LONG BEFORE “CURB APPEAL” ENTERED THE MODERN VOCABULARY, OWNERS OF GREAT HISTORICAL ESTATES UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL: A HOME IS NOT MERELY ITS WALLS AND CEILINGS. THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE IS ITS...
THE WORK OF THE ARTISAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY CRAFTSMANSHIP, ATTENTION to detail and the creation of handcrafted products with exceptional quality. An artisan’s skill often rises to the level of...
FOR THOMAS BRAME, LANDSCAPE DESIGN ISN’T JUST A CAREER—IT’S A PASSION. Only someone who truly loves this work would describe the incorporation of various plants, trees, flowers and shrubs as...
WHEN EDER FEITOSA AND RICK MORGATO FOUNDED CAZA DESIGN In Atlanta, they were working from a conviction that most people in real estate had quietly given up on: That the...
ATLANTA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CITY THAT BUILDS. THE POSTWAR BOOM reshaped the suburbs, and the decades of growth that followed kept the pace. Ambition has never been the problem....
ARTIST DANIEL ZIMMERMAN MAY LIVE AND WORK IN THE Metro Atlanta area, but his rural roots shape how he views the natural world and the way he manipulates it to...
Founded on design-centric construction with a heavy emphasis on craftsmanship, relationships and a strong sense of community, DreamBuilt has been building custom homes in the Lake Oconee area since 1999....
In what seems at times like an overly modernist world—fast-paced and dizzying—meticulously crafted traditional furnishings are not only a guarantee of the finest quality but reassurance that timeless beauty and...
For 20 years as an engineer, cobb pearson harbored the dream of life as an entrepreneur, forging his own company and making a difference in the lives of others. That...
IN AN AREA THAT IS ALWAYS CHANGING, GROWING AND REINVENTING ITSELF, greater metropolitan Atlanta is rife with architects, homebuilders, designers and contractors who must all keep their fingers on the...
GOOD LIGHTING DOESN’T JUST ILLUMINATE A ROOM. IT CHANGES HOW IT FEELS, MAKING A CEILING SEEM TALLER, A DINNER TABLE MORE INTIMATE OR A WORK OF ART COME ALIVE ON...
STEP OUTSIDE THE GLASS DOOR OF A RECENTLY REMODELED HOUSE IN CARMEL VALLEY, California, and you arrive in a small open-air room with a tree canopy for a roof. A...
MOST PEOPLE MAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY WERE doing in 1999. Ryan DeCesaro isn’t one of them. It was his first year embarking on a career designing...
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, ALLEN JONES WANTED A REFRIGERATOR FOR his garage. He found such a good deal that he sold it for a profit instead, and something clicked. As a...
IN NATURE, ART FLOURISHES WHERE THERE IS A KEEN SENSE of place and an abiding respect for the creatures which inhabit it. For contemporary impressionist painter Rana Jordahl, the South...
WITH ENERGY PRICES SOARING, HOMEOWNERS HAVE INCREASINGLY embraced solar as a clean, renewable and cost-effective option. It’s a wise choice, economically and ecologically—but also for reasons that are more far-reaching....
TOO OFTEN, ACCULTURATION DIVERTS CHILDREN FROM their most unrestrained creative impulses by the time they reach adolescence. Clearly, Temple Reece believes in getting kids off on the right foot before...
“OUR NEED WILL BE THE REAL CREATOR.”—PLATO It’s long been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of The Drapery Room’s founder Amy Hunley, it was...
Tucked among the resort communities of the Golden Isles, St. Simons Island is celebrated for its incredible landscapes, from salt marshes to sandy beaches, and boasts breathtaking sunsets, historic charm...
A WELL-DESIGNED SOUTHERN HOME IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN HOW it looks. How it embraces the people who live there and visit is vitally important to a region steeped in...
ON ANY GIVEN MORNING IN NASHVILLE THE CITY HUMS WITH QUIET ambition. The crane-dotted skyline signals new construction. Historic homes are thoughtfully restored. Boutique hotels rise beside timeworn brick warehouses....
WHILE YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND A FRIENDLY FACE AT design store Bend the Trend, one of those may be the resident cat, Kiddy. The owners and employees rescued her three years...
THE BEST HOME APPLIANCES SHARE THREE CHIEF VIRTUES: QUALITY, SIMPLICITY and reliability. Add to this that they are economical to use, easy to maintain and thoughtfully designed to enhance the...
SOMEWHERE IN ATLANTA, A COUPLE IS STANDING IN THE KITCHEN of the home where they raised their kids, looking at 12 place settings of china they haven’t used in a...
CHEKHOV, WHO KNEW SOMETHING OF VERSATILITY, SAID THERE IS NOTHING NEW IN ART BUT TALENT, though it’s doubtful he had the full range of gifts of Chris and Carmen Bilton...
A LUXURY HOMEBUILDER WHOSE MISSION IS TO NOT ONLY BUILD IMPECCABLE homes but to take the client experience to the next level will go above and beyond the norms of...
HOWEVER SIMILAR THEY MAY APPEAR FROM THE OUTSIDE, EVERY home serves its owners differently, in everything from daily routines to how many people occupy the rooms. It’s the things that...
WHEN YOU’RE SPOTLIGHTED IN A NATIONAL MAGAZINE LIKE LUXE INTERIORS + DESIGN or land Modern Luxury’s Design 9 Award, the recognition takes you to another level. When it comes to...
UNTIL NOW, SERIOUS BACKYARD CHEFS HAVE HAD TO RELY ON A NUMBER of outdoor appliances to prepare meals—a gas grill, a charcoal grill, a smoker and a pizza oven. But...
IMAGINE A HOME REMODEL THAT REQUIRES LITTLE MORE THAN POINTINGa finger and nodding approval—while sipping a demitasse of espresso. Enter the world of Giovanni Laucella, an Italian craftsman who left...
IMAGINE AN EXPLOSION OF FRENETIC ENERGY—ONE THAT cannot be defined yet the beauty of its vibrancy hums with whirlwinds of wonder and an insatiable quest for sensations of the senses...
THERE’S A MUSICALITY TO PAINTING, A RHYTHM AND BALANCE THAT RESEMBLES the structure of a score. In both, tone, balance and notes all come together to achieve a cohesive piece,...
THERE IS A MOMENT, RICHARD KING SAYS, WHEN everything clicks. When a collector steps into an artist’s studio, stands face-to-face with a painting they’ve admired from a distance and suddenly...
THERE’S A MOMENT WASHINGTON CALVACHE HAS EXPERIENCED MORE TIMES than he can count. A homeowner calls, voice heavy with frustration, describing a contractor who took their money and disappeared, a...
THERE IS A MOMENT THAT JUDY FERGUSON AND DONNA McDonald know well: A first-time visitor steps through the door of Muse & Co. Fine Art, a little uncertain, perhaps even...
CRACKED DRIVEWAYS, MUDDY WALKWAYS, PATIOS THAT ARE BARELY serviceable—they’re common problems in homes across the country, often afterthoughts to the overall picture. But these are also the first details that...
CHINESE PHILOSOPHER LAO TZU SAID, “LET THINGS FLOW NATURALLY FORWARD IN whatever way they like.” In design, this philosophy may seem unorthodox initially, but for Dr. Alphonso Buie of A...
MOST ART STUDIOS WILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY specialize in. Sisal Creative’s answer is essentially: everything. That’s not a dodge. It’s the point. Founded in 2012 by artist Becca Barnet,...
DESIGNING A NEW HOME BEGINS AS AN ACT OF IMAGINATION; it’s an exercise in seeing what does not yet exist. For those in the industry—architects, designers and builders—that intuitive vision...
WHEN VELI SOYLEMEZ FOUNDED TURKISH RUG CO. IN 2016, HE BROUGHT with him more than just a business plan. After coming to the United States to study language, he began...
WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE NEWLY REIMAGINED SUB-ZERO, WOLF, AND COVE Showroom in Buckhead, you’re not just stepping into a retail space. You’re entering an 11,000-square-foot testament to what happens...
WHEN DESIGNER RONALD JONES FIRST WALKED THROUGH THE 8,000-SQUARE-foot Roswell home, he immediately recognized its potential. The home possessed exceptional architecture: soaring ceilings, generous proportions and abundant natural light, yet...
MANY COMPANIES USE TERMINOLOGY LIKE “QUALITY” AND “craftsmanship” as they describe their businesses. But for entrepreneur Rob Green, founder of Stonecraft Design & Build, the philosophy behind the words “quality...
WHEN DESIGNER CHRIS HOLT OPENED NOAH J. & CO., HE WASN’T chasing retail trends—he was solving a personal problem. “I was constantly running around town for that last little something...
WHEN THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER BRAND IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-END appliances dominates your showroom, it’s a testament to the quality of your enterprise. NorthPoint Appliance enjoys a professional relationship of...
WHEN LAUREN DAVENPORT MET ONE OF HER FIRST clients, they just needed help selecting a coffee table. Twenty years later, she’s still working with them, now designing their second home...
THE NATURAL WORLD HAS PROVIDED INSPIRATION FOR COUNTLESS ARTISTS, EACH IN their own way, and it’s often a matter of different artists, different worlds. For Jim Afroukhteh, it was different...
KATIE MOORHOUSE, ONE OF ATLANTA’S MOST PROMISING AND innovative designers, has had a love for beautiful design as far back as she can remember. Originally from Southern California, Moorhouse and...
GROWING UP, THE WALLS OF CYNTHIA HUSTON’S BEDROOM WERE COVERED—not by the typical coming-of-age posters of the day but by her own drawings, taped from corner to corner, like a...
MOST ARTISTS AGREE THAT WATERCOLOR IS THE MOST DIFFICULT medium to master. According to artist Dennis Fulbright, mistakes are nearly impossible to overcome. “If you make a mistake in watercolor,...
THERE’S A SPECIAL TIME FRAME IN A CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL’S CAREER THAT’S difficult to capture and even harder to sustain. It arrives after the hard-won lessons of early projects, after the...
FOUNDED IN 2015 BY SCOTT UNDERWOOD AND ALAN HOWARD, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA-based Centennial Homes has been making its mark with custom designs that are visually charming, impeccably crafted and one of...
MATT JOHNSON SET AN AMBITIOUS GOAL FOR ARTISANS OF Atlanta: to redefine the construction experience, not only for his clients but for his team and trade partners. There’s a whole...
NATIVE ATLANTAN COURTNEY WALKER WAS BORN AND BRED TO BE an interior designer. Formally trained in design at the University of Georgia, she grew up in the industry watching her...
THERE’S AN OLD SAYING THAT “FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION,” meaning that any design should be primarily determined by its intended purpose. And while that purpose is important, Ashley Gentile, owner and...
IT’S A STORY ALLISON BIBLE HAS SEEN PLAY OUT TOO MANY TIMES: A HOMEOWNER FALLS in love with a designer’s vision, only to discover the budget won’t support it. Or...
BEHIND THE SCENES AT ONE OF THE SOUTHEAST’S largest art galleries, which happens to be the region’s oldest continually operating gallery, maestro Alan K. Avery uses his dynamic personality and...
WHEN ATLANTA HOME THEATER (AHT) MEASURES ITS REPUTATION AS THE FOREMOST technology integrator in the region, it’s about more than the scope of its design services. It’s the cutting-edge quality...
ART, IN ITS MANY FORMS, IS ALL ABOUT TELLING A STORY. MOVIES TELL THEIR tales on film. Books tell their stories through words on the page. And paintings, regardless of...
WE’VE ALL GOT FURNITURE IN OUR HOMES THAT comes from big-box stores or chain retailers—it’s stylish, fits whatever aesthetic we’ve chosen and gives some expectation that it’ll last us until...
WHEN MICHAEL HABACHY WALKS THROUGH THE MARKETS OF OAXACA OR THE workshops of Jaipur, he sees something most people miss. Where others notice colorful pottery or intricate stone carvings, Habachy...
WHILE the name of the company, joshua cabinetry, embraces one of the products for which it is well known—custom cabinetry—there is a treasure chest of other home remodeling and construction...
PERSONAL. For Northside Builders, that single word carries tremendous weight. Since its founding in 2019, the Atlanta-based custom home firm has started each of its projects there, planted firmly on...
IN ATLANTA’S BUSY WESTSIDE MARKET, DEBBY GOMULKA IS PREPARING TO RELAUNCH her Marrakesh textile collection. It’s a venture 15 years in the making that began with a single preservation project...
IT’S A REPUTATION CARVED IN STONE. With a product line both wide and deep, Stone Showcase offers an entire spectrum of natural and manufactured stone, complemented by exotic wood accents,...
SOMETIMES IT TAKES OTHERS TO RECOGNIZE THE INHERENT TALENTS IN US that we don’t see ourselves. That was the case with designer Nancy Felton, who had a decade-long career in...
FLOOR PLANS CAN FEEL LIKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. There are few people who can look at them printed on a piece of paper and effectively visualize what the final project...
AT FIRST GLANCE, YOU MAY THINK ATLANTA-BASED INTERIOR DESIGN firm M.A. Interiors is named after owner and lead designer Meagan Avery Ludwig. But the name is actually an homage to...
MARK CARSON ENGLISH HAS MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES. They show themselves in the colors he uses, the brushstrokes and paint splotches, in the materials that find their way into his paintings, in...
MERGE HOME IS A FITTING MONIKER THAT PERFECTLY ENCAPSULATES what interior designer and entrepreneur Marty Mason has built in the West Midtown Design District. His tri-level, modern retail store is...
ARCHITECT CHAD MATTISON HAS SHAPED HIS PRACTICE AROUND A SIMPLE YET ENDURING belief: The best homes are designed for the people who live in them, not the magazines that might...
THE LIGHTS OF OCONEE SHOWROOM EVOKES THE FEELING OF HOME, AND THAT’S BY design. Located in the Harmony Crossing Shopping Center at Lake Oconee, the 8,000-square-foot store showcases a wide...
In a world of fast fixes and prefab everything, webber Coleman Woodworks stands out by proving that craftsmanship, collaboration and a deep sense of place still matter. Its story starts...
Custom window treatments shape the mood of a space. they soften light, frame views and elevate the look of a room. In Atlanta’s luxury design market, Stitch Above the Rest...
Sometimes the most beautiful journeys are the ones we never planned to take. For interior designer Alphonso Buie, the path from hospitality professional to Ph.D. to sought-after designer took him...
Dawn heuer’s design epiphany came not in a studio but on the chaotic sets of reality design shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spaces. As cameras rolled...
“When people walk in, they breathe a sigh of relief.” it’s an unusual business metric, but for Brandon Glenn, founder of Glenn Atelier, measuring his customers’ stress levels is the...
The art of daniel zimmerman resides in authenticity. Large in scale, vivid, grounded in the natural world. “Large scale work has the ability to be immersive,” says the Atlanta-based painter,...
Look no further. many a company can claim to be a one-stop shop, but Construction Resources (CR) more than lives up to the billing. The expansive business offers more than...
One of jean laurent’s clients faced an absurd daily challenge: toggling up to 200 individual light switches as he moved throughout his expansive home. The solution was simple—smart lighting that...
Hiring an interior designer for a residential or commercial project offers numerous benefits. A designer brings valuable expertise and knowledge in areas such as space optimization, functional layout, furniture selection,...
Designing a home that endures in a disposable society is a practice the architectural firm A Classical Studio holds in high regard. As the name implies, the firm designs classically...
If you have to choose just one shop for all of your home design needs, 14th Street Modern & Vintage Home in Atlanta is it. The range of furnishings, artwork...
Don’t let the company’s name—atlanta home theater—mislead your perception of its capabilities. As the name implies and as attested to by numerous customer reviews, the company does an exemplary job...
Charles miller learned the ins and outs of his industry from the ground up—literally. At a young age, Miller immersed himself in plants and trees, working at his family’s nursery....
When victoria and mark schutter moved back to Atlanta 18 years ago after decades in the consumer electronics business, they knew they wanted to start a new venture. Victoria Schutter’s...
Some of sex and the city’s most memorable moments for its lead character, Carrie Bradshaw, often occurred in—or were in close proximity to—her closet. As Bradshaw evolved throughout the HBO...
Rugs are woven culture, embodying the aesthetic of a people, and the finest are created by hand. Arguably, no other form of furnishing quite rivals the international flavor, the history...
When donna and kerry krueger opened dk gallery in Marietta, it was not the thriving arts community it is today. “The world was in a recession, but art has always...
Halley dawn’s reverence for nature is present in each of her paintings. Her portrayal of vivid, lush botanicals seems otherworldly—too beautiful to believe yet decidedly realistic. Her love of the...
For those wondering where to find the best contemporary lighting the world has to offer, Atlanta-based Illuminations Lighting is the answer. For 35 years, the company has supplied commercial and...
A fondness for antiques and an eye for quality vintage treasures are the intangibles that, for one entrepreneurial-minded spirit, turned a hobby into a thriving business venture. Laura Ramsey’s acquisitional...
When you’ve been dubbed a “resource for keeping up on contemporary art … celebrating all those who make a contribution to the scene … and always show what is new...
There is no moment in the interior design process quite so exhilarating as “the reveal.” It’s when the client first glimpses the alchemy that a designer has summoned after all...
While the name of the company, joshua cabinetry, embraces one of the products for which it is well known—custom cabinetry—there is a treasure chest of other home remodeling and construction...
