Winter 2022

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
you, our readers, for many reasons, but one in particular is it includes a very special feature about our MILIEU family. When I first envisioned this magazine several years ago, it was my intention to bring together and foster a family-like staff mad
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FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PAMELA PIERCE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Shannon Bowers EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Masello ART DIRECTOR James Slate DESIGN DIRECTOR Leslie Newsom Rascoe SENIOR MARKET EDITOR Lauren Crane Alarcon EUROPEAN STYLE EDITOR Katrin Cargill COPY
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Featured Designers
Christina Cole Abboud is a designer and LEED Accredited Professional in green building practices, based in Austin, Texas, who has more than twelve years of experience in the design industry. She complements her professional practice with her academic
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Insider
When Emma Cassi fashions curtains made of silk for her home, she anticipates the day they will unravel. “When silk stays in the sun for too long, it starts to fall apart,” the fiber artist says from her home in Madrid, “and that’s what I really like.
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Frosted in TIME
Scotland’s Drummond Castle was recently cast in a starring role. Such is its likeness to Versailles, complete with terraces linked by staircases, a magnificent parterre, sculptural topiary, and busts and fountains, that it served as the (smaller) set
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Material GIRL
“I like there to be a little edge to what I’m creating—or even wearing—while still being casual,” says luxury textile designer Rosemary Hallgarten. “If I’m wearing a heel, it can’t pinch my feet. And a leather jacket must be super comfortable, like a
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On STAFF
I have long wanted to introduce you to the MILIEU family—our accomplished staff members, who work together, support one another, and genuinely care for each other. These are the individuals who make every edition of MILIEU happen, as well as of our s
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Fieldwork
Blue metal clouds hover thirty feet over the undulating terrain of Art Omi in Columbia County, New York, and they prove more compelling to visitors than the white diaphanous versions drifting by thousands of feet overhead. Elsewhere, on the 120-acre
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A Building Model
There is a powerful saying that speaks to the need for visible role models in careers like architecture: If you can’t see it, it’s hard to be it. Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926–2012) remains one of those hidden personalities who drew her own blueprints
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At Home
The truest domestic portrait of an art dealer is to see what they live with at home. While MILIEU often goes into homes of designers to reveal their styles, in For Art’s Sake (Rizzoli; $85), writer Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, along with photographer Je
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MILIEU Presents At DISCOVER ADAC
It was a monumental 60th anniversary milestone for the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC). Part of the celebration involved MILIEU’s national media sponsorship during the DISCOVER ADAC Fall Market with a lively discussion in the Jim Thompson Showr
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Spring Is On Its Way
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Breathing Room
WITH ALL THE images and messages one is constantly bombarded with in modern life, it’s a relief to enter a serene, tranquil home that invites the visitor to relax and rest in comfort. In Austin, Christina Cole Abboud, known for her quiet, minimal int
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BEING Heuman
SECRETLY, BEATA HEUMAN was especially drawn to the Notting Hill townhouse. “It was one of my favorite projects,” confides the London-based, Swedish-born interior designer who is creating ripples in the design world for her uniquely lighthearted—but s
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Gone Fishing
WHAT DOES THE TERM “fishing cabin” conjure? Do you envision a modest shack at the end of a weathered boardwalk? A New England bungalow surrounded by colorful buoys? Perhaps a portable ice shanty on a frozen lake? Whatever you imagine, it likely doesn
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Lofty Goals
IT WAS SIMPLY a matter of Mark Cunningham being honest with his clients. When he walked into the Upper West Side neo-Classical townhouse owned by Pam and Kevin Wolf, soon to move to their new downtown loft apartment, he looked at all the furnishings
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Settling IN
NOT LONG AFTER designer Roger Higgins finished the interiors of his home in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, he and his wife, Ann Shipp, decided to sell. “The house had been featured in a magazine, and a reader who saw it called a real estate
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The Goods
1. Sometimes a kitchen can become so beautiful you’ll need to remind yourself to cook. Such is the case with this space from Downsview Kitchen, complete with ERASS cabinetry, a custom hood, countertops of SapienStone, and ovens and a cooktop by Miele
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Go Shopping
Interior design: Beata Heuman, Beata Heuman Ltd, beataheuman.com, +442087410102 Photography by: Simon Brown, simonbrownphotography.com Pages 26-27 Antique Ghiordes rug, CAROL PIPER RUGS, carolpiperrugs.com. Antique reclaimed terracotta tiles, CHATEAU
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Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray worked with geometric forms to create furniture designs in chromed steel and leather. The E-1027 adjustable side table was designed for Gray’s own home. Its variable height is facilitated by a circular base that supports a cantilevered gl

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