AMELIA HANDEGAN
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melia Handegan is a true original and one of our first collaborators. As an interior designer, she has not only pioneered the way for other women to blaze a trail in the industry, but she has also introduced Charleston to the world as more than an historic touchstone by invigorating the Lowcountry aesthetic with a dose of modernism. Along the way, she has inspired us all, and her personal residences reflect her ability to balance inventiveness, technique and quality with individual expression. Her South of Broad flat features, among other unique elements, a bedchamber and a gallery’s worth of art and textiles—all contained in the tweaked-just-right proportions of the downtown space. Farther out, along an oceanfront stretch of Folly Beach, Amelia applies the same personality and detail to the reimagined saltbox she and her husband bought ten years ago: a glassed-in sleeping porch serves as an oceanfront lookout for grandchildren; a screened-in space on the deck overlooking the garden creates an area for totems, talismans and art projects; interior nooks and stairwells house collectibles such as vintage Jantzen bathing suit mannequins; and a reimagined widow’s walk leads to her husband’s home office in the sky like some new age rooftop dog trot. In Amelia’s world, everything is interesting and nothing is off limits. “I’m not fancy,” she says. “People think I’m intimidating, but I’m not. I’m just shy...except at home.”
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