Fall 2023

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
Welcome to our Fall 2023 issue and MILIEU’s 10th Anniversary Year! We are excited to celebrate this milestone with our readers through special features in this Fall issue, as well as in the upcoming Winter, Spring and Summer editions. Each of these 1
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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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Out Of The Ordinary
Page 58 Rainforest grove table, Cox London. Moss “X” and flower chandelier, Harald Altmaier. Page 59 Coat dress in Rigoletto velvet, Olive, Kerry Joyce; purple braid is French grosgrain ribbon, Heather; Le Jardin silk tufts, Chartreuse and Slate Blue
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Telling A New Story
The French translation of Toile de Jouy is “linen cloth,” and traditional toile designs depict scenes of provincial life: stories of farmers and hunters, of shepherds driving sheep, of lovers meeting beneath trees, or of dandily dressed ladies and ge
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A Bright Light
For Davinia Tomas, her mother really is the light of her life. As the creative force behind Peralta Vidavi, a Spanish company devoted to the manufacture and design of handmade lamps and lampshades, Tomas says, “Since I was very little, I have been cl
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FORWARD Thinkers
Josh Gluckstein lives with lions and giraffes, tortoises and camels, and, soon, a woolly mammoth. His living room is also his studio space, where the sculptor fashions life-sized, semi-three-dimensional animals out of cardboard. “Living in London, th
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Figuring It Out
Lynn Muir likes it when it storms. When the gales are strong and the tides are high near her home and studio in the tiny North Cornwall village of Marhamchurch, she knows that the raw materials for her sculptures will be more available. She, sometime
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Light Source
When Karina Puente installs one of her papel picados (from the Spanish for “perforated paper”) in front of a window, everything in the room changes. The patterns, which she cuts by hand or laser into delicate but durable translucent fabrics, capture
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Mediterranean Revival
Gathering the entire Newsom clan for a family adventure across the Aegean Sea seemed like a Herculean feat, but channeling the wisdom of Athena, my mother and family matriarch, Lisa Newsom, made myth a reality. While hilltop towns and turquoise water
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A Fiesta of Style
Newell Turner has been consumed by an obsession that he has finally addressed in his new book, Mexican: A Journey Through Design (Vendome). As the veteran magazine editor and publisher (who is still in the editorial trenches) admits, “I have devoted
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An Artist’s Realm
In the first major retrospective of the work of artist Matthew Wong (1984–2019), his large, colorful canvases express his tremendous talents, desires, fears, and delights. “It’s been a joy getting to know Matthew through his paintings,” says Vivian L
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Leaving a Mark
UPON WALKING INTO THIS home in suburban Washington, D.C., it might be hard to believe that a family with young children and pets actually lives in the rooms. Minimalist artworks on plinths and objects on surfaces are positioned for full effect, while
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Collector’s Item
"OUR HOMES DEFINE US,” says architect Jeremy Corkern. “They are our day’s beginning and its end, our place of sanctuary, and our face to the world.” The newly constructed Louisiana home that Corkern developed with interior designer Suzanne Kasler is
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Reclaiming THE PAST
WHEREVER BETSY BROWN goes, she imagines the past. Whether she is in her hometown neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, or in front of her new/old second home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she thinks about the people who once lived there. “I’m fascinated
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Go Shopping
Produced by: Katrin Cargill Photography by: Simon Brown, simonbrown.london Flowers by: Harald Altmaier, haraldaltmaierphotography.com Wire gown and lanterns painted by: Melanie Williams Tent painted by: Tabby Riley Page 15 Fall 2013, Interior design:
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The Goods
1. Little Greene Paint’s Hopper, a color handcrafted in the UK, works everywhere in the home. The vibrant hue references the very shade of green that was used to paint playwright George Bernard Shaw’s famous residence, Shaw’s Corner. littlegreene.com
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Nothing COULD BE Finer
IN A RURAL CAROLINA TOWN where the number of paved roads can be counted on one hand, change can be as slow as the shrimp boats meandering down the river. So, when a city couple purchased an 1880s waterfront home here 14 years ago, they were content t
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A Natural Palette
CREATIVE PEOPLE, LIKE interior designer Rozanne Jackson, are often baffled by their own abilities to create. When the Nashville-based Jackson, who is also the founder of The Iron Gate home décor stores, fashioned the interiors for a client’s new home
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London CALLING
THE TOWNHOUSE IN LONDON where Kathryn Ireland now lives most of the time wasn’t originally part of her plan. “My sister and I were renovating my mother’s London home, which we’d recently inherited,” says the peripatetic designer. “But then my childho
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David Augustus Williston
When David Williston was growing up on his family’s farm near Fayetteville, North Carolina, he and his 11 siblings had garden plots to manage—and, according to a niece, her uncle “was always the greatest producer,” as well as “the only one to have a
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Featured Designers
“Leaving A Mark” p. 120 “Collector’s Item” p. 134 “Reclaiming the Past” p. 148 “A Natural Palette” p. 156 “Nothing Could Be Finer” p. 164 “London Calling” p. 176 ■

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