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When EOA principal architect Michael Murdock moved to Nashville with his wife, Carol, they were already avid collectors of art from their travels. Once settled with kids, they continued to grow their collection through annual trips to SOFA and USN’s Artclectic fundraiser while remodeling their ranch home to make perfect sense for their family of four.
hen you get right down to it, when you are talking about your home, you are talking about the place where you should be your most … you — where you exist with your family, where you feed your pets, where you create your art, where you let loose and live, and where you circle the wagons and shed a few tears. For this issue, we couldn’t help but see how much of a connection family and heart have to hearth and home. For the three Gilchrist brothers who own and operate Nashville Billiard & Patio, success isn’t about honoring just what their father and founder Ray started, but also honoring his intent to provide everything fun so a family can truly enjoy down time, together. Artist Ed Nash has been enjoying more down time with his family, too, after he and his wife, Nicky, moved to Brentwood last year after a decade in Inglewood. A retreat away from the city, the distance and expanded space has meant fewer long nights at his studio and more days hanging around the pool with his kids. Designer Blaire Murfree has worked with all kinds of clients — but when she worked with her mother to help her update her home, it was a client pairing made 6 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
And while 505 is a towering building in the heart of downtown, inside is a rustic ode to developer Tony Giarratana’s mother. Carmen’s Cellar, designed by Frank Ponterio, may be an amenity for condo owners at the high rise, but it is also a loving nod to the woman who raised him. And once Venice Beach no longer offered artist Mark Hobley what he wanted out of life, he and his daughter, Shane, packed up all of their belongings in a U-Haul truck and made their way across the country to Hendersonville. Mark’s home may look like a suburban dream from the outside, but inside it is a history of his artistic life, filled with Elvis iconography, garden gnomes and record albums in every room. They are very different, but the common thread connecting all of these people — no matter how disparate their design aesthetic — is that they all have a place to call home, filled with things they love and people who love them. And they do it all in style. Their own.
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ON THE COVER Continuing their father’s legacy, the Gilchrist brothers of Nashville Billiard & Patio take great pride in providing families like the Swansons in Middle Tennessee with the high-quality furniture, games,
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Nashville STAFF Interiors KAREN CRONIN moved to Nashville in 1993 and established Cronin Design — a one-woman design business delivering award-winning work for a wide-ranging clientele that has included all of Nashville’s major record labels. In 2007, she and her writer husband, Peter Cronin, launched Cronin Creative — a full-service graphic design shop with a client base that consists of companies large and small, regional and national. A graduate of New York’s prestigious Parsons School of Design, Karen began her career in that city at Interiors magazine, where she rose to the position of art director. She then moved to start-up ad agency Singer Design, working on projects for clients ranging from Bloomingdale’s to American Express Publishing to Ogilvy & Mather. Karen’s role as art director for Nashville Interiors brings her full circle — leveraging her decades of design expertise to help create a world-class publication in America’s newest “it city.” She is a board member of the Nashville chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and serves as a judge for the Dove Awards Recorded Music Packaging category. Karen also volunteers her time reading to kindergartners at Eakin Elementary School.
PAM HARPER has handled the sales for Nashville Interiors for more than 11 years and knows the Middle Tennessee housing and cultural landscape well. She has enjoyed building relationships with professionals who focus on design and quality of life in the prosperous region and has seen the changes and growth right along with the advertisers, giving her an inside perspective on their needs. She is always working, even when she isn’t, but when she does take a breather she loves spending time with her family and learning new skills like golf. 14 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
JENNIFER RAPP has been involved in graphic design and marketing for home builders and magazines for more than 17 years and handles all of the advertising design for Nashville Interiors. As someone who has grown up in greater Nashville, she has seen the area grow from a small city to a desirable metropolitan destination where art, architecture and design are taking center stage. She loves that Nashville Interiors magazine showcases all these elements and loves working with clients to make sure their brand is best represented in the magazine. In her free time Jennifer likes to explore nature and traveling with her husband and two daughters.
JENNIFER GOODE STEVENS is a freelance editor based in Clarksville. She arrived in Nashville in 1992 as an intern for The Tennessean and has since had a fascinating view of the growth and change of the city from behind her keyboard. Over the decades her client list has grown to include major area universities, magazines, publishing companies, web content providers, advertising, marketing and PR firms, and independent authors. She lives in Clarksville with her husband, their two kids and their rescue dog, Sophie, who’s really the one in charge. Jennifer also teaches water aerobics at the Clarksville Area YMCA and manages to keep a few plants alive in her front-yard vegetable and flower garden.
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Nashville CONTRIBUTORS Interiors WILLIAM DESHAZER is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Nashville. He spent 12 years working at various newspapers, including Memphis’ Commercial Appeal and the Chicago Tribune. He’s a regular contributor to The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in magazines from National Geographic, Golfweek, ESPN The Magazine, O – The Oprah Magazine and Runner’s World. His interior photography has been utilized by Holiday Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Whiskey Advocates Magazine and Davis Jewelers. William has been recognized by Photographer of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. He shot the Spring 2019 cover of Nashville Interiors and this issue photographed artist Ed Nash at home. When not taking pictures, William is either writing music or exploring locally and beyond with his wife.
REEVES SMITH is a relatively recent transplant to Nashville, having fallen hard for the city on a visit in 2010. He dove into the art community by teaching at Nossi College of Art and Currey Ingram Academy. He built his client list, which mostly consisted of builders, developers and real estate agents. His talent in photography was honed at Delta State University, then at The Bolivar Commercial newspaper in his hometown of Cleveland, Mississippi. He went on to earn an MFA at the Brooks Institute of Photography and became a photographer and photo editor for Disney-ABC Television in Burbank, California. Reeves shot this issue’s cover of Nashville Interiors for Nashville Billiard & Patio, as well as the home of architect Michael Murdock. Reeves is creative director for The Builder House, which provides marketing and branding services for home builders and developers. He lives in College Grove with his family.
PAMELA MONAGHAN is a freelance photographer and owner of Wynd & Paisley Photography. She has a bachelor of arts from Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she met her husband. The majority of her work is wedding and lifestyle photography, but she’s always up for new and exciting shoots. Her love of photography began at age 13 when her mom, an amateur photographer, taught her on film — she still misses rolling her own film and developing her own prints. Her work has been featured in multiple magazines, including Your Sumner and The Pink Bride, and she also runs a blog called Girls Gone Mild. She has previously photographed Libby Callaway at home for Nashville Interiors and lives on several acres in Portland, Tennessee, with her husband, three children and four Dalmatians.
JULIA STEELE is a freelance photographer and photography professor based in Nashville. She has experience in many fields of photography, but architectural and interior photography are by far her favorite specialty. Her formal training is from Savannah College of Art and Design, where she received her BFA in photography in 2006, and from the University of Georgia, where she received her MFA in photography in 2011. Julia also shows her photographs and teaches photography at Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University. She has previously photographed the home of artist Vadis Turner for Nashville Interiors, and this issue she shot the home of artist Mark Hobley. She lives in East Nashville with her husband, their 2-year-old daughter and their 13-year-old hound dog, and she is expecting her second child.
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ARTIST’S RETREAT 31 AN Artist Ed Nash and wife, Nicky, are finding more time for family in their modern, light-filled home in Brentwood.
BOUNDARIES 44 PUSHING A daughter helps her mother brighten up her Belle Meade home.
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TRADITION 50 FAMILY Decades after their father began repairing felt at local pool halls, the Gilchrist brothers are continuing on in his mission to entertain the family without ever having to leave the house.
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ODE TO MOM PLACEMENT 58 AN 70 PERFECT Developer Tony Giarratana’s mother is honored in Carmen’s Architect Wade Weissmann draws from the past for future Cellar, a 505 amenity that pays homage to her Italian upbringing.
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REDO 76 RANCH EOA Architect Michael Murdock transforms a midcentury mainstay into a modern masterpiece.
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The Moze Indoor Swing Chair by goop, a CB2 exclusive, is our new go-to spot to hide away. Hand-woven navy and white rope intertwined on a metal frame with brown leather accents is topped off with an ultra-comfy cushion, perfect for summer swinging. $1,299 online at CB2.
Britain’s Cream Cornwall is doing tableware just right, with these bone china plates covered in somber, water creature prints that take coastalthemed dining to a fashionable new level.
Kohler’s Farmstead kitchen sink and Tournant Semi-Professional kitchen faucet deliver elegant styling along with professional performance, thanks to a threefunction spray head that lets you speed through a range of tasks: spray for food prep; an aerated stream for filling pots and pitchers; and a sweep spray for cleaning. 24 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
From gorgeous quartz and amethyst to ancient fossils, Royal Circus in Wedgewood-Houston has added a range of earthy home accents to their shop, ranging from grand statement pieces to smaller pieces just right for a coffee table.
Skylines define a city’s profile, becoming an ever-changing iconic symbol, and that is the inspiration Pullcast took when creating their Skyline silhouette, available in cabinet and door hardware.
An orthopaedic surgeon-turned-artisanal bladesmith, Daniel Moye from Georgia forges his skill with creativity to craft heirloom-worthy knives that have gained national attention over the past decade. No two knives are ever the same, and each takes approximately five to seven days to create. Available knives can be purchased online at Dan’s Cattle Dog Forge.
Kirkland’s Coastal Rattan Bar Cart, $230, has a combination of natural wood and patterned rattan, giving this piece a distinct rustic feel. It’s an affordable way to bring some retro rustic to your next summer pool party.
Inspired by Cirque du Soleil, the Soleil chair mixes animal spirit with sublime lines and the best finishes. Delicate like a contemporary artist yet fierce like a lion show, this design concept is meant to invoke the imagination, provoke the senses and evoke emotions — detailed to the last inch of material.
We are all about textiles this summer, so this Super Chunky Felted Merino Wool Basket from Perch Upholstery appeals to all of our senses. Stick a planter in it or simply fill it with stuff — the wool is as sturdy as rope, but it can be manipulated, stretched and pushed about to accommodate all kinds of things.
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WHEN HE’S NOT IN STUDIO, ED NASH MAKES THE MOST OF HIS FAMILY TIME
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he work of artist Ed Nash graces the walls of some of the toniest homes in Nashville, plus prestigious new builds like the Hilton in Green Hills. But before his art was everywhere, the Letchworth Garden City, England, native was hustling to make his way through art school, selling books door-to-door for what was then Southwestern Company, a direct marketing sales company. “Then I realized no one was teaching me about business in art school,” he says. So after a couple of years when he finished school he moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to learn more about the business side through Southwestern. A Scotland native, his wife, Nicky, was a student at the University of Aberdeen when Ed recruited her to come to the United States for the summer to sell books door-to-door. “Then we became good friends the following year, and about a year after that we got together. Several years after that we got married,” she says. “We were on the slow track.” The first house the couple lived in together was in Antioch. Then they moved to a little apartment on Ordway near the Five Points in East Nashville — just before things really blew up over there.
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Top, the views are stunning from Anderson’s vacation home. Below, guests are welcome to a life more leisurely than one back in Nashville.
Previous spread: Artist Ed Nash is settling into life in Brentwood after moving from his Inglewood home with his wife, Nicky, their 7-year-old son, Raif, their 10-year-old daughter, Lylah, and their dogs — Finn, Winston and Little Bit.
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The sightlines throughout the house provide interesting views from all angles, and light is everywhere, making it easy to show off Ed’s art along with special pieces they pick up or the children make.
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Outdoor living has taken on a whole new meaning for the Nashes now that they have a few outdoor decks, a multi-level pool and a screened-in porch where they can catch Tennessee’s amazing sunsets as a family.
“We just loved it,” Nicky says. “It was such a fun time because he had basically gotten me here on the promise that we would get a dog. Because we weren’t meant to move here. He was meant to move back to Scotland to be with me.” Once rescue dog Lucca was in place, though, Scotland got even further from the plan. They quickly made friends, and Ed’s art business began to take off. They moved from their apartment to a home in Inglewood to get more bang for their buck — and got married the
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same week they closed on the house, hosting more than 50 people from out of the country. “I would not recommend that to anyone,” she laughs. But they spent more than 11 years in that home, adding a couple of kids — Raif, 7, and Lylah, 10 — and immersing themselves in the exploding art community around them. They bought their current home last year — the first house they physically looked at once they began the
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search. The funny part is that they were only looking at it as a lark, because it wasn’t exactly in their agreedupon budget.
Just for fun.’”
“I was looking for a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house and they were all the same,” she says.
“It’s just our dream house,” she says.
Then one day she searched for a three bedroom, and the Brentwood stunner on five acres was the first one that popped up, the first day it was on the market. Plus, the 4,700-square-foot home was actually only a two bedroom at the time.
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“I texted him the listing, just for fun,” she says. “I had no thought that we would actually buy it. Then we were texting back and forth. ‘Did you see the kitchen? Did you see this?’ And then it was like, ‘Let’s go see it.
But, as those things sometimes go, once they saw it they had to have it.
It being their dream house didn’t make the move easy on any of them. As a couple, they had built a life and family in East Nashville (Ed’s studio is still there). And as for the kids, their school and friends were about to change.
The home is an oasis for the artist, who finds himself spending more time with his family in the evening and less time at his studio — once he gets home he just can’t bear to go back to work. Soon, he’ll build a studio on-site so he won’t have to leave all the time.
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from Scotland, but I cried my eyes out on the daily for a long time when we moved from East Nashville.” Being in the kind of home people gravitate toward, though, has made the transition pretty smooth — especially when the kids are out playing in the pool or running around their ninja course in the secluded yard. Or when they have friends over to enjoy some cold drinks and Tennessee sunsets while Ed presides over the grill.
Light fixtures double as art at the Nash house, and the master bath is an oasis for Nicky and Ed after hectic days filled with work, kids and travel.
“Even at our old house, we were always the house that had the baby showers. Now it’s more like the 50th birthday parties,” she laughs. “And I love that. I love that. I love having people over.” While Ed sometimes regrets how far he is from his studio, once he is home all of those thoughts slip away and he focuses more on his family, and maybe on a graffiti wall and sculpture trail he can add. “It’s an amazing house,” she says. “It’s more amazing than I ever thought we’d have.” NI NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 39
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ynthia Hickerson and her husband were looking for a refresh on the five-bedroom Belle Meade home they had lived in for 17 years – no drastic changes to the bones of the house, just some mixing in of new colors and pieces with family treasures and collections. So rugs, paintings and draperies were all updated by designer Blaire Murfree, who brought in some more contemporary pieces to update the traditional ones. Even the super-traditional wood-paneled library got a burst of energy with some Bohemian-influenced furniture and bold modern art.
“It was easy for them,” Murfree says of their making the bold choices. “They already used a lot of colors and a lot of pattern, but bringing in a few more modern patterns — they were on board for that, and for making the yellow more current. There was a time period when everything was maroon and yellow.”
Family heirlooms and classic furniture are mixed up with Moroccaninspired pieces and modern art for something energized.
It also helped that the empty-nesters trusted Murfree completely — after all, she is Cynthia’s daughter. Murfree knows Hickerson’s style, so when she did push her mom past the comfort zone, her mom was comfortable enough with her to just say so — no hemming and hawing with a designer you don’t want to offend. “We’ll fight over something, but it’s in a catty way. For the NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 45
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most part, I just know her so well, it’s easy. She’s really blunt, but she’s pretty hip for a mom,” Murfree says. That’s evident in unexpected pieces like the animalprint piano bench in the foyer of the colorful home. The piano itself? That’s all Blaire, her mom says — a gift from her father before he passed away suddenly at the age of 46. “Her daddy got it for her when she was five years old,” Hickerson says. “He died when she was 12, so it’s part of her. It is so special. Those things you just can’t let go of. And you’re not supposed to.”
Murfree is a believer in using things that you already have, things that have a story or have been passed down through a family. “I don’t think that we need to throw those out just so everything’s new in the house,” she says. “I think they make your house have character. They’re what makes your house a home.” It’s definitely a sentiment she learned from her mother, who collects Herend porcelain and holds on to pieces passed down through her family.
Across, natural light fills a room with comfortable seating and printed drapes that go all the way to the molding. Clockwise from top, a piano bench gets an unexpected jolt with animal print; collections are showcased as groupings of art.
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Having a welcoming space was key for the homeowner, a place where people would always feel comfortable to gather with seating and art filling every room.
and new. Blaire’s big at that. She’s also big at mixing old and new.” That mix is done to perfection on a pair of French chairs in Fortini fabric that belonged to Hickerson’s mom, along with some modern art near a pearlized console that was painted by Murfree’s daughters, 7 and 4, for their grandmother for her 70th birthday. “What’s better than to have a conversation starter in your home that’s either some unique thing that you found, or a great piece of art or some stuff that’s been passed down,” Murfree says. “And you can’t really say that if everything looks like it just came off of a shipment floor. I think, especially in the South, people love to hold onto history, and also that the people in our lives take part in our homes.” NI
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EVERYTHING FUN THERE IS FOR THE FAMILY, SINCE 1953
B STORY BY HOLLIE DEESE PHOTOGRAPHY BY REEVES SMITH
Brothers Ronnie, Glenn and Cliff Gilchrist run Nashville Billiard & Patio, a business started by their father, Ray, in 1953. You will almost always find at least one of them in the shop.
efore Ray Gilchrist moved to Nashville from New Orleans in 1953 to work at a glass plate company, he had spent some time in the 1940s working at the Saunier-Wilhelm pool table plant in Alabama. So when he wasn’t at his day job, Gilchrist began traveling to the surrounding towns to recover the tables at pool halls. His side hustle grew, and soon Ray’s Billiard Supply was in business — a small shop at 51st and Charlotte, with a pool room upstairs and a little showroom down below, where he displayed new pool tables. In 1982 Ray bought the old Steepleton store on Eighth Avenue, and the business has been in the same location ever since. And it was there his three sons — Ronnie, Cliff and Glenn — practically grew up. “We’d go out on the weekends, help him work on pool tables, refelting them, delivering them, whatever,” Glenn says. Slowly the inventory built. First there were a few pool
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tables. Then they added some card tables, and then bar and kitchen stools — which exploded for them. At one point they had about 250 on display. “We had the largest selection in the state,” Ronnie says. Ray retired in 1997 and passed away in 2002, but his sons have carried on the business and the mission to help create spaces for whole families to gather and enjoy each other. And now their 10,000-square-foot showroom is filled with items their father never would have dreamed they would stock, including theater seating, arcade games, patio furniture and music-synchronized fire pits. The brothers say Nashvillians’ needs go way beyond pool tables now, too, and include arcade games, Skee-Ball, pingpong, golf games, theater seating and shuffleboard. “The game room has really evolved because there are so many options to use that entertainment space,”
The Eighth Avenue showroom is stocked with anything you need to get an instant party going, from patio furniture and pool cues to game tables and theater seating.
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Business Spotlight Glenn says. “And it’s a family decision.” Pool tables have evolved in the past 60 years, too, transitioning from a somewhat taboo parlor game to a fine piece of furniture that can be done in most any size, shape and style to fit any home. Pool parties and game rooms get a boost with retro-style coolers and arcade games.
“We pretty much do any kind of custom wood, finish and style that somebody wants,” Cliff says. In fact, the experience of shopping as a family for entertainment space items is unique, since kids aren’t typically engaged in the sale of other big-ticket items — like appliances. “Kids don’t care what washer and dryer or refrigerator you buy. But when they come in here, you’ll see the kids get involved,” Ronnie says. “Everybody uses that space differently now.”
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And, they are embracing outdoor living, thanks to Nashville’s distinct, yet mild, change in seasons. “We see a lot of people coming from up north, New York and Chicago, excited to get some patio furniture now because they are in an environment where they can use it,” Ronnie says. Shoppers stopping in will most likely deal with one of the three brothers. They try to stock only Americanmade products, and they work closely with Olhausen Billiards. Olhausen, which touts itself as the largest
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billiard company in the world, is just a few miles north in Portland, Tennessee. A few of Ray’s grandchildren now work at the business he started decades ago, too, and he would likely be proud of what his sons have done with his legacy of Nashville Billiard & Patio. “I think he’d really like what’s transpired in these walls,” Cliff says. NI
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oug and Tamela Swanson moved to Middle Tennessee in 2006 when Doug took a job with HCA. The originally lived in Laurelbrook but always wanted to live in Westhaven. They would drive around it occasionally, and on one of those spins they saw the lot where they live now and were immediately blown away by the view. They put a deposit down that day. “We stood on this dirt and said if we’re going to move here, this would be the lot we would live on,” Tamela says. “And that’s what we did, and now we’re so happy.” Settled in their dream neighborhood in a Preston Sheadesigned home built by Montgomery Classics, it’s clear the whole idea was for the family to enjoy life together as well as provide a place where guests not only feel welcome, but actually look forward to being — simply because it’s so much fun. But it also has the right kind of flow for just the two of them.
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“This is a pretty big house, but it’s a lot smaller than our last house,” Tamela says. “We didn’t want the giant formal living room, or stuffy living anywhere. We knew that it was going to be mostly just Doug and I, so we wanted a space where we live. And … it turned out to be perfectly livable.” And they use every inch of it, from the wine room in the basement to the outdoor balcony off the game room that has been the site of more than a few late nights over cigars and bourbon. Their children — Kendall, 22, and Chase, 24 — love coming home to visit, and their extended families have no problem staying for a few days either. In fact, Doug’s mother’s favorite room is the upstairs game room — although in the Swanson house it’s called “The DougOut.” It’s definitely the kind of space that deserves its own name. It is the ultimate place to hang out, and when the Swansons send out an email to the neighborhood letting people know they can come and hang out, they always have takers.
Doug and Tamela Swanson turned to Nashville Billiard & Patio to provide them with just about every option available to make “The DougOut� one that they love sharing with family and friends, including a pool table, shuffleboard, pinball machine, gaming able, Skee-Ball machine and foosball table.
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The Swansons enjoy indoor and outdoor life including a pool with a view.
“If you have a beautiful house and you just stare at the rooms? I don’t want that,” Tamela says. “I want rooms I can live in.” There is certainly no shortage of entertainment for them either, all procured from the Gilchrist brothers of Nashville Billiard & Patio. A large pool table takes center stage, and there is banquette and cocktail seating along the side. A shuffleboard table is on the left, just before the pinball machine and arcade games. Along the back, another game table is set up for playing cards, and along the right side of the room, there’s a custom bar with more seating and cubbies for top-shelf liquor. There’s even a Skee-Ball machine, the latest addition Tamela didn’t even know Doug had bought until it showed up one day. But it has been the perfect finishing touch to a room that has something for everyone.
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OUTDOOR LIVING UPGRADE In the Swansons’ last house, the basement was underneath and so the family would have to go to the basement to walk out into the backyard. Consequently, they never used the backyard. “We would just stare at it out the windows,” Tamela says. In their new house, their backyard has an infinity-edge pool from Rondo Pools, a bocce ball court and a firepit area surrounded by patio furniture from Nashville Billiard & Patio — all fun places that are custom-made for strengthening family connections. “This has been so perfect,” says Tamela, who worked with designer Marie-Joe Bouffard of JFY Designs. “I wanted to be able to walk out my back door right to my backyard, and we are back there every day. I love that backyard and the patio.” NI
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hen developer Tony Giarratana first conceptualized the wine cellar space at his luxury downtown condo building, it was sleek and modern with a standing table down the middle. And it wasn’t right at all for a room meant to honor his mother, Carmen. Chicago-based designer Frank Ponterio had just finished the 57 Keys, a 100-year-old building in Chicago, and in one of the spaces he did a very small, private wine room. In it, Ponterio had to have someone reproduce an 18th century French table because he couldn’t find one as small as he needed. As it happened, the person who made his table had just sold an antique table to Tony and his wife, Lisa, and thought Ponterio’s small wine space could be a solution to the Giarratanas’ design struggle. They met at a bar and started tossing around ideas, and Carmen’s Wine Cellar began to come to life. “I literally, on a cocktail napkin, drew a sketch,” Ponterio says. “He said, ‘Great. Why don’t you come to Nashville next week?’” 58 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
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Ponterio is often immersed in luxury hospitality projects like Carmen’s Wine Cellar, which is an exclusive amenity for condominium owners at 505 Nashville. The project epitomizes Ponterio’s command of balancing timeless design with modern sensibilities to create a personal space that is refined and comfortable. “It’s a big room, but it’s at a real human scale,” Ponterio says. “I think people miss that a lot. People build these big spaces, and we think we need to fill it with big-scale furniture. But normal-size people have to live with those things.”
Chicago-based designer Frank Ponterio sketched out his vision for Carmen’s Cellar on a napkin before making the amenity come to life for 505 residents.
Influenced by Tuscan architecture, the warm and inviting 650-squarefoot retreat features a masterful mix of materials, including salvaged wood, antique pewter-gray limestone, wrought iron and rich leather, with an impressive 21-foot-long handcrafted dining table of reclaimed wood anchoring the room. “I had to borrow a crane and pop the window out of the eighth floor to get that 21-foot table pushed in the side,” Ponterio says. “And even though it’s one large table, you’re never sitting too far away from anybody. I really like that it still feels very intimate even though it’s this large space.” Also in the Cellar are individual wine lockers enclosed behind a glass wall, and in a toast to Giarratana’s mother, Carmen’s portrait has pride of place above a Breccia Marrone honed marble fireplace. It’s one of Ponterio’s favorite pieces, along with the stained-glass windows.
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“I was in Havana the summer before we started the project, and I was in a home that was designed by Tiffany,” he says. “One of the windows was done in that fashion, and I really wanted to use it.” Ponterio grew up going to Italy, as both his parents were born there. So when he took over the Giarratanas’ wine cellar project from its original sleek design, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. “I’m really familiar with that rustic, refined relationship with the materials,” he says. “For me, to be able to mix a clean iron door with a hand-hewn beam is second nature. I also had the benefit of my first 10 years of the company working mostly on historic homes, where it wasn’t all new product. I had to go out and source this and find craftspeople who could make or reproduce things, and not just crank them out of a machine.” NI
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utdoor living isn’t something we look forward to a couple weeks here and there in Nashville — it’s basically a part of how we live every single day. That’s why ceiling fans are just as ubiquitous outside in the South as they are inside. Patrick O’Connell, design director for Memphis-based Hunter Fans, was able to give us some insight on what the best options are right now for pergolas, balconies and patios, and why fans are key when it comes to enjoying your outdoor living space. “Installing a Hunter in your outdoor living area can help to move that stagnant air and cool down those individuals enjoying the space,” he says. “They can also be used to light the area when the sun sets and add an element of design — a ceiling centerpiece, if you will.” WHY ARE FANS GREAT FOR AN OUTDOOR SPACE?
Many homeowners think that it is obvious to install a fan inside their homes. From their living rooms to their bedrooms, anyone who lives in a warmer climate knows that you can’t live without a ceiling fan. For those who often enjoy their outdoor spaces — whether in the fall or during the spring and summer — adding an element of air circulation can increase the enjoyment and comfort of that space. ARE THERE CERTAIN ASPECTS THAT MAKE A FAN WORK, OR NOT, OUTSIDE?
At Hunter, each outdoor fan is outfitted with certain waterproofing on the inside, the openings are also closed to prevent water from entering the components. Those that are rated to be exposed to the elements are called wet-rated and can be installed anywhere, whether indoor or outdoor, in an open pergola or on a balcony that can be exposed to rain.
that you’d think. The direction the fan blades move relates to the movement of air. During the warmer months, running your ceiling fan counter-clockwise will provide a cooling breeze while circulating the air and push the warm air up and out of the way of your seating area. In the cooler months, fans in an outdoor space can be switched to move in a clockwise rotation which will move the cooler air off the floor and push the warm air down the walls without the strong draft, creating a warmer space in your outdoor area.
Outdoor fans have certain waterproofing on the inside, and the openings are closed to prevent water from entering the components. Plus, the amount of blades does not matter when it comes to air flow, but rather the strength of the motor.
SHOULD THE BLADES BE SHAPED A CERTAIN WAY, OR HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER?
DOES DIRECTION OF FLOW MATTER?
It’s a common misconception that the greater the number of blades, the more air movement. But it’s the strength of the motor that impacts the amount of air movement in your space. All Hunter fans are equipped with powerful motors, and performance is one of the
It definitely makes a difference, but not in the way
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ana Rondeau had a bad experience one time putting in a pool, but that was before she met her husband, Steve. In 1985, Steve’s father had
started a pool design business out of his garage in Arizona, and today that part of the business does about 400 pools a year. Steve branched out to Nashville eight years ago, bringing his family’s history of excellence — and Arizona’s advanced pool mindset. Now, as part of the family business, Dana loves being able to give people the experience she never had. Dana handles design while Steve takes care of construction. They only build 50 pools a year and have a year-long waiting list. They never subcontract out work; everyone is on staff, from the artisans who create the water features to the workers who lay the custom tile. “We have all of our own craftsmen, people that build waterfalls, and we do everything ourselves,” she says. They only do custom granite shotcrete pools and will not do vinyl or fiberglass, though they considered adding fiberglass options and interviewed a few people about possibly joining the team. Ultimately, they decided to focus on their specialty. “We just decided to stick to what we do,” she says. One thing they do really well is infinity-edge pools, something people in Tennessee want more and more. Unfortunately, Rondeau says, it isn’t always possible. Whatever the options, they work with people to maximize individual landscapes, NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 67
creating images in a 3D program to show clients a style that best suits the space. “So many people want a vanishing-edge pool, and they just don’t have the landscape for it,” she says. “Not everyone can visualize. I’m a very visual person, so I have to see it.” And while their style does trend toward sleek and modern, they are all about putting in a big rock wall, lazy river or craggy grotto if that is what is best for the client and the setting. Whatever the installation, they make sure the technology is at the top of its game. Small spaces and large yards can all have pools, as long as the design is done well for the area.
“The products are there, and they’re not hard to use,” she says. “Being able to turn your spa on while you’re out at dinner so it’s hot when you get home is a simple smartphone connection.
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Perfect Placement A rchitect Wade Weissmann became enamored of buildings and their place in the world as a child when his parents bought a hobby farm with another family in Door County, Wisconsin. He was just shy of 7, and from that moment on his weekends were spent exploring all the old buildings and sheds and barns, the old orchards and pump houses and things.
“It must have had 30 buildings on it, in all sizes and varieties,” Weissmann says. “And they were all filled with really interesting things and artifacts, and so I remember going into these great old buildings and just literally absorbing everything I saw.” It was that sense of history and materials and place that began to stir his creativity; the old beams and
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Clockwise from top, Weissmann mastered a kitchen remodel to best incorporate the outdoor elements; a dramatic bathroom is just the right amount of drama for a glamorous penthouse overlooking a lake; Wade Weissmann.
trusses he fearlessly climbed were the beginning of his architecture career.
and more, along with the remembrance of our past in the midst of a rapidly growing landscape.
“I remember climbing up on the ladder of this big old red barn, and I remember climbing all the way up to the top of the silo that was inside the barn. It must have been 30 feet up in the air,” he says. “I remember getting to the top of it and being able to look out the dormer windows from the roof of the barn. I was looking at the texture of the wood ceiling and all the boards and everything, and I just thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.”
“In Nashville there is this embrace of abstract modernism, which is great. I like abstract modernism. But I also feel like sometimes it’s not always appropriate,” Weissmann says. “And for residential projects or hospitality projects, I miss that desire to create this sort of more iconic architecture that feels more domestic in quality.”
Those memories never escaped him, and he draws upon them today when he tackles a design. As the founder and principal of Wade Weissmann Architecture, Weissmann has spent the past 20 years designing classically inspired estates around the world. And with offices in Milwaukee, Nashville, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Santa Barbara, his work has been praised for its fine attention to craftsmanship and design detail — and for lending homeowners a feeling of resort living, right at home. It’s the kind of feeling people in Nashville want more Wade Weissmann’s first book is “Heirloom Houses: The Architecture of Wade Weissmann” (Gibbs Smith, 2018). Written by Steven Stolman, it includes stories, sketches, renderings and photos of 15 homes he has worked on over the course of his career. The results all speak to his love of creating something that means something. “We assembled what I would consider a sampling of houses that meet that criteria of being a beautifully crafted residence that is worthy of either passing down, or passing to families that are interested in having something that they want to pass down,” Weissmann says.
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One big Weissmann effort that appeals to that sensibility is the Brian Paul Hotel, which is scheduled to open in late 2020 (or early 2021) in Brentwood. A luxury hotel, spa and wellness retreat inspired by timeless Italian hillside villages and enclaves, the project is on the coveted 20-acre Summit Hill property. “It sits on this hilltop, and the top of the hill ends up becoming the central park of this little community,” he says. “Up this hill, you’ll have these intimate spaces carved on the uphill side, and then delicious vistas across the southern landscape when you look off the hill. It’s that interesting juxtaposition that you might also find in an Italian hill town.” The Brian Paul Hotel and wellness community, which is scheduled to break ground this summer, will feature a luxury, full-service 170+ room hotel with a rooftop pool, world-class spa and 600-seat entertainment venue. When Weissmann approaches a project, he wants the new buildings to feel like they belong. Because of that desire, he usually spends a lot of time looking at the kinds of architecture that have been historically present in the area. “I love that there’s this great sense of history in Tennessee,” Weissmann says. “There’s a certain pride and heritage there that architecturally is very evident, and it’s one of those things that inspires me.” NI
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ot everyone can look at a ranch house and see how such an innocuous shape could be transformed into something magnificent, but then again, not everyone is an architect.
So when EOA Architects partner Michael Murdock and his wife, Carol, were relocated to Nashville for her job in the health-care industry, he knew they had a winner when they found a 1960s ranch home on a hill on four acres in a quiet part of town. “There were 10-foot ceilings in the main living space, so it had some good bones,” Murdock says. “I love ranch houses because they’re kind of innocuous, and you can do a lot of things to change them. We wanted to obviously do contemporary, and you can transform a ranch house and make it work.” And transform it he did, adding about 1,500 square
BY HOLLIE DEESE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY REEVES SMITH feet to the existing 4,000, all done in stages, to make the space much more workable for the way they live every day. First up was removing the back deck and adding the sunroom, a feature they were used to from their time in California. So out the deck went and in came the stone walls, fire pit, fountain, waterfall and sculpture adjacent to the two-story sunroom. Initially, Murdock says, the home’s layout didn’t really take advantage of the site’s many mature trees, so they ended up changing the entrance to open it up to the view — giving a better sense of the trees and all the property has to offer. “With the renovation, the key thing was not to take down any trees, so we totally built around the trees,” he says. Literally. There is a tulip magnolia that becomes a focal point at the entry, especially when it blooms every April.
Above, the glass-andacrylic grid around Michael Murdock’s home office was a bit of an experiment and not something that is currently on the market, while the tulip magnolia became a part of the entry — no trees were removed during the renovation. Across, the two-story sunroom adds a bit of California warmth.
Behind the property is a wildlife preserve deeded to the
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Above left, the entry was totally reconfigured to make the best use of the home’s lot, while the living room looks out over a sea of trees. In the winter when the leaves fall the family is able to see the downtown skyline.
Friends of Radnor Lake by John Cheek Jr., so the result of the lot is not unlike the feeling of being in a treehouse.
collecting. Once they moved to Nashville they began to pick up pieces in earnest, especially by local artists.
“The truth is in ’95 I was like, “Okay, we’re still kind of far from downtown,” he jokes. “Now, you say, ‘Oh, we’re really close to downtown.’”
“Wherever we traveled, we would buy something as a kind of memory of that, and art is something that we both could really engage in,” he says. They still travel to Chicago every November to collect at the Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design Fair (SOFA).
In the living room the windows were already large, but they took out the bottom quarter of the trusses to get more light in and to increase the feeling of space. “We were trying to create something where we felt like we could use the whole house,” he says.
The house features a mixture of blond and red woods, and they chose white as the dominant paint color to embrace the variation in natural materials.
Before he and his wife had children — Kate, 23, and Colin — they did quite a bit of traveling and art
“The big theme of the whole property was the four elements, fire, water, air and earth,” he says. “The
The kitchen is the hub of the home, the aquarium is a focal point all its own, and the cabinets and drawers are all custom-made to function without hardware.
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Murdock knew in eighth grade he wanted to be an architect, even though he didn’t know then that’s what it was called. Then in high school he was in a drafting class and drew a house for his girlfriend at the time
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property is on a hill. The idea of water was a big thing for us with the aquarium here, and so we customdesigned it.”
that was very much like the one he grew up in. “In my first year of college, I had a Greek professor who taught a history and introduction to architecture, and the whole world just opened up,” he says. “It was like, ‘Oh, so this is what architecture is,’ which is not really about building a shelter, but inspiring wonder.” NI
Across, art is everywhere in the Murdock home, with the couple picking up pieces when they travel or through the annual Artclectic fundraiser for USN. The Mudocks are Michael, Carol, Kate and Colin.
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Wood and sunlight are the main design details in the home, with neutral walls enabling the mix of natural materials to all work together in every room.
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STORY BY HOLLIE DEESE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIA STEELE espite his vintage Western vibe that should technically feel familiar, artist Mark Hobley doesn’t quite exactly look like he’s from around here. And though he has been creative since day one, art wasn’t exactly encouraged by his Arizona sheriff father
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in their Mormon household. But that household ended up being the perfect breeding ground for a mostly self-taught rebel artist, the oldest of six kids whose teachers submitted his art to contests – which he kept winning. And he found validation and encouragement from outside his home, as people kept buying his watercolors.
Hobley moved to L.A. until he was almost 30, and it was there he really perfected an idea he started in Arizona — the grid. He and his art gang would ride around in a chopped-up 1973 Cadillac looking for hand-painted signs. He would then, ahem, appropriate them and chop them into 8- x 10-inch squares to form a deconstructed quilt pattern. “It was all about being like a quilt because quilts are like a genealogical history of the family,” he says. “And then, of course, my heroes Rauschenberg and Warhol — they were all sort of grid-like, especially Warhol. But the country boy in me knew about quilts, and then I saw it so techy and so rock-and-roll in U2. And it just kind of did this thing in my head.” Hobley furnished a new restaurant with five grid paintings, but when things went south he grabbed the paintings, threw them in a van and took them to a shop called Civilization, located in the heart of all the television studios (including Warner Brothers and Fox). He left them on the loading dock for the owner to check out later, and when he came back they had all already been sold to Marta Kauffman — creator of “Friends.”
Across, artist Mark Hobley is surrounded by his work in his Hendersonville home. The Arizona native moved to Middle Tennessee from California last May. Left, above, Hobley can sit in his kitchen and contemplate the progress of any current works. Below, a fiberglass bunny that was once in a 1950s-era miniature golf course is light enough it can be moved to any room.
Soon his work was hanging in the smash show’s Central Perk “coffee shop,” as well as on other sets like “Ally McBeal” and “Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Joint.” Then a huge piece was used in the apartment of “Dharma and Greg,” and suddenly he had the kind of cache his mom could brag to her friends about. A-list stars became collectors, including Brad Pitt, Weird Al Yankovic, Natalie Maines and Marie Osmond. Meanwhile he was raising his daughter Shane by himself, so spring breaks and weekends meant buckling her in the passenger seat of the cargo van and taking off to sell art in San Francisco and San Jose. “She definitely got the connect between hustle and talent,” he says. “The kid could read a map NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 89
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Above, record players are in almost every room. Right, Hobley’s living room is already influenced by his new home, from the barn quilt above the fireplace from Hendersonville artist Elizabeth Summar Curtis to the Dolly Parton piece from Marc Sandoval. Across, clockwise from left, Hobley has left the wallpaper in its unfinished state of peeling since it looked like “it was always meant to be that way”; Johnny Cash makes every Hendersonville home complete; the dining room is filled with artists Hobley used to represent in his former gallery, including an oil painting of Barbie from Judy Ragali and a digitized Mr. T from Erick Laubach; above a glass console is an oil piece from Amy Crehore, while the glass itself sits on two wood pieces from Southeastern Salvage.
when she was eight. She was the copilot. It was very ‘Paper Moon.’” A CHANGE IN PERCEPTION Eventually they settled in Venice, in a 1920s bungalow with a studio out back where he thought he would live forever. Then the tech companies took over, rent went up and all the funky mom-and-pop shops moved out. Then, the economy imploded and people stopped buying art. “As soon as Dennis Hopper passed away, the whole place went to shit,” Hobley says. “2010 just cut me off at the ankles.” He admits he got a little lost after that, until he immersed himself in yoga. “That kind of shifted my perception,” he says. “I
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discovered kindness again.” Then last May, Hobley and his daughter left California behind. “I just wanted a better life,” he says. Drawn to Hendersonville’s history of housing outlaws — Hobley calls it “the Malibu of Nashville” — he bought two houses, one for him and one nearby for Shane. Now he is embracing the area’s openness and kindness and letting the surroundings inspire him, already collaborating with local artists like Elizabeth Summar Curtis, who creates colorful barn quilts. “She is purely authentic,” he says. “She has no clue about the current market. But she’s compelled, and she’s done hundreds of them. I don’t think she even knows why.”
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Artist Spotlight Life in Tennessee feels easy, he says, and his art is a little more PG than it was in L.A., possibly inspired by what he likens to the idyllic nature of being trapped in a John Cougar Mellencamp video 24/7. “It’s fucking wholesome,” he says. “It’s patriotic. It’s kind of cool. I like the food. I like the culture. And I didn’t have to switch my wardrobe up one bit — my ’70s Western-wear fetish? Nobody even blinks at it here.” AT HOME IN HENDERSONVILLE Almost every room in his home has a record player, and pieces from Southeastern Salvage mix with Home Goods. The cowhide table he bought from some Navajo Indians back in the ’80s and has been the one thing he has dragged with him place to place. And of course, art is everywhere. The dining room is filled with paintings he’s collected: a silk-screen bullwhip girl of his own, a collaboration with graffiti muralist Jules Muck, an oil painting of Barbie from Judy Ragali, a Above, Hobley looks through a box of his watercolors next to a lamp from Jonathan Adler. Right, Hobley works on a watercolor in a hat from Nashville’s HatWRKS.
digitized Mr. T from Erick Laubach and a small piece from Robert Palacios. Upstairs, outside the room where Hobley does his watercolors, a fiberglass bunny that once graced an old miniature golf course holds court in the hallway. A Jonathan Adler lamp featuring a repeat breast pattern sits on a table next to a couch that looks straight out of the ’60s. It’s all a dash of Liberace with a little bit of Scarface simmering with Dolly Parton and Elvis undertones. “I’m here for something different,” Hobley says. “I came here because my work is so influenced by music. I want some of that Southern mud. I want to absorb that shit. I want to come here and get greasy and see what comes out of me.” NI
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