From t he Ed itor
Lauren Liess
“Taking what is good and what is loved from
the past and introducing what is appreciated
today gives you the best of both worlds.”
Abrams, $40 (October)Seen &QuotedMadeline Stuart
“Every facet of the work I do is akin to
reinventing the wheel each time out. But
that’s what makes it interesting—never
doing the same thing twice, never allowing
the look of my last project to dictate the
ideas for the next.”
Rizzoli, $Timothy Corrigan
“Elegance is not something you save for a
special occasion. Elegance, like beauty,
should be part of your life every single day.”
Rizzoli, $t’s our birthday—the big 3-0! Of course, we’re
celebrating. We’re celebrating our years and
our mission of bringing you classic, timeless,
traditional design. We’re also having a little
fun with the fact that we’re marking this mile-
stone along with a large slice of the millennial genera-
tion. Yep, we’re millennial—old enough to recognize
refined style, authenticity, and quality when we see it
but nowhere near being feted with a dark cloud of
“over the hill” birthday balloons.
To toast our past, our present, and our future, we
bring you an issue that includes designers we’ve loved
for years and new talents—including 10 rising stars of
design. Our 2019 class of New Trads (page 32) speaks
fluent classicism—in today’s fresh vernacular.
Two of our New Trads, Lindsey Coral Harper and
Mallory Mathison Glenn, were among an enviable list of
designers who created rooms for our 2018 Southern Style Now Designer Showhouse in Charles-
ton (page 70). When you see how they respected the history of an 1840s Greek Revival home while
revitalizing it for modern living, you’ll know that the future of traditional design is in good hands.
We’re heartened when these new talents tell us they find endless inspiration in the work of
design legends. So do we.
Think you know what to expect from kitchen design luminary Mick De Giulio? Think again.
First he refines the kitchen, then he builds an entire genre-melding, boundary-melting home
around it in “Kitchen 2.0” (page 88).
Likewise, designer Ray Booth of the legendary McAlpine design firm somehow magically com-
bines British grace and American gregariousness in an early 1900s Colonial Revival home (“Light
at Heart,” page 96). This veritable Audrey Hepburn of Baltimore estates keeps its history as it
learns to live for today.
Then there’s 2017 New Trad Amy Meier, who helps past and present, classic and clean-lined
intersect beautifully in a new California home (“Best of Both,” page 108). Built on the site of
La Jolla’s original train station, it thoughtfully displays details you’d find in a New England Colo-
nial as it wriggles its toes in the sand with the casual ease of a beach bungalow.
As these designers and these homes prove, celebrating our past is good—especially when we
also celebrate our future.i
Jill Waage, Editor in Chief
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