Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2022 i Flower

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”—Albert Camus ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS ASKED ME THE OTHER DAY what my favorite season was. Without a moment’s hesitation I responded, “Fall.” She agreed, which made my heart smile. I like the reprieve of the season—or in the South, the promise of a reprieve—from the punishing summer heat. I like the fragrance of pumpkin spice and the taste of candy corn, and I like the return to routine. I also like the shift in nature’s palette. We move from blues and greens and pinks to rusts and umbers and bricks. These warmer colors begin to appear not only in my garden, but also in my Instagram feed. Fall feels like a gentler season, and it reflects my appreciation for…

You formally trained as an artist at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and had a career as a painter before starting your textile company, Ferrick Mason, in 2008. How did you make the artistic leap from one medium to another? After I graduated from Pratt, my husband and I moved to New Zealand, where I continued to paint. But people there kept telling me that my work would translate well to textiles. So when we moved to Los Angeles three years later, I decided to go to school to learn the craft. I attended Otis College of Art and Design and learned pattern design and the famous William Morris method. At the time, there weren’t many boutique textile lines, but I was inspired by Lulu de Kwiatkowski and what she…

Event designer Tara Guérard founded Charleston-based Tara Guérard Soirée in 1997. She later launched The Lettered Olive, a letterpress invitation company. Through this venture, Tara works with leading designers across the South to create beautiful invitation suites for brides. Most recently, she started May Cabas, a bicycle basket company. No matter which business she is focusing on, Tara always includes a bit of nature. “I love to clip whatever I can find—flowers, leaves, branches—for my arrangements,” she says. For more information, see Sources, page 106…

Every year during its renowned antiques fair, the town of Round Top (population 90) swells by tens of thousands as collectors and design enthusiasts descend upon this Texas hamlet, searching the furnishings, ephemera, and collectibles found at every turn in tented fields, weathered barns, and roadside stands. What started in the late 1960s as a “country show” with a handful of dealers and primarily local, in-the-know shoppers has evolved into a veritable cabinet of curiosities that extends over 20 miles and attracts exhibitors and attendees from around the globe. Last fall, well off the beaten path on Bader Ranch, a small cluster of tents tucked deep within a field harbored its own eye-catching collection of art and antiques. Here there was no madding crowd competing to buy the many one-of-a-kind…

Any items not listed are unknown. IN BLOOM PAGES 29–36: FLOWER INTENSIVE: Floral designers: Ariella Chezar Design, ariellaflowers.com; Nicolette Owen, nicolettecamille.com PAGES 38–44: DECORATE: Q&A: Designer: Alex Mason, Ferrick Mason, ferrickmason.com PAGES 46-48: GARDEN ARTIST: Artist: Meg Black, megblack.com PAGES 56-57: DECORATE: MOOD: Event designer: Tara Guérard, taraguerardsoiree.com PAGES 58-60: DECORATE: FLOWERS: Floral designer: Maggie Bailey, Bramble & Bee, brambleandbee.com PAGES 62-72: Interiors: Interior designer: Suzanne Tucker, Tucker & Marks, tuckerandmarks.com Architect: Howard Backen; Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects; backenarch.com Landscape architect: Claudia Schmidt, claudiaschmidtlandscape.com. FAMILY ROOM: Sofa: Dennis & Leen, dennisandleen.com, with velvet fabric by Stark, starkcarpet.com; Side tables: Paul Ferrante, paulferrante.com; Lamps: Vaughan Designs, vaughandesigns.com; Chairs: custom with fabric by Le Gracieux, legracieux.com; Love seat: Gregorious Pineo, gregoriuspineo.com with fabric by Guy Goodfellow, guygoodfellow.com; Coffee table: custom, upholstered in leather…

Little did Meg Black know that a simple cluster of coneflowers performing in a roadside pocket garden would change everything when it came to her paintings. Gardens were an early inspiration for her canvases. While studying art in her native Syracuse, New York, Meg became fascinated by the interplay of colors in flower gardens, and she expressed that intrigue in her initial watercolors. However, when she moved from landlocked Syracuse to harborside Boston, she developed a love of the ocean and spent years capturing the mesmerizing hues of seafoam, waves, and tidal pools. But artists go through life with eyes wide open, and one day while on her daily bike ride around her own North Shore neighborhood in Massachusetts, Meg rediscovered gardens. But this time around, she approached flowers from…

Inspiration “This natural setting offered a wealth of inspiration,” says Maggie Bailey of Bramble & Bee. Sustainable Harvesters in Hockley, Texas, is located on more than 167 acres of farmland dotted with gardens, greenhouses, and groves. “I used freshly plucked lettuces and vegetables with all of their wild, gnarly foliage to give the arrangement a hardy base and an element of the unexpected. The leafy greens also deflected from the formality of the lush garden roses and helped mound the blooms to create a smooth but striking contrast.” Behind the Scenes Part Texas wildflower, part English garden, and a little California cool thrown in for good measure—that’s Maggie Bailey’s style. Her flower designs capture the simplicity and innocence of her childhood in rural California, her free-spirited college years in Texas,…

On a late April morning in upstate New York, the first delicate blooms are bursting through the soil. Overhead, cherry blossoms explode from the bud in clouds of cotton candy pink. Often this time of year feels like one step forward with a warm day, the return of the sun, and the first crocus to break the cold earth and then two steps back with a surprise spring snowstorm and the return of winter coats. But as I make my way to the cavernous Basilica Hudson, a restored 19th-century riverfront factory, it’s clear that spring is officially present thanks to a display of the season’s finest floral offerings, from blush anemones and coral peonies to towering bunches of sunny forsythia and dusky hellebores. The bloom’s varied colors, textures, and forms…

The word “elegant” is in regular use in both fashion and science; it can describe a certain understated self-assurance manifest in a choice of clothing, an arrangement of furniture, or the setting of a table—and, equally, the underlying structures of the universe or the routine transcription of RNA. It perfectly describes Deeda Blair. Most style mavens are surprised by her scientific expertise, and scientists are astonished by her style. If one penetrates those disparate worlds, however, one soon finds that neurobiologists credit her deep interest in helping them think through difficult questions, and that fashionistas must employ metaphors from 18th-century France to describe the impeccable way she dresses and entertains.” In this introduction to Deeda Blair’s just-released book, Food, Flowers, & Fantasy (Rizzoli 2022), author Andrew Solomon’s description of his…