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Design Books: 5 to Read Right Now

November 23, 2020 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

Your Home, Your Style: How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love is a guide to attainable, comfortable, stylish living by Donna Garlough, a lifestyle writer and editor who also serves as style director for Joss & Main. In this tome, Garlough touts the importance of decluttering and curating to discover your style.

The popularity of Myquillyn Smith’s blog, The Nester, has allowed her to grow the site into a brand that encompasses everything from workshops and events to a series of coffee table books, the third of which is Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round. Welcome Home builds on Smith’s personal motto, “It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.”…

Design Book Wish List: Summer 2020

July 23, 2020 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

Around the At Home office, it’s no secret we love a good design book—both for the inspiration and ideas packed inside and for use in styling spaces in our own homes. Here are a few recent additions to our personal wish lists.

New England Modern showcases how New England designers are incorporating clean, cosmopolitan sensibilities into their designs.

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On The Elements of A Home: Q&A with Amy Azzarito

April 20, 2020 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

*Photo by Eduardo Navarro for California Closets*

This spring, design historian Amy Azzarito released her second book. The Elements of a Home: Curious Histories Behind Everyday Objects, from Pillows to Forks is exactly that—a collection of the stories behind ordinary, functional items that might have you wondering, Who first thought of that?

Amy has utilized her design and research backgrounds as managing editor of the blog Design*Sponge and as a contributor to Architectural Digest, Design Milk, and Apartment Therapy. While she now lives in California with her husband, Mark, and daughter, Stella (whose nursery was recently featured on Architectural Digest’s website Clever), she once called Arkansas home.

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8 Design Book Releases To Look Out For This Fall

August 9, 2019 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

In our world, the end of summer means a couple of things: Hopefully the hottest days are behind us, and we can look forward to the latest releases of design books. Would it surprise you to know we are more excited about the latter of the two? In our August issue, we shared three of our favorite design books that we plan on picking up this fall. For a clickable version (and to admire those beautiful covers), we have compiled a full collection of eight books recommended by local designers to be sure to get your hands on.

From the White House to the gardens of Versailles, Rachel Lambert Mellon’s landscape and garden design is held to the highest regard in The Gardens of Bunny Mellon.…

Book Review: She Sheds Style

February 21, 2019 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

It’s been awhile since we shared a book review on the At Home blog, and in honor of the adorable Northwest Arkansas “she shed” gracing the cover of our March 2019 issue, we’re sharing Erika Kotite’s most recent read, She Sheds Style: Make Your Space Your Own.

Kotite is a true she shed enthusiast. She’s co-founder of the website She Sheds Living, and this is her second book—a follow-up to She Sheds: A Room of Your Own. Often considered the feminine response to the “man cave” trend, Kotite says that a she shed is any retreat in a cute little outbuilding—it doesn’t necessarily have to act as a gardening hub, either. Some of the examples in She Sheds Style explore structures that are home offices or even cozy rooms for entertaining. The important part, she maintains, is that it’s a space for you….

Award-winning Author to Speak at Crystal Bridges

July 8, 2018 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

Chef and author Toni Tipton-Martin will speak at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on July 27 as part of the museum’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Toni is the winner of a 2016 James Beard Book Award, and she will discuss and sign copies of her book The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbook. A signing will take place following the lecture. General admission tickets are $15 and can be purchased at crystalbridges.org.

This post originally appeared in the July 2018 issue of At Home in Arkansas.

Arkansas Farms Featured in Floral Design Book

June 28, 2018 by Stephanie Maxwell Newton

Photo of Wilson Gardens by Julie Wage Ross

Greg Campbell and Erick New, owners of Garden District in Memphis, have been working together for 25 years. They source flowers from all over the world, including two farms in Arkansas: Delta Sol Farm in Proctor and Wilson Gardens in Wilson. The Memphis natives have now released an inspirational coffee table book, Florists to the Field, which features a behind-the-scenes look at the designers as they conjure breathtaking tablescapes inspired by and created in the settings of each of their source farms. Other farms featured in the book include locations in Louisiana, Wisconsin, Oregon, California, and Holland. For a list of upcoming signings and to purchase the book, visit southerlymedia.com.

This post originally appeared in the July 2018 issue of At Home in Arkansas.

How They Decorated

August 3, 2017 by Laura LaRue

From socialites to artists, How They Decorated: Inspiration From Great Women of the Twentieth Century, takes you on a tour of the homes of the most noteworthy style icons of the 1900s.

“The book is presented in four sections that describe the aesthetic approaches that the ladies took in decorating their abodes: The Fashionably Chic, The Unconventional Eye, In the Grand Manner, and Legacy Style.”…

Inspired Interiors

June 22, 2017 by Laura LaRue

As I was walking around Cobblestone and Vine looking for the next book to feature, I found an oldie-but-goodie! In 2011, two years after being published, Suzanne Kasler did a book signing at Cobblestone’s Heights location for her debut book Inspired Interiors. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend, but I did receive an autographed copy as a gift! Entranced by the furniture sketches on the inside front cover, I flip the page to see this sweet, simple note….

Palm Beach Chic

May 25, 2017 by Laura LaRue

Written by long-time resident Jennifer Ash Rudick, Palm Beach Chic brings to life the wide array of design styles across the island. She notes that the homes “show the remarkable results that can be achieved through the blending of professional skill, unfettered imagination, and the natural beauty of the subtropics.”…

Design Books: 5 to Read Right Now

Design Book Wish List: Summer 2020

On The Elements of A Home: Q&A with Amy Azzarito

8 Design Book Releases To Look Out For This Fall

Book Review: She Sheds Style

Award-winning Author to Speak at Crystal Bridges

Arkansas Farms Featured in Floral Design Book

How They Decorated

Inspired Interiors

Palm Beach Chic

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