Let Them Cook
Maybe you cook a lot. Maybe you never cook but love to host. Maybe your kids prefer to do their homework at a breakfast bar and maybe your husband dreams of a scullery kitchen that keeps the shrimp shells and greasy sauciers safely out of sight. Every homeowner has their kitchen particulars. And once the […]
A Collected Life
From a young age Bebe Buell noticed that when her mother decorated, she would keep things grouped together in their like category. All the birds would be in one place. All the glass eggs in another. Little by little, her mother started small collections for her too, like a little shoe collection, and her Desert […]
Continuing the Discourse
In 2018, four women came together with a mission and a message — that all the disparate design communities could come together to change the discourse of what a new and improving Nashville could be. To open the door for new voices to be heard in how we grow as a city and as a […]
A Return to the South
Every day of the life of designer Christopher Todd is completely different from the day before. And probably won’t be anything like tomorrow. That’s because he doesn’t hold himself back from practicing any of the different genres of design that he loves, including interiors, events, florals and holidays, which is where he started, and how […]
Welcome Home, Again
When you gotta go, you gotta go. And no one knows that more than people who work in sports, and the families that love them. So in July 2024 when B.J. Callaghan was hired as the head coach of the Nashville Soccer Club, the second in the team’s history, he and his wife Leigh packed […]
Myers, and the Designers
Hilary Steve joined the Myers Flooring Nashville team in August 2014, but according to her she has been in the industry since I was 16. Hilary grew up in Dalton, Georgia, known as the “Carpet Capital of the World,” in part because it was producing more than 80 percent of the world’s carpet by 1960. […]
Artist Spotlight: Shane Miller
Everything from Shane Miller’s dreamy landscapes to his proficiency in the nuances of oil glazing techniques is imbued with his passion for painting. “I had a watercolor teacher in high school who taught me things like composition and techniques — like how to mix blue in the foliage for distance and yellow for the foreground, […]
Art-Driven Design
Self-professed Navy tumbleweed Ann Zumwalt and her husband, Michael Coppola, are both busy retirees. Most recently from Massachusetts, they were visiting their daughter in Boca Raton when they decided to move to Nashville. They’d been thinking about where to move next, and Music City checked all the boxes: diverse, walkable, cultural and artistic, with great […]
Kate Figler
estled in the foothills of the Berkshires, Kate Figler’s hometown of Kent, Connecticut, radiates early New England nostalgia, from the pre-Revolutionary colonial that now houses the Kent Historical Society to the old Fife ’n Drum Restaurant and Inn on Main Street. The Fife — a bustling, multi-generational family business founded by Figler’s grandfather, Juilliard-trained pianist […]