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HOUSE l GARDEN l LIFESTYLE

NAPA VALLEY LIVING Tara Guérard’s

GARDEN PARTY PICKS FLORAL INSPIRATION FROM

Ariella Chezar

GLAMPING

Round Top Style

LEFT: PHOTO BY DON FREEMAN, RIGHT: PHOTO BY DAGNUSHKA

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FEATURES

Camp Round Top

During the celebrated antiques fair, a coterie of design friends gather for the ultimate glamping experience deep in the heart of Texas.

One of a Kind

LEFT: PHOTO BY DON FREEMAN, RIGHT: PHOTO BY DAGNUSHKA

With an array of inspiration ranging from the Victorian age to the Arts and Crafts movement, Thomas Jayne and William Cullum transform a guest home from mundane to magical.

Motor City Retreats

As Detroit’s automotive pioneers busied themselves with building cars, they also built grand estates with gardens to match.

“Just living isn’t enough,” said the butterfly. “One must also have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”–HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

ON THE COVER: Event designer Cassie LaMere collaborated with floral designer Antonio Bond to create tablescapes that perfectly fit with the theme of each meal during Camp Round Top. Photographed by Dagnushka

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Contents DEPARTMENTS SCENE

We’ve got our eyes on...

The latest interiors and landscape design books, plus an earthenware collaboration with Aerin Lauder and Casa Lopez, the new Impressions fabric collection by Brook Perdigon Textiles, and Pamela Munson’s straw handbags embroidered with Schumacher patterns.

IN BLOOM

Flower Intensive

Renowned floral designers Ariella Chezar and Nicolette Owen lead flower enthusiasts in a three-day intensive full of inspiration and beauty.

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Decorate: Q&A

Garden Artist

By looking at the garden through a different lens, artist Meg Black opened up a new world of endless creativity.

Entertain: Q&A

Philanthropist, aesthete, and hostess Deeda Blair tells of her loves in a new book, Food, Flowers, and Fantasy.

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Decorating: Mood

Event designer Tara Guérard shares her tricks of the trade for creating an outdoor gathering full of blooms and beauty.

58 Decorating: Flowers

When autumn comes around, Maggie Bailey of Bramble & Bee thrives on creating her arrangements outdoors.

Interiors

San Francisco interior designer Suzanne Tucker gives clients a fresh perspective in a grand Napa Valley estate where the views are the main attraction.

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PHOTOS CLOCKWISE ROM TOP RIGHT BY: ROGER DAVIES, CORBIN GURKIN, COURTESY OF FERRICK MASON, DAVID HILLEGAS

As the creative mind behind Ferrick Mason, painter and designer Alex Mason generates conversation between art, textiles, and wall coverings.

PHOTOS CLOCKWISE ROM TOP RIGHT BY: ROGER DAVIES, CORBIN GURKIN, COURTESY OF FERRICK MASON, DAVID HILLEGAS

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” —Albert Camus

ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS ASKED ME THE OTHER DAY

what my favorite season was. Without a moment’s hesitation I responded, “Fall.” She agreed, which made my heart smile. I like the reprieve of the season—or in the South, the promise of a reprieve—from the punishing summer heat. I like the fragrance of pumpkin spice and the taste of candy corn, and I like the return to routine. I also like the shift in nature’s palette. We move from blues and greens and pinks to rusts and umbers and bricks. These warmer colors begin to appear not only in my garden, but also in my Instagram feed. Fall feels like a gentler season, and it reflects my appreciation for new beginnings—a new school year for children and grandchildren and a renewed sense of anticipation leading into the holidays. As I leafed back through this issue, I felt the “aahhh” of fall. We feature a festive weeklong celebration at Round Top, the legendary antiques market extravaganza in Texas, filled with autumnal colors, food, and flowers. We also visit a gorgeous, warm-hued house in Napa, designed by Suzanne Tucker, that blurs the lines between inside and outside. And to get us all in

flowering and entertaining mode for seasonal gatherings, we take you behind the scenes of a “flower intensive” workshop with industry icons Ariella Chezar and Nicolette Owen. Corbin Gurkin’s dreamy photographs of the event will have you ready to sign up for the next round of classes. On a sad note, our dear friend, Carleton Varney, America’s decorator, passed away recently. As president and owner of Dorothy Draper & Co. Inc., he made life more vibrant and contributed a fanciful yet timeless sophistication to every project he conceived. I think especially of The Greenbrier, the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island, and The Colony hotel in Palm Beach, where we can revel in Carleton’s exuberant interiors, at least for a few days. No one was more loving, generous, or fun. He never took himself too seriously—I see him in a rolled bandana scarf or a tie fashioned from a sumptuous Hermès scarf, along with red socks, an homage to his late friend, actor Van Johnson. However, Carleton Varney WAS serious about his love for his country, his family, and his friends. And as he was a passionate advocate for the use of color, I imagine him arriving in Heaven and saying, “Thank God, NO BEIGE!” We miss you, Carleton. Love and SDG,

Margot Shaw EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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What We’ve Got Our Eyes On

Scene The Draper Touch: The High Life and High Style of Dorothy Draper by Carleton Varney (Shannongrove Press, June 2022), $100

READING LIST

What’s New FLOWERS, FASHION, TOP, LEFT: BY MICHEL ARNAUD COURTESY OF DOROTHY DRAPER & COMPANY INC, TOP RIGHT: COURTESY OF SHANNONGROVE PRESS AND COURTESY OF DOROTHY DRAPER & COMPANY INC, RIGHT BY MICHEL ARNAUD COURTESY OF STEVE AND JULIE LAZARUS

DECORATIVE HISTORY, HOME

By Julie Gillis

n this fully revised edition of the 1988 Dorothy Draper biography, Carleton Varney delves even deeper into the life of the renowned designer and interior decorator. Varney, who has owned and directed Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., for almost 60 years, has added updated text in every chapter of his original book, as well as a new foreword. This deluxe edition includes significant historical documents and photographs recently discovered from a private collection. Text is also based on interviews with Draper’s family and former staff, as well as Varney’s personal memories of working with the “Duchess of Decorating,” as Draper was often called. Credited as one of the early founders of the interior design industry, Draper is best known for her commercial projects, including The Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia, The Carlyle hotel in New York, and Arrowhead Springs in California. She also became a household name in the 1930s and 40s because of her articles filled with decorating wisdom in Good Housekeeping magazine. In addition, Draper’s three books— 365 Shortcuts to Home Decorating, Decorating Is Fun: How To Be Your Own Decorator, and Entertaining Is Fun: How To Be a Popular Hostess—are still in print today. Editor’s Note: As this issue was being sent to press, we learned of Carleton Varney’s death. We will miss this icon of the design world.

TOP LEFT: Two Draper sofas feature prominently in the Upper Lobby of The Greenbrier hotel. ABOVE: A restored Draper chair from the

Fairmont hotel in San Francisco.

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READING LIST (CONTINUED)

Currently Classic

One of America’s top designers, Jonathan Rachman teams up with noted interiors and fashion writer Dean Rhys-Morgan in his first book. The volume captures Rachman’s eclectic, bold, refined style through a variety of projects, four of which have never been published. Born on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia and based in San Francisco, Rachman is known for filling the homes of many prestigious clients with his signature lively color palettes and luxurious materials.

Beyond Bold: Inspiration/ Collaboration/ Evolution

by Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, and Eric Groft (Pointed Leaf Press, October 2022), $85

Principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, and Eric Groft offer a one-of-a-kind record of Oehme, van Sweden, a landscape architecture firm that has been creating extraordinary outdoor spaces for almost 50 years. Full of vibrant images and detailed project plans, the book features the firm’s work in private gardens and pools, as well as in public spaces such as the Tippet Rise Art Center in rural Montana, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the New York Botanical Garden. Readers are treated to an interesting array of geographically and stylistically diverse landscape projects.

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TOP, LEFT AND RIGHT: DOUGLAF FRIEDMAN FROM CURRENTLY CLASSIC, BOTTOM, LEFT: DURSTON SAYLOR, AND RIGHT: CLAIRE TAKACS

by Jonathan Rachman with Dean Rhys-Morgan (Flammarion, October 2022), $65

TOP, LEFT AND RIGHT: DOUGLAF FRIEDMAN FROM CURRENTLY CLASSIC, BOTTOM, LEFT: DURSTON SAYLOR, AND RIGHT: CLAIRE TAKACS

Flower Intensive • Decorate: Q&A • Garden Artist Entertain: Q&A • Mood • Decorate: Flowers • Interiors

in Bloom

Immersed in Flowers RENOWNED FLORAL DESIGNERS ARIELLA CHEZAR AND NICOLETTE OWEN LEAD FLOWER ENTHUSIASTS IN A THREE-DAY INTENSIVE FULL OF INSPIRATION AND BEAUTY. By Christine Chitnis • Photography by Corbin Gurkin

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