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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
One of the best features of summertime is the ability the season gives us to be inside and outside of our homes. Wherever you are, the weather this time of year encourages us to use the “rooms” that lie just outside our home, as well as to explore fa
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Featured Designers
Susan Marston trained at the Royal College of Art where she has since taught design. She worked in fashion, textile design, and interiors. Since 2010, Susan has focused on her work as an artist, while doing interiors with her husband, Peter Marston.
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Market PLANS
On a whim during my honeymoon, I coerced my husband, the talented comedy director (and funniest man I’ve ever met or, should I say, married) Gary Weis, to buy a house in France’s La Profonde (the deep interior heart of the nation). We took a wrong tu
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Keeping the Home Kilns Burning
The dressers in Karina and Charles Rickards’s Georgianstyle farmhouse in Somerset are stacked with ribbed and striped, traditional, hand-painted Cornishware pottery. Cake plates are piled high with homemade brownies, English tea brews in the pot, mil
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Marcel Breuer
Founded in 1919, by architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus, located in Weimar, Germany, became one of the most innovative schools of the twentieth century, notably for its multi-disciplinary approach to design. Under the direction of Gropius, it carri
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Drawing ROOMS
The philanthropy of one couple, Dominque and John de Menil, transformed forever Houston, Texas, into an international art center. Tucked away in a residential neighborhood of Houston, the Menil Collection was the brainchild of Mr. and Mrs. de Menil,
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Conversation Pieces
It’s what Ray Booth does and cannot stop doing: designing. On frequent flights between his studios in Nashville and New York, Booth takes out letter-size sheets of vellum and begins sketching. “I look for every opportunity to create something new and
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Southern Debut
There’s something about Atlanta—a lot about Atlanta—that inspires Will Fisher and Charlotte Freemantle, husband-and-wife owners of the London-based Jamb Ltd. “I’ve known Atlanta for twenty-five years,” says Fisher, who established his brand in 2003,
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THE Revivalists
IT ISN’T OFTEN that travel disruption proves to be life-enhancing. However, a few years ago, while waiting for a delayed flight, designer Peter Marston and his wife, artist Susan Marston, took a twenty-minute ferry journey from the Greek island of My
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HOME at LAST
EARLY ON, Stephan Jones was a fearless explorer—through art. Though he studied painting, graphic design, and interiors as a student at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Jones was drawn to collage. He worked nights in his studio, assembling
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OUTof the BLUE
WHILE STILL LIVING in her native New Zealand in the 1980s, Sandra Nunnerley was entranced by certain colors of America. “I remember wonderful greens and blues, hot pinks, the phosphorescent glow of neon signs and on clothing—all from the TV show Miam
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Geometry Lesson
JILL EGAN IS good at math. Prior to becoming an interior designer, she taught geometry to high schoolers, so shapes of all kinds appeal to her. When she and her husband were planning the construction of their new house in Houston, she imagined the ov
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Life Upstairs
WHEN DEVISING RESIDENTIAL floor plans for clients, the husband-wife architectural team of Peter Moor and Mary Juckiewicz also to try to build in another unusual element to the home. They want their clients to fall in love. “We like to tell clients th
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Home On A Hill
CATHY CHAPMAN WAS about two thirds of the way through her work on an interior design project in Houston when her clients, a couple with three married children and five grandchildren, decided to buy a vacation home in Malibu. Although their first Chap
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Go Shopping
Photography: Clive Nichols, clivenichols.com. Cornishware, cornishware.co.uk. Photography: Brett Wood, brettwoodphotography.com. Page 26 Background fabric: Cabana Stripe, Color: Coral, R. HOLLAND, JOHN ROSSELLI & ASSOCIATES, johnrosselli.com. Hats: (
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Nicky Haslam
A PLACE IN LONDON YOU NEVER TIRE OF VISITING? The Charles Sargeant Jagger memorial to the fallen in WWI, at Hyde Park Corner. The “toughest” bit of sculpture I know. YOU’RE A SEASONED CABARET PERFORMER. FAVORITE SINGERS, PAST OR PRESENT? Lee Wiley ab

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