Winter 2020

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
Home is one of my favorite words. Another favorite is Family. My home reflects the way my husband and I live there, while it is also a comfortable place where we welcome—among others—our grandchildren, other relatives, and friends. Many people—MILIEU
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Featured Designers
Will Fisher, founder of Jamb, runs and owns the London-based company with his wife, Charlotte Freemantle. Together, they have amassed an extraordinary collection of antiques—lighting fixtures, chimneypieces, fire grates, urns, furniture— that they ha
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Penchants
Lee Industries not only makes things, but it also makes things happen. The North Carolina–based, family-owned furniture company celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and continues to produce its iconic “1935-01” chair—a piece of furniture that’s
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On And Off The NILE
Perhaps it was my mother who first inspired me to visit Egypt. It was later in her life that my mamá grew passionate about the country and loved visiting it. Although she was initially drawn to the nation because of its epic history and the remnants
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HEAD To The Highlands
Less than fifty miles north of New York City is a treasure known as the Hudson Highlands. Painters, sculptors, writers, designers, architects, and all manner of creative folk came—and continue to come—to this rocky, sparsely populated region where fo
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Furlow’s FOLLY
Successful business collaborations generally require clear objectives, defined roles, and a legal agreement. But in the view of self-taught designer, antiques expert, and Southern gentleman Furlow Gatewood, the key elements are “friendship and trust.
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Serge Mouille
Serge Mouille (1922–1988) was known primarily for his lighting designs, though he began his career as a silversmith, after receiving his diploma in metallurgy from the School of Applied Arts in Paris in 1941. Shortly thereafter, he apprenticed under
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Clouds on EARTH
As a young girl, Sandra Jordan loved accompanying her aunts to the textile markets in her native Peru. “We always had an in-house seamstress who made our draperies,” says Jordan, “so we would buy these beautiful fabrics and keep them in big trunks. T
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FORM Fitting
Jane Rosen hears things few people do, even her fellow sculptors. “I have synesthesia—I can actually hear the forms my sculptures will take the moment I start on them,” says Rosen from her Northern California studio, a place she claims is so remote t
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ANNOUNCING THE MILIEU 2020 Designer Showhouse
Several years ago, when Pamela Pierce, the founder and editor-in-chief of MILIEU, first conceived of a future showhouse in Houston, she always knew that the charity she would choose to benefit from the event would be Clayton Dabney for Kids with Canc
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JAMB Session
“WE DECIDED TO DIG a pond,” says Will Fisher. He and his wife, Charlotte Freemantle, had just moved into a dilapidated Georgian house, their first baby was due, and the house, “a shell with wires coming out of the walls,” was more than a challenge. S
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Well-EDITED
YEARS BEFORE SHE had the idea to start a magazine about design, Pamela Pierce headed her own thriving interior design business in Houston. She and her husband were searching for a new home in town, and a friend suggested she look in one of the city’s
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The New OLD HOUSE
THIS 1912 CRAFTSMAN-STYLE house on a broad, palm tree–lined street, blocks from the ocean in Santa Monica, is invested now with so much life that the architect responsible for its renovation refers to it in human terms. “The clients love the way the
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Wisconsin ROOTS
FOND DU LAC, which translates as “bottom of the lake”, is likely not at the top of most people’s lists of best known Wisconsin cities. Yet, the midsize town on the shores of Lake Winnebago, about an hour’s drive northwest from Milwaukee, charms visit
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Village Life
AS A EUROPEAN, Benjamin (a.k.a. Benni) Frowein, understands New York. As President of Schumacher fabrics, he understands, too, how to make a house very much a home. His apartment, on the second floor of a classic nineteenth century townhouse in New Y
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Go Shopping
Interior design: Pamela Pierce, Pierce Designs, 713-961-7540, ppiercedesigns.com. Photography: Miguel Flores-Vianna. Mirror: Small Sang de boeuf Marriage mirror from Provence, W GARDNER, LTD., wgardnerltd.com. Clock: Nineteenth century Swedish Mora c

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