Veranda At Home in the South
Interior Design Reimagined
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A luxurious collection of 27 contemporary Southern homes that explores the range of style of the region—from classic and genteel to contemporary and edgy.
On this exclusive Veranda house tour, you’re invited to step inside spectacular Southern homes created by a diverse group of innovative designers and architects that share one important credo: an abiding love of beauty.
The region holds its own as a design mecca, with swoon-worthy style along every coast and in every geographic nook and cranny. You’ll tour a wooded cabin in Tennessee, an old farmhouse in Georgia, a serene Low Country island retreat, and exquisite historic homes in Palm Beach and Charleston, and more. From the dreamy Blue Ridge Mountains to the rural Arkansas Delta, from Atlanta to Dallas to Birmingham and beyond, you’ll learn the secrets of southern style from designers and architects and how landscape and personality are always essential elements of successful design.
Most important, you’ll discover how Southern style is wildy inclusive –an amalgamation of many different aesthetic sensibilities. It’s a style that resists easy categorizing and also defies cliché. You’ll experience how the warmth of being “at home” is achieved through imaginative and evocative design by visionary designers including Keith Robinson, Mark D. Sikes, Bobby McAlpine, Bunny Williams, Darryl Carter, Phoebe Howards and others.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veranda magazine contributor Hunt explores the breadth of Southern style in this charming survey. Southern style is more than just quilts and magnolias, she writes; it can range from the traditional to the modern and edgy, and Hunt posits that the region's defining factor is "an abiding love of beauty." The author then takes readers on a sumptuously photographed tour of contemporary homes, organized into six thematic sections. In "A Gracious Welcome," Hunt visits an Alabama estate that evokes famous Southern hospitality. "Lure of Landscape" examines the "dialogue between land and shelter" in a cottage on South Carolina's Brays Island. "Maximal Attitude" shows off a redone 1930s Georgian with layers of colors and fabrics, where "a geometric floor spices up" a blue and white kitchen and a floral-upholstered bar "plays well with zingy orange" painted doors. In "Modern Sensibilities," a Charlotte, N.C., house highlights that "tradition isn't going anywhere," while "Artful and Bold" shows off homes that, with their eclectic color palettes, offer a "playful sense of whimsy." Finally, "Classic Revivals" celebrates houses in Florida and South Carolina that have been loved for generations. Armchair designers won't want to miss this.
