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Serenity now SOUTHERN SENSIBILITY MEETS CALIFORNIA COOL AT MAISON, A NEW HOME BOUTIQUE IN SOUTHPARK. by Cathy Martin • photographs by Kelsie Elizabeth Photography
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nterior designer Kim Mauney describes her new retail store, Maison, as a “living portfolio,” where customers can actually walk through her work instead of just looking at pictures of it. “When you interview for clients, they ask to see pictures of things you’ve done,” Mauney says. But every client is different, and what might be appropriate for one might not be the right fit for another. “I felt like with a store, we could show them possibilities of mixing traditional furniture with modern artwork and modern furniture, mixing in antiques — just mixing it all,” the designer says. “I feel like it gave me a platform.” The California native — Mauney grew up in the Bay Area — discovered her passion for interior design shortly after graduating from Duke University and moving back home. Armed with a public policy degree and unsure what to do next, her mom suggested she intern with a local interior designer. “It was the first job I’d had in my life where I never looked at my watch,” Mauney says. She went to graduate school to study interior design, then worked in the San Francisco area until
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