Spring 2018

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
WE GO MANY PLACES in this Spring issue of MILIEU. A small town tucked into Italy’s Amalfi Coast, a family-friendly resort at the foothills of Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, an artisan workshop in Portugal, and lovely homes in Normandy, the Bahama
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Featured Designers
Susan Snyder, head designer/founder of the Himalayan Cashmere Company in Nepal, is an American who trained at the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Cooper Union in New York City. She left America for Asia to start a unique hand-manufacturing artesano
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Home PLATES
1 It’s akin to staring into a clear blue sky when dining off the Tourron Bleu Chardon dinner plate, Jars Céramistes 2 A plate can appear as a lovely mélange of decorative forms, with the Ruban plate in Bleu Orage/Noir, Marie Daâge 3 The traditional p
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Blackberry Season
One of the most magical times of day at Blackberry Farm is early morning, when mist wafts gently over the foothills of Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains and hangs like a cloud over the property’s Tellico Lake. There are 4,200 acres here, an hour sout
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Ciao Cetara!
A writer can work anywhere. But the muse is especially accommodating in a tiny town called Cetara, cradled within hills on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. There, amid the dull clangs of fishing boats, hourly choruses of church bells, and the effusive greetings
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In STARCK Terms
The French have always had a handle on style. No one is more adept at inventing and reinventing today’s lifestyle than French design superstar Philippe Starck. He started his style revolution by designing nightclubs in the late ’70s. When he was chos
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Made in TEXAS
Writer and Editor Even in his longtime Brooklyn home, the writer and editor Roger Hodge admits to feeling “a tremendous pull” back to the West Texas landscape in which he grew up. For Hodge, it’s the Devils and the Pecos rivers of his home state, the
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The Dream Life of Flowers
British artist Carolyn Quartermaine sees things through her camera lens that no one else does. But once her works are displayed, everyone gets to see her vision. No matter in what medium she is working—be it painting, collage, film, fabrics, or inter
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Fluent In France
TEA TIME FOR Susan Snyder means taking the tart out of the oven. Almost every day in her tiny Normandy town, a grouping of just six rustic houses, the neighbors drop by mid afternoon. “I have lots of apple and pear trees growing on my property, so I’
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Harbour HERITAGE
IT MAY BE a reflection of my own sentimentalism, but it seemed to me from first sight that the house on King Street was imbued with an air of nostalgia. Almost thirty years ago now, I had shouldered past the rotting, unhinged gate in a high wall to f
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FAMILY Ties
MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE Darryl Carter was born and raised and continues to work in Washington, D.C. that he understands the art of diplomacy. Or, more likely, it’s also in his nature, as one of the nation’s leading and most prolific interior designers, to
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Mid-century Modernized
PALM SPRINGS HAD its Golden Age. During that era in the 1950s and 60s when stars such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore and others made the desert town their home away from their Los Angeles homes, Palm Springs became not only a gl
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Sunset Setting
FIVE YEARS AGO, interior designer Mary Clark and her husband, Joe, were in the midst of moving into their newly purchased pueblo-style home on four acres in the Museum Hill neighborhood of Santa Fe. The place was a blank slate, and the Clarks brought
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The Goods
1. Establish your home nest with Anker Bak’s Rocking Nest Chair, from Carl Hansen & Son, the inspiration for which was the designer’s sister who was seeking a practical piece of furniture to rest and relax in with her newborn. Available in oak or wal
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Go Shopping
Floral Design: Kyle Branch, Peaches, kylebranch.com. Photography: Peter Vitale, petervitale.com. Page 26 Allium cotton, Color: 130107, HARLEQUIN, stylelibrary.com. Page 28 Caladium linen, Color: Tropical Teal, JIM THOMPSON, jimthompsonfabrics.com. Pa

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