STAGED TO SELL
While working in accounting for 15 years, Audra Walters daydreamed about interior design and real estate, perusing the web for photos and information on the subjects whenever she got a break in her workday. At nights and on weekends, she dipped her toe in the waters by flipping homes that she moved into, renovated and […]
FROM LOCKS TO LASHES
In a fast-paced world, even our beauty routines are on a timer. But with the newly opened FACE FOUNDRIÉ on King Street, that’s no problem. A one-stop shop for facials, lashes, brows and skincare that’s open seven days a week, clients are able to drop in for an appointment as short as 20 minutes before […]
ELECTRIFYING FUN
Entrepreneurs Cindy and Jason Bullock started a new adventure in February 2020, just two months before the state government urged residents to stay at home to avoid the spread of COVID-19. For most businesses, that timing might have been devastating. But for the Bullocks, who are all about bringing fun to everyday living, the timing […]
FRENCH CONNECTION
When Tracey Wonnacott was young, her parents took her to Paris. She fondly remembers shopping with her mom on the Champs-Élysées and opening the tall doors in her bedroom to look at the Eiffel Tower. Many years later, she and her husband returned to France with their children and fell in love with the lifestyle […]
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH
Rivers meander through many great wine regions, often overlooked for their starring role in leaving an indelible mark on the soils, the climate and, more significantly, the personality of the place. To name a few, Europe has the Rhine, Loire, Rhône, Danube and Douro, and closer to home, we have the Russian, Napa and Columbia […]
FINER THINGS
If you were born in Charleston or have lived here most of your life, chances stand at close to 100% that you know about clothier M. Dumas & Sons. The men’s retail store has been a fixture on King Street for 105 years. Luckily for the influx of newcomers to the area, they have a […]
SELF-EXPRESSION
Mother-daughter duo Barbara Griesedieck and Corinn Brunson, owners of Julep women’s boutique, appreciate individuality. When they bought their store, then Warren on King, from the former owner in 2016, they had a vision: Cater to local women who don’t want to wear what everyone else is wearing or what influencers are telling them to wear. […]
ON A MISSION
While art meccas like New York City have an average of four art galleries per square mile, and Santa Fe has three art galleries per square mile, the compact 5.5 square-mile Charleston peninsula has more than 40 art galleries; that’s about seven galleries per square mile. Visitors (and locals) can comfortably spend a pleasant weekend […]
A CLICK AWAY
Even as a fresh-faced start-up in the online fine art marketplace, Amparo Art Gallery already has attracted artistic talent in three U.S. regions—the mid-Atlantic, where the company launched earlier this year, New England and the Southern region, which includes artwork developed in the Dallas area. This e-commerce marketplace, which exhibits original fine art from selected […]
THE YEAR OF THE PELICAN
For oil painter William R. Beebe, the Lowcountry is a playground of inspiration. With his high school sweetheart, Jennifer, by his side, he makes his way through his favorite parks to take hundreds of pictures of pelicans, Great Blue Herons, egrets, Anhinga and other large shorebirds that call the area home. Shem Creek, Magnolia Plantation […]
