SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
OR 10 YEARS, A HANDCRAFTED 56-FOOT SAILBOAT WAS the beloved second home for Trish and George Maloomian, who loved to escape their hectic lives whenever possible to glide along the Atlantic coast from New England to the Caribbean. When the couple finally decided to sell their sailboat and build a land-based home away from […]
FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS TO THE HOLY CITY
Painter Ignat Ignatov may be a new resident of Charleston, but he’s certainly no stranger to the city’s charms. Among a select few emerging and mid-career contemporary impressionists represented at LePrince Fine Art on King Street, he traveled to the city many times to explore and paint and, like many artists before him, eventually succumbed to Charleston’s allure.
THIS IS US
Grady Jeffery has his hands full. His clients are planning to demolish their small brick ranch house on the Isle of Palms and replace it with their dream home. But the dreaming part of the dream home isn’t happening on a Pinterest page. No, this dream is chronicled, cataloged, tagged, cross-referenced, color-coded, and is being called forth from the ether via a sacred binder the homeowner has been carefully cultivating for years. It makes a satisfying plonk as she whomps it on the coffee table.
FAVOR, GRACE, PROSPERITY
Tyrone Geter’s career as an artist is on fire. The 74-year-old, retired professor of art from Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, has built an international reputation as a world-class artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. He’s known throughout the art world for his larger-than-life charcoal on torn paper works, which reflect his African American heritage and draw upon oral narrative tradition and music for inspiration. Every piece of Geter’s art embodies compassion, hope, justice and perseverance, concepts he learned from his mother.
THE ART THAT SAVED HER
When artist Sheila Pringle was named artist of the month at Perspective Gallery in May, she couldn’t help but reflect on the extraordinary circumstances that got her to that moment. The decade she spent during her youth studying for a career in painting at Corcoran School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., somehow seemed the distant muse that would one day reach out to her at a time in her life when she felt hopelessly unreachable. A progression of her paintings over the last two decades serve as her personal diary, illustrating her long journey back from a brain tumor to recapture the shine—that perpetual reflection of sunlight off of water that dominates the South Carolina landscape.
ZOE’S BIRTHDAY
For Zoe Raymer, her ninth birthday was the best one ever. Her family had just moved into a new house, and she had gotten the room she really wanted, the one with the second-floor porch. Now all she wanted for her birthday was a bunk bed to make her new room really special. In fact, she had been begging for a bunk bed for two whole years, and her parents had finally agreed.
LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP
If you’ve ever lived through a home renovation, you know what a unique challenge it can be. Big decisions feel intimidating; small decisions can get tedious, and locating the right materials or furnishings consumes all of your evenings and weekends. Charleston’s gauntlet of zoning laws, building codes and environmental regulations add a whole other layer of complexity. Put together, renovating a home in the Lowcountry can feel like a full-time job. Now imagine trying to do it from 500 miles away.
COLORS INSPIRED BY THE COAST
The Lowcountry isn’t known for its clay. That’s a Piedmont thing. Around here we’re all about sand, shells and weathered wood. It’s an environmental palette that finds its way into our homes in building materials and interior design.
BEAUTY AND THE BEACH
Almost every morning, Kathi Aderholt takes the short walk along the boardwalk from her home to climb the few steps up and over the dunes to the expansive beachfront. With 2,700 acres of the private, unincorporated community of DeBordieu Colony at her back, she watches as the sun breaks the horizon, its first light sparkling like diamonds across the mighty Atlantic that’s spread out before her.
FABULOUS FINDS
The goods that make up a home
