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Events
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Features
ADD TO YOUR AUGUST “TO DO” LIST Get out the white linen and red dresses for art openings, fundraisers, and late summer festivals galore.
REFLECTIONS The roadside scavenger in me is strong.
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by James Fox-Smith
NEWS & NOTEWORTHIES
A home tour of Macon Fry’s repurposed redoubt on the New Orleans levee
James Fox-Smith
Associate Publisher
Ashley Fox-Smith
by Mary Ann Sternberg
A NEW FACE FOR BURDEN A new portal into the natural wonders of Burden Museum and Gardens, designed by Eskew Dumez Ripple by Caroline Alberstadt
Managing Editor
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Alexandra Kennon
Creative Director
THE PONTCHARTRAIN LIGHTHOUSES Guiding the way to and from New Orleans, for centuries by Kristy Christiansen
Kourtney Zimmerman
Contributors:
Caroline Alberstadt, Kristy Christiansen, Paul Christiansen, Mackenzie Treadwell Ernst, Ashley Hinson, Brei Olivier, Mary Ann Sternberg, Poet Wolfe
Cover Artist
On the Cover
Mary Craven
Advertising
DEEP SOUTH DESIGN
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Cover image by Mary Craven
Inside Palmyre Billeaud’s parlor, Acadiana socialites of the early twentieth century luxuriated within the carefully-curated enclave of globally-inspired Southern hospitality—sipping the finest of wines and liqueurs. This distinguished space has been reincarnated by Palmyre’s own great granddaughter in the form of Lafayette’s newest cocktail lounge, named for the fabled lady herself. Drawing from Palmyre’s affinity for French décor and indulgent aesthetics, the lounge’s acclaimed interior designer Lindsay Rhodes created a transportive world within a world, an intimate environment of bold patterns and exotic fabrics—all threaded together by Palmyre’s signature Louisiana geniality. Against this example of design curated with history, culture, and experience at the forefront stand other values at the heart of Louisiana built environments: adaptability, innovation, sustainability. In our 2022 Deep South Design Issue, we explore extreme examples of how thoughtful design—in reclaimed batture “camps” and in state-of-the-art welcome centers alike—function as vessels from which we might better experience our unique part of the world.
Cuisine
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PALMYRE Open-armed opulence in Lafayette’s River Ranch
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by Ashley Hinson
TEA AT THE COTTAGE Loretta Foreman’s tea room returns to Central
Culture
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ÉCOLE POINTEAU-CHIEN Introducing Louisiana’s first Indigenous French Immersion School
Escapes
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by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
by Poet Wolfe
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Publisher
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MINDEN’S RENOVATION RENAISSANCE Touring three of the evolving city’s newest projects
by Mackenzie Treadwell Ernst
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PERSPECTIVES Virginia Hanusik by Lauren Heffker
Sales Team
Heather Gammill & Heather Gibbons
Custom Content Coordinator
Lauren Heffker
Advertising Coordinator
Jennifer Raney
President
Dorcas Woods Brown
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