{photo courtesy of Nick Strocchia}
I was lucky enough to be featured this month in Abode, the local shelter magazine. Thanks is due entirely to the wonderful Cate West Zahl of The Charlotte – she’d seen some snaps of my little corner of the world online and wanted to do an apartment feature as her first piece for the mag. You know an interview is either going to go really well or really poorly when the reporter brings you wine and flowers – luckily for me, it went really well! Cate and I had a wonderful chat about style and design and then she picked my brain about the inspiration behind my space (you can find the article online).
To supplement the feature and give credit where credit is due, here’s a rundown of local goods as seen in the shoot. The black screen dividing the “living room” from the “bedroom” is actually two pairs of antique shutters hinged together – not by me, of course. That’s like, hard. I found it last spring at the Girlfriends of Greenwood sale, but didn’t bite until over the summer after reorganizing a bit. Antiques dealer Caroline East (Willow Creek Antiques, 434- 244-5860) was nice enough to pull it out of storage for me and deliver it – gotta love that Southern hospitality! The art on display is courtesy of James Anthony, a formerly local screenprinting artist whose business was recently relocated to Atlanta, thanks to Anthony’s undying passion for the Braves. (Joke!) The piece pops thanks to a brilliantly minimal frame by artist Beate Casati, whose shop, La Linea Bella, also took care of the framing for Sometimes I See the Sky. (That particular frame might look familiar to And George shoppers - the antiques boutique uses it for all of their art.) Also featured is an antique Moroccan hand-hammered tin plate from The Curious Orange cradling a pair of antlers from The Greenwood Country Store. All of this is on top of a 19th century Persian rug from Low Vintage.
The green bench, which was featured on Design*Sponge, was actually gifted to me. It was originally…well, just click through the link above if you want the before and after nitty gritty! The “entrance table” is another gift and DIY success story – I pulled out some superfluous lattice-work detailing from the sides, painted it white and replaced the handle with an adorable knob (also from The Greenwood Country Store) (Dayum, they’ve been good to me!) My last pseudo-DIY project was the bag display, inspired by this shot from a home featured on Design*Sponge. To get my own display I hung up hooks from Anthropologie and artfully arranged some shopping bags on them. That’s sort of DIY, right? Except I had a friend screw in the hooks for me…ok, so maybe not. Some detail shots below...
Reaction to the piece has been good so far – two nice ladies have voiced their support for my “form before function” philosophy and one drunken older gentleman declared me a, “cute boy.” All I’ve ever wanted! Special thanks to photographer Nick Strocchia for lending me this shot to blog and also for making me look pretty.
