CREATIVE CONNECTIONS
IN THE 1940S, Charleston was finally pulling out of an economic slump, giving the many artists living here the freedom to create again. Renowned painters, such as Elizabeth O’Neill Verner, took advantage of the uptick to carve out a living for themselves by illustrating books and selling landscapes and portraits to tourists. By the 1950s, […]
A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
WHETHER COLLECTOR, GEOLOGIST or investor, mineral devotees are a passionate group of people. It’s easy to see why. Minerals are fascinating, one-of-a-kind sculptures created by nature. They come in vibrant colors, exciting shapes and they sparkle. Mineral collectors are a zealous group, some traveling to mines in far-off, dangerous places to score a showpiece for […]
ORGANIZED BY DESIGN
AS ANYONE WHO’S FLIPPED THROUGH an interior design magazine already knows, there are many talented interior designers in the market to choose from, all with great vision and beautiful samples to woo potential clients. What sets apart CHD Interiors from the competition is the fact that clients and builders can count on the well-oiled machine […]
COASTAL COPPER’S LAURA PREMAK IS PURE GOLD
A QUICK CONVERSATION WITH Laura Premak illuminates her passion for her com-pany, Coastal Copper, which creates handcrafted copper lanterns and lighting. She is quick to applaud the artisans behind the scenes, who transform client preferences into one-of-a-kind lighting showpieces, but make no mistake, it is Premak’s high-watt energy that is the cornerstone of Coastal Copper’s […]
SECOND LIFE
CAPERS CAUTHEN REMEMBERS when Landrum Tables transformed from a part-time hobby into a full-time business. In his spare time, Cauthen often crafted tables from reclaimed wood and put them on display alongside antiques in a shop on James Island. “I was amazed that people would walk past a beautiful 200-year-old table and buy a table […]
MODERN IMPRESSIONS
A NATIVE OF THE FINGER LAKES REGION in upper New York state, Hilarie Lambert enjoyed a long, successful career as an illustrator and graphic designer, both in the corpo-rate world and as a freelancer. After moving to Charles-ton 20 years ago, she made the leap from commercial art to fine art. In a community that […]
BESPOKE CARPETS
WHEN GARY SHAFRAN was in his 20s, he opened a store in Brooklyn, New York, and named it Gary’s Curtain Shop. “I learned a tremendous amount about business and the way to treat people in my first venture,” says Shafran, who spent many years working in the fabric and wallpaper world for comp-anies such as […]
CHARLESTON CHARM
LOWCOUNTRY ARTISTS GALLERY is one of those unique places that gives Charleston its cozy charm. Warm light glows from under crisp green awnings, and something fun always seems to be happening inside. The gallery is also Instagram famous for Charles and Zan Smith’s whimsical, person-sized copper frogs. For locals and return travelers, visiting the gallery […]
FINE ART ON BROAD
IN HIS WILDEST DREAMS, Mick Elam never imagined he’d emerge from retirement to open a fine art gallery on Charleston’s famed Gallery Row. Yet every morning, he and his wife, Cindy, make the hour-long drive from their home on Kiawah Island to the city’s historic downtown to work in their Broad Street gallery, all the […]
FOOD FOR THE SOUL
WHEN HER MOTHER passed away in 2001, Wendy L. Jackson poured herself into her poetry. Her creativity thrived as she allowed her writing to become her therapy for dealing with her overwhelming sense of loss. “Everywhere I traveled, I took photographs and drew the scen-ery for the poems I wrote,” states Jackson, a native of […]
