In MILIEU, every story captures the look and feel, the mood and character, the style of a place - its milieu. The milieu that defines a great house or garden, the unique character of a design professional, the message conveyed in a thoughtful essay about home life, the creative strategies for accomplishing the look you want for your home - these are the elements of our magazine.
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Milieu Magazine
HOMES IN THIS ISSUE
FROM THE DESK OF… • The many shades of winter white
An embroidered past • Centuries ago, nomadic tribespeople in Central Asia made large-scale, hand-embroidered textiles for their yurts, or tents. The colorful patterns, made with vegetal dyes, often depict flowers and star-shaped medallions. Suzani have been used as bed coverings, prayer mats, and as bridal dowries, where they have been thought to represent, and to bring, good luck, health, long life and fertility. Today’s suzanis, antique or new, continue to bring life and vibrancy into your home.
FORWARD Thinkers • The artisans, artists, and designers who inspire us
PAST and present • Atlanta antiques dealers Shane Robuck and Kristen Walls find furnishings from centuries ago that, when placed in rooms today, make us appreciate our varied connections to the past
The Warmth of Iceland • MILIEU’s Design Director, Leslie Newsom Rascoe, along with her son and daughter, followed the island nation’s Ring Road, finding wonders both man-made and natural along the way
In Retrospective • For more than eight decades, and continuing still, Alex Katz has painted what he sees at the moment. Now is the moment to view his works at an exhibition mounted by New York’s Guggenheim Museum.
In the Company of Art
MILIEU in Atlanta
An Artful Life • Isabel López-Quesada’s longtime friend called on the designer to create a new home and sense of place for her and her family in Madrid
Finding Common Ground • A duo of interior designers helped newly married Houston homeowners find an aesthetic they could both live with and love forever
Georgia ON HIS MIND • A big city designer returns to his small Southern hometown for one very special commission
Ancestral TIES • A centuries-old historic house in England is now home to a young couple who have restored the structure to its past glory while making it their own for today
Rooms With Views • Although a San Francisco apartment is situated high above the city, it feels thoroughly grounded in its Pacific Heights neighborhood
THE GOODS • Your source for what’s new, novel, and essential
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Julia Morgan • “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”—Julia Morgan