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And that is all we want once the holiday decorations are put away and we see all the potential for new décor, paint updates and room refreshes. But it also hammers home how much we need our our homes to be safe, warm places for us to retreat from the rest of the world.

New-to-Franklin residents Mike and Lisa Gosselin needed their house to be calm and relaxing when they return from stressful work trips that can keep them on the road for days at a time. They turned to designer Tanya Hembree, who helped them achieve the right mix of cozy and clean — just the kind of vibe they needed to feel right at home, right away.

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Nashville CONTRIBUTORS Interiors MARY BERNARD is a freelance writer and editor living in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three teenagers.

She has worked for more than 25 years in journalism, public relations, publishing and marketing.

ALLISON ELEFANTE is a Nashvillebased interior and architectural photographer. Her company, Ruby and Peach Photo, has become a mainstay with local designers, builders and artists.

She is classically trained in photography and graduated from the Art Institute of Philadelphia over 10 years ago. Allison has a passion for interiors and is genuinely excited when she walks into the rooms of her clients. She is building her business as she helps others do the same by fueling their online media presence; her work is widely published on social media and in local magazines. When she isn’t behind the camera, she enjoys time at home with her husband and three young children.

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CALEB MCLAUGHLIN is a seasoned visual creative with a wide range of skills and interests. A videographer by trade, Caleb also loves applying his media production skills through photography.

He developed a knack for real estate photography after providing interior photography for a large health-care company. He’s a perpetually curious person and is only a little bit embarrassed about how many dad jokes he tells.

PAMELA MONAGHAN is a freelance photographer and owner of Wynd & Paisley Photography.

She has a bachelor of arts from Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she met her husband.

The majority of her work is wedding and lifestyle photography, but she’s always up for new and exciting shoots. Her work has been featured in multiple magazines, including Your Sumner and The Pink Bride, and she also runs a blog called Girls Gone Mild. She lives on several acres in Portland, Tennessee, with her husband, three children and four Dalmatians.

REEVES SMITH’s talent in photography was honed at Delta State University, then at The Bolivar Commercial newspaper in his hometown of Cleveland, Mississippi.

He went on to earn an MFA at the Brooks Institute of Photography and became a photographer and photo editor for Disney-ABC Television in Burbank, California. Reeves is creative director for The Builder House, which provides marketing and branding services for home builders and developers. He lives in College Grove with his family.

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42 FINEST THINGS 26 WINTER’S All the things keeping us warm until Spring.

32 Designer Tanya Hembree helps create a Franklin oasis for TRAVELER’S REST

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32 THE PAST 42 IMPROVING Architect Scott Wilson earns Chrysalis award for historic cottage renovation.

CONCIERGE 49 CUSTOM Pritchett & Co. teamed up with Kelly Lord Designs to offer condo clients an all-in-one experience of buying, renovating and designing at the 505.

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87 INTENTION 65 THOUGHTFUL A rundown duplex is taken down to the studs to be transformed back to its original beauty, with a serious upgrade thanks to Pfeffer Torode Architecture.

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Benjamin Moore revealed its Color of the Year 2020 as First Light 2102-70 – a soft, rosy hue blooming with potential. With a new decade on the horizon, the paint company took a fresh approach to mark this milestone. This approach both embraces and transcends color to re-examine the concept of the home as we know it, while exploring how it will continue to evolve over the next 10 years.

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National Park-inspired candles and fragrances from The Roosevelts Candle Co. are hand poured in Nashville. The owners donate a portion of proceeds back to nonprofits that support our nation’s parks.

Southern Lights Electric is a Nashville-based bespoke lighting company that makes all of their products to order, including a new line of sconces and fixtures that includes a chalk line series by New Hat Projects. A percentage of every purchase goes directly to provide solar-powered lighting for off-grid communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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n executive position with Conversant Media has Lisa Gosselin traveling a lot of the time for work. So creating a sanctuary at home was key when she and her husband, Mike, moved to Franklin in June 2019 after 18 years in Southern California.

A friend of theirs lived in The Gulch, and they considered moving downtown. Ultimately, they decided they wanted enough property and privacy to be able to enjoy their time together. They fell in love with downtown Franklin, then found a home nearby on 1.5 acres — almost perfect for what they wanted.

“It was probably a little bit of a bigger house than what we were looking for, but the subdivision was awesome,” Gosselin says.

But with her son just graduated from Marine Corps recruit training and their daughter studying at Auburn University, she wanted a space the kids would want to come home to — with as many friends as they wanted.

Tanya Hembree with Onyx & Alabaster had the couch custom made as a more affordable — but just as luxe — version of one from Restoration Hardware.

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New art was brought in to complement pieces the couple brought with them from California.

“We have a huge game room, we have a media room and their bedrooms are all upstairs,” she says. “Taylor already brought home six friends for fall break, and it was perfect because we could fit 20.”

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But moving from 1,400 square feet to 6,000 square feet was obviously a challenge, so Gosselin wanted a designer who could do a lot of the heavy lifting — finding all of that furniture — before they moved in.

She interviewed four over the phone, and her husband met three in person, They knew, though, as soon as he met Onyx & Alabaster principal designer Tanya Hembree in downtown Franklin that they had met their match.

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“I wanted a really beautiful home, but a livable home,” Gosselin says. “I didn’t want people to walk in and feel like they couldn’t touch anything. And she just totally got my vision.”

Hembree also happens to be from Southern California,

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which might be why Gosselin’s husband thought their style aesthetic was such a good match. But it could also be that they are both busy moms who need their homes to be a safe, stunning place to land at the end of the long workweek.

A 60-inch orb chandelier with crystals sets the tone of the home from the moment you walk in, and Hembree helped fill the space with art and plants, making the selection process as painless as possible.

“We did some pretty big dramatic art, which was fun,” Hembree says. “There’s a small print, Rachel Faulkner Brown. She’s one of our artists that we carry in-store.

She does work in silhouettes or nudes. The two larger pieces were not local, but they were really dramatic, and I felt like the volume of the spaces, the colorways that were on these pieces, worked.”

The family room consists of a fireplace, a custom sectional in performance fabric that is made for sinking

The homeowner had already decided on the color blue for the kitchen, a choice Tanya was happy to work with.

“For me to be able to partner with them and help them create a beautiful home that eases a bit of their stress, but also creates a sanctuary from their super busy life, that is a gift.” – Tanya Hembree The homeowners love returning from long stints traveling for work to a space that is as calm as a hotel but warm and lived in and just right for them.

into, a couple of linen chairs and piles of cozy pillows.

The hearth room has a chic sleeper sofa with four velvet swivel chairs and another fireplace perfect for hanging out and talking.

“Some of our happiest clients are in very high-demand work careers,” Hembree says. “We can take care of all these details for them and make their home beautiful and ready — without them having to skip a beat from work. For me to be able to partner with them and help

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When the homeowners bought this historic house, the structure consisted of several small isolated rooms. Wilson opened up existing walls to best reflect the evolution of the home’s use, and the exterior of the new spaces repeat the existing front roof gable to create a rhythm of old and new that preserved the character, massing and material palette of the original home.

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he award-winning boutique architecture firm of Scott Wilson announced one of its projects has been named a regional award winner in the residential historic renovation category of the 2019 Chrysalis Awards for Remodeling Excellence.

The award-winning project, a 1950s cottage renovation in Brentwood, delivered an open floorplan, privacy and yard space — all requirements for the homeowners’ growing family. The challenges included the home’s smaller lot size on a busy street, along with the Franklin Historic Zoning Commission requirements that the proportions, style and character of the existing structure be preserved.

“We congratulate Scott and his team,” said Ken Kanline, director of the Chrysalis Awards. “Winning six Chrysalis awards over the past two decades demonstrates Scott Wilson Architect’s ongoing

commitment to professionalism and excellence.”

The Chrysalis Awards program, begun in 1994, recognizes the nation’s best work in 14 general categories of residential and commercial remodeling.

The Chrysalis Awards are open to every professional remodeler and design professional in the United States.

Wilson has designed modern buildings that embrace traditional principles of architecture to provide intimate spaces in which to live and work since 1986. Energy efficiency, reduced maintenance and environmentally sensitive strategies have been an integral part of his approach.

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Partners JD Pritchett and Lucas Smith of Pritchett & Co. teamed up with Kelly Lord Designs to transform a condo at 505 to make sure the finishes were as fabulous as the views.

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Pritchett grew up in Franklin, moving to the area as a little boy.

His father and grandfather were both builders, but while home renovation is in his blood he was drawn more to the sales and management side than the actual construction.

“I never saw myself going down that path,” he says.

Licensed as a Realtor — now with Compass — he kept running into situations where his clients would ask for a good contractor to help with any renovations that needed to be done. But he realized no matter how amazing the property, big projects made them nervous or even scared them off completely. Not knowing the extent of work it would take to get the space the way they wanted made it difficult to know whether it was worth the investment.

When he and designer Kelly Lord were helping an actor from LA visualize updates to a home in Belle Meade, Pritchett realized he needed to offer contracting services himself, along with sales and design.

“In that moment I said I’ve got to do this,” he says.

“We’ve got to find a way for our clients to have a one-stop shop with us. We just started initially offering it to clients, whatever their needs were. Now we do anything that needs to happen.”

The homeowners first fell in love with the view at 505, but they wanted to change the finishes and upgrade the style of the actual space to their liking.

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The renovated kitchen is a showpiece, with an expanded island, top-of-the-line appliances and a gold-inlay backsplash.

Across, Lucas Smith, left, and JD Pritchett, right.

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approach was just what they needed.

“The benefit of us working as a team is that he and I communicate really well together,” Lord says. “We’re both very detail-oriented, and you don’t find that with a lot of contractors — communicating so much with the designer on every little detail. I think that makes us unique.”

“I just think it’s a well-rounded team,” Pritchett says.

“We can help with the knowledge of what is going to be valuable to the projects, what matters for potential resale in the future. If they’re putting $100,000 into this project, they need to know what they can sell it for when they’re done.” NI

Lucas Smith joined Pritchett as a partner at Pritchett & Co. this year, too. An Auburn grad with a building science degree, he brings an expertise honed over years with Francis Bryant Construction in Birmingham that complements Lord’s designs and Pritchett’s project management.

“I always had an affinity for working with my hands and creating stuff, so that was probably the initial draw to construction,” Smith says. “I’m able to help people design a vision, and implement their vision, by utilizing my experience in the high-end custom world to get them where they need to be. And JD’s ability to direct people towards items that are sensible and that they’ll be able to recoup their investment on is very valuable.”

The result is a tight-knit group who make the entire process of making a dream home — a dream.

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The homeowners were not afraid to take risks when Lord pushed them, like a purple velvet headboard and textured wallpaper from Farrow & Ball in the master, across, or statement tiles in both bathrooms.

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elly Lord has an eye for creating

to Franklin, and now she is the go-to design

the right combination of space,

collaborator on any Pritchett & Co. projects.

color and flow — a result of her education, design experience and innate sense of what works for someone’s lifestyle.

After working on homes all over East Nashville on the HGTV show “Listed Sisters,” Lord was excited to take on a small-space high rise project on Church Street. She drew

A graduate of Savannah College

on some of her Atlanta experience while

of Art and Design, she stayed in

working on the condo in the 505.

Atlanta for a few years working under two different designers before moving back to Cincinnati where she met her artist husband — JD Pritchett’s brother-in-law. They moved

What was new about the experience was having the homeowners live in a different city.

“They were very receptive to all of my ideas, which was great, but … I only met with them maybe three times during the entire process,” she says. “That is a huge change, because I usually see homeowners very often. We just tried to be very prepared with what we were presenting.”

Lord took the homeowners in a different direction than they had initially wanted.

The result, though it pushed them out of

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their comfort zone, ended up being everything they ever wanted.

“When we met they wanted everything to be white and gray, so I was a little nervous about” infusing rich blues and purple velvet, she says.

“But there was no convincing. They looked at it and they loved it, which was fantastic.”

In the guest bathroom Lord fell in love with an artistic black-and-white tile and built the bold bathroom design around that.

In the master bath the homeowners wanted something a little more glam, and Lord delivered with gray-and-white tile on the wall behind the vanity that’s flecked with gold mirrored details in a way that looks like elevated animal hide.

“It’s definitely a statement,” she says. “We wanted everything else in that bathroom to be stunning, but just more neutral so that vanity wall could really be the focus.”

rare that what she designs would be her own style. She calls her taste “comfortable modern” because it embraces clean lines and feels fresh while still being comfortable and warm.

Next up with Pritchett & Co. is a home renovation

Lord made sure to keep all the furniture low profile in order to take full advantage of the views.

in Franklin where she gets to take on the master bathroom, refresh the foyer and update the fireplace in the first phase before moving on to

old, things aren’t quite so glamorous, but it is

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Most everything in the home the couple already owned, a mix of modern art and European antiques – Angela has dual citizenship with the UK, which is where they got the Sir David Linley table featured on the previous page.

hil and Angela Graham have lived an international life, calling everywhere from New York to London home. But when their daughters had both grown and they were considering where to finish their careers, they decided to return to Nashville where Angela had grown up.

But years of wear and tear ensured that the renovation would be a total gut job.

The couple gravitated to a 1930s, Depression-era Tudor on Craighead. A tight urban lot — the entire site is less than a third of an acre — the original home at one point had been subdivided into a duplex.

“What we find is if you’re doing a boutique hotel, a lot of that wants to respond to residentially minded details in fit and finish — that sense of home away from home,” says principal Jamie Pfeffer. “And if you’re doing a very contemporary house, the detailing is more akin to a commercial project than traditional Southern residential architecture. So that mix keeps us very sharp, and we can apply best practices in both directions on both kinds of projects.”

“We didn’t want a grandiose home, just something beautiful and elegant and simple and comfortable,” she says.

Plus, the location near Music Row was ideal for Phil, former senior VP at BMI. “We love being centrally located, and this is friendly to walkers and child-friendly and pet-friendly,” she says.

“And we love the Fourth of July porch parties.”

So they turned to their old friend Patrick Rowan and his construction company, and the team at Pfeffer Torode, an East Nashville-based architecture firm with offices in three cities. Some of their studios focus on residential architecture, and some of them focus on commercial architecture. Sometimes they cross-pollinate.

For the Graham residence, Pfeffer wanted to recapture the continuity of the original house while making it flow in a more usable way by using every square inch of the site.

The homeowners hired Patrick Rowan to create a façade that looked like the old house, complete with the same front door, one of the only original elements left from the previous build.

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“The goal was to build it back — not to try to do a replica or something fake, but to do something that was reminiscent of the scale and the character of that original house.” — Jamie Pfeffer Two televisions on a lift system are installed inside the long wooden cabinet, and the curtains can be drawn to create a less open feel for viewing.

“Really, the entire house is my definition of all new,” Pfeffer says. “The goal was to build it back — not to try to do a replica or something fake, but to do something that was reminiscent of the scale and the character of that original house, and that understood its context on the street. At the same time, we wanted to build it with higher construction standards.”

At the Graham residence, art and furniture are showpieces, and that was considered in the design as well, with walls and halls to accommodate their treasures like an impressive collection of surrealist works from Salvador Dali and Willi Rondas, and a Sir David Linley table that was once in the presence of Princesses Diana and Margaret.

“A lot of it was complementing their own things with

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a few pieces to connect the dots and make it flow. But they have a very awesome art and furniture collection.

That was really showcased,” he says.

The kitchen opens to the motor court as well as to the living space, and that living space has a large glass wall that opens to the pool. So it was really about getting the entire space to have a flow between inside and out.

Aging in place was also a consideration for the homeowners, so part of the project was making sure that the pool and surrounding landscape were wheelchair accessible and diverted storm water, while still being artistic.

Daigh Rick Landscape Architects used native plantings

The couple are serious art collectors, with framed Salvador Dalis tucked behind her collection of boxes, including a feather box made for Angela by artisan Peter Fleming.

Her two favorite oils take pride of place over the fireplace mantels.

“Aaron’s House” by Willi Rondas is shown, and the other side is “Orchestra”

by Antonio Villanueva.

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Above, the sink looks out over the motor court designed by Daigh Rick Landscape Architects.

Right, Pfeffer Torode originally planned on the powder room being larger, but Angela wanted it scaled down to fit the French porcelain sink she snagged from her first London home when she moved. She has had it in every home since. It set the perfect mood for an oil painting

by Antal Berkes, “Scene D’Interieur,” with the antiqued look of Ralph Lauren wallpaper.

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The oil collections of landscapes throughout the home have been collected over the years from various countries they have visited, evoking memories of their world travels. Favorite artists include Victor Vasarely, Kate Montgomery, Joan Banach and their eldest daughter Julia Graham, who won an art scholarship prize for her self portrait at Georgetown University.

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The couple named their house like the British do, calling it the Acorn House, with touches of acorns all over, from large stone ones found at the Antiques & Garden Show out front to acorns in the driveway and by the pool, which was designed by Waterworks.

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The couple did not want to deal with mowers and blowers, so Anne Daigh with Daigh Rick designed the front to be more eclectic and the back to use pervious materials to mitigate flooding.

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and pervious materials to make sure every inch of the site from curb to back property line was carefully considered. And Pfeffer took many opportunities to sneak in extra dimensions, like using trim details to downplay a larger door size.

A Nashville native, Pfeffer’s East Nashville-based firm is in its 10th year. He had studied architecture, living and working in other places, but he’d always had the goal of bringing what he experienced back to Nashville.

That understanding of his hometown resulted in a modern home for the Grahams that is respectful of the street, and the neighborhood.

“Whether you grew up in Nashville or are just calling Nashville home, there’s a want to be protective of Nashville. To me, that’s working on projects that respect Nashville but at the same time are still forward-thinking.”

In this case it was creating a house with all the energy efficiencies, technology and sophistication available today, but that can exist 100 years or more in a context that is becoming of the street it’s on.

“I’m trying to walk that fence between those two things — being very sensitive to place in context and historic precedent, but at the same time doing something that was really trying to look to a standard that was beyond that street today.”NI There is a cathedral ceiling in the master, and in the bathroom there are large chandeliers.

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The foyer of Sarah Bartholomew’s home is a true reflection of her longtime love of bold prints in subtle shades of green and blue.

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or the last decade, designer Sarah Bartholomew and her husband, Bo, have been putting their stamp on their Green Hills-area home, having outgrown their previous space after having four children. And while that stamp is curated and lovely, it only works because they don’t take style as seriously as they do function.

“This is the house that keeps on giving, and it really does work well for family,” she says. “We have a big room where we can all gather and watch a movie or watch the game or sit by the fire and read. We have a kitchen that fits everybody where we can have dinner.”

Color and pattern take center stage, but not in an overwhelming way.

“I really like an edited look,” she says. “I like things clean and crisp and fresh. So it’s walking that line between a layered, ‘granny chic’ look, and a more clean, fresh aesthetic. And that is the line that I walk, and that’s where I find my style is most defined — in that middle area.”

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Her husband has an opinion on how it all looks, too, but he’s happy to leave the bulk of the design decisions to her — as long as they can always have an open-door policy for entertaining family and friends.

“He’s a big extrovert and loves to have people in the house,” she says. “And we live in every ounce of this house. We have dogs, kids, and we want it to be that way. And while I love beautiful things, nothing is precious me. Life is for living.”

Bartholomew has always had a love for prints. When she was in middle school, she was allowed to decorate her own room — and immediately had opinions.

“I remember picking out a Laura Ashley print called Rainbow Berry, and it was blue and green pattern for my bedding and a wicker headboard. And I’ve always loved the same — the color palette, the materials. And I’ve really built off of that love over the years with the things that I’ve collected.”

Those collections include blue-and-white porcelain Tori Shelton English quill boxes, art and anything wicker. “So you’ll find baskets everywhere,” she says.

You can get a feel for her style up close and personal at her Green Hills shop SB — or by shopping her line for Pottery Barn — but it is in her own home where she really puts into practice her love of standout prints.

The subtle shades create a calming visual interest among the chaos that naturally comes from having four teenagers at home.

Left, calm and cool and totally lived in, the family constantly gathers in one of the main living spaces to hang out, read or play games.

Above, the family eats most meals in the kitchen, but the dining room is where holiday meals with loved ones happen.

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Cozy seating areas are everywhere, with lots of nooks for any of the four children to find and hang out in.

“My kids have been raised to appreciate fine things, and so they take a lot of pride in their personal spaces,” she says. “So while they may not necessarily have fine art collections at this point in time, you’ll come in and they’ll have a candle burning. They’ll have it cleaned up and they’ll have a little flower by their bed. They love to just make things nice. And I think that’s the beauty of living.”

A longtime lover of the Antiques & Garden Show, as well as supporter, former chair and current advisory board member, Bartholomew considers it one of the premier shows in the country, especially considering it is run by volunteers.

“We are right there on par with all the top shows, and many of them have production companies that are running it,” she says. “I’m so impressed with our city.

Having a city where volunteers can pull together and do great things that are recognized on a national level is really exciting. And it really brings a ton of visitors.

My design friends from all over the country come to town for the show.”

Benefitting Cheekwood and the ECON Club, Bartholomew has found great joy investing in the show over the years, making it a priority despite her limited time.

“As a working mom, I don’t get to volunteer with a lot of things. But this is something I’ve chosen to stay involved with and continue to devote my time to. I love it,” she says.

When she sees the impressive garden features and landscaped designs every year, she can’t help but connect back to her childhood, digging in the garden with her mom.

“It can be just a smell that brings back a memory or even just putting your hands in that dirt,” she says.

“She was from California where it was just so easy to have a garden. We had roses and so many beautiful varieties of flowers that are native to that area. She taught me all of them, and now I teach my kids.” NI 84 | NASHVILLE INTERIORS | WINTER 2020

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Bartholomew’s collection of blue and white porcelain pieces can be found all over the house, as well as piles of books and lots of art.

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ashville native Omari Booker didn’t really begin to tap into his artistic side until he was a senior at Montgomery Bell Academy. His art teacher then, Jim Womack, was a real inspiration — and is still a mentor — but Booker never looked at it then as a path of viable employment.

So he went to Belmont and studied math, but it wasn’t the right fit. He transferred to Tennessee State University to study studio art and graphic design, in which he got his degree.

“My art came sort of late. Life sort of happened for a few years, and then that brought me back around to what I’m supposed to be doing.

“My personal legal issue and incarceration has sort of given me a bit of a stronger desire to look at that side of our system, when I probably wouldn’t have been as aware of it had I not been in it,” he says.

Booker was arrested for drug possession in 2009. That resulted in a 15-year prison sentence.

He served three and a half years; his parole will be completed in 2023.

“I did what I did, so it’s the laws on the books.

But I do feel moved to shift that system in a way which is more equal and more fair. I think we can find a better way to deal with a lot of crimes, especially drug possessions and probation violations and child support being late, that people are incarcerated for repeatedly. And it’s a lot easier to get there as a black male.”

He hopes to be able to use his experience and art to shift that mindset, not beating people over the head with the message, but sharing in the best way that people can understand.

“This isn’t helping move our society in the direction that we want it to go,” he says.

His art and style have evolved over time, spurred

Top: “Drug War,” 30x48 inches, mixed media (oil, razor wire, bullets, pills, pill bottles, wire) on panel Above: “I Live Here Too,” 62x79.5 inches, oil on two doors

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studio. He finds influence in Vincent Van Gogh and Salvador Dali, as well as Charles White and Jacob Lawrence.

“When I started it was more capturing images that I saw, that I was drawn to, whether it was a photo I took or a photo that I found. That gradually turned into more expressing an idea internally,” he says. “But I’ve also really enjoyed Clockwise from above: “Red Line,” 48 x 60 inches, oil and razor wire on panel; “First Down,” 25 x 25 inches, oil and razor wire on panel; “Red Line 2,” 48 x 60 inches, oil and razor wire on panel; “Red Line 3,” 48 x 60 inches, oil and razor wire on panel; “Not For Sale,” 36 x 40 inches, oil and steel on panel

the freedom of being able to choose new subject matter, using mixed media. I think it’s definitely a little more from the inside out now.”

For the past year or so he had been focused on making art around the one specific topic of redlining — federal discriminatory housing laws.

He uses red razor wire and flesh tone colors to create pieces that addressed how those laws set the stage for discrimination and how they affected aspects of American life like sports and the military.

One of Booker’s pieces was a part of the recent exhibit at the Frist Art Musem that focused around the Murals of North Nashville. But lately

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his work been more abstract as he creates

go along with it. And I think that’s some of the

more out of spirit than even out of an idea or an

equality work — finding a way to make space

intention to say something specific.

for the people that developed and built the city

“It’s just kind of speaking to whatever’s floating

after it gets so popular.”

around inside,” he says.

Booker says the growth in Nashville’s art

Oil painting is Booker’s primary medium, and his

community has a different perspective from

works run the gamut of sizes. But oil painting murals and mixed media are things he has done more of in the past couple of years.

“Often I use found objects or incorporate some other media into the painting. Sometimes I’ll paint on fabric instead of canvas,” he says. “But oil painting is the foundation.”

A Nashville native, he has seen the tremendous growth not only of the city, but of the art scene.

And he is encouraged by it all.

“As more people come to the city with different ideas and different backgrounds, the diversity is growing. And for artists, it’s a great place to be.

Of course it’s getting much more expensive to live in Nashville and all those things that kind of

Above left: “It’s All Life,” 40x50 inches, oil on fabric

the black community because there’s already a smaller community where the competitive spirit

Above: “Hussle and Motivate,” 36x40 inches, oil on fabric

is akin to two athletes on the same team — they both want to be MVP, but in the end you want everybody to win.

“Even aside from a racial dynamic, I still feel that in Nashville,” he says. “People overwhelmingly root for each other. At least that’s how I feel about it. And that’s the energy that I want to bring too. I think sometimes if you bring that energy into it, then you tend to get it back.”

Booker is the curator and artist in residence at Woodcuts Gallery and Custom Framing and has an upcoming residency with Civil Rights Corps in Washington, D.C. He’ll be making artwork surrounding social justice issues. NI NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 89

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STORY BY MARY BERNARD | PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMITTED ike a cherished piece of furniture passed down through the generations, Joseph Watson’s passion for woodworking comes from his dad.

Growing up by his father’s side in the family-run business, Watson has been working with wood since he was a young boy.

“I was probably 10 or 11 when I really

started paying attention to it and really knew that was what I wanted to do,” Watson says.

Since 2006, Watson has been in business for himself with Watson Woodcraft in Smithville, Tennessee. Watson Woodcraft today produces customized, artisan pieces, unique works of craftsmanship and design, the result of decades of learning and apprenticeship. He caters to a higher-end, luxury market — clients who have the financial means to spend thousands of dollars on one chair or up to $20,000 on a builtin library.

No two pieces leaving Watson’s shop are alike.

Each is crafted specifically for its buyer, pairing the client’s ideas with Watson’s gift for bringing that vision to life. This process of creating something from nothing is the most gratifying aspect of Watson’s job.

“Making something from scratch is very inspiring. My ability to … help someone realize their vision and design it for them sets us apart,” Watson says. “I just love being out ... in the shop, designing and building and shaping the wood, drawing the design. That’s what I enjoy.”

Since childhood, Watson has immersed himself in the functional art and creative expression of woodworking. “Since I was 11 years old, I’ve been reading everything I could get my hands on about design,” he says. He describes his design

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Joseph Watson learned woodworking from his father, and no two pieces that leave his shop look the same.

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style as “classic blended with modern” and says he finds inspiration when he reaches out to other creative types.

“I enjoy interacting with other artists, talking with them. That definitely inspires me. If I find that I’m feeling a little uninspired, … [I will] … get out of the shop and meet some other people, [and] it will help get my creativity going again,” Watson says.

Like his father before him, Watson has plans to pass on the family business to his own children.

Two of his four sons are approaching the right age to begin learning woodworking soon.

Watson is looking forward to his own sons joining him in his workshop, with two of the four of them getting to be the age he was when he started working with his father.

His plans for Watson Woodcraft rest with the younger Watsons as they carry on the family’s legacy.

“We want to keep it family-focused and familyfriendly,” Watson says. “I’ve got two boys coming up. They do have a real interest in woodworking.

Hopefully, they’ll want to help me.” NI

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