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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 [...]
Decorator and antiques dealer Hal Williamson talks about Palladian blue paint, toile, and French wine coolers in this interview with The Southern Cosmopolitan. The fact that I’ve featured three houses designed by Hal in my recent books The Southern Cosmopolitan and New Orleans Style (see “books” at right to order) shows how much I love [...]
Ken Tate (http://www.kentatearchitect.com) was recently named by Architectural Digest as one of the AD100 top architects and designers. Located outside New Orleans, Ken draws from traditional styles, both the formal and the vernacular, to create houses that communicate to the spirit and the senses. In this interview, he talks about how traditional craftsmanship and materials [...]
I recently had the pleasure of staying in two of the most historic inns in the Blue Ridge Mountains –the Eseeola Lodge in Linville, North Carolina, and the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers, North Carolina.
Eseeola Lodge . . .
The Eseeola Lodge (http://eeseola.com) was built in 1892, four years after the wives of Linville’s developers convinced their husbands to create a resort instead a timber and [...]
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 [...]