Summer 2018

MILIEU

Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
WHEN WE STARTED OUT as a small team at MILIEU five years ago, we recognized something we wanted to achieve: to create a new magazine that honored and introduced top design talent. With every issue, we continue to grow, with more readers and a wider r
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Featured Designers
Oro del Negro and Manuel Villanueva are the founders of Moredesign, a Mallorca, Spain–based firm whose mission is to foster what the designers refer to as “Mediterranean Architecture”. Their projects reflect a fusion of contemporary design with tradi
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Pattern Painter
Caroline Cecil’s textile designs are all new, though they begin with something old. Cecil, who commutes between her studios in Los Angeles and Portland (Oregon), starts her process by taking out her grandmother’s paint brushes, dipping them in vats o
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Knock on Wood
In Florence, sculpture can be not only seen, but also felt, even heard. Michelangelo’s marble David, Donatello’s bronze version of the biblical boy, and Cellini’s Perseus are among the great sculptural masterpieces to be admired from a distance, but
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My California
“When I tell people I’m from California,” says interior designer Nathan Turner, “they imagine a scene from Baywatch.” While Turner did spend much of his childhood outdoors, it was often bundled up in a jacket, clamming, eating fresh oysters, and shiv
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Growing Up
Mona Caron finds the subjects for her paintings growing at her feet in the earth. To then depict what she finds, she rises above the earth. She can be found in locales as varied as Brazil, California, Switzerland, Taiwan, Bolivia, India, and Ecuador,
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Modern Weaves
While the other girls in her rural Oklahoma town were hitting the mall and experimenting with makeup, Stephanie Seal Brown was at home, teaching herself how to weave. “I was very bookish as a child,” recalls Seal Brown, now forty-two, designer and we
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A Garden Variety
With an acre to tackle on her Welsh country property, designer Penny Morrison followed her instinct to compartmentalize, with each outdoor “room” assigned its own task, beginning with an actual room devoted to potting. There, an ever-growing variety
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Getting Surreal
Visions of landscapes, clouds, and everyday objects inhabit our minds and serve as concrete symbols that give us a sense of where and who we are. A bird with wings in motion, a stand of trees, an apple, a tortoise-shell comb, a yellow-tipped matchsti
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Mainstay of Spain
SOME FAMILIES NOT only live well together, but also appreciate good design together. Such is the case with the large Scandinavian family who owns and shares this recently renovated home near the lovely Spanish Mallorcan village of Deià. The family me
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Always Welcome
JILL AND KEVIN CADIEUX had put all their eggs in one basket. And when they returned from the chicken coop beside their California home, they began sorting through those eggs with designer Amy Meier. “It was our very first meeting,” recalls Meier, “an
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The Right White
WHEN TALKING ABOUT the all-white palette of her Tampa home, designer Sandra Chancey likes to tell a little white lie. If people ask her about the special hue that covers all of the walls and ceilings, as well as the exterior of the house, she claims
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Home Away From Home
MELISSA SELLARS FOLLOWED a goat path to the house of her dreams. She had scaled the inclined clearing hoping to be rewarded with a panoramic view of Harbour Island, the Bahamas locale in which she, a North Carolina–based interior designer, and her hu
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Through THE Looking Glass
THE BRUGES DESIGNER and antiques dealer Jean-Philippe Demeyer created domestic interiors for his client, Johan Gryp, one of the city’s premier florists, that reveal much about Belgian design today. Demeyer fashioned imaginative rooms that are as much
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MISSISSIPPI Pearl
DEEP IN THE WOODS of Mississippi, just south of the capital of Jackson, down a dirt road, over a cattle gap, and across a wooden bridge, is a plot of forested land atop a bluff along the Pearl River. Once, it was the site of a wooden “shotgun” house
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The Goods
1. The Victoria Range is the newest addition to the Sicily is My Love SMEG x Dolce & Gabbana Collection. The design is reminiscent of the traditional blue and white Italian pottery pattern. The range features an ultra-rapid, 18,000-BTU brass burner f
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Go Shopping
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