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Amanda Eaton launches Alchemy Cookie Co. 18 ELEGANT OUTDOORS

Outdoor décor made by nature 20 NEW BEGINNINGS

UNDER THE SUN

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If I could keep one item from this issue, it would have to be the fresh-baked, intricately decorated cookies by Amanda Eaton of Alchemy Cookie Co. This issue reminded me that passion has no limits. We publish a lot of stories about people who find their true calling later in life. Jewelry designer Andrea Korein, of Makhala Designs, is one of them.

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translates to great design work back home. We were delighted by what they told us, and those discoveries further reinforced the link between moving away from the familiar and producing extraordinary work. Join textile designer Suzanne Miller Farrell in lush, sophisticated Cape Town; journey with architect Paul Fendler to the Scottsdale desert; and visit with interior designer Emily Hall as she’s inspired by everyday life in Paris. The fun starts on page 38. Elsewhere in the issue (p. 44), we’re talking all about outdoor spaces: from urban gardens and knot gardens to outdoor showers and alfresco dinners. See how outdoor living is taking on greater meaning as homeowners design their patios and porches, decks and yards as extensions of their homes. Personally, I can’t wait to step out onto my newly paved patio and sit down with the weekend papers. For those of you with similar yearnings, I hope that this issue encourages you to think of new ways to spend time outside, whether it’s planting your own pizza garden or whiling away the hours in a favorite hanging chair.

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I RETURNED FROM spring break with a firm resolve to rid my closet of excess clothes, thanks to writer Jen Roberts’ report on the Marie Kondo effect (p. 26). During my week at the beach—as I willed the weather gods to turn the storm cloud icon on my weather app into a full, bright sun—I edited her story and recognized myself in the women she interviewed. As I thought about all of those clothes back home—stuffed into drawers and packed into storage bins at the turn of each season—I realized that they were actually dragging me down instead of lifting me up, exactly the opposite of the feeling I’m looking for from my clothes. So there I was, on the evening I returned from vacation, glowing not with a Miami Beach tan but instead in satisfaction at a job well done. Five bags full of purged clothes, shoes, hats, and accessories later, I can honestly say that I feel lighter, more in control, and, yes, even a bit joyful. Funny how getting away from the ordinary can sometimes stir the most unexpected triumphs. It’s with that feeling of optimism that we reached out to three local designers and asked them to share a favorite travel destination with us. We wanted to know how a sense of place, with its unique style, culture, and traditions,

My favorite image is a photo taken by Alise O’Brien of Steve Engel’s living room. I walked into this house almost one year ago and loved everything about its minimalist, sophisticated design.

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Amanda Eaton has found herself a joyous obsession. An assistant professor of speech pathology at Fontbonne University, she’d majored in art for a minute, but three kids and a career left her no time to paint. Now, she’s icing cookies with the care of a ceramic tile artisan, frosting botanicals with every leaf detailed, arranging tiny Dalmatians on her cake stand, creating carbohydrate masterpieces inspired by wallpaper, textiles, Chinese porcelain… What she needs to design next is a label, so she can package all the custom orders pouring into Alchemy Cookie Co.—JEANNETTE COOPERMAN

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The Icing on the Cookie Amanda Eaton launched Alchemy Cookie Co., and in doing so showed the rest of us the power of trying something new. vegan now, or gluten-free, and I’m working on keto. Those aren’t as good yet, but if you’re keto, you’re probably pretty happy that you have a cookie! AFTER ICING, WHAT WERE THE NEXT CHALLENGES? Technique—

straight lines; wet-on-wet so the design isn’t raised; using vodka to create softer shadings. It dries fast, so the cookie doesn’t get soggy, and the residue evaporates. Above all, though, the challenge is making them taste good. THANK GOD. SO MANY GORGEOUS COOKIES TASTE LIKE CARDBOARD. I use shortbread,

because it holds up to the sweetness of the icing without getting overpowered. Then I experiment with flavorings: lemon-rosemary, chocolate-espresso, toasted coconut and Key lime, toasted pecan with maple-cinnamon frosting… WHEN DID YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAD A TALENT FOR THIS?

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Alchemy’s a seemingly magical combination and transformation. I’m taking things I love— chocolate, dogs, art, cookies—and combining them into something totally new. YOU’VE ICED A BUNCH OF DALMATIANS, BUT YOUR DOG’S A GERMAN WIREHAIRED POINTER.

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SO HAVE YOU ICED ANY HUSBAND COOKIES?

I’d botch it. He’s too cute. YOU REALLY STARTED THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO? Over the holidays. In clinic, I work with

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Eaton was looking for a project, something that would take her speech therapy clients’ minds off what they couldn’t do and give them a little creative confidence. She wound up setting them a heck of an example—and starting her own cookie company.

It was more that I just couldn’t stop. It sounds silly, but I’ve been so happy ever since I started making these cookies. I do realize it’s just a cookie—this is not serious work—but now I’m getting orders, and it’s usually for a special gift, so I get brought into that story… One woman had back surgery, so she showed me her X-rays. Her surgeon is from India, where it’s customary to give flowers as gifts, so some cookies will be orchids and some will be vertebrae—which look like orchids.

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ANDREA KOREIN DIDN’T plan on living in St. Louis after college, and she certainly never envisioned becoming a jewelry designer. Originally from New York City, Korein attended Washington University, but she always planned to move back east, apply to law school, and start a career. And for more than six years, life unfolded as expected. Korein was practicing law and living in Manhattan with her husband, Michael, who’s from Belleville, Illinois. But with time, Michael began to yearn for home. “We loved the city, but I was pregnant with my first child and the thought of raising a family in New York was daunting,” she says. The couple decided to move back to St. Louis, and Korein worked as a lawyer while raising their three children. But when juggling work and family life grew too challenging, she decided to quit the firm to stay home full time. Though the decision ended her law career, it would spark a new passion. A few years later, at a party, a friend’s necklace caught Korein’s attention. Intrigued, she called the L.A. designer to inquire about buying a similar piece. The two hit it off so well, Korein bought the necklace and was offered a job selling the line in the Midwest—a partnership that lasted 13 years. By 2015, however, the line no longer seemed to resonate with her Midwestern clientele, and Korein decided to venture out on her own. A year later, she launched Makhala Designs, a collection that she describes as “fashion jewelry but with real stones and metals.” “My mom was an antiques dealer, and I was always thrifting with her,” continues Korein. “Even though that was long ago, it definitely impacts how I design today.” On the morning of our meeting, Korein is wearing a necklace with a diamond-encrusted Buddha and silver dog tag. Paired with the chunky gold chain, it has a modern look. Korein’s designs, she says, are made to be worn at the grocery store or at a black-tie gala: “Some people think pearls are not for everyday, but not me—I put them on with jeans and boots and walk out the door.” Korein’s venture has taken her back to New York, where she works with manufacturers to create one-of-a-kind pieces. The designs are made in St. Louis, and the materials are sourced from India and New York. The exception is the braided hide featured in some of the necklaces, which comes from a dealer in Utah. Once the materials have been shipped to Korein’s Chesterfield studio, she

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What makes a green thumb rejoice? The Happy Houseplant, of course. Graphic designer Madi Sharp has been sketching and hand-sewing her collection of felt plants since 2015, when she first designed a cactus as a gift for a friend. After posting a picture of it to Instagram, “people loved it!” she says, and a business was born. Devoted to The Happy Houseplant ever since, Sharp prefers to work in her bedroom at home, with beloved dog Kaldi always at her side. The collection of plants—including cacti, roses, and string of pearls in a selection of colors—help brighten up a windowless cubicle or a view-challenged kitchen. Find the botanical creations online, at the Laumeier Sculpture Park Art Fair, May 10–12, and at the Schlafly Art Outside Festival, May 25–27. Happy “plant”-ing! —SAMANTHA STEVENSON

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“CUSTOMERS MAY SPEND eight weeks shopping for a piece of furniture, but once they find it, they want it as soon as possible,” says Cara Dau Allen, customer relations manager at Dau Furniture, in Ellisville. The store also gets clients who need to complete a project by a fixed date, such as an upcoming graduation or holiday party, and can’t wait two months or more for a custom-made sofa to arrive. At the beginning of the year, Dau Furniture introduced quick-ship options to better serve clients. Now, instead of eight to 10 weeks for a custom order, the store can have a quick-ship item ready in three to six weeks. Ryan Dau, who works alongside his sister as the company’s operations manager, says that manufacturers are able to complete quickship orders faster because they don’t have to start from scratch when an order comes in. “They might have the frame done and certain fabrics ready to upholster,” he says. KDR Designer Showrooms, in Maryland Heights, also carries several quick-ship lines, including furniture by Thayer Coggin and lighting by Niermann Weeks. “For our customers who are used to shopping for high-end home furnishings, what we provide is the same quality and craftmanship,” says Amanda Bauer, KDR’s director of marketing. “These pieces are produced in the same facilities by the same craftsmen. They are high-end products in half the time.” The real difference is the options available. Whereas each of Dau Furniture’s regular upholstery lines can be ordered in 500 fabrics or more, quick-ship lines are only available in a handful of the manufacturer’s most popular configurations and fabrics. “The con is, if you’re looking for something specific like a paisley fabric, there are none in our quick-ship options,” says Ryan, noting that quick-ship fabrics tend to be neutral color schemes. But Cara says that’s not always a negative. Instead of showing a customer a roomful of hundreds of potential fabrics, their designers can pull the 10 or 20 quick-ship options. “Narrowing the choices helps make their decisions easier, and it’s not so overwhelming,” she says. A customer who recently bought a Younger + Co sofa from Dau was shopping for a new sofa for her living room, and needed it in time for a party that was about six weeks away. “We wanted great quality and design, but once we started shopping, we found that a custom sofa could take up to 12 weeks.”

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Miller has found that purging her closet is easier than she anticipated. “I just think about how I feel when I put on a piece of clothing: Do I feel relaxed? Happy?” Hong likes to thrift-shop and has a habit of picking up things that she likes because they’re inexpensive. So she’s now trying to be more intentional about what she buys, focusing on what she’ll wear or use long-term. Going through the process has highlighted a bigger question for Miller: “Why do we consume so much? We think that consumption will make us happy, but it usually doesn’t. Is that just the American way?” Perhaps the show’s popularity is a product of Kondo’s Japanese perspective that happiness comes less from consumerism and more from simplicity and deliberation about the things we keep in our lives. “Owning less helps us move forward,” says St. Louis–based organizer Lizzy Kline of Happy Spaces by Lizzy. “When we have less, we have time to enjoy more and see what we have, rather than sifting through what we don’t want to get to what we need.” —JEN ROBERTS

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

Good Enough to Eat The founder of Custom Foodscaping got an out-of-the-ordinary start. MATT LEBON HAS a passion for horticulture

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“It’s not just straight rows of apple trees. It follows curvilinear lines that go along the contours of the hill,” he says. “There are many kinds of tree species, and then, in between, there’s myriad different native flowers, bunch grasses, and ground covers that fill in every niche of the growing space.” During planting season, Lebon’s day entails loading and dropping off supplies,

coordinating compost and soil deliveries, planting and mulching, and consulting with clients. The designer uses lots of native plants and those that thrive in our region, such as pawpaw, hybrid persimmon, bush cherry, serviceberry, fig, and Asian pear. His biggest challenge may be patience. “Planting trees and shrubs takes a while to come into bearing, so people have to be willing to wait,” he says. Lebon is skilled in marrying functionality and good design. “If the idea of foodscaping is only seen as something that’s wild or unkempt, then we don’t stand to expand the movement and infiltrate the mainstream, and that’s definitely my goal.” —AMY BURGER

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that came about in a most unusual way. The St. Louis native didn’t grow up farming or gardening, and he majored in entrepreneurship at the University of Indiana. It was an assignment with the Peace Corps in Paraguay that brought him to his profession. While working with a cooperative that was there helping sugarcane farmers, he was pulled into what he says was a “world of self-sufficiency”—people growing their own food and building their own homes. “This idea of connecting with the ecology just blew me away,” he says. “I went to farms that centered on the idea of permaculture, a design methodology that aims to mimic nature. I was hooked.” Lebon brought his knowledge and enthusiasm back to St. Louis and honed his skills managing the EarthDance Organic Farm School, in Ferguson. “That was where I grew as a professional and saw the demand for people needing help with their food landscapes,” he says. In 2017, Lebon combined this horticultural experience with his entrepreneurial education to start Custom Foodscapes. His company’s slogan? “Have your landscape and eat it, too.” “You don’t need to sacrifice beauty to grow edible plants,” says Lebon. “The distinction between what I aim to do with custom foodscaping and what traditionally is thought of as edible gardening is that I’m focused on perennial plants.” Lebon now spends his days consulting with individuals and organizations on how to design high-yield edible gardens. About half of his projects are residential—clients interested in having access to superior quality and taste that they can’t get at the grocery store, as well as in educating their kids and sharing the experience of growing and picking food fresh from the garden. He also works with organizations and businesses, from restaurants to schools to hospitals; in fact, he partnered with the award-winning restaurant Vicia to create a chef’s garden. “They’re trying to create novelty with every dish, so there’s funky fruits and unique shrubs and trees in that landscape, and it’s filled in with edible flowers, and tons of herbs that they use, especially in the bar,” says Lebon. “There’s a mint garden with orange, ginger, and chocolate mint.” At the Principia School, Lebon designed a permaculture orchard inspired by nature to educate the K-12 students.

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“We bring our professional expertise in the selection of vendors, such as upholstery lines from Bradington-Young and MARQ, and casework and lighting by Modway,” says Wyrock. “We also bring our knowledge of design, which we’ll share with customers in the selling experience.” “Our challenge, and our opportunity, is to elevate design to new sensibilities,” continues Wyrock. “It’s hard to keep design in just one lane…it translates into everything people do.” —PAT EBY

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JUSTIN MAINE AND MIKE Wyrock are launching a new concept for Nistenhaus Design in the former Heirloom Room building on Cherokee Street. The space will combine a studio and showroom, a rotating art gallery, and a special events area in another destination for design enthusiasts in St. Louis. The partners say that the multi-use space will offer opportunities for people to interact as they explore design and art. “We’ve been working on this concept for a long time,” says Wyrock. He and Maine sought inspiration in showrooms on the coasts before bringing the model to St. Louis. They point to Aero, Thomas O’Brien’s store in New York City, as an inspiration with its showroom/ studio space that allows shoppers to peek into the working lives of designers. But the duo isn’t looking to re-create these coastal resources. Their showroom is distinctly St. Louis in its look and offerings, which includes hand-selected vintage items and an art gallery with original works by such local artists as Carol Carter and Maggie Robertson for sale. Nistenhaus has teamed up with Aaron Speropoulos, owner of Saint Soto Branding + Web studio, to create another point of distinction for their venture. Along the way, the three have discovered the benefits of being near other creatives. “It’s an infinite loop,” says Speropoulos. “If I get stuck in a monochromatic rut, Justin and Mike don’t let me stay there.” Maine and Wyrock moved from the closed confines of the Lemp Brewery to a building on Cherokee Street a few years ago to take advantage of the street access and exposure. But when two storefronts, and an attached outdoor space, went on the market last year, they decided to move again. Now, the combined storefronts have been renovated to demonstrate their understanding of St. Louis, its market, and the talent to be found in all facets of art, design, and media. Slated to open in late spring, the new showroom will sell a curated selection of furniture with traditional sales of small goods, including Archipelago Botanicals candles, lotions, and home fragrances. The designers will also carry Loloi rugs and pillows. Wyrock says the shop won’t observe conventional retail hours. Instead, hours and shop events will be posted on the website and on social media. The partners are confident that what they offer will work: a combination of goods in house, samples on the floor, and working sales through the showroom and catalogs.

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Other discoveries have involved the home’s owners, including the Romeisers, its first occupants. Emily says Peter Martin Romeiser founded the Romeiser Company, a retail store, in Belleville in 1878. Emma, one of eight children born to Peter and wife Elise, died in the Hindenburg explosion, in 1937. Emily notes that there may have been a ninth child, Leonora, the couple’s niece, whose name appears to be carved into a second-story window, indicating that she may have lived in the house for a time. “The fact that there are still some unknowns [makes] it almost like a game,” she says. To learn about the house, the couple has delved into library books and pored over ancestry.com. They’ve visited

the Belleville Historical Society and combed through online city directories. Ash has found remnants of the home’s past—a pair of pants, an old broom handle, a baby shoe, a soda bottle from the former Belleville Glass Company, a frequentshopper punch card from Romeiser’s— inside the walls. The thrill of finding such treasures is sometimes muted by the challenges posed by the home: old pipes, leaky windows, outof-date electrical. “The downside of owning an older house is that they’re hard to maintain,” says Ash. “You have to be willing to put in the work.” Yet even with the unknowns, the couple has never felt buyers’ remorse, Emily says: “There are times when we’re completely exhausted, but it’s never been, ‘Why did we do this?’” —SAMANTHA STEVENSON

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ON THE FIRST FRIDAY of each month, the owners of a stretch of Victorian-era homes in historic Belleville gather for a potluck dinner. Most of the owners are in their 20s and 30s, and rather than call on their neighbors to borrow a cup of sugar or a stick of butter, they tend to seek their wisdom, sometimes a can of paint stripper, or perhaps a hand taking down a drop ceiling. Emily and Ash Smith are one of those couples. They bought a 6,000-square-foot Queen Anne Revival in September 2017 and jumped right into their first project: the restoration of a beat-up staircase in the foyer. “It would be one thing to remove a layer of paint,” says Ash, “but the paint is so old that it took us days.” Ash, a missions planner at Scott Air Force Base, and Emily, a writer, moved to Belleville from North Carolina with their two boys, ages 9 and 6. The two are history buffs— they spent their first date in a university library’s archives—so it’s fitting that they’re restoring a house and piecing together its past. Emily documents their findings on her Instagram and in her blog, thebrickand maple.com. She likes to share information about the home’s décor, such as the fact that the kitchen tile was traced to Boch Frères on the French/Belgian border, and stories that old-house aficionados will appreciate, like the day a skeleton key to the side door was unexpectantly found hanging, somewhat concealed, inside a coat closet.

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smiling face turned toward the viewer. The couple couldn’t imagine “who would spend so much time making something so beautiful and not leave a signature,” Christina says, and it became their mission to uncover the murals’ history. “I thought maybe they had found old paintings in their basement, so I was totally surprised to discover they were talking about entire rooms covered with murals,” says Jill Arnone of the Sunset Hills Historical Society. The answer to the mystery? The painter was a man named Harry Held, whose speech impediment forced him to express himself through art. Held lived with the homeowners, Archibald and Corinne Quevreaux in the 1940s, and according to John Maurath of the Missouri Civil War Museum, as well as correspondence with former neighbors and family, it’s more than likely that he drew the murals during his stay. Local lore has it that another set of murals, illustrating the history of Old Watson Road, lies beneath the current artwork. A signpost for “Old Watson

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set eyes on the 1939 Colonial Revival house on East Watson Road, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Their future home had been on the market for years, and the roots of shrubbery and trees had crept into the foundation, allowing water to seep into the basement. The roof needed patching, too, and so despite the home’s charms, no one had been willing to take on the challenge. In the basement, another surprise awaited them: a series of elaborate handpainted murals depicting scenes from a foxhunt, German castles and Bauernhöfen. The story that unfolds along the walls depicts what life could have been like at Grant’s Farm and what was then the Bridlespur Hunt Club, both within a short drive of the house. Reynard the Fox, the beloved mischievous character of European fables, looks down on a scene of hunters in elegant red coats as they gallop their mounts across a field, a pack of hounds at their side. In one scene, an unidentified woman paints at an easel, her

Road,” visible between two scenes, alludes to that mystery. “Held was shy, but he loved to paint horses and dogs, like in the murals,” says Christina, who learned this from Maurath. As Arnone explains, the Watson Road that many St. Louisans associate with the iconic Route 66 dates to the 1930s, but what is now East and West Watson, and formerly Old Watson Road, dates to the 19th century, when Wesley Watson and his son, Selma, settled in the area. Just a short distance away is the Sunset Country Club, founded by Adolphus Busch as the Sunset Hill Country Club; William Jr. and Edwin Lemp both had estates overlooking the nearby Meramec River. The Hesses’ house was once part of the Eggeling estate, and residents of the area remember the gardens that stretched for acres around it when there was nothing but dairy farms. Held eventually left St. Louis and moved to Berkeley, California, where he died in 1988. The dairy farms and fields gave way to Midcentury ranch home developments, and the interstate bypassed Route 66. But thanks to the Hesses’ restoration of the house and its murals, the legacy of this homegrown artist is here to stay. —CHRIS NAFFZIGER stlmag.com

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FRENCH TWIST Designer Emily Hall pairs gilded antiques with modern lines in a family home that’s effortlessly chic. Emily Hall has always considered her design aesthetic French, but a 2016 trip to Paris left her describing her style as “French on steroids.” Staying in Airbnbs with her now-husband, Sam, she observed how Parisians really live. “It’s so effortless and elegant, yet comfortable,” she says. “Nothing is too perfect, which in my mind makes it so.” Inspired by the juxtaposition of old and new, Hall began pairing Sam’s beloved modern and contemporary pieces with her preference for romance and antiques. “Blended together,” she says, “they create an unexpected style that’s inviting and sophisticated.” —KIM HILL

never seen anything quite like them. I love items that tell a story and bring back great memories.” 2. To add French flair to a room, bring in a touch of glamour and something unexpected, Hall says. What you choose depends on your style: If it’s mostly modern, add a gilded mirror or an antique side table. If you like traditional, bring in a modern chair or even an animal-print rug, as Hall has here. The easiest way to infuse a space with a French air? Fresh flowers. 3. “I love things that sparkle,” says Hall, who collects crystal vases and bowls and displays them at home. “I’m drawn to glamorous things.” 4. A white indooroutdoor slipcover fabric dresses a traditional sofa in the sunroom,

where Hall has also paired a French console with a black lacquer chair upholstered in a coral stripe. “I love the mix of the lacquer with the fabric,” says the designer. In front of the sofa, Hall’s placed an antique bench from The White Rabbit that she had reupholstered in a natural-colored fabric. Inside the tortoiseshell bowl are glass beads from the Ashanti and Krobo peoples of Ghana. The beads are available through St. Frank, a company that sources and sells the work of artisans from around the world. It is owned by Christina Bryant, who happens to be Hall’s cousin.

5. In the upstairs family room, Hall has found harmony and balance in mixing vintage, antique, and newer pieces. Sam’s tulip table is paired with Louis XVI chairs upholstered in Aubusson fabric. Hall has drawn a modern S chair up to balance a French desk. An antique rug she inherited grounds a Hollywood Regency table. “I love to mix shapes and styles,” she says, “but you need to be careful not to overdo it.” 6. Hall found two doublegourd Safavieh lamps for her daughter’s room. (The lamp shown here is available from Lowe’s for $138.98.) The artwork is sold at society6.com.

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1. The tall Art Nouveau candlestick, one of a pair, is Hall’s favorite purchase from that trip to Paris. “I’m a huge believer in collecting treasures while traveling, so after we saw these and thought about them for two days, we went back and bought them,” she recalls. “I’ve just

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“Tapestries like this make a statement, and they’re inexpensive,” she says. “You can buy a canvas from Michaels and attach the tapestry, and suddenly you have this piece of art for under $150.”

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owner of Emily Hall Interiors Design inspiration Paris, France Next destination The Lakes District in Italy. “This part of the world was a melting pot of cultures, so there’s a lot of history and incredible architecture that I’d love to see.”

7. When the couple moved into their home, Hall thought this chair was too feminine for her husband’s modern sensibilities, but then one day she placed it beneath “Cricket,” a fashion illustration by Leigh Viner, and thought, “Oh, that’s nice.”

8. A nook in the master bedroom has been turned into an inviting home office with a collection of pictures, frames, and mirrors from favorite St. Louis antique shops. “I love making gallery walls and playing with scale,” Hall says. Of her decisions to frame the abstract Robert Motherwell work inside a large antique mirror (far right) and pair the edgy black chair with a gilded table, she says simply: “The magic is in the mix.”

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founder of Fendler + Associates Design inspiration Scottsdale, Arizona Next destination The Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland. “In addition to the landscape, culture, and architecture, I want to see the northern lights.”

IN HARMONY

Inspired by the homeowner’s love and respect for the land, architect Paul Fendler designed an Arizona retreat that integrates natural and man-made elements in one spectacular house.

Before designing a home in the Mirabel Golf Club community north of Scottsdale, Arizona, architect Paul Fendler had never visited the Southwestern United States. But when a client gave him considerable creative license to build a second home there, the St. Louis–based architect was inspired by the harmony he observed between man-made and natural elements. “I don’t want to say the architecture is secondary, but it’s not the main event,” says Fendler, of Fendler + Associates. —KIM HILL

1. Interior designers Susie Sheahan and Nancy Spewak selected a 30-inch statement lantern for the outdoor living room. Moroccaninfluenced fixtures with glass insets are fairly common in Phoenixarea homes, says Fendler, noting that the splashes of color are reflected in the selection of hand-painted tiles in the house and in the terra-cotta entryway floor. A similar extralarge domed lantern (pictured above), is available online at worldmarket.com for $129. 2. Artisans at Handcrafted Tile in Phoenix carved the base and applied an antique wash to the limestone relief that became a wall-mounted water feature. To take

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advantage of the area’s warm climate and abundant sunshine, he says, he gave the home’s outdoor living spaces “a great deal of attention.”

timber for the exterior, plus a clay tile roof— often used in warm climates—that reflects more sunlight than conventional asphalt.

3. The lot adjoining the golf course appealed to Fendler’s clients, particularly the husband, an avid golfer. With more than 2,000 square feet of outdoor living space, the home offers spectacular views of the course, the Sonoran desert, and the mountains in the distance, including Pinnacle Peak, a distinctive granite summit rising 3,000 feet. “The inside-outside sensibility of this area has been an inspiration,” Fendler notes.

5. The striking Mexican bird of paradise (foreground) grows easily in the desert Southwest. Dinner plate prickly pear, like most species of cacti, is native only to the Americas and appears throughout residential and commercial landscapes in the Phoenix area. “Planting native plant material is an integral part of the built environment,” says Fendler. Massing plantings have yielded a lush look.

4. Fendler designed the 4,000-square-foot home to allow the owners to enjoy the view. “When you walk into the house, you’re on an axis with a view of Pinnacle Peak,” he says. He selected a mix of stone, stucco, and

plantings were a happy surprise for Fendler. “It’s a lot greener than I had anticipated,” says the architect of his early trips to Scottsdale. “Once you start to understand and appreciate the landscape, you find it’s really quite beautiful.”

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ELEMENT OF SURPRISE Suzanne Miller Farrell didn’t anticipate South Africa’s brilliant sunsets and European influences, which inspired her living room—and a new fabric collection.

For their 2004 honeymoon, Suzanne Miller Farrell traveled with her husband to French- and Dutch-influenced South Africa. The couple were planning to stay one night in Franschhoek, about 50 miles from Cape Town—but ended up staying four. “When people hear ‘Africa,’ they think the stereotypical scene, back then especially,” she says. “I didn’t know what to expect, but South Africa feels very European in some ways.” Miller Farrell took cues from the vistas there, and pulled hues from a watercolor that her aunt, who died recently, painted, to design her new fabric collection, Cape Town. —AMANDA WOYTUS

2. “Franschhoek is a little gem,” Miller Farrell says, smiling at the memory. “There’s a beautiful main street with antiques stores... and, of course, wonderful wine and a French restaurant.” The B&B the couple stayed in felt as if it could have been in the south of France, she says, because it incorporated elements of buffalo check and toile. “But that’s sort of South Africa,” the designer says. “There are so many influences because it’s so multiethnic.” Here, Miller Farrell sneaks in a hint of the same buffalo check on the cushion of a side chair.

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3. The zebra rug used as an accent here isn’t authentic. “What really stayed with me was the safari and understanding the habits of animals,” says Miller Farrell. “Watching a mother elephant with her babies and spotting a giraffe eating leaves a half-mile away was not something I anticipated.” 4. Miller Farrell also took inspiration from Nate Berkus when decorating the room: “Everything in your house should tell your story,” she says. “I dedicated my family room to displaying items from this trip, like coffeetable books with South African themes and photo albums.” Artisans from Senegal sold these trinkets—hand-carved bowls and a rhino—at the same street market where Miller Farrell also purchased a wood giraffe. “These were simple little pieces that, at the time, you couldn’t find anywhere else,” she says. “It’s changed as things have become more global.”

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1. At home, Miller Farrell says, she likes to keep things light and bright, “which is very much the South African style. The walls in my living room are more of a neutral with pops of color.”

Next destination Senegal, recommended to her by local artist Sofi Seck

5. Miller Farrell traveled to South Africa in June, which is autumn there. “It still had the deep greens and oranges and fall foliage you’d imagine set against these incredible blue skies,” she says. “The land is an orangey clay, so the sun hits it and creates vibrant colors.” It’s hard not to be inspired by the land, Miller Farrell says, and you can see it reflected in her new fabric line. “Even in the city, you see Table Mountain rising. The sky reflects the sea. It’s just wide open, blue, and the sunsets...there’s no other place as brilliant.” stlmag.com

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nean tangle of tree roots doesn’t suck up all the rainwater, Schwartztrauber adds silica crystals, along with bloodmeal and bone meal, to the dirt: “You only need, like, a tablespoon, and it bloats when it’s wet, and then the plant can get a drink if it’s thirsty or just ignore it.” The only other trees in the yard are redbuds: a traditional one next to a charming white “recharging shed” (all his equipment’s electric) and two weeping Ruby Falls. Shrubs are mainly clusters of crimson Japanese barberries. The sunny rear of the yard is the potager, a European mix of flowers, herbs, and veggies, and the intense blue-green of the juniper hedge is softened by a pale pink New Dawn rose that’s moved with Schwartztrauber more than once. He’s separated his blackberries, raspberries, and boysenberries with neat black fencing so he can pluck the fruit unscratched and surrounded most of the edibles with an elegant cage. (Its necessity dawned on him the day he surprised “a sea of rabbits and squirrels attacking the corn like they were in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. One squirrel was using his front paws to push a whole stalk down.”) The garden’s many colors change throughout the year like they’re on a fancy LED program, and in fall, they explode: The golden Tiger Eyes sumac turns a flaming orange, as does that dark-green Lion’s Head; the waterfall maple turns canary yellow and orange; the coral bark turns chartreuse, then yellow and orange, and its bark turns—wait for it—coral. In the middle of this color, Schwartztrauber works in a tiny white studio, gazing now and again out the doublestacked windows. A statue of St. Benedict, patron saint of balance, stands guard. “Things are a little bit out of balance,” he remarks, “in today’s age.” They require constant sanctuary, free of fuss.

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homas Schwartztrauber used to have an urban perennial garden in his Dogtown backyard. “It was fantastic in summer, when all the perennials and herbs are doing what they’re supposed to do,” he says, “but in winter, it just turned into this vacant bowling alley.” He wanted structure. He wanted glorious color year-round. And he didn’t want to waste his time catering to delicate, doomed plants. So he put in 42,000 pavers in tumbled brick and soft gray, planted yew and holly evergreens, and then filled in with Japanese maples—dozens of them. “I did it in a way I’d call controlled chaos,” he says. “I mean, it didn’t look like an episode of Hoarders where you’re sitting in a cheap motel room while somebody does an intervention.” Fireglow went along one fence line, pinkish-gold Autumn Moon along another. Lion’s Head, with its dark-green leaves curled and clustered, to the right of one stone path; purple Emperor 1 on either side of another path. Lacy-leafed green Waterfall and Crimson Queen scattered through the yard. Japanese maples don’t like straight sun, but otherwise they’re pretty easy; gardeners tend to kill them with kindness, overwatering and then, when their leaves brown, watering some more. Mainly, they love to be pruned, so he picked varieties more spread than columnar (“I’m not getting on a ladder to trim a damned tree”). Then he added other sturdy plants: rosemary and thyme, knockout roses, fruiting roses, because the hips make a soothing tea. Now, in summer, when his neighbor with the gorgeous swath of grass is sweating buckets to mow it, he carries a lemonade down that path lined with Emperors and sits on the bench at the end. Sunlight filters through the canopy of two oak trees that were already massive in 1890, when the neighborhood was built. To make sure that subterraM AY- J U N 2 0 1 9

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Taking the Plunge WHEN THEY DECIDED THAT A BACKYARD POOL NO LONGER FIT THEIR NEEDS, A U. CITY COUPLE FILLED IT IN AND NEVER LOOKED BACK. BY KIM HILL

othing refreshes like jumping into the sparkling water of your own backyard pool on a sweltering St. Louis afternoon. Karen Spreitler agrees. But when that pool requires expensive renovation, not to mention regular maintenance, and it’s taking up valuable space on a tight lot, it might be time to rethink the definition of “refreshing.” That’s what Karen and her husband, Mark, did after purchasing a home in 2012 in the historic Parkview neighborhood of University City. The house featured an in-ground pool that needed repairs (to the tune of $15,000) and would require even more extensive renovation to bring it in line with the Spreitlers’ tastes. They lived with the pool as it was for a few years, with friends, older children, and Mark enjoying it, but Karen was less enthusiastic. “I wanted more garden space and a relaxing place to be more contemplative,” Karen says. She also wanted to lead a more sustainable lifestyle in her outdoor space by increasing vegetable production, supporting pollinators, and decreasing the family’s water use. To achieve those goals, she decided, the pool would have to go. As a landscape designer, she had definite ideas of what she wanted in the new space. “Karen’s goal was to create a tranquil urban oasis in her own backyard, featuring native plants and vertical gardening elements to take advantage of the space available,” says Dennis Evans, owner of Quiet Village Landscaping, who did the demolition work on the pool, brought in the soil to fill it, and installed a flagstone patio designed by his client. Filling in a pool creates a tub effect in the ground, Karen says, making drainage a significant challenge in managing the new landscape. “After bringing in 92 yards of topsoil and compost, there were still areas where it was a little boggy,” she says. “There were pockets of water we had to deal with, but if you pick the right plant for the right place, you solve the problem.” Cardinal flower proved an excellent choice for those areas; sweeps of grasses and penstemon were also used.

To take full advantage of the tight lot, Karen looked up. Using trellises and fencing, she began growing such edibles as cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes vertically. Karen also used the ancient horticulture practice of espalier, training the branches of trees and shrubs to grow flat against walls. “It’s great for tight little spaces,” she explains. “I had a pear tree and an apple tree, and once you get the trees going, you’re able to get a little more fruit from them, I think, by using this practice.” The Spreitlers’ backyard received a gold certification from the St. Louis Audubon Society’s Bring Conservation Home Program for its expansive use of native plants and white fringe trees, sumac, black chokeberry, and serviceberry trees. The initiative offers advice and recognizes homeowners who champion environmentally healthy and sustainable native plant species, water conservation and other stewardship practices. But the Spreitlers didn’t do away with water completely. After all, it was a challenge for Karen to convince Mark that the garden was the way to go. “He missed the pool at first,” she says. To bring back the soothing sound of water and provide a place for birds to drink, Mark, who’s trained as a mechanical engineer, designed a COR-TEN steel fountain and had it built by Troco Custom Fabricators. It doesn’t have quite the same effect as a backyard pool, which, Karen admits, was inviting, but the new garden has yielded a different sort of tranquility. “I didn’t get into the pool as much as I got into the garden,” she says. “The garden is more soothing and makes me feel closer to nature. I feel like it’s my spot.” Although the couple was pleased with the completed project, a $13,000 endeavor, the Spreitlers recently moved to a William Bernoudy–designed home set on an acre and a half in Creve Coeur (the house) and Olivette (the backyard). “I have even more property to play around with,” says Karen, who’s already busy planning the installation of native grasses and trees, a tree swing, and a creek-side exploratory for the couple’s grandchildren. stlmag.com

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Knot Your Everyday Garden EVEN THE MOST AVID GARDENER MAY BE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE KNOT GARDEN, A STRIKING DESIGN WHOSE ORIGINS DATE BACK TO 1400s FRANCE. BY SYDNEY LOUGHRAN WOLF

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1. Think about how you want to use your yard and how you will maintain it. Be realistic about that before planting. 2. Consider growing vines or creating art on hardscape walls. To build a natural plantbased barrier, use mixed hedges, evergreens, deciduous shrubs, and trees. 3. Allow the ceiling to be more than the overstory trees or the sky above. A space becomes intimate when trees are lowered and pulled in close to a path or a garden. 4. Use a variety of materials— hardwood mulch, threshold stone, and flagstone—to signal a new “room.” 5. When visiting friends, take cuttings of plants that are interesting to you and use them in the garden. “I have a hot bed with red flowering [plants], gold foliage plants, and orange, and I have a cool bed, with purples and lavenders and blues,” says Weathington. 6. Think about where you want to draw attention and the places you hope to distract attention from. “The worst way to hide something is to put a hedge in front of it,” says Weathington. Instead, place a collection of pots with a beautiful flower in front of, say, an electrical box. “People tend to pay attention to the plant, and everything else fades away.” 7. Rip out a shrub in full flower if the color isn’t right with the plants around it. It’s liberating to start over with a blank slate. 8. Do what makes you happy. Don’t garden for your neighbors. “I get excited when I see a garden and it shows off the personality of the owner,” says Weathington.

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he name alone evokes something elegant and complex. Formal in appearance, the knot garden dates back to 1400s France and was popular during the Elizabethan era, the latter half of the 1500s. In these gardens, geometric patterns inspired by rugs and tapestries are woven of herbs, flowers, shrubs, and other plants in a square frame. Once exclusive to the grounds of estates, knot gardens appealed to the viewer from all angles of a property—especially from upstairs windows, which is how royals and aristocrats often enjoyed these gardens. Today, knot gardens grace the lawns of homes across Europe and the United States. Here in St. Louis, they’re a passion of Kyle West of WESTdesign. Four years ago, he was hired to design a knot garden for the owners of a Compton Heights home. Inspired by the historic property, West and the client agreed that the garden should complement the house, leading him to the idea of a knot garden. “My background is in architecture, so I loved the structured

aesthetic of these historic designs, but I wanted to put a more modern twist on some key elements,” he says. The client didn’t want boxwood—the traditional border for knot gardens—so in order to achieve a tidy, uniform perimeter, West used Fond du Lac stone to define the 8-by-24-foot bed. He conceived a double-infinity design and populated it with nontraditional perennials in traditionally vibrant knot garden colors: lime-green alternanthera, redand-green coleus, emerald-hued elephant ear palms. The design was a hit. “The client said he was gobsmacked by its beauty,” says West, who maintains and updates the garden. In the three years since its creation, he’s also installed crisscross and diamond patterns, using purple alternanthera, orange-andyellow coleus, and bird-of-paradise. West chose a location that would get dappled morning light and full afternoon sun, but knot gardens aren’t limited to one location or plant species. “[They] can be placed in partial or even full shade, but in that environment, alter your plant selection,” he says, noting that ferns, impatiens, and exotics such as Persian shield are options. Regardless of setting, he says, gardeners should pay attention to drainage and soil quality. “I amend the existing soil with a well-draining porous garden soil, which has a bit more sand than the clay-heavy earth typically found in St. Louis,” West says. He also likes the look of a mounded garden, making it higher in the center and sloped on the sides so that the plot drains naturally. For long-term success, he says, watering is key: “Coleus has a large leaf and requires a lot of moisture, so the Compton Heights garden is watered for a few minutes about three times a week.” Each spring, West begins devising new designs and thinking about different plants he can use. “The garden continues to evolve and get better,” he says with satisfaction. “The clients—and even their neighbors—look forward to it every year.”

Mark Weathington, author of Gardening in the South: The Complete Homeowner’s Guide, offers advice for designing gardens as living rooms, whether you live in South Carolina or St. Louis.

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DESIGNING AN OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE LOCAL EXPERTS IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING GIVE US THEIR ADVICE FOR ELEVATING A WEEKEND DINNER PARTY TO THE SUMMER’S MOST MEMORABLE FEAST. INTERVIEWS BY SYDNEY LOUGHRAN WOLF

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1. Mix, Don’t Match “Avoid matching sets of furniture. Mix up the materials to create a more collected feel. Combine wood, cast aluminum, and all-weather wicker pieces,” says Laura Lee of Laura Lee Home. ➞ Consider adding a vintage element such as a sideboard, she says. “This will make the space feel like an outdoor [living] room.” 2. Plant Ahead About a month before your event, plant edible flowers in 8-inch pots to give them time to grow into a nice cascade. “[These] serve two purposes,” says Sarah Riley of Bowood Farms. “They work as beautiful arrangements and as a garnish for your salad or summer cocktail.”

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➞ Jewel Blend nasturtiums, a punchy mixture of yellow, orange, and red blooms, are a favorite at Bowood, where both the seed packs and mature plants are sold. 3. Love Your Linens Consider the season and the surroundings when selecting the colors and patterns of your linens. “Tie the color of the napkins and placemats into the landscape so that there’s cohesion,” says Ken Stückenschneider, owner of Stückenschneider Decoration & Design. He prefers to forego a tablecloth, choosing to layer patterned linens against the plain field of a table.

➞ For a personalized look, have your napkins and placemats embroidered to reflect the pattern of your favorite china. Choose flatware that accentuates the outdoor setting—like bamboo-handled utensils or the glow of pewter. 4. Simplify Place Settings “Proper protocol for setting a table calls for placing only those utensils that a meal will utilize,” says Justin Trabert of Artful Matters. He recommends keeping it simple so that the only utensils required are a fork, knife, and spoon. ➞ “Preset the utensils or, if you’re serving buffet style, wrap them in napkins and place them at the end of the buffet,” he says.

5. Heighten the Drama “To add flair to your outdoor table, place blue-and-white or solid-white ginger jars down the center of your table. At the base of the jars, weave a long garland of eucalyptus, dotting it with a few fresh colorful floral stems to add color,” says Patti Porter of Rusted Chandelier.

8. Be Worry Free “Our vendors are mimicking their indoor designs with break-resistant melamine and synthetic crystal dinnerware,” says Nancy Freese of Sallie Home. “The price points tend to be lower, creating an opportunity to play with color.” ➞ “When entertaining outdoors, the sense of color should be heightened to compete with your surroundings,” says Freese.

➞ Artificial eucalyptus is of course reusable—and it’s scentless, so it won’t compete with the aroma of the food. 6. Strive for Placement “Use containers for flowers that reflect your personality and taste. These could be a glass or silver collection, or your Champagne or wine glasses,” says David Bovier, owner of Ken Miesner’s Flower Shoppe. And take the formality of an event into consideration when determining placement. If your event is casual, “scatter multiple arrangements to add color and greenery down the table. For a more formal setting, use either one centerpiece or two bouquets at each end of the table.” ➞ The general rule is to keep flower arrangements no taller than 12 inches, allowing guests to make eye contact with those seated across from them. 7. Prepare for the Elements “The weather in St. Louis can vary, so be mindful when setting an outdoor table. If it’s going to be windy, use heavier glassware and tie place cards to a base, such as flatware,” says Cynthia Nouri of Sasha Nicholas.

9. Drink Differently “I love filling a vintage galvanized metal trough with ice and beverages,” says Laura Wilson of Marketplace at The Abbey. “It’s a casual look and makes guests feel comfortable serving themselves. A repurposed antique cart also makes a fun drink-serving station.” ➞ Layer an antique table with baskets and risers, says Wilson, then drape it in burlap.

➞ Place candles in glass hurricanes to protect them from the wind, then fill the bases with pebbles or sand so that the lamps don’t blow over.

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A Grand Entrance CONTAINERS ADD DRAMA AND FLAIR, AND NOT JUST IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE. BY AMY BURGER

Container plantings are a simple way to create a dazzling entrance—on porch steps or flanking the front door—or enliven transitional areas of the backyard and patio. We asked local horticulture experts for their best tips for creating inviting and beautiful containers. KYLE WEST, OWNER AND DIRECTOR, WESTDESIGN

West recommends planting in three layers: thriller, filler, and spiller. “A thriller is something upright in the middle, like a canna or palm or spike. We fill around that with annuals like coleus, vinca, or geraniums. The spiller is a type of vine such as sweet potato, creeping jenny, or a trailing vinca,” he says. He warns against overcrowding, leaving no space for roots to grow. “I try to find plants that are already pretty big but in a smaller container, like 4-inch, so they have more root room,” West says. This way, when the container is assembled, the plant looks “done” but also has room to grow. And don’t limit your containers to the ground. “Window boxes can add a lot of warmth to a home and make an otherwise ordinary façade something wonderfully inviting,” West notes. MARY MORGAN, OWNER, THE PLOT THICKENS

For a truly dramatic look, Pecson nestles spheres made of wire or twigs, which can be accented with plants and lights, in planters. “The sphere fills the planter with an architectural feature. Minimal plantings at the base complete the overall design,” he says. “We keep ease in execution and care in mind when deciding what plants to use. A sweet potato vine is a good option, as the leaves provide a rich color and the cascading foliage gives a lush base for the sphere. When absolute minimal care is needed, we use artificial plants. The texture of a mix of lifelike artificial succulents [shown] enhances the overall design.” For an extra-festive look, twigs & MOSS offers solarpowered lanterns that can be hung inside spheres.

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Lighting and a pergola (not visible in this photo) add ambiance to this outdoor shower by Kelly Johnson of Kelly Johnson Design, but Johnson says all an outdoor shower really needs are a drain and a separate water shutoff that allows the owner to empty and winterize pipes in cold weather. She’s designed outdoor showers connected to pool houses, “but in this particular instance, the outdoor shower is completely enclosed and accessible only from the master bathroom,” she says. “So it really depends on client preferences—and the sky’s the limit in terms of creativity with materials.” –CHARLENE OLDHAM

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RESITO PECSON, OWNER, TWIGS & MOSS

To keep things fresh and seasonal, Morgan replants her containers three times a year—in early spring, summer, and early fall—but “I like to have the constants of boxwood balls or something that can stay outside and be there all year round.” “Don’t go overboard with every color in the rainbow,” she says. “You can have containers that are all grasses, all hostas, or all ferns for a restricted palette.” Morgan also likes a color theme. “Repetition plays such an important role if you repeat the theme around different parts of your house or landscape.” Ultimately, she says, it comes down to personal taste: “I encourage people to see what their eye is. It’s just like getting dressed for a party. Some always wear only black. Others are bohemian in spirit. In the garden, you can be both—a split personality.”

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brick three-story in Lafayette Square, Steve Engel’s 19th-century home— windows trimmed with light-green paint, cornice decorated with a navy blue pattern, door framed by two gas lanterns—isn’t short on character. Knock on the door, and it’s likely that Ty, Engel’s retired Cane Corso stud, will greet you. A chocolate-brown hunk of a dog with teddy bear ears, he’ll peer through the glass of the double doors and bark for his human to come collect you. It’s just the start of the charm—even more awaits inside. Engel, an agent with RedKey Realty in Frontenac, got his start renovating houses when he lived in South Florida, his home for 34 years. But he grew up in University City, and eventually, after moving back in the mid-’90s, lived all over St. Louis—Clayton, Ladue, a loft on Washington. That last location wasn’t as pedestrian-friendly as he’d have liked for his daily walks with Ty. But the search for the right home took a while. “I looked at housing more through the architecture and the design and the functionality and, many times, because I like doing projects. It was a creative thing,” he says. “It wasn’t, like, ‘Give me four bedrooms and two baths in this school district.’ It didn’t matter. I was looking for the right house.” What he ended up finding first was the right neighborhood. Engel had sold clients on Lafayette Square, and he started going to the park with the pup to get a feel for the neighborhood. He liked seeing parents with strollers there. He liked the architecture of the homes, which felt uniquely St. Louis to him. He liked that the neighborhood lived as if it were its own little pocket in the city. “The character of this neighborhood—that’s what drew me here,” he says. “It was one of the few neighborhoods where I got invited to dinner parties just to meet the neighbors. A lot of the people who own some of the commercial properties here live in the neighborhood. They’re pioneers, truly,” he says, laughing. “It just feels very alive when you walk out the door,” he says, “but here, I’m very private.” “Here” is 10-foot doors, 11-foot ceilings, period moldings, exposure from the south, west, and east through large handmade windows, no two of which are the same size—all the character that sold Engel. It was a contrast to many of the other houses in the neighborhood, which had been “white-boxed.” “Renovators came in 15 or 20 years ago when the neighborhood started to pick up, and all the moldings, all the good stuff, got taken out and sold,” the homeowner explains. “Then they drywalled everything and put in new floors and bathrooms. You walk in, and you could be in a house of the past 10 years.”

That’s not to say that the place didn’t need work. “I feel like over the years, the homes I bought had good bones, good architecture...but it’s like rescuing houses,” Engel says. In this rescue, he rebuilt chimneys and the front steps, tuckpointed the brick, and capped the home with a new roof. The floors are original but had to be stripped of layers of old flooring, and in some spots parquet glued on top had to be removed. The biggest project? Engel points to the carriage house out back, which was in poor shape when he purchased the property. He was advised to tear it down but, after pulling the siding off, realized that it wasn’t in as bad of shape as he thought it would be. “I was pleasantly surprised,” he says. The tiny house now wears siding in different patterns of white—shiplap-sized planks and thinner boards near the bottom and middle of the structure, gingerbread scallops and sawtooth patterns at the top—and is decked out with modern black light fixtures. Neighbors who had to look at the dilapidated building for 20 years were delighted, Engel says: “I’m actually known in the neighborhood for doing that garage.” To complete the backyard, he plans to add a new fence, hornbeams to frame the perimeter, gravel beds, and uplighting, aiming for a structured and linear look. Once finished, the carriage house will become a studio apartment.

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Back inside, with Ty sprawled on the seagrass rug in the bright-white living room, Engel describes his style as eclectic. He used to collect a lot of antiques but realized that with too many, it starts to feel like a museum. His living room is well curated, with a 1930s painting by the German-American artist William Freinik and a modern white sofa from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. On one wall, a painting of a city map by the St. Louis artist Mark Horton hangs above an 18th-century French directoire commode, both sourced from Robert Morrissey Antiques. The pieces are framed by two Mies van der Rohe loungers from the 1950s, placed in front of a Barcelona glass table by the same designer. The pairing of the warm, rich wood of the antique and the abstract art and mirrored-chrome frames of the leather chairs shows that Engel is an expert in playing with periods, styles, and finishes. As he puts it, “Good design doesn’t go out of style. It doesn’t matter when it’s from.” His expertise is repeated in the dining room. In front of the original Carrera marble fireplace, a white Saarinen table under a matte-black Fortuny pendant is ringed with four Italian Neoclassical–style chairs. Engel mixes original and non- with the artwork. A replica of the court painter Velázquez’s The Triumph of Bacchus sets a jovial mood above a buffet by

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Barbara Barry for Baker; on an adjacent wall is a Giovanni Battista Tiepolo drawing, a hand in a reddish chalk plucked from a sketchbook that Engel acquired at a Christie’s auction. The master bedroom holds a raised platform with a decorative railing in front of the bed. It’s quirky, Engel says, so he kept it. The carvings in the rail’s newel post match the motif etched into the fireplace, in front of which lies Ty’s dog bed. Black-and-white photos Engel took while living in Europe dot the space. Throughout the home, there are constants: Benjamin Moore’s Simply White on many of the walls, a collection of Chinese export porcelain, Greek key–patterned floor coverings, modern light fixtures from Engel’s favorite, Visual Comfort (save for the living room’s chandelier, a Gustavian reproduction from Jon Paul Designs & Collectibles). Having only lived in the home for a year, Engel has checked off many of his to-dos. There are more to come. He wants to change the kitchen floors and cabinet colors. Perhaps redo a bathroom or two. The marble fireplace in the dining room has some staining—for now, he thinks of it as a patina. And he plans to turn the third floor into a home office. Exit one of the doors up there, and you find yourself on a flat roof, which he wants to turn into a deck. The view of the city, the one he came home to, is beautiful at night. It’s just one more of the home’s many charms. stlmag.com

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SPHERE OF INFLUENCE For Samantha Eason, home is where her heart is.

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ressed in head-to-toe Lululemon, hair swept into a messy bun, Samantha Eason opens the door to her multistory Victorian. The historic house is one of three that remain along a cobblestone street in an enclave of Valley Park, near the former Frisco Hotel, built in the 1880s by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. Eason, 26, has just returned from Shred415 in Brentwood, where she works out once a week and serves as an ambassador for the club. In exchange for the cost of a membership, Eason posts images of herself from the studio to her 40,000-plus Instagram followers. The deal makes sense to her because she was dedicated to the workout even before she agreed to partner with the club. She has similar arrangements with Perfect Bar, Lull, DIFF Eyewear, and Bob’s Red Mill, reflecting the scope of her online following. “I’ve never reached out to anyone,” she says. “My biggest partnership is for Lull, the mattresses that you can order to your door, and that was awesome because we were in the middle of redoing my son’s room. I would never advertise something like…a purse.” The mother, wife, homeowner, and social media influencer has been on Instagram since 2016, two years after she and her husband, Chris, 29, bought their first house. They never planned to become homeowners so young, but Eason had been homebound for four weeks, recovering from hip replacement surgery, when the doctor gave her the OK to leave the house and they decided to just drive. “Gosh, when you’re home for so long, you watch so much HGTV, that just for fun we thought we should move or get a house or at least look at them,” she says. Chris was especially drawn to the property’s 1-acre lot, so with Eason still on crutches, they decided to take a look. “We walked in, and I was, like, ‘Wow, this is crazy. I can totally see myself having kids here.’” Two months before their wedding, they closed on the house; almost right away, they tackled the upstairs. A wedding gift from Chris’ mother helped pay to have the floors refinished, and a friend taught Chris how to plaster walls. Light pours in through large bay windows in the dining room, where Eason talks comfortably, holding Maddox, 4 months, on her right hip. Her laptop isn’t far, just in case she gets an idea and needs to commit it to print before she forgets it. The room’s wooden table and modern chandelier, both from West Elm, were exciting purchases when the couple moved, given that everything they owned was either a hand-me-down or from their apartment. Above the table is the original coffered ceiling, which they painted white. “The wood was gorgeous but heavy,” explains Eason. The mantel is decorated with a collection of plants that Eason maintains by scheduling watering reminders into her smartphone. Across from the dining room is the living room, where Isaac, the couple’s 2-and-a-half-

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year-old, is watching a favorite show. Eventually, Eason wants to make the room less about the TV and more about family gatherings, but right now it’s free of toddler gates and waiting for the day when Maddox begins to crawl and needs the room to roam. Like many stay-at-home moms, Eason says she’s sensitive to her surroundings because she spends so much time in the house with the kids. She and Chris painted the living room four times because they couldn’t get the color right. “‘I don’t want to be in this room,’” she remembers telling him. “‘It doesn’t feel right.’ Then we finally got it right: Zurich White, by Sherwin-Williams.” “My look is definitely minimal,” Eason continues. “I don’t like to use the word bohemian, because I’m not a hippie. I like plants, color, pattern. Chris’ dream house would be a castle in Norway, but I’m, like, ‘No way! Less is more.’” Originally from Wellesley, Mass., Eason attended Pratt Institute in New York to study film photography before transferring to the University of Missouri–Columbia. She’s open about her challenging teenage years and the struggle to fit in. The fact that she never finished art school—she eventually dropped out of college altogether—was one of the reasons she decided to launch her Instagram. “I needed an outlet and a hobby,” she says.

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She began by writing and posting pictures about motherhood but found it difficult to stay inspired with the chaos of a home renovation going on at the same time she was becoming a mom. A friend suggested that she try posting about food, instead, “because you eat every day.” Today, her simple, stylish food images and recipes on Insta are crowd favorites: roasted sweet potato fries with eggs; chocolate chip–banana muffin mug cake; and anything with toast as a main ingredient—the topic of a forthcoming e-book that Eason plans to release later this year. “The No. 1 thing a blogger will tell you is that authenticity is key. If you share what you want to share, people can feel that,” she says. While food figures prominently on her feed—as well as on her blog, motherofchunk .com—Eason also draws in followers with lighthearted images that show her life as it’s unfolding. Whether it’s a trip to Disneyland or a rare night out in St. Louis, her writing reveals a well-earned selfawareness and portrays a genuine gratitude for the life she and Chris have created for their family. On the second floor, the master bedroom is sparsely furnished with a Moroccan rug, linen window treatments, and a bed large enough to hold several loads of laundry waiting to be folded. We take a peek into Isaac’s bedroom. With its cute bookshelf, colorful room accents, and vintagestyle bowling balls and pins, it’s clear that Eason had fun decorating it. The bed is dressed in striped linens and a duvet cover from Schoolhouse. “I didn’t want to buy Toys “R” Us sheets. I’m planning to get 10 solid years out of that duvet!” she exclaims. Up another flight is the “mom’s room,” as Eason calls it. She’s dressed the space with a collection of layered area rugs, a lounge, and a desk, and wants to use it as a place to write or to host out-of-town friends. But her plan right now is to put Isaac down for a nap—and then she needs to find a drill to fix the toddler gate on the door to his bedroom. “That’s the No. 1 project on my list,” she says with a smile.

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Outdoor Living offers the widest selection of decking products in the area, selling and installing material to contractors and homeowners. The family-owned business has been in St. Louis for more than 25 years.

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Since 1980, the locally owned family business has offered various outdoor products such as fireplaces, fire pits, gas lamps, and TVs. They are also able to install and maintain fireplaces.

Natural stone enhances the function and beauty of any outdoor living space. Visit the Masonmade design studio to start planning your outdoor kitchen, firepit, pool, or patio project.

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You work hard to make your yard look beautiful; enjoy it after the sun goes down with outdoor and landscape lighting from Metro Lighting. Lighting adds beauty, safety, and security to the outside spaces of your home.

The design-and-build, family-owned exterior construction company focuses on listening to customer objectives and providing solutions.

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As the exclusive CourtBuilder for Sport Court© athletic flooring and components, Sport Court St. Louis delivers family time all the time. With a game court from Sport Court St. Louis, you can play almost every sport imaginable in your own backyard.

Since 1953, Frisella Nursery has been growing and supplying plants while also designing and installing award-winning landscapes for St. Louis homeowners. The 30-acre garden center provides a vast selection, so you’ll find the perfect plant for any location.

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Ugly concrete? Don’t tear it out! St. Louis Resurfacing’s Pebblestone Epoxy System is applied over existing concrete surfaces. This is a durable and quick way to restore your concrete surface and totally transform ugly concrete into something beautiful.

CHESTERFIELD FENCE & DECK FENCES / DECKS / SUNROOMS / PATIOS

For more than 50 years, Chesterfield Fence & Deck has been a premier and trusted outdoor living provider. Their goal is to build the best outdoor living spaces through unique and quality products that provide lasting value. 636-532-4054 / CHESTERFIELDFENCE.COM

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LORI COULTER Summersalt makes a splash with swimwear designed to move. made with Italian fabrics that include Xtra Life Lycra, which has four times the compression of traditional Lycra, and all of our suits are UPF 50. They’re made in the same factories that fabricate $350 swimsuits, so it isn’t just about the fabric. The design and craftsmanship are designer quality as well. WHERE DO YOU FIND DESIGN INSPIRATION?

We always go back to our consumer. We get to know her and what she wants by fielding thousands of inbound requests a month. We see her behavior on our website and how she responds to our products. We use social media and review the questionnaires and surveys that are filled out during the purchase and try-on process. We have an ongoing acquisition of digital consumer feedback. We don’t rely on just one source. SUMMERSALT RECENTLY LAUNCHED AN ASSORTMENT OF TRAVELWEAR. WHY? Our

HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR AESTHETIC?

At Summersalt, we set out to create a brand for women on the move, for women who travel and have fun. The spirit of our design is modern and sophisticated, with fun pops of color. We want our brand to be wearable and approachable…We’re creating garments for women like us.

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WHAT SUMMERSAULT SUIT ARE WE LIKELY TO FIND YOU IN? I love our Sidestroke and

Plunge styles in sangria. Both are classic. They offer understated style and comfort. I have two boys and we’re very active, so I’m looking for something that I can wear with my family but that makes me feel beautiful. TELL US MORE ABOUT SUMMERSALT’S DEMOGRAPHIC. In today’s world, swimwear is over-

sexualized. We want our consumer to feel sexy, but on her own terms. There are baby boomers, and there are women that want a teeny bikini. We capture the middle ground. WHAT DIFFERENTIATES A SUMMERSALT SUIT FROM OTHERS ON THE MARKET? We’ve cut

out the middleman, so we can offer a quality designer swimsuit for $95. Our suits are

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE BEACH VACATION. I love Cabo San Lucas for vaca-

tions with my husband. It’s an easy getaway from St. Louis. A favorite family beach vacation is Kiawah Island, in South Carolina. Regardless of where we go, we love water sports. I was on the water ski team in college, and I still like to ski. We have WaveRunners and kayaks and will even go cliff-jumping. –CARA DOWNS

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“Swimwear tends to evoke unease in women, but we want our suits to bring joy to the consumer,” says Lori Coulter, cofounder and president of Summersalt, a St. Louis–based swimwear brand. The company’s colorful designs and bold marketing images reflect the idea of frolicking on the beach without a care in the world. What distinguishes a Summersalt suit—attracting consumers and investors alike—is the company’s focus on fit, fashion, and, in particular, affordability. Thanks to the brand’s direct-toconsumer business model, Coulter and her team are able to offer designer quality for less than $100.

research shows that women are buying swimwear just before a planned trip, so designing a line of travelwear made sense. Just like our swimsuits, these clothes meet the criteria for elevated style and comfort. We offer pants, tops, jumpsuits, bodysuits, dusters, and scarves. Our TravelSoft material is a high-end fabric that performs like silk but is more durable and comfortable. It’s quick-drying, wrinkle- and mildew-resistant. We like to say that our travelwear will take you from plane to pillow or from beach to bodega. For example, our Everywhere pant has pockets large enough to fit a passport and our duster can be worn as a layering piece or as a robe before bedtime.

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THINK SPRING! Staffers prepare for sunny days by dusting off their favorite outdoor pieces, and dreaming up ways to decorate the backyard.

“I’m dying for a pizza oven. I have dreams of growing a pizza garden—tomatoes, peppers, basil, maybe keeping hens for fresh eggs—and if I had an outdoor pizza oven, I could basically turn my backyard into a pizzeria. Would I ever cook in my indoor kitchen again?” –AMANDA WOYTUS, DEPUTY EDITOR

“Gauntlet gloves protect me from the old English roses’ fairytale thorns. How many times have I braved a pruning without them and emerged dripping blood? Most are so ugly, the roses must cringe.” –JEANNETTE COOPERMAN, STAFF WRITER

“In my dreams, I own a woven hanging chair with plenty of throw pillows, although I’m not sure whether having one in my yard would inspire more outside reading…or outdoor napping.” –SAMANTHA STEVENSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

“Ambient lights running across my deck make for peaceful evenings at home.” –KEVIN A. ROBERTS, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“I love whiskey, so it’s only fitting that I bought a half–whiskey barrel planter to add to our garden. I can’t wait to see how it looks when the garden is in full bloom.” –TOM WHITE, DESIGN DIRECTOR

“It’s a seat…it’s a kneeler…it’s heavyduty, and it folds flat. I use it all the time, indoors or outside. I bought mine years ago from Gardener’s Supply, but now you can get them everywhere, including Bed Bath & Beyond.” –GEORGE MAHE, DINING EDITOR

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“This is the first year I’ve had a backyard of my own, so I have lots of big ideas, including planting plenty of plants and flowers. I’d like to create a workspace where I can care for them and store my gardening tools. A table like this one from Target would be a great starting point.” –EMILY CRAMSEY, ART DIRECTOR stlmag.com

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