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.

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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