WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS
I AM PRODUCE. Produce is me,” Margaret De Carli Barry says. She is referring to her vibrant still life paintings and her reverence for fruits and vegetables on a quantum level. Let us consider her tomatoes. Here, in the Deconstructed Salsa still life, the tomato is perhaps a day past ripe. Its green stem […]
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
KATHERINE HESTER RECALLS THAT as a young girl she would sit and draw things that caught her budding artist’s eye. Her bucolic upbringing certainly afforded endless opportunities to sketch natural surroundings. Her father, Tom Curtis, was not only an accomplished artist, he was also a fisheries biologist. The family lived on-site at a wildlife […]
TURNING THE ORDINARY INTO EXTRAORDINARY
OVER THE PAST decade, Charles-ton has become a hot spot for tourism, food and most recently, the art world. From 1915 to 1940, local and visiting artists, architects and writers collaborated to drive cultural progress, putting Charleston’s art scene on the national map. The growth of the city is constantly attracting creatives who are […]
LUXURY WITH A TWIST
This spring’s high point market was a special one for Gigi Chapman. Having been in the home furnishings business for more than three decades, she has attended dozens of High Point Markets, spending many exciting days rambling through the millions of square feet of exhibition space, and rubbing elbows with other leading retailers, designers, innovators and manufacturers from around the world who gather each year for the debut of tens of thousands of new products. But this year’s High Point Market was the first since Chapman opened her new retail showroom along bustling Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant.
LOCAL ROOTS, GLOBAL REACH
PAWLEYS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, is one of America’s oldest seaside resorts. Located 70 miles north of Charleston and 25 miles south of Myrtle Beach, Pawleys Island is a barrier island packed with history. Settled by rice planters in the 1700s, this was the place to escape the summer heat until November. Relocating to the […]
DOWNTOWN DESIGN DESTINATION
MITCHELL HILL IS BRINGING a one-stop shopping destination for fine art and home design to Downtown Charleston this fall when it moves to a bigger and better location just a block away from its long-standing outpost on King Street. The new location will include more furniture, accessories, textiles, wallpaper and lighting, as well as […]
MAKER’S MARK
IF MARK REGALBUTO LOOKS FAMILIAR, it’s because you’ve seen him on This Old House, Charleston edition. Regalbuto and his business partner, Andy Meihaus, are the brains behind Renew Urban Charleston, a boutique construction company with expertise in historic preservation and high-end new construction. Regalbuto is about to take us on a tour of one […]
SOUTHERN SHADES
Nobody embraces the “go-go-go” entrepreneurial spirit like Annette Kreck of Southern Shades. After starting the high-end textile company 18 years ago and working from her home for 16 of them, she opened up a new facility in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, two years ago to provide the quality service her clients demand.
MODERN FAMILY
IN ARCHITECTURE CIRCLES, CHRISTOPHER ROSE is known for designing homes that are carefully created for the people who will live there. Rose is so dedicated to not automatically using common concepts that he approaches each project with a completely blank slate and an open mind. Through this philosophy, he has built an enviable portfolio […]
KITCHEN GOALS
Design trends may come and go— remember “distressed” cabinetry?—but stylish stone countertops and tile work never fade out of fashion. That’s a good thing for decorators and homeowners alike, because there have never been as many options available as there are today. Joe Sykes, president of Atlantic Stone, agrees.
