Summer 2024

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
Welcome to our Summer 2024 issue, which is the fourth of the 10th Anniversary special editions in this milestone collection. I hope you have enjoyed the “Looking Back” features that celebrate each of our seasons. It’s been cathartic combing through 1
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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 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Avery Bowers EUROPEAN STYLE EDITOR Katrin Cargill COPY EDITOR Roger
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Featured Designers
"A Change of Scenery” p.100 “Laying New Ground” p. 110 “Design Theory” p. 120 “Beyond The City Limits” p. 130 “Life Along The River” p. 142
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How The West Is Worn
As a girl growing up in Dallas and visiting her family ranch outside the city, Lela Rose would watch her father in the outdoors. “My dad was really ahead of his time,” says the noted fashion designer from her present home outside Jackson Hole, Wyomin
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Mothers of Nature
Growing up in rural Texas, Jill Oliver was exposed to gardening from an early age. The daughter of a pecan farmer, she helped pick strawberries and peaches from the family garden, and still recalls the pleasures of biting into a homegrown tomato or d
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Well Made
As both a furniture designer and a CEO, Doug Rozenboom does something that is increasingly rare. When he’s with a client who’s seeking a custom design for a bed made of iron or steel, aluminum or brass, Rozenboom takes out a piece of paper and pencil
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Along For The Ride
As a practicing architect, Garrett Hardee understands the ways that walls curve and roof lines meet, how windows turn corners and the effect a dwelling has on its site. As a woman who grew up on a cattle ranch in South Alabama and who still rides hor
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Narrowing It Down
Drashta Sarvaiya makes something so close to her heart that she named her very creations for that emotion. As the Cornwall, England–based textile designer and artisan says of her company, Mara Vera Textiles, “The name is derived from two words—mara a
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In Full Bloom
The Bloomsbury group was named after an area of London defined by its polite yellow-brick Georgian squares and academic institutions. Out of a house in one of these squares, a group of intellectuals, artists, and writers comprised of friends and fami
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Camera Ready
It makes sense that the chapters of Kathryn Ireland’s new book, A Life In Design (Cico Books), would be named for her favorite movies. Even though she generously cites her “wonderful crew” and many enlightened clients for whom she designs interiors a
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A Change of Scenery
“WITH ANY PROJECT, I think it’s so important to respond to context,” says Ray Booth of a new home he’s decorated in Park City, Utah. “I don’t necessarily mean location and landscape,” he says. “It’s also about who you’re working for, and about gettin
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Laying New Ground
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH France began some 35 years ago, when I moved there to work in advertising. My passion began in Paris, where I was living, and several years later spread to the French countryside, when I bought a 17th-century manor house in Norman
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Life Along The River
THE FIRST TIME LYNDIE AND Fred Hertrich visited their future vacation home, they had to abandon their car by the roadside, clamber over fallen trees, and wade through waist-high grass just to get to the front door. In the decade since the Easton, Mar
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The Goods
1. Any room in your home will have a good view when you install a Maison Janneau window. For more than 50 years, the French company has been crafting custom windows and doors in its Loire Valley workshop. maison-janneau.com 2. It’s both abstract and
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BEYOND the City Limits
IN ADDITION TO THE JOY OF BEING together in their oceanfront house outside of Sydney, homeowners Thomas Hamel and George Massar look forward to two daily events in their residence: sunrise and sunset. When the couple purchased the house as a weekend
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Design Theory
IF YOU WERE TO WRITE A HISTORY of interior design in California, it would have to be divided into two eras: Before Michael Taylor and After Michael Taylor. The legendary decorator transformed California interiors in the 1970s and ’80s with sunny whit
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Go Shopping
Produced and styled by: Shannon Bowers Photography by: Brett Wood, brettwoodphotography.com Collection of colorful spools, AARON RAMBO CREATIVE, aaronrambocreative.com. Vintage Kilim, Turkey, circa 1940, 7'10"x9'6", CAROL PIPER RUGS, carolpiperrugs.c
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Gertrude Jekyll
Painter, photographer, author, and handicraft aficionado extraordinaire, Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) is remembered primarily as a Renaissance woman with an especially keen interest in gardening and garden design. Over the course of her life, she crea

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