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Inside an Exceptional Dallas Home That’s Filled With Antiques and Vibrant Hues
The gut remodel of what is now a vibrant, welcoming home for six in Dallas’s Highland Park neighborhood was a truly multi-family affair. A second-generation leader behind Sees Design, Corbin See—alongside his wife Sara and brother Ross—worked in collaboration with Harris Briggs, a second-generation principal at Dallas-based firm William S. Briggs Architect. The goal? To bring Catalina Gonzalez Jorba and Santiago Jorba’s dream home to life. Catalina, the founder of children’s clothing brand Dondolo, came into the collaboration full of ideas about how to ensure that the home would suit her personal aesthetic as well as her family’s entertaining needs. (Catalina was familiar with See’s style—which she had admired at…
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Step Inside a Glowing Charleston, South Carolina, Home That’s Filled With Stunning Furniture
Melanie and Peter Birch weren’t preparing on leaving their 18th-century downtown Charleston, South Carolina, city property. But in 2019, friend and neighborhood designer Sarah Hamlin Hastings available an off-market place deal on her individual too-very good-to-flip-down dwelling just 5 minutes absent around the Ashley River. “We experienced zero desire, actually, in moving out of downtown,” Melanie admits. Nevertheless, when she and Peter observed the McAlpine-renovated 1920s dwelling whose generous rooms opened on to a spectacular backyard garden, they understood it would be properly suited to their like for entertaining. At breakfast collectively the day just after the viewing, they were sold. For the first calendar year, the residence was “livable…
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Mary Jane Hollinsworth Louisville home filled with Christmas decor
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 the eyes. “Part of Christmas was going downtown and looking at (those) windows,” Hollinsworth recalled. Years later, her love for holiday décor was reignited. One of her husband’s med school classmates invited her to a Christmas home show in St. Matthews, and she was blown away by what she saw. “I walked into that house and every room was decorated,”…
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Tour an Iconic Midcentury-Modern L.A. Home That’s Surrounded By Nature and Filled With Light | Architectural Digest
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 when I first came across John Lautner’s work in a coffee table book and it completely fascinated me,” Rønning says. “In fact I was so taken by his designs that before I was bitten by the movie bug, I was thinking of becoming an architect.” It would take a few more decades before Rønning and his wife would come across…
