Innholdsfortegnelse for Winter 2026 i MILIEU

Perfection is very overrated. In fact, I don’t believe in it, nor do I strive for it. One of my very favorite editors, the late and great Min Hogg (1939–2019), who headed The World of Interiors magazine for many years, once said something that I have never forgotten: “Why does everything have to be so perfect? Nothing in real life is, you know.” Yes, every home we show in our pages is beautiful, and the rooms have come together through the extraordinary talents of interior designers and architects. But a home is, first and foremost, about being a place for family, for pets, for friends, for life, allowing for the good and the sometimes messy to happen. A home is actually perfect in its being imperfect. We love showing homes…

At her home in Winnetka, Illinois, Heidi Avedisian, founder of White Ink Co, has a thing for entertaining around her home, quite literally. For family and friends, Heidi hosts intimate dinners, making for very special “candlewaxdripping-on-the-table kind of nights.” Heidi’s passion for design and culinary arts is evident as she seamlessly morphs her library into magical dinner settings, mixing collections of tableware, plucking flowers from the garden, and serving meals she’s prepared from scratch. For her guests, it’s a feast for the senses, making for a very memorable evening.…

Whereas most people are attracted to vintage clothing items for their colors or silhouettes, Natalie Lindsey sees something else. “Vintage has a soulfulness that new clothes often lack,” she says from her quaint Persa Place work studio in Houston, her hometown, to which she returned after years as a stylist and designer in New York and San Francisco. She started Natalie Lindsey Vintage in 2022, and she is already well known for her yo-yo skirts and tablecloth skirts, which, as she emphasizes, “combine craftsmanship, nostalgia, and modern wearability.” Stylist, fashion designer, artisan, craftsperson, and visionary, Lindsey is able to expertly curate vintage finds and rework them into “new” garments. “I approach vintage through a designer’s lens rather than simply as a collector,” she emphasizes. “Every piece I source or rework…

“Ultimately, the greatest houses are the ones where you feel like you can live in them, and you feel like you can look anywhere and get beautiful light,” says Kirby Mears, the Houston-based architect of this new Colorado house. He understands that like any great work of art, exceptional architecture has the power to move us. The proportions of a room, the relationship between materials, colors, and textures, and the way light is drawn throughout the interior have effects that are unmistakable. A well-designed space doesn’t simply house life—it enhances it, as does this home in a charming neighborhood just south of Denver. The residence and its adjacent carriage house—designed by Mears, principal at Murphy Mears Architects, and interior designer Susan Weiss, founder of Emerson Bailey—represent a layered, expressive approach…

“I wanted whatever we did to look like it was part of the architecture, because the architecture was so pure and had a lot of integrity.”—GREG TANKERSLEY “We definitely wanted something that had a history.”—MARY ROBIN JURKIEWICZ “Out of Town” p. 86 “This project was really a compilation of everything I personally loved and I wanted in my own home.”—SUSAN WEISS “Building a Relationship” p. 98 “Flooring is the most important starting point in a home. This homeowner was so excited by the effect of the material that she often took an actual seat to watch as it was all being installed by the contractor.”—ROZANNE JACKSON “The Belle of Belle Meade” p. 110 “This is a magical little English country house sitting in Arizona.”—LINDA CRISWELL “Three-In-One” p. 122 “We wanted…

“I’ve drawn lines for so long that I know exactly how long they’re supposed to be,” says architect Jeremy Corkern. Even though this might seem to be a violation of the laws of geometry, in that a line is infinite in length, the New Orleans–based Corkern speaks a very real truth about how he works. Unlike most architects who create their proposed residential designs using sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) systems, Corkern begins every idea with a sharpened pencil in hand. He then takes out one of his favorite olive-green notepads and begins rendering on paper the shape of the house he has in his imagination. With no erasures or hesitations, he sketches out the dramatic pitches of rooflines, projecting dormers, chimneys and multipaned windows, even the position of trees on…

Mary Holland, owner of Atlanta showroom Holland MacRae, hosted an intimate soirée in September in honor of the designer Ray Booth and the publication of his latest book, The Expressive Home: Architecture and Interiors (Rizzoli). Prior to signing copies of the book, MILIEU’s Design Director, Leslie Newsom Rascoe conducted a candid conversation with Ray, who is a partner of McAlpine and founder of Ray Booth Design, that focused on his upbringing in Alabama and the varied influences on his architecture and interior designs. Leslie emphasized how in Ray’s new book he creates, as she said during her talk, “spaces that are more than shelter, for they are living portraits of the people within them, crafted with beauty, memory, and meaning.” Ray’s projects have appeared in many issues of MILIEU, and…

Anyone who loves the color white as much as Rozanne Jackson does knows how difficult it is to get it right. White is, after all, the most complex color in the palette, with more variations and nuances than anything else in the spectrum. She and the homeowners of this new Nashville home in its Belle Meade area bonded, in part, through their mutual love for the color that they knew would be used amply inside and out. “We’d pick out a white, apply a portion of it on the outside, especially on the shutters, but then the sunlight would hit it or it would suddenly get cloudy and we’d see how it changed color, and we’d start all over again,” says Jackson, a prolific (and patient) interior designer, as well…

OUT OF TOWN Interior design: Greg Tankersley and Mary Robin Jurkiewicz Architecture: Greg Tankersley, McALPINE, mcalpinehouse.com Photography: Lisa Romerein, lisaromerein.com Written by: Fred Albert Page 87 Wall color: White Dove, BENJAMIN MOORE, benjaminmoore.com. Upholstered chair: ABC CARPET & HOME, abchome.com. Wooden chair: ROBUCK, robuck.co. Floor lamp: GALERIE DES LAMPES, galeriedeslampes.com. Side table: HOLLAND MACRAE, hollandmacrae.com. Artwork: (left) The Annunciation to Virgin Mary by Ed Warner, ESCAT GALLERY, escatgallery.com; (center) Two Harpis by Peter Miller, oil on canvas, GRATZ GALLERY, gratzgallery.com. Pages 88-89 Chairs: APROPOS, INC, aproposantiques.com. Fringed ottoman: REVIVAL RUGS, revivalrugs.com. Upholstered bench: LEE INDUSTRIES, leeindustries.com, throw on bench from BOHEMIAN WRAPSODY, bohemian-wrapsody.com. Painting: Aaron Sills, ANTHONY’S FINE ART, anthonysfineart.com. Screen: Custom design by GREG TANKERSLEY, mcalpinehouse.com. Console: Antique dining table modified by GREG TANKERSLEY, mcalpine.com. Console lamp: CIRCA INTERIORS…

In Motion on Canvas and Paper Álvaro Llanza wants you to keep looking at his paintings and drawings. He wants you to both see something recognizable—and not. The Madrid-born, Houston-based painter describes his art as “abstract figuration. By this, I mean that you can understand and discern the shapes you are seeing, but at the same time you can’t really tell what the final form is.” Llanza, who is as animated in person as he is on canvas or paper, elaborates on his creations that are rendered in oil on canvas or ink on paper, emphasizing: “My art is an exploration of the idea of growth. I want the viewer to see constant movement and flow. I want them to feel like they could grow out of the canvas or…

With just two restaurants and fewer than 200 people, Lumberville, Pennsylvania, is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it burg hugging the Delaware River in Bucks County, an hour north of Philadelphia. There’s no nightclub, the general store doesn’t sell any designer labels, and residents ring in the New Year by lowering a ball wrapped in Christmas lights from the village footbridge. The Hamptons this is not. And Greg Tankersley and Mary Robin Jurkiewicz wouldn’t have it any other way. A few years after moving to Manhattan, the Alabama natives decided they were ready to join the hordes of jaded New Yorkers seeking a weekend refuge from the city. But excursions to Connecticut, the Hudson Valley, and the east end of Long Island left little impression on them. Then a friend invited the pair to…

A century and a half ago, after a long and uncomfortable journey, people would stop off at what is now Linda Criswell’s house in Prescott, Arizona. Of the three separate buildings that occupy her property, interspersed as they are among tall pine trees, is a stagecoach stop that Criswell transformed into a onebedroom cottage, situated steps away from her main house and another smaller dwelling she refers to as the Doll House. “If you walk behind the house into the woods, you can still see traces of the trail that the stagecoach would follow,” says Criswell, co-owner and co-founder of Bungalow, a notable Scottsdale-based interior design source. She characterizes the goods she carries and the look of her vast and airy showroom as being “definitely more maximalist than minimalist, with its…