MILIEU

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.

EDITOR’S SAY

Milieu Magazine

FROM THE DESK OF… • The moment you walk over a carpet, rug, tiles, woodwork, you become acquainted with the mood and feel of the room. With these examples, you'll do so in style.

FEATURED DESIGNERS

OBJECTS

Establishing Patterns • We’ve long known that wallpapers define and transform rooms. But then we started to envision the furnishings in our home “upholstered” with collages of wallpapers and coverings. The process led to artworks worth framing.

Working Relationships • When you sit down and take your place at the right desk, good work results

INSIDER • Designers and designs that change the way you live at home

TRAVEL

Frosted in TIME • The Renaissance gardens at Drummond Castle are reminiscent of the magnificent grounds at Versailles, but they are more intimate and infused with Scottish symbolism

PROFILES

Material GIRL • Connecticut-based Rosemary Hallgarten designs rugs and fabrics from materials so rich and textured that when completed they take on another dimension.

On STAFF • Every issue of MILIEU happens because of these people, our team, which really does function much like a family. We spend a lot of time together—creating, imagining, writing, editing, designing, and then publishing.

& MORE

Fieldwork • In upstate New York, undulating meadows and former farmland now yield bountiful harvests of monumental sculptures. The crops of works change with the seasons.

A BUILDING MODEL • Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek was designing office buildings and embassies, city halls and museums, when few, if any, African American women were part of the profession. What she built still stands.

At Home

MILIEU presents at DISCOVER ADAC

Spring is on its way

THE WELL

Breathing Room • The clients and interior designer agreed to create a home that would function as a place apart from the animation of daily life, while remaining linked to the vibrant city of Austin

BEING Heuman • No one could mistake London-based Beata Heuman’s interiors for anyone else’s—equal parts style, function, and fun

Gone Fishing • Designer Juan Montoya took the bait and transformed a 1910 lakeside cabin into a new destination for his clients

LOFTY GOALS • A Manhattan couple with grown children decided that a new chapter of their lives involved moving from a formal townhouse to a downtown loft. The family still gathers as it always did before.

Settling IN • A Nashville couple made the hard decision to leave the house in which they’d lived for years. But they are now home again in their new residence.

THE GOODS • Your source for what’s new, novel, and essential

GO SHOPPING

Eileen Gray • Irish-born furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray was esteemed as one of the most innovative figures of her time. She took traditional crafts and transformed them into Modernist icons.