Restoration & Reverence

When Brenda and Dan Cook bought the old West Nashville United Methodist Church, it didn’t inspire many design hosannas. Look heavenward inside the sanctuary: pockmarked, office-grade drop-ceiling tiles. Down: greasy red shag carpeting. But the Cooks felt prepared to change its tune, having successfully rehabbed a run-down Primitive Baptist Church into Ruby, another stylish boutique […]

Bold & Beautiful

Maybe the walls in Powell’s new Berry Hill headquarters can’t talk, but they’re certainly telling stories. In the conference room that looks onto Bransford Avenue, custom wallpaper — a collaboration with surface design studio New Hat — turns a selection of Powell’s greatest hits into a purposeful patchwork dubbed “Project Palettes.” “Every rectangle (references) a […]

A Building Reborn

The Flat Iron Hotel in the heart of historic downtown Asheville, North Carolina, isn’t just a renovation, it is a reinvention of one of the city’s most iconic buildings. Constructed in 1926, The Flat Iron Building was one of Asheville’s first high-rises — a true pillar of business during the explosive growth of the city. […]

Mining Mid Century

Starting medical school in Nashville, biomedical science degree in hand, Cassandra Locante was living a dream. Unfortunately, it wasn’t hers. “I did a year,” Locante says, looking back at a health care career that wasn’t. “Finally I was, like, ‘I can’t live this lie anymore.’“ Even as an undergrad, a nagging, natural interest kept drawing […]