Fall 2018

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
MAGAZINES, it turns out, are like people. They grow up fast. MILIEU has grown up fast during these past five years and we keep getting better and stronger. This issue marks our fifth anniversary and we are happy—truly joyful—to share this occasion wi
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Featured Designers
Based in Madrid, Isabel López-Quesada says that what she does is make spaces more beautiful. She is a prolific interior designer not only in her native Spain, but also elsewhere throughout the world, including the U.S., France, and Japan. “A house, a
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A GREEK MYTH Come True
I first came to Patmos as a young bride. I was a pale English Rose, more suited to a shade-dappled croquet lawn than the piercing island light of the Dodecanese. My new husband was Italian and I was a little disappointed to be spending my first summe
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A Taste of OREGON
“I am more interested in quality than quantity,” says winemaker Lynn Penner-Ash (right). As the first woman winemaker in Oregon, Penner-Ash’s devotion to excellence is obvious in the wines she creates and the winery she created. Surrounded by gorgeou
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INDIA Mahdavi
It’s easy to step into India Madhavi’s world. Three gallery/showroom/studio spaces, which display her latest designs, colonize rue Las Cas at #3, #5, #19 in Paris’s aristocratic 7th arrondisement. She is not only a brilliant and prolific Paris-based
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READY Set & Co.
Jennifer Littke likes to set the table every night. When she makes a pie or pot of jam, she waits patiently for it to set. She loves to choose the right set of silverware, placemats, and dishware to put out. “We like that word ‘set’ so much because i
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COUTURE de Force
There’s a certain beauty in the juxtaposition of the Daniel Libeskind–designed Denver Art Museum (DAM), with its slicing, jagged angles and shiny, metallic materials, and the masterpieces of the fashion house Christian Dior, known for its curvaceous,
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KEEPING IT IN the family
SUMMERING IN THE mountainous Basque Country has been a welcome and refreshing constant for Isabel López-Quesada and her family for more than thirty years. “I love the climate, the landscape—and the beaches are beautiful,” says the peripatetic designe
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Finding His Way Home
I LOVE MY HOUSE, but when I first visited, I didn’t love it. In fairness, my immediate reaction was not to the nondescript rooms in the typical modern New England Colonial. It was to the odor of wet wood that came from the fireplace where the damper
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Seeing New Light
LIGHT, THE MOST ABUNDANT element of the Mediterranean coastline, is sometimes the hardest to capture. Such was the case when designers Serge Castella and Jason Flinn first walked into this full-floor penthouse apartment atop a Barcelona building to a
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2nd Act
IN 1953, a young Omer Claiborne set off from New Orleans in a rented car to seek his fortune in Mexico, manufacturing the modern, Eames-type furniture he loved. He established a factory in Mexico City but discovered there was no market for what he ha
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Authentic Allegra
WHAT IS THE secret weapon in the arsenal of a successful designer? The innate “eye”. Turin-born, London-based Italian designer Allegra Hicks’s “eye” was introduced into a world of contemporary design from childhood. “Our house in Turin wasn’t like my
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Art MATTERS
“MY FAVORITE CLIENTS are the ones who know what they want,” says Atlanta-based interior designer Beth Webb, “the ones who have a great aesthetic of their own.” It’s no surprise, then, that Webb thoroughly enjoyed designing the interiors of this new s
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Maine Choice
CHARLOTTE AND HER web are favorite neighbors of Gil Schafer’s. Every time the designer and architect drives past the weathered Maine barn in which the fictional spider lived and weaved her web, he thinks of its maker, the writer E.B. White. “It’s fun
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Go Shopping
All fabric creations made by Melanie Williams. Tablecloth: Mila, Color: Orange Rust, JIM THOMPSON, jimthompsonfabrics.com. Buttons: 8 Miroirs Scarlett 36320/9115, HOULÈS, houles.com. Cake covered in Tika, Color: Nutmeg, LISA FINE TEXTILES, lisafinete
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India Hicks
A FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY FROM ENGLAND? Christmas at Broadlands was very traditional. A huge tree cut from the estate would be towering in the marble hallway. As children, we would hang up our stockings waiting to be filled, the biggest and therefo

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