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Ali in Wonderland
Antiques dealer Ali Mahon brings the indoors out to create a storybook setting for an enchanting evening in her Connecticut garden and barns.
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Rooted in Virginia Behind a hidden approach in Charlottesville, Virginia, designers Lisa Sokol and Sarah Johnson transform a Georgian estate into a richly layered, deeply personal retreat.
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Gardening Gourmet
In the plot behind his home in Gorze, France, renowned garden designer Pascal Garbe mixes beauty and innovation, exotic and native plants, and, most significantly, the culinary with the horticultural.
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Lone Star Style
ON THE COVER A nod to red, white, and blue at The Barns, Ali Mahon’s charming antiques shop in Riverside, Connecticut. Story on page 38. Photographed by Jane Beiles
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In Dallas, designer CeCe Barfield Thompson coaxes a family home into a more luminous version of itself.
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From the Field
Escape the heat with these cool finds for playing by the pool, lounging on the beach, or relaxing in the mountains.
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Drawing deep-rooted inspiration from her time spent living in India, Olivia Bienvenu Massie Brown creates textile patterns drenched with color, cultural respect, history, and imagination.
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Sense of Place
A new house informed by vernacular cottages on Alabama’s Eastern Shore embraces bayfront living and Southern style for a family returning home.
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