Visual artist Stacy Madden salvages what nature discards to create beautiful pieces for the home.
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STACY MADDEN NEVER imagined palm trees would play such a pivotal role in her life. Her home on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, enveloped by towering lontar, adonidia and banana palms, has become her “palm farm”. “I have gorgeous friends who’ve become my little tribe of palm stalkers too,” she says. “I’ll often come home and find a pile of husks, which have been thrown over my fence.”
This story is from the September 2018 edition of Home Beautiful.
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