Life Studies in Terra-Cotta
byThe beginning is nebulous for Kate Fisher. Maybe her cache of gardening pots and planters started in Kentucky. There, she grabbed armfuls of her…
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At Home with Robert Beatty
byRobert Beatty walks down a short hallway from his master bedroom and enters the spacious office that doubles as his writing spot. Before he…
Two Kitchens, No Regrets
byReza Setayesh doesn’t ride the wave: he stirs up his own trends. Setayesh first settled in Western North Carolina in the 1980s, to attend…
At Home with Sharon Feingold
bySharon Feingold is a storyteller and a saleswoman, yet she’s neither a writer, nor marketer, nor clerk. She’s a voiceover artist who delivers…
The Simple Life
byRattle off a list of odd jobs, and chances are Ashley English has held most of them. Between earning college degrees in sociology and…
Pickin’ and Pies
byBarbara Swell’s post-college crash pad after Virginia Tech was a bit unconventional: an abandoned pre-Civil War farm house with no running water, and only…
Writing Her Own Script
byThe actress and former model Patti D’Arbanville lives with her Pomeranian Bisou Marie Antoinette D’Arbanville in a shingled, white-trimmed cottage in one of Tryon’s…
Man on a Mission (chair)
byThe original Arts & Crafts movement of the early 1900s was, in part, a reaction against the perceived mechanical anonymity of the Industrial Age….
A Town of Her Own
byShe has a perfectly serviceable home office, anchored by a desk and filled with papers, books and files — all the usual writerly supplies….
At Home with Nancy Holmes
byNancy Holmes has one of the world’s great resumes. Raised in Kansas, she started out editing greeting card verse for Hallmark Cards, reading scripts…