"There's nothing prettier than Atlanta in the spring," declares interior designer Melanie Turner, who has lived in the city for 45 years. She points to the area of Buckhead around West Paces Ferry Road, where from March to May, glorious blooming dogwoods, azaleas, and redbuds enliven the grounds of some of the city's most spectacular and historic residences. "It's just one home after the next that is grand and beautiful," she says.
One of the neighborhood's best-known and most distinctive residences is a Venetian-style head-turner nicknamed the Pink Palace, owing to its blush-toned stucco facade embellished with winged cherubs, scrolls, shell forms, and other architectural details. Completed in 1926 the house is credited to one of Atlanta's leading neoclassical architects of the day, Philip Trammell Shutze, who worked closely with Neel Reid at the firm then known as Hentz, Reid & Adler.
When the Pink Palace was on the market several years ago, Turner encouraged Thierry François to give it a serious look. After all François and his wife, Shannon, had expressed admiration for her house, another Shutze creation a mile or so down the road. A pastiche of 16th- and 17th-century Italian villas also with a pink-stucco exterior, it's notably dubbed the Pink Castle and considered a sister home to the Palace.
"They're both peacocks," says Turner, who notes that the similarities have occasionally caused confusion. "When one of us has a party, people will mistakenly show up at my house or show up at that house because they get them mixed up."
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Aged to Imperfection
In the Cotswolds, Oka cofounder Sue Jones stirs an alluring cocktail of old and new in an agrarian compound, now her forever home
AMERICA'S ENGLISHMAN
From wide-eyed novice to decorating nobility: how Mario Buatta's journey to mad Anglophile draped a nation in chintz, silk, swags, and a legacy of humor and optimism
Estate of Play
MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD revives a romantic Georgian country home in Ireland, deploying grand artistry, craft, and levity in the footprint of local traditions
A PASTORAL PLAYGROUND
Out of an ancestral millhouse, designer MARY GRAHAM raises a new family home in the country, alive with checks, florals, and ruffles
LONDON CORDIAL
MIXMASTER LORENZO CASTILLO DECKS A CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE IN IMMERSIVE PRINTS, RADIANT SEATING, AND A WELCOMING SPIRIT THAT TIPS TO THE WILD SIDE
Minding the Manor
How are Ireland's old noble houses seeding their future? At Ballyfin Demesne, it glimmers in the forests, parklands, gardens, and a way of life that goes back centuries
Perennial Bloomsbury
The creative troupe that ruled the English countryside in the early 1900s had a muse wilder than its lifestyle: the Charleston garden, reborn here in four riotous arrangements.
ENCHANTED GLIN
Along the River Shannon, landscape designer Catherine FitzGerald grows her family's castle gardens into a living wonderland bridging generations
Portrait Mode REVISITED
A new guard of English painters leads a resurgence of the deeply personal art form, capturing faces and figures in a fresh light
The Bold SPIRITS SPEYSIDE
Scotland's famed whisky region reemerges as a stunning epicenter of Celtic craft. Single malt in hand, writer Tracey Minkin joins gallerist and author Hugo Macdonald to discover its decorative arts bloom