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Welcome to our Summer 2024 issue, which is the fourth of the 10th Anniversary special editions in this milestone collection. I hope you have enjoyed the “Looking Back” features that celebrate each of our seasons. It’s been cathartic combing through 10 years of MILIEU, reflecting on our evolution, yet staying true to our roots. And speaking of roots, I have new roots in my kitchen garden. This past winter I lost a portion of my 20-year-old mature garden due to a freeze. Instead of re-planting the same design, I decided that a kitchen garden would be a productive repurpose of space. I began sketching and designing the style of the kitchen garden, but I realized I needed help selecting the vegetables, fruits and herbs I could grow. With the help of…

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“We worked to be responsive to the location, the context, the textures, and all the things that felt appropriate for a house out west.”—RAY BOOTH "A Change of Scenery” p.100 “Regarding my love of Paris and France, I often quote a favorite line from Ernest Hemingway: ‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.’”—TIMOTHY CORRIGAN “Laying New Ground” p. 110 “My work is akin to being a conductor. I’m trying to get the best out of each instrument. But at the end of the day, it’s one harmony.”—OLIVER FURTH “Design Theory” p. 120 “We committed ourselves to staying within the shell of the original house, but reimagining the whole house.”—THOMAS…

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How the West is Worn

As a girl growing up in Dallas and visiting her family ranch outside the city, Lela Rose would watch her father in the outdoors. “My dad was really ahead of his time,” says the noted fashion designer from her present home outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “He was a semi-professional ornithologist and watching him watching the birds, I really understood the connection he felt to the health of the planet through the life of the birds. Both he and my mother never took things at face value, and from both of them I inherited a love of curiosity.” Rose and her husband and children relocated to Wyoming a few years ago after living and working in New York City for many years, and she speaks now of having morning coffee on the…

How the West is Worn

Mothers of Nature

Growing up in rural Texas, Jill Oliver was exposed to gardening from an early age. The daughter of a pecan farmer, she helped pick strawberries and peaches from the family garden, and still recalls the pleasures of biting into a homegrown tomato or digging into a meal made with freshly picked herbs. “No other hobby gives back to you like gardening does,” she marvels. “I wanted to share that passion with others.” After building a career as a speech-language pathologist, she took time out to raise her three children, then decided to return to the workforce doing what she loved most. She landed a job at a garden design and installation company in Houston, where she met Nicole Shah and Jen McDonald. Self-taught gardeners like Oliver, the three women turned to…

Mothers of Nature

As both a furniture designer and a CEO, Doug Rozenboom does something that is increasingly rare. When he’s with a client who’s seeking a custom design for a bed made of iron or steel, aluminum or brass, Rozenboom takes out a piece of paper and pencil. “Sketching as a form of communication is quickly becoming a lost art,” says Rozenboom, who heads the Richmond, Virginia–based Worthen Furniture. “Technology cannot replace being in a room with a designer or client and starting the conversation with a sketch. The technique has even become a kind of party trick for us.” Known for the ability to fashion new beds that look antique, Worthen has emerged as a true artisan phenomenon. While the details of such beds often reference existing motifs, everything that comes…

Along for the Ride

As a practicing architect, Garrett Hardee understands the ways that walls curve and roof lines meet, how windows turn corners and the effect a dwelling has on its site. As a woman who grew up on a cattle ranch in South Alabama and who still rides horses as often as she can (though she’s now based in Boulder, Colorado), Hardee is equally fascinated with rodeo horses and their riders. “Rodeos celebrate the physicality of these animals,” she says, “and for me rodeos are about architecture, but in a different way.” Using both photos “and mental images I’ve filed away when watching rodeo riders,” she uses watercolors to depict the life of the equestriancentric sport. She likes the unpredictability and spontaneity that the medium of watercolors demands. “You just have to…

Along for the Ride

Narrowing It Down

Drashta Sarvaiya makes something so close to her heart that she named her very creations for that emotion. As the Cornwall, England–based textile designer and artisan says of her company, Mara Vera Textiles, “The name is derived from two words—mara and veera—spoken in an Indo-Aryan language native to the state of Gujarat, India, which is also my first language. The name references something close to one’s heart, of deep interest.” Sarvaiya’s hand-blocked wall hangings speak not only to her soul aesthetic, but also to the many homeowners who have come to hang them in their rooms. The designs are abstract, yet they incorporate defined shapes, and evoke immediate visceral responses, while a mystery lingers. “I draw on the natural world and architecture to create minimalistic designs,” she says from her studio.…

Narrowing It Down

The Bloomsbury group was named after an area of London defined by its polite yellow-brick Georgian squares and academic institutions. Out of a house in one of these squares, a group of intellectuals, artists, and writers comprised of friends and family regularly gathered to discuss, debate, and challenge the social norms and ideas of the day. Key members included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Vanessa Bell, among others. It was their close friendships and alternative relationships solidified in the first decades of the 20th century that nurtured and influenced the artistic and intellectual output of this group—resulting in a profound impact on culture, art, and literature in Britain and beyond. The group has been explored extensively over the past century. This summer, however, an exhibition at London’s Garden…

It makes sense that the chapters of Kathryn Ireland’s new book, A Life In Design (Cico Books), would be named for her favorite movies. Even though she generously cites her “wonderful crew” and many enlightened clients for whom she designs interiors as reasons for her success, she remains the star of every project she undertakes. And to read this book is akin to losing oneself in the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster—not exactly a rags-to-riches tale, but one about a woman who made it to the top of her field while admitting to being “completely self-taught.” In fact, like many a screen star, Ireland came to Los Angeles directly from her native England; she was a young woman in the late 1980s. She set up a design business in a…

A Change of Scenery

“WITH ANY PROJECT, I think it’s so important to respond to context,” says Ray Booth of a new home he’s decorated in Park City, Utah. “I don’t necessarily mean location and landscape,” he says. “It’s also about who you’re working for, and about getting to know your clients and how they would define a successful interior.” Booth, a noted interior designer and principal partner in the firm McAlpine, described the process by which he developed the interiors of a new home designed by his architect colleague Greg Tankersley—another McAlpine partner whose award-winning designs have garnered national and international recognition for decades. When queried about how Booth achieved such tailored, elegant, thoroughly modern rooms, he says, “We got there through exercising our typical process: shopping with the client, seeing what they respond…

A Change of Scenery

Laying New Ground

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH France began some 35 years ago, when I moved there to work in advertising. My passion began in Paris, where I was living, and several years later spread to the French countryside, when I bought a 17th-century manor house in Normandy. In hindsight, I can directly attribute those early years in France to my decision to change careers and become a designer. Americans have long felt an affinity for France; for me, it is the rich architectural history and love of gardens that won me over and has become an integral part of who I am today. That first manor house in Normandy served as my introduction to the process of historical restoration and also to the creation of gardens. I realized the importance of creating a…

Laying New Ground

IF YOU WERE TO WRITE A HISTORY of interior design in California, it would have to be divided into two eras: Before Michael Taylor and After Michael Taylor. The legendary decorator transformed California interiors in the 1970s and ’80s with sunny white spaces brimming with plump, oversized furniture, rugged organic materials, and his ever-present plants. Airy and ethereal, Taylor’s rooms merged interiors and exteriors in a verdurous pas de deux that endeared him to entertainment titans and tastemakers. Although Taylor left this world at age 59 in 1986, his legacy lives on. Among his ardent disciples is Oliver Furth, a fourthgeneration Californian who is no slouch in the interiors field himself, appearing regularly on lists of the nation’s top designers. While the color-loving Furth doesn’t share Taylor’s penchant for sun-parched palettes, the…

BEYOND the City Limits

IN ADDITION TO THE JOY OF BEING together in their oceanfront house outside of Sydney, homeowners Thomas Hamel and George Massar look forward to two daily events in their residence: sunrise and sunset. When the couple purchased the house as a weekend retreat from their spacious apartment in the city, they gutted the 1920s-era house so as to let natural light fill it. “We wanted cross light—light in the front in the morning, and light in the back in the evening,” say Hamel, a prolific interior designer based in Sydney. His life partner, Massar, whose professional affiliations include being Chairman and Creative Director of Kneedler Fauchère and of its sister company, Gregorius Pineo, characterizes the original interiors as “a mess.” He adds, “Our first thought was about how to liberate the…

BEYOND the City Limits

LIFE ALONG THE RIVER

THE FIRST TIME LYNDIE AND Fred Hertrich visited their future vacation home, they had to abandon their car by the roadside, clamber over fallen trees, and wade through waist-high grass just to get to the front door. In the decade since the Easton, Maryland, home was last occupied, the basement had taken on several feet of water, causing the floorboards above to buckle and paint to droop from the walls in doleful sheets. “It looked like a haunted house,” Lyndie recalls with a shudder. At the same time, she was gripped by a feverish sensation—perhaps only known to homebuyers—that the house was destined to be hers. “This is going to sound weird,” she confides, “but I felt like I had been at that property before—like it had always been mine.” Built in…

LIFE ALONG THE RIVER

1. Any room in your home will have a good view when you install a Maison Janneau window. For more than 50 years, the French company has been crafting custom windows and doors in its Loire Valley workshop. maison-janneau.com 2. It’s both abstract and not, this black-framed vintage French painting (14 3/8” x 19 3/8”), circa 1950. Its muted hues and geometric forms reference mid-century Modernism, but Fireside Antiques recognized it right away as something wholly original. firesideantiques.com 3. Named for the seasonal French winds, Studio by Marvic’s Mistral (shown here in Chalk) is an all-linen fabric, noted for its soft tumbled finish, beautiful handle, and ability to be easily washed. Ideal as draperies in your home. marvictextiles.co.uk 4. When attending to your garden, be sure to have in hand this lovely Haws…

COVER Produced and styled by: Shannon Bowers Photography by: Brett Wood, brettwoodphotography.com Collection of colorful spools, AARON RAMBO CREATIVE, aaronrambocreative.com. Vintage Kilim, Turkey, circa 1940, 7'10"x9'6", CAROL PIPER RUGS, carolpiperrugs.com. LOOKING BACK Page 11 Summer 2017, Gardens by: Nicky Haslam. Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna. Page12 Summer 2018, Photography by: Miguel Flores Vianna Page 13 Summer 2014, Photography by: Jack Thompson; Summer 2023, Interiors by: Studio Buchanan, Photography by: Alicia Waite; Summer 2021, Interiors by: Fern Santini, Photography by: Douglas Friedman Page 14 Summer 2016, Photography by: Manolo Yllera; Summer 2016, Interiors by: Jane Smith, Photography by: Peter Vitale; Summer 2016, Interiors by: Chris Barrett, Photography by: Peter Vitale Page 15 Summer 2021, Photography by: Simon Brown Page 16 Summer 2021, Photography by: Claude Smekens Page 17 Summer 2022, Interiors by: Atelier Vime, Photography…

Gertrude Jekyll

Painter, photographer, author, and handicraft aficionado extraordinaire, Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) is remembered primarily as a Renaissance woman with an especially keen interest in gardening and garden design. Over the course of her life, she created or offered guidance on some 400 gardens in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A native of London, Jekyll (rhymes with “treacle”) benefited from the advantages made available to her by parents who provided intellectual, social, and financial resources that would shape young Gertrude. In addition, by leaving the city in 1848 for village life in Surrey, Julia and Edward Jekyll managed to introduce their daughter, the budding horticulturist, to the world of gardens and the even larger universe of plants found throughout England and abroad. Also interested in painting, she enrolled…

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