Melanie and Peter Birch weren’t planning on leaving their 18th-century downtown Charleston, South Carolina, town house. But in 2019, friend and local designer Sarah Hamlin Hastings offered an off-market deal on her own too-good-to-turn-down home just five minutes away over the Ashley River. “We had zero interest, really, in moving […]
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The Christmas decorations in Mary Jane Hollinsworth’s childhood home were minimal. “There was a Christmas tree and a wreath,” she told The Courier Journal. There wasn’t much to view at the house, but back then, the windows of Stewart’s Dry Goods in downtown Louisville boasted the ultimate festive feast for […]
When designer Lisa Staton signed on to revamp a 1905 Craftsman in Seattle for an artist-slash-clothing designer, the two discovered they were a quintessential match. “[The client] has a very similar design ethos to our firm, and she was excited to marry that with her own narrative that includes layers […]
Before Joachim Rønning’s film Kon-Tiki was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, before he directed the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, even before he married the activist Amanda Hearst, the Norwegian-born director had set his sights on a very different career path. “I was in my late teens […]