and artisan Delphine Cordie fashions jewelry for homes. Her extravagantly-scaled necklaces and earrings are de
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Entering a Kingdom
In Umbria, fortified castle keeps are as common as Fiats. The building of castles seems to have been a habit of those papal states that girdled the areas of Lazio, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria, and it’s lucky for us such a habit gained momentum
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Collecting Keepsakes
Most of us are unable to throw out anything of sentimental value. And, so, we should make no judgments on the celebrated English textiles designer and interior decorator Flora Soames, who admits, in her new book, The One Day Box: A Life-Changing Love
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Following the Paper Trail
With brilliant hues, simplified forms, and broad, thin washes of color, Mark Rothko’s immersive abstract paintings convey the impression of a shallow pictorial space while engulfing the viewer in energetic, expansive emotional swells. Vastly outnumbe
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Discover ADAC
MILIEU celebrated its 10th Anniversary at Atlanta Decorative Arts Center’s DISCOVER ADAC Fall Market 2023 with two interior designers who have been featured in the pages of MILIEU—Michael Del Piero, of Michael Del Piero Good Design, based in Chicago
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The Nature of Things
WALK INTO THE Cox London showroom in the Pimlico Road design district, and Nature is everywhere: here a metal wall light looking like a pair of oak twigs with every curve of leaf and turn of stem completely realistic, there a table whose top is suppo
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Making Good CHOICES
EVERYONE NEEDS TO LIVE with a sense of practicality,” observes Chicagobased designer Wendy Labrum on the recent renovation of her own single-family home, a classic three-story, five-bedroom residence on Chicago’s North Side. Designing sophisticated m
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Modern Vintage
SEATTLE’S MONTLAKE neighborhood is both a crossroads and a sanctuary, where tree-lined streets offer a calming corrective to the hustle and bustle of the city center a few miles away. Having strolled the neighborhood for nearly a decade, a couple wit
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Montecito Mellow
IT WAS THE HOUSE IN TOWN THAT no one seemed to want. Not because it lacked curb appeal or was in the wrong neighborhood, but simply because it was actually hard to see, inside and out. “Everything was brown, brown, brown,” says interior designer Rich
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In Full Color
LIKE MANY SEASONED DESIGNERS, Sarah Vanrenen sees things that others do not. She’s able to imagine an empty room or the ruinous exterior of a house or an overgrown backyard in a finished—and glorious—state. And she is able to realize that vision to c
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Go Shopping
Interior design: Nicola and Chris Cox, Cox London, coxlondon.com Flowers: Harald Altmaier, haraldaltmaierphotography.com Produced by: Katrin Cargill Photography: Simon Brown, simonbrown.london Wall color: Natural Cornish White specialty plaster with
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Candace Wheeler
Widely regarded as “the mother of interior design,” Candace Wheeler (1827–1923) was a woman of the Victorian Age who fashioned for herself a life that merits re-examination a full 100 years after her death. Born in Delhi, New York, Wheeler (née Canda

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