Southern Home

Beth Webb

Southern Home (SH): Please share your path to becoming a designer.

It’s a completely accidental one. I studied art history in college and got my master’s from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. After working for galleries in New York and Atlanta, I moved back to my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, with my now ex-husband and became an art consultant. Our house became my default gallery space. One night we hosted a dinner, and a friend since grade school came. He’d just purchased an 1892 house for his foundation. I asked him who’d be decorating it, and he said he’d like for it to be me. When I replied that I wasn’t a decorator, he told me he thought

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