Summer 2022

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Milieu Magazine
FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PAMELA PIERCE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Shannon Bowers EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Masello INTERIM ART DIRECTOR Regina Throop DESIGN DIRECTOR Leslie Newsom Rascoe EUROPEAN STYLE EDITOR Katrin Cargill COPY EDITOR Roger Harris DIGITAL DIRECT
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Editor’s Say
I recently delved into the beautiful pages of iconic designer Rose Tarlow’s new book, Three Houses. Reading her prose and looking at the photographs (many of which were taken by Miguel Flores-Vianna, a longtime MILIEU contributing photographer) broug
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Featured Designers
In 2005, Ruard Veltman founded Ruard Veltman Architecture + Interiors, a Charlotte, North Carolina–based firm that specializes in residential architecture, interior design, and custom furniture. Veltman (owner and lead principal architect), Julian Pa
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Painting AN EXPERIENCE
It is midday, and one of the great rituals of the Arniano Painting School is just beginning. Our hostess, Amber Guinness, of that famous brewing family, rings a tiny handbell. My fellow painters and I lay down our brushes and proceed like cardinals t
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Designing Man
Although John Saladino has designed innumerable houses, inside and out, planned gardens, and created furniture and accessories that have become iconic elements, he often refers to his own homes to illustrate the concepts that define him. From the fam
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Glass Acts
When I entered a greenhouse for the first time as a child, the warmth and humidity of its tropical climate fogged my eyeglasses. I removed my scarf and mittens, inhaling deeply the unexpected scent of sweet earth and fragrant blossoms; during my time
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A Modern Man
Across the gallery sits a faceless couple. Flattened to their most idiomatic outlines, they converse in shallow planes of imaginative color—Crimson Coral, Stuart Gold, Cornflower Blue. The canvas in question evades a set style. While its brushstrokes
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House Proud
Even though Rose Tarlow, the noted furniture and interior designer, calls this book Three Houses (Vendome), it’s really about four houses. It seems her East Coast girlhood home, Windrift, which burned down in 1966, remains the idyllic dwelling throug
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In Full Bloom at the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville
There was an extra bloom to this year’s Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville, and MILIEU was proud to sponsor the keynote address delivered by the inimitable Martha Stewart. The noted entrepreneur, author, and Emmy Award–winning television host addr
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Maine Domain
REFINEMENT IS ABOUT removing unwanted elements. It’s the stripping away of anything unnecessary, of improving by clarifying. Refinement also suggests elegance, sophistication, and good taste. This is the story of a highly refined new home on the coas
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FORWARD Thinkers
For the interior design industry, the equivalent of an Oscar at the Academy Awards is likely the honor of being named Designer of the Year at the annual Maison&Object fair held during Paris Design Week. In 2019, young Paris-based Laura Gonzalez recei
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Changing Times
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A FRIEND or a friendly designer to tell a homeowner the truth about their home. In the case of Shannon Bowers, she is both friend and designer to the owners of this Dallas home. “They’re so chic and sophisticated, as well as warm a
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Au Naturel
WHENEVER Benoît Rauzy and his partner, Anthony Watson, feel the urge to escape the whirl of their lives in Paris, they retreat to the hush of their country home in Brittany. The nineteenth-century stone farmhouse, which belonged to Rauzy’s parents wh
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The New Traditional
A SPIRIT OF OPENNESS IS immediately evident upon entering the grounds of this home in the Windsor residential community of Vero Beach, Florida. That’s due partly to the house’s symmetrical architecture, an airy three-sided “C” shape by Moor Baker Arc
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New Sightlines
PATRICK LEEMANS and Franky Fonteyne never tired of seeing the sites in the historic Belgian city of Bruges, where they had lived for years. But they did weary of living in one the buildings visitors sought out tirelessly with their photographic equip
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Go Shopping
Interior design: Benoit Rauzy and Anthony Watson, Atelier Vime, ateliervime.com Photography: Joanna Maclennan, joannamaclennan.com Page 22 Maximo chair, SOUTH + ENGLISH, southandenglish.com. Basketry series, HARTMANN & FORBES, hartmannforbes.com. Lim
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Finn Juhl
True to Finn Juhl’s profound interest in art history, as well as his commitment to innovative use of form and function, he has been called “one of the founding fathers of the Danish Modern movement in America.” Born in Frederiksburg, Denmark, in 1912

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