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Monday, August 25, 2008
What is Southern style?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I just returned from my first trip to Savannah, where I interviewed a number of home furnishings boutique owners about quintessential Southern style and how it’s changing.
Antique engraved silver, monogrammed dining chairs, beat-up rugs and Boston ferns swaying on the sleeping porch were mentioned as design symbols of the South. And one shopkeeper, Sim Harvey of Arcanum Antiques, noted that Savannahians devote their attention and money to extravagant garden decor both in furniture and sculpture.
But Harvey believes that Southern style is moving away from uber-traditional to something more eclectic, and it’s not the young 20- and 30-somethings leading the charge. Empty nesters may keep their Persian rugs and antique secretary, but they’re trading in the Chippendale coffee table for a lucite look, he said.
Yet always, gracious living grounds design.
What’s your idea of Southern living, and how do you incorporate it into your home? Are we on the verge of “New Southern” design?
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