Innholdsfortegnelse for Fall 2024 i Traditional Home

The work of a designer or architect is multifaceted. They help people fulfill dreams, maximize views and natural light, restore historical details, and imagine new structures. They guide more sustainable choices, make focal points of antiques, intuit color schemes that express us, and create spaces that hold our core memories. That “short list” not withstanding, a quote in this issue resonated with me for its honest simplicity. Designer Mark D. Sikes was speaking about his body of work—and his trilogy of design books, each of which includes beautiful in its title. “ ‘Beautiful’ is what’s carried me through the last decade,” he says. “Design is a puzzle, piecing together all the elements. Doing that in a way that achieves beauty is always the end goal.” In creating a magazine,…

Marble’s mark on decorative history dates back centuries. The material clads some of the world’s most majestic architecture: temples, monuments, and luxury hotel lobbies. Its soft and porous characteristics are an ideal density for carving famed and iconic classical figures. Fast-forward to recent times when marble has stamped kitchen and bathroom surfaces with moments of luxury. Marble and other stone materials have pushed their way back into the decorative world and on many points of the color spectrum. The new pieces contrast intricate antique relics against less complicated silhouettes. Small but impactful accessories, such as glowing light fixtures and carved statement sculptures, aim to rival their museum-worthy ancestors. New uses confirm that the materials are timeless, and stone is sure to live in the history books. “MARBLE’S DISTINCT VEINING DEMONSTRATES…

Timothy Corrigan intends to welcome countless guests at his newly renovated French château that hovers on the border between the Loire Valley and Normandy. But he’s not promising meals will be served only in the formal dining areas. The famed Los Angeles designer’s vision for hosting spans the grand property itself, including all of its nooks and spaces both inside and among the manicured landscape outside. His new book, At Home in France (Rizzoli, 2024), outlines the home room by room, but the unexpected moments he created for dining inspire hosts to think differently about their next occasion. “I like spontaneous entertaining that can be set up anywhere,” Timothy says. “It’s more special to be wherever the views might be the prettiest at that time. Why not enjoy a sunset…

Mother-daughter relationships have a history of igniting heated dis-agreements. But for Mary-Louise Stonecipher and her daughter Jordan Vaughn, both designers in Houston, transforming an old Galveston, Texas, house into new hospitality glory let them share their affinity for history, antiques, and design in the most amicable way. Built in 1874, the Italianate Victorian house had seen plenty of challenges: hurricanes, floods, even the occupancy of a fraternity in the 1950s. Mary-Louise recalls that its dilapidated state was very Grey Gardens with vines growing everywhere. “We talked about making it our family vacation home,” says Mary-Louise, a native Texan who grew up visiting Galveston on weekends. “But we thought that it was so special and wanted others to experience its revived beauty too.” The renovation commenced with steps to combat potential…

PAST MEETS PRESENT A Texas-born company with giant style. That’s the goal behind Houston-based designer Alexandra Killion’s AK Collective furniture collection, founded in 2023. Its emphasis—handcrafted made-in-America pieces that bring historical details to modern aesthetics—supports the traditional hallmarks that Alexandra ensures in her creations. alexandrakillion.com MECLINA GOMES New England-based artist Meclina Gomes has a message and you can read it yourself in her pieces. She not only paints and draws, but also incorporates micrography, an ancient technique that uses lettering as a design element to create and embellish forms, such as her Dali painting, where the hair and eyebrows are formed from individual letters. meclinaart.com RILOH LIGHTING Melissa Sutton leaned into her interior designer roots and into raw materials to springboard her zeal to a bright category of product. Enter…

Betsy Berry Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Betsy Berry cozies up to color. Following fashion studies in Florence, the designer trained with New York luminary David Easton and at Sills Huniford before opening B. Berry Interiors. Her ability to curate spaces with pieces rich in historical charm is poetry in motion. bberryinteriors.com Jackson Warren Packing a punch (or two) has been Kiley Jackson and Aileen Warren’s speciality since 2017. The pair’s fresh take on scale appears in their dynamic blends of unexpected colors. Each space is a unique merriment of antiques, scale, and striking aesthetics. jacksonwarreninteriors.com “TO KEEP IT INTERESTING, WE LIKE TO DRAW INSPIRATION FROM MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES.”—designer Aileen Warren French + French Husband-and-wife team Matt and Heather French ensure each project shimmers in clay-based colors. Inspired by their…

There’s no question that a project crafted by designer Anne Hulcher Tollett and architect Julie Dixon in Charlottesville, Virginia, would attract lookie-loos who spend their Sundays perusing neighborhoods for elevated real estate. One particular house boasts plenty of curb appeal, but dreamers won’t catch a peek of its glory from the main street. The classic farmhouse is a charming discovery hidden at the end of a winding 20-minute private drive. During the day, the new build is engulfed by the verdant greenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains in every direction, and at night, the absence of streetlights invites the sky to show off its starlight-freckled expanse. After nearly two years of searching for a plot of land with abundant views and a centralized location within reasonable proximity of a city,…

Hometown New York City Social butterfly I love my Instagram audience! We are entirely honest with one another, which is sometimes jarring but enlightening. Also, my podcast, Just B on iHeart, has evolved into a connective conversation about things or people I’m passionate about. It’s the greatest medium! Design eye I adore home decor. I’m never not in some state of it. I have tremendous house pride, and each property needs to be intrinsically designed according to the integrity of that area. Prized possessions I have the first purse I ever owned—a small beaded white purse. I now also have all of my mother’s jewelry heirlooms, as she recently passed away. Mother-daughter time I’ve traveled the world with my daughter, Bryn. She’s not spoiled in a materialistic manner, but she…