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Join me as I travel to East Hampton, New York, for an exhibition of Dominy furniture and a Southern expatriate supper
I recently spent the weekend at the East Hampton home of voracious and omnivorous collectors Glenn Purcell and Charles Keller. During the last several years, they have developed an obsession with furniture made in the [...]
Heralded by Veranda magazine as “a landmark design book,”
The Home within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms (Rizzoli)
is well on its way to becoming a best-selling design book.
Written by architect and interior designer Bobby McAlpine with co-author Susan Sully,
this gorgeous book features work from across the South by McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine [...]
Run to Charleston if you can to catch this year’s Charleston International Antiques Show (starting this Friday, March 19th and ending Sunday, March 21st), organized by and benefiting Historic Charleston Foundation. If you can’t make it in time for that, then take a walk through the city with the Foundation’s annual Festival of Houses and [...]
An inside look at why antiques dealers love the things they love
and what they like to do with them
Ann Koerner Antiques, New Orleans
What I love most about Ann Koerner Antiques (4021 Magazine Street, New Orleans, http://annkoerner.com), other than the updated Gustavian decor, is Ann’s skill at creating unexpected yet entirely harmoneous collages of art, furniture, and decorative objects. Rooted in history, inclusive, [...]
The Southern Cosmopolitan (Rizzoli: April ’09) takes a fresh look at styles shaping the South’s architecture and interior design today. A selection of luxurious houses from Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Atlanta, Natchez, Alexandria, and beyond celebrates the sophisticated side of Southern style with a mix of modern art, cherished antiques, and exotic textiles. Featured in [...]