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HANDCRAFTED HERITAGE NASHVILLE WELCOMES CHRISTOPHER PEACOCK’S LUXURY CABINETRY TO ITS NEW SHOWROOM, WHERE CONCEPT, DESIGN AND QUALITY ALL COME TOGETHER, AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, STANDARDS AND EXCEPTIONAL BEAUTY.

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Welcome

wenty years is a long time for a publication to be in print.

It speaks to a commitment to excellence, an ability to deliver and the support of key people.

In journalism school in Chicago nearly 20 years ago, we were warned by pretty much everyone that what we were entering into was not for the faint of heart. Print was dying, didn’t we know? Still, I was compelled to be there, learning Quark for magazine layout and the proper format for a news article. Meanwhile, Kelly Magill was preparing to launch a brand new magazine, Nashville Interiors.

About 10 years later I was building a freelance client base at home with small babies after writing at The Tennessean, and a former colleague needed help with a magazine project—Nashville Interiors. And that is when I met Pam Harper.

Many people know the magazine only through Pam. A common thread through all owners and publishers across nearly 15 years in publication, Pam has been the best ambassador for the book. She is charming, intelligent and the nicest person; Pam and I connected immediately. And after a few years of working together, I shared that I had big plans if I ever got my hands on Nashville Interiors as my own.

In early 2017, I got that opportunity. Kelly had recently sold to a new owner, who decided after one issue to move on. Pam, believing in me, told me about the opportunity, and within a week the magazine was mine.

Over the past three years it has taken a team to grow the magazine in a way that felt right for what was next. The redesign by Karen Cronin of Cronin Creative. The copyediting skills of Jennifer Goode Stevens and design from Ginger Katz. The designers working with our advertisers, Jennifer Rapp, Tracey Starck and Mary Grace Gaureke. The talented contract photographers. The support from my printer and Austin Davidson.

Through it all, Pam has been the biggest cheerleader—even as 2020 caused a pause. In 2021 her role will be smaller, but she will still be an ambassador for the magazine and the person to turn to if you have always worked with her. She is in many ways more Nashville Interiors than anyone else.

And we so appreciate the people making the continued growth of Nashville Interiors possible—the advertisers on these pages and the people who allow us to tell their stories. We need to lean on each other. Support each other.

Champion each other. This is the story of Nashville Interiors, and we will continue to tell the stories of the people in our community.

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—Hollie Deese Publisher

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FALL 2020/WINTER 2021 PUBLISHER/MANAGING EDITOR Hollie Deese EDITORIAL DESIGN Ginger Katz ADVERTISING DESIGN Mary Grace Gauerke Tracey Starck COPY EDITOR Jennifer Goode Stevens, GoodeEdits.com SALES Hollie Deese Pam Harper CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Reed Brown William DeShazer Neil Landino Nick McGinn Pamela Monaghan

Kevin Nixon Nathan Kirkman Michael Robinson Paige Rumore Richard Suter

Michelle Morrow PRINTING Catalog Kings Nashville Interiors is the premier building and design guide of Middle Tennessee. We feature regional master artisans, designers, architects, builders, artists, collectors and retailers, and we bring you news of the region’s trends in building, design and development. We also showcase the inspiring spaces of our area’s eclectic group of residents.

Nashville Interiors is published by Deese Media LLC. Nashville Interiors has been continuously in print since 2000.

All editorial and photographic content is the sole property of Deese Media LLC and is not to be reproduced in part or in whole without the express written permission of the publisher.

Visit the online edition of Nashville Interiors regularly for fresh content between issues, profiles of designers, businesses, artists and architects, extra photos we couldn’t fit in print, style tips, trend pieces and information about events, art openings and other design events around Middle Tennessee.

Nashville Interiors is available at select locations and events.

For information on where to find a copy, receive an advertising rate sheet, request content reprints, suggest story ideas or notify with website or social media issues, contact Hollie Deese, hollie@nashvilleinteriors.com.

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Luxury cabinet designer Christopher Peacock has opened a showroom in the Nashville Design Collective, offering locals a chance to see the quality of his craft in a space that inspires creativity.

On the cover is a custom kitchen featuring his unparalleled work, mixed with Ralph Lauren Home pendant lights and bar stools.

Follow Nashville Interiors on social media for updates when new content is posted online and for lots of behindthe-scenes peeks from photo shoots and insider events.

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Michelle started her photography journey in a middle school and high school magnet arts program in her hometown of Miami, Florida. While attending The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, she was fortunate enough to be awarded an internship at the Miami Herald.

Michelle later landed her first job at the Boca Raton News, where she worked for two years. She went on to freelance for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale before moving to Nashville in 1999.

She freelanced before being hired as a staff photographer for The Tennessean in 2000. She resigned in 2007 to focus on being a full-time mother to her two daughters. Michelle, however, never put her camera down and has been doing freelance photography since.

WILLIAM DESHAZER

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William is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Nashville. He spent 12 years working at various newspapers, including Memphis’ Commercial Appeal and the Chicago Tribune. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in magazines from National Geographic, Golfweek, ESPN The Magazine, Runner’s World and O, The Oprah Magazine. His interior photography has been used by Holiday Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Whiskey Advocate Magazine and Davis Jewelers. William has been recognized by Photographer of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. When not taking pictures, William is either writing music or exploring locally and beyond with his wife.

PAMELA MONAGHAN

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Pamela 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 runs a blog called Girls Gone Mild. She lives on several acres in Portland, Tennessee, with her husband, three children and four Dalmatians.

MICHAEL ROBINSON

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Michael composes details in architecture and interiors, capturing their essence—the purpose and the vision within the design. Michael built a working darkroom in his basement in high school and went on to be newspaper photographer his senior year, winning Kansas School photojournalism awards. He then attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. Michael thrived in a photo-centric environment and more often than not could be found in the darkrooms on campus. He graduated from Brooks with honors, packed up and moved to Chicago to pursue a career photographing architecture and interiors. After years of invaluable experience in Chicago, he decided to return to his hometown of Kansas City. He reconnected with his now wife, whom he has known since middle school, and they started a family. They have two kids and two dogs.

Today, Michael works locally, nationally and internationally photographing a breadth of projects— commercial, residential, civic, sports, recreation, hospitality and mission critical.

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COMING SOON

REED BROWN

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Reed is a commercial photographer based in Nashville.

He started out shooting for the automotive and boating industries in the 1980s, and his love for architectural photography began around 2003. His client list includes Nissan, Ford Racing, Coca-Cola, Eddie Bauer, Bosch, Jack Daniel Distillery, Aladdin, Gibson Brands, Tractor Supply Co., Averitt Express, Castle Homes, Page Duke Landscape Architects, roux llc, Nashville Interiors, Legend Homes, Grove Park Construction, JFY Designs, Julie Davis Interiors and Trace Construction. Married with two children and one granddaughter, his spare time is spent at home in Mount Juliet around motorcycles and family.

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Nicholas, a Tennessee native whose family boasts five generations of photographers, took the photography industry by storm, landing multiple national campaigns during his first year in the industry. Since then, his precision, utmost attention to detail and unique understanding of lighting have led to his skyrocketing rise to rank among the world’s top architectural and interior photographers. Nicholas is a perfectionist with a photography portfolio of architecture and interiors to prove it. His fastidious preparation, his commitment to excellence and his genuine demeanor provide his subjects and clients an experience unlike any other. Nicholas travels the country shooting for various corporations, firms and designers.

Coming soon, VENUE is the sister publication to Middle Tennessee’s premier interior design and lifestyle publication, NASHVILLE INTERIORS. With a focus on non-residential interiors, find all new inspiration in the area’s hotels, restaurants and special event spaces, visit venuenashville.com in 2021 for the stories behind Nashville’s hospitality design.

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48 SEASON’S BEST 26 THE The things we want at home to make 2021 a bit brighter.

31 NFL player Shaq Mason invests in Columbia with a new HOMETOWN HERO

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FROM THE TOP 40 VIEW Tony and Lisa Giarratana, with designer Frank Ponterio, create a space that entertains and enthralls.

48 The design duo behind Interior Edit Nashville help guide GO GLAM FOR CHRISTMAS

clients in a new holiday direction.

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A DREAM 53 GUIDING Designer Amhad Freeman gets clients the home they want, from concept to completion.

HERITAGE 62 HANDCRAFTED Luxury cabinet designer Christopher Peacock opens a showroom in Nashville that takes luxury to the next level.

CENTRIC 72 DESIGN The Nashville Design Collective is open for business in

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104 96 OF NOTE 78 WOMEN Katy Shah and India Mayer move past a tornado and pandemic to stay focused on their new business that links local and national creators and brands, in a house that’s all about design.

86 A couple complete a small-footprint renovation in SMALL AND SUSTAINABLE

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COLLABORATION 96 CREATIVE Two Germantown-based artists work together to create a new home product line in the months following the tornado.

SPOTLIGHT: BEADED SKULL ART 104 ARTIST Maria D’Souza honors the soul of an animal, and gives it new life, with hand-beaded skulls she creates from inspiring visions.

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THIS WINTER WISH LIST ROUNDS UP THINGS WE HAVE DECIDED WILL HELP MAKE 2021 A MUCH BETTER YEAR.

Sculpted and shapely with the hippest of vibes, the Terrance Sofa features cone-tapered parawood legs and a soft-curved back for mid-century design. $3,623 at Onyx & Alabaster, whose new showroom just opened in downtown Franklin.

Coming in 2021 to Nashville’s riverfront are the Four Seasons Private Residences Nashville, set high above the downtown buzz with farreaching views. Some of the amenities include The Sky Garden, an exclusive outdoor deck on the 14th floor, with lush landscaping overlooking the Nashville Skyline, Nissan Stadium and Cumberland River, and the residents’ lounge, an expansive space with an indoor dining room and catering kitchen. Starting just under $900,000.

Tennessee Jane makes beautiful bouquets from a selection of premium dried and preserved flowers and grasses like yarrow, thistle, Italian ruscus and wild sage. The result is a gift that will last a year or more. Saint Maide made-to-order bouquets range from $20 to $42 for loose dried flower bunches, and from $85 to $125 for a multi-flower bouquet (delivered tied with a Tono & Co. silk ribbon).

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Jim Sherraden, Hatch Show Print’s former master printer, designed this stunning print using the single figure alphabet block set that was carved before 1885 and includes letters, numbers and punctuation. Each letter is inked by hand, using hand-mixed ink that has been made more transparent so the colors blend as the four letters, “T-Y-P-E,” are layered on top of one another. $350 at Hatch Show Print.

Pullcast, a company that is a cross between jewelry and design, explores new aesthetics strongly influenced by art, architecture and nature, seen here in their decorative Skyline cabinet handle, imagined after any city’s iconic profile, the mark of its beauty and identity. $1,396 per set.

A Nashville handbag designer with an interior design past, Ceri Hoover has recently launched her new Home collection, with ceramic serving trays, taper candle holders, handwoven blankets and lumbar pillows in the same animal prints as some of her bags. Collection ranges from $10 to $325.

Providing vertical storage with a sculptural twist, the Story Planter from Design Within Reach holds greenery, flowers and other odds and ends in a compact footprint. Rotate bowls forward or to the side, creating a customized profile that fits your needs. Available in six colors. $395 for a five-bowl planter, $495 for a nine-bowl planter.

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BY HOLLIE DEESE PHOTOGRAPHY BY REED BROWN

HOMETOWN HERO

A NEW ENGLAND PATRIOT INVESTS IN COLUMBIA, WITH A STUNNING NEW HOME AND A FOUNDATION THAT GIVES BACK Shaq Mason knew his first home had to be in Columbia, Tennessee. His hometown, it’s where the New England Patriot first learned to play football, and where he now operates the Shaq Mason Foundation. The foundation works with local schools to provide opportunities for children and their families, whether it’s access to a football camp or surprising students at his alma mater with Christmas gifts.

“He had been looking for his Tennessee home for quite some time,” says his mother, Alicia McGuire, who also helps run his foundation. “House after house after house, and just not finding what he wanted.”

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the way. They decided to take a peek, and when they walked in they didn’t need to see any more.

“He said, ‘Mama, this is it,’” McGuire says. “And to know him, he is that type of person. Like when he picked his college — he does things off of a feeling. He’s a faith believer, and he just believes that when he’s led, he’s led. And when he walked through the doors of that house, it felt like home.”

THE RIGHT DESIGN Ciera Farley with Decorating Den Interiors worked closely with McGuire, who knew what her son’s interests were and could help guide the process locally while the two-time Super Bowl champion was in New England with the team. McGuire’s other son is a freshman at Middle Tennessee State University.

“He wanted something with a definite ‘wow’ factor,” Farley says. Once he found that space, she only wanted to enhance the architecture that drew him to the home in the first place, like the large glass windows looking out to the pool in the back and the tall ceilings perfect for oversize art.

“He likes all the windows — it’s like a glass house because everywhere in the house you can see outside,” McGuire says.

Ciera Farley, left, with Decorating Den, helped Shaq and his mom, Alicia, find the right pieces to complement the lifestyle of a pro football player with three small daughters.

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The theater room was also a plus for Mason, something he had always wanted when he could buy his own home, and he loved the dramatic nature of the foyer.

As for furniture, Farley helped guide Mason in his choices, steering him toward performance fabrics to handle his three young girls, or a crew of football friends.

“We have a lot of easy-to-clean, very durable pieces,” Farley says.

And he was not afraid to go out of the box a little bit when it came to style, though Farley made sure the inside design didn’t push too hard against the architecture of the home. Together they ended up putting blue wallpaper in the foyer, along with leopard and an oversized piece of art of Muhammad Ali.

Bold art was a priority for the design, and Farley helped choose the graphic animal print above, and abstract Muhammad Ali print in the foyer, across. Left, and across below, spaces are made to entertain a whole team if needed.

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“We didn’t do anything too extravagant because I still wanted it to be classy and manly, but comfortable,” she says.

In fact, Farley found as much inspiration working with Mason as he did from her, and she hopes to be able to work with more young Black men in the future.

“So many males really don’t know what to do when they get in the space,” Farley says. “But you can hire somebody, and we’re not going to totally dictate everything. We are going to help guide you on what you like and just give different ideas.”

FOUNDATION GIVES BACK Mason got the idea for his foundation after he had agreed to partner with a different organization to do a football camp that cost $70 per child. As it got closer to the time of the camp, Mason felt he couldn’t participate because of his memories watching his own mom struggle to come up with the money for him to participate in similar activities.

“He said, ‘I grew up in a single mom home and watched you work two or three jobs all my life.

I can’t, as a man, watch some children be turned away because of money.’”

And so he started his own camp, and it was completely free, from the T-shirts to the food, all with his own money. Now in its third year, he has sponsors to help, but it is always completely free for the children. The camp did have to be put on hold this year because of COVID-19, but plans are for it to return next year.

Shaq and his mom, Alicia, are very close, and they worked together to make sure his home in Columbia was everything he dreamed it could be.

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And for Christmas, Mason picks an elementary school every year and hosts a Shaq Mason Christmas through the foundation, gifting each child in the school a tablet and a bag with candy and gifts.

“I always say I stand back and I literally watched my child’s dreams come true,” McGuire says. “Not about him being a professional athlete. I look more at him as Shaquille Mason, the man. As a mother, that’s what you want. I just want him to be a good person. I never really cared about him being a good football player. I wanted him to be a good person. A decent person. I mean, you can’t ask for more than that.” NI

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View From The Top A DEVELOPER AND DESIGNER DREAM TEAM CONCEPTUALIZE WHAT’S NEXT IN DOWNTOWN LIVING — THEN CREATE IT

BY HOLLIE DEESE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL ROBINSON

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o one could ever accuse developer Tony Giarratana of thinking too small. In his last 30 years of building and renovation in downtown Nashville’s central business district, he has continued to push new ideas and make change, bringing the first high-rise apartments and the first high-rise condominiums to Nashville’s urban core.

To date, Giarratana has developed more than 500,000 square feet of retail and office space – and counting – with the most stunning 3,400 square feet at the top of Giarratana’s 505 Nashville, the tallest building in the state by roof height. (The AT&T building beats it in actual height.)

Aerie is the penthouse. And nobody is living any higher up than that.

Two stories tall and surrounded by glass, the views from Giarratana’s residence with wife, Lisa, encompass every iconic Nashville landmark, including Nissan Stadium, the Cumberland River and the AT&T “bat” building.

“It was really Lisa’s prompting,” Giarratana says about why he decided to create the space. “She said, ‘Tony, you’ve wanted to do a penthouse in one of your buildings. We’ve done dozens of these. You have this vision for what you want it to be. Why don’t you do it?’”

Luxurious from top to bottom, with custom furnishings and state-of-the-art technology, the contemporary residence was a stylistic departure for the Giarratanas, whose primary residence is a horse farm in Williamson County. They turned to Chicago-based designer Frank Ponterio, whom they had worked with on a wine and private dining space at 505.

Tony Giarratana and his wife, Lisa, have created a modern living space that is located on top of his 505 Nashville tower — making it the tallest residence in the state,

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Glass windows do most of the work in making the space breathtaking, the views stretching on for miles. Below, the kitchen features Samuel Heath plumbing, Snaidero cabinetry and hand-selected stone countertops from Italy.

“We really wanted to push the envelope of what is the possibility of luxury high rise living in Nashville, Tennessee.”

— Tony Giarratana

“Frank has great taste, expensive taste. The joke at the cellar is we gave him an unlimited budget, and he exceeded it.”

But they also need the space to be more than a home – it needs to be a place to entertain guests or business partners.

“There are wide open spaces for entertaining, which allows us to take advantage of the expansive views,” Giarratana says. “But at the same time we can use intimate seating groups and areas for living.”

In considering the design, Ponterio wanted to help the Giarratanas achieve the goal of a modern retreat – one that emulated the contemporary building, yet spoke to their relaxed, comfortable lifestyle.

“I understood what 505 was all about. So, how to

combine those two lifestyles and make everybody feel like it’s their house – that was really the challenge,” Ponterio says. “Tony likes things really clean and contemporary.

Lisa does, too, but she also really loves antiques and things with patina.”

To achieve this mix, Ponterio chose a variety of textures, global furnishings and finishes mixed with the latest home design technology, including Jamb lighting, Samuel Heath plumbing, Snaidero cabinetry, hand-selected stone countertops from Italy, hand-crafted French white oak flooring, upholstered wool walls and new recessed lighting by Porsche Design Studio.

Intimate spaces can be found, too, the quiet moments making the entrance into the main living space that much more impressive.

Ponterio also selected abstract, organic pieces from one of his favorite Chicago artists, Lonney White, to center the space, as well as lighting and furniture from his own collections with Avrett and Lee Jofa.

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Across, Tony says all he wanted was a couple of chairs in the corner to look out over Nashville. It might just be the best view in the state. Above, Lisa loves to entertain, it was her big wish to have a piano on the space. Left, it’s easy to bathe in the open when no one is high enough to see in.

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“I think it needs to be experienced to really be appreciated,” Ponterio says of the final space, which is a balance of minimalistic masculine with a comfortable, grounded sensibility truly befitting the highest perch in Nashville’s growing skyline – one Giarratana has had a pretty heavy hand in helping along.

“I just wanted a couple of chairs in the corner, so I can sit there at sunset and watch the sun going down,” Giarratana says. “And even the ugly buildings look good. And then the lights of the city come up, and it’s breathtaking. There’s no way for me to describe this to you other than it’s breathtaking.” NI

Left, designer Frank Ponterio with Lisa Giarratana, worked to create the ultimate space for living, entertaining and soaking in a perspective of Nashville not many get to enjoy.

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ichelle Kraker, half of the style duo that is Interior Edit Nashville, has strong memories of her childhood Christmases and traditions that she remains faithful to today.

Her mom would go all out for the holiday, cramming all the ornaments Kraker and her three siblings had made over the years onto the tree ringed with ’90s-era multicolored lights and crowned with a sparkling tree topper.

“It was definitely very nostalgic, and every Christmas morning, my dad would read the Christmas story from the Bible,” she says. “We couldn’t even open presents until that was done, so we would be trying to appreciate it while at the same time, being like, ‘Wrap it up, Dad.’ It was a really special time for my family.”

With the COVID-19 pandemic blowing so many holiday traditions out of the water, Kraker says it might be fun to try something totally different for Christmas 2020. The décor in our homes is

BY HOLLIE DEESE something we can control, after all, so going a completely different direction this season could inspire some new traditions to add to the mix in years to come.

“Even though I like a glam look, it could be that next year I’ll do more of a simple farmhouse or find clients who want a cottage feel. And that’s what’s fun for me — finding those different styles and not just doing what I like,” she says.

Across, Michelle Kraker, left, and Katie Jimenez will come and audit your Christmas decorations, shop for new ones and help create a glamorous scene. Above, Kraker’s four dogs — Dolce, Dolly, Birdie and Little Bear — love holiday decor.

Left, mixing animal print and gold makes for an unexpected holiday scene.

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Kraker, with business partner Katie Jimenez, helps people audit their existing décor. Then they either add to it to evoke a new magical scene, or they buy everything from tree to tinsel and set it all up — helping clients define their personal style.

Kraker and Jimenez recently teamed up in their business, offering decorating services for the holidays — and not just Christmas — as well as styling all year long.

One tradition Kraker has begun with her husband that is an homage to her childhood is sawing off and saving a sliver from the bottom of each year’s fresh-cut Christmas tree. It has become a visual reminder of how much they have grown together from the year before.

“When we were broke in Chicago in a studio apartment, we had the Charlie Brown Christmas tree, so it’s like a quarter size,” she says. “You can tell that once we got a little bit more money, the slivers got bigger and bigger.

So now it’s like a pyramid stack.”

She is of the opinion that this year, or any year, really, you can’t have too many trees. Kraker plans on pushing the envelope in her own home, though, to test the theory.

“I am envisioning when people walk in, it’s just lined with Christmas trees,” she says. “They are just like big warm, glowy candles.” NI

Clockwise from above, Kraker loves gifts wrapped to match the decor; you can never have too many trees — like glowing candles — Kraker says; pups fit right in.

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mhad Freeman may be one of Nashville’s most sought-after designers right now—constantly being approached by bigger firms in Chicago and clients out of state—but it is not anything he could have imagined when he first arrived in Tennessee.

Originally from Alabama, Freeman moved to the area to attend Middle Tennessee State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in finance in 2005, but numbers weren’t what fueled him.

“I was just kind of chasing money, and I guess I was good at it,” Freeman says. “But then I was like, I’m just not happy and I’m not going to live that way.”

So he returned to school for design and eventually secured an internship with Brentwood commercial developer Interior Design Services. When the lead architect there started his own firm, he interned there the next summer.

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He returned to IDS for one last internship, then considered taking a job with the acclaimed Bruce Fox in Chicago. He ultimately stayed, though, cutting his teeth with a development firm doing tall-and-skinnys around Nashville.

“I got to know all the ins and outs about what I consider to be interior design,” he says, and he worked on perfecting everything from construction drawings to client relations. One day he had the confidence and experience to start his own firm.

“I just felt like, at that point in my life, I was ready to do my own thing,” he says. “The opportunities are endless if I go out on my own.”

Since then he has taken on projects like this Brentwood home, spending 18 months on design before they even started construction. While Freeman was used to having guidelines, for this project he was given plenty of room to push the design envelope.

“They gave me the freedom to stretch my legs, and they really just kind of stood back,” Freeman says. “They wanted something that was a modern farmhouse, which is very popular here, but they let me do my spin on it.”

The result was indicative of his aesthetic—classic, clean and sophisticated with lots of art and a focus on the home’s architectural details.

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“I don’t like a lot of fuss,” he says. “There’s just a calmness and a stillness to my design that resonates these days.”

And this fall Freeman was tapped to be one of 16 designers of The Iconic Home, a virtual showhouse presented by Architectural Digest and the Black Interior Designers Network.

A first-of-its-kind event, the Brooklyn-based firm Studio 397 Architecture handled the overall design, with each participant designing one room or area. Taken together, their interiors form a virtual dwelling whose design highlights the breadth of Black design creativity.

Now Nashville’s challenge is stopping other cities from trying to lure him away.

“Nashville is growing by leaps and bounds, and I hope my design can grow here too,” he says. NI

Amhad Freeman specializes in residential and commercial development, and he was recently part of the all Black-designed Architectural Digest virtual designer showhouse.

Left, his work on this Brentwood home speaks to his desire to keep things clean and modern while playing up homes’ artchitectural details.

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Through his design, Freeman focuses on quality and timeless pieces.

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AT CHRISTOPHER PEACOCK’S NEW LUXURY CABINETRY SHOWROOM, CONCEPT, DESIGN AND QUALITY ARE ALL ON DISPLAY

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hristopher Peacock wouldn’t necessarily say he was born creative, but there’s certainly something about being an only child that bred it as he filled time playing and exploring alone in his home in Essex, just outside of London.

“I had a lot of time to kill,” he says. “I would go into my bedroom and I would paint and I would draw and I would build things. And whether it was Legos or making toy airplanes, I would spend a lot of time alone, and that gets your imagination going.”

Not that he was a forgotten child — his parents were always with him, at home or taking him to work. His mother was a television executive, running the documentary division of one of the networks at the time.

His father was a builder for a company developing large buildings in London. And while the family didn’t own the business, his whole family worked there — his father, grandfather, brothers, all worked there.

“I was certainly immersed into that world at a very young age,” Peacock says. “On a Saturday afternoon, he would take me up into London and I’d walk around these huge construction sites. And so, without me realizing it, I was immersed in building things. And he was also a guy that did everything himself. So if we needed a coffee table at home, he would go out in the garage and make it.”

In fact, one of his earliest memories is of his father building the family’s

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kitchen cabinets and installing them himself.

“I grew up without fear of making things,” he says. “Some people are sort of fearful of actually trying to make something big, but he showed me that it was possible to do, no matter what it was. If you thought about it and applied yourself to it, then you will be able to do it yourself.”

Peacock credits his parents with helping set him up to understand the business side of things, but they also encouraged his creativity. Throughout school he would take arts and ceramics — but never carpentry.

“I was not a carpenter. I’m still not a carpenter,” he says. What he was skilled at — drawing, painting and transferring a design from vision to paper.

He can also play a number of instruments, but drumming is where he excels.

He progressed from banging around as a child to playing in bands with some success as he got older on the London music scene in the late ’70s and early ’80s.

“The other big part of my life, still to this day, is music,” Peacock says. “And I really wanted to be a musician but realized I was probably not going to be a successful one, even though I was pretty good one.”

Coincidentally, the father of the lead singer of the band Peacock was in had a kitchen cabinet business and asked him when he was about 19 if he wanted to make some extra money on the weekends doing deliveries.

“So I would drive the delivery truck during the day and load up kitchen

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But he also loved to travel and explore, and whenever he made enough money he’d go on a trip — Europe, Australia, America.

“So I had all these influences,” he says. “And I found that through driving a delivery truck for kitchen cabinetry, I was exposed to design and just immersed in this world. And I realized that I could do that. And I found it quite easy to do.

I actually found myself thinking I could do it better than the guys who I was working with.”

Peacock ended up working in one of the showrooms, designing and drawing and tapping into his knowledge of construction. And being in the showroom revealed yet another talent he had — connecting with people.

“I found it very easy to talk to people and deliver my ideas to them. And they liked it and they would buy things from me,” he says. “So I was suddenly in this world of cabinet design. I moved up to London and got a job at Heal’s, a famous furniture store owned by Terence Conran.”

Conran, an iconic British designer, founded the Design Museum in London and created the IKEA-precursor, Habitat. Conran died Sept. 12, 2020, at age 88.

It’s all about the details, the quality and the customer experience at Christopher Peacock’s new showroom at the Nashville Design Collective.

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What started in the kitchen has taken over the whole house, and Peacock’s customers increasingly require custom cabinets in places like closets.

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“I was in his design department, designing cabinetry for quite a ritzy set of people and honing my craft in London,” Peacock says. By 1987 he was 27 and had an opportunity to move to America, designing a showroom for modern German cabinet brand SieMatic in the Boston Design Center. Shortly after, he was hired by British luxury design company Smallbone and moved to New York.

GOING IT ALONE Peacock was designing kitchens and traveling throughout the U.S. and loving life. “It was great — Manhattan in the late ’80s and ’90s. It was a lot of fun,” Peacock says.

Until the recession hit in 1991, and people stopped buying luxury British cabinets. But it ended up being exactly what Peacock needed to motivate him into what was next.

“There was a real turning point of ‘Well, what do I do now?’” he says. “People used to approach me to do work privately often, and I never really did it. Then one day I just said, ‘Why not?’” Working privately hit all his strengths, including how good he was with people one on one. And it didn’t hurt that he had always thought maybe he could do things better than they had been done before.

So he took on some private work, put one cabinet display in a local interior design shop and opened up a 12’ x 12’ showroom space in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1992.

“I bought an Apple computer and a printer, and I think it

Customers work closely with the deisgn team to achieve a look that is just right for their home, whether it’s modern pink or traditional wood.

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cost me $5,000,” he says. “Put it on a credit card. I didn’t even know how to use it. It was just me.” But doing it all himself is what he needed to build a company to his own high standards.

Word of mouth spread, and one job led to another, then another. In those early days he knew he had to do one kitchen a month to make any money.

To control manufacturing he borrowed some money for some machinery, set up a little workshop and hired some guys to make cabinets as he sold them.

“I wasn’t really thinking past Connecticut at the time,” Peacock says. “I was just happy to be doing that. And then it just started to grow.”

Customers were drawn to Peacock not just for the style, but also for his drive to serve the customer and make sure they were happy with the process and what he designed. “When you’re small, every job counts,” he says.

But as he started to pick up more work, he would suddenly be in Florida or some other part of the country to work on a client’s second home. So he opened a bigger showroom. And then he started to build a showroom network, one step at a time.

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France and London, England.

Peacock and his team slowly and carefully decide where to expand and open the next showroom, taking into consideration the demographics of the population, the architecture of the neighborhoods, style of the homes and even the kinds of cars residents drive.

“It’s really about what people value,” he says. For example, in Southern California people might spend a lot of money on the right car or large house with a swimming pool, but they’re not that worried about what the inside of the kitchen cabinetry looks like. But in Dallas, homes are often well appointed, inside and out.

“People are not necessarily putting cabinetry into their first home, but when they are building something that is going to last forever, they’re attracted to things that are well-made and traditional in the sense of how they’re put together and executed,” he says.

But even after all the research, it really comes down to what Peacock feels.

“At the end of the day, it’s a gut feeling,” he says. “And that was the case for Nashville.”

Ten years ago Christopher Peacock was tapped to do the cabinets in The Manning Belle Meade development, which slowed down for a while but is in production again now. And with the influx of people from all over the country, it felt like the right time to open a showroom here when the

Nashville Design Collective began booking vendors.

“It just felt like the timing was right, to be part of a very exciting time for the city,” he says.

Of course, the appeal to him as a musician didn’t hurt either.

“Not every decision I make is based purely from a business point of view,” he says. “I actually have to want to do it and enjoy it. It has to be fun. The travel has to be fun. The people that I hang out with have to be fun. And going to Nashville on a regular basis, how bad is that?

If you’re a drummer, it’s pretty good.”

And since he can’t play too much now because of COVID-19, he can focus on the opening of the Nashville showroom, which has a handful of displays with a mixture of products to show the range of projects they can do — from a butler’s pantry in a Williamson County rebuild to downtown pre-war bathroom renovations.

“I started out really as a kitchen guy, but very often that’s where the conversation starts with a client, and we will then do cabinetry for every room in the home,” he says. “We could do a dressing room, we could do a library, we could do a bathroom, we could do a butler’s pantry. So we tried to show a little bit of all of that in the showroom to give people a taste of the breadth of product. But, having said that, we’re not trying to be all things to all people. The real goal is for people to come in and experience the quality of what we do and see that there’s this consistency in what we do.”

Because if all goes well, that visit to the showroom is the beginning of a journey that will end with a toast together over the completion of a dream design project.

“We are not trying to just sell them on anything. The client has to be the right client for us. People come in and they either like us and they get it, or they don’t, and there’s no in-between. And so the showroom is about that. It’s about immersing them in our brand and what we do so they get a feel of the culture of the company,” he says.

MATERIALS AND MAKERS MATTER Peacock’s philosophy has always been to produce handcrafted cabinetry of the highest quality, using the finest materials and offering an unparalleled level of professional service to its clientele. Simple, right?

But anyone who has tried to maintain a level of quality in anything knows how hard it can be to consistently deliver.

“I always chose to do it myself. I never wanted to let go of the process and expose myself to a drop in service,” he says. “It just was never a question to me: I would make it. I would deliver it. I would install it. I would finish it. And I’d be there for the client the whole way through.

I just thought that’s how you build a business. That’s how you build your reputation. And that’s how you sleep comfortably at night, knowing you had control of that.”

Though he isn’t a one-man show anymore, Peacock is still committed to making everything in the USA, with materials sourced here, so a dedicated partnership among the management, the design team, the master carpenters and the decorative artists helps keep customers happy. And that is something he is always going to control.

“The logistics of designing and making cabinetry and shipping it and getting it delivered and installed in someone’s home — there are so many moving parts and pieces to getting that to happen successfully,”

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BUILDING, DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT he says. “I would see companies fail when they didn’t deliver a part or a part broken, or it was ordered incorrectly, or it got stolen from the job site. Any number of things could happen, and what that meant to the customer was a problem. And it was such a breakdown in the customer service experience — you would have someone 90 percent finished, but they couldn’t get done because some part had to come from Europe. And that wasn’t uncommon.”

In a small town in West Virginia, about 70 workers create the cabinets Peacock designs, a community dedicated to family and hard work and creating something beautiful.

“These are some of the best artisans,” says Peacock. “They’ve learned from their relatives, and it’s something that’s passed on, which is very special. We are genuine in what we say.

We try to do everything as well as we can. The culture and the people within the company are amazing. I mean, they are just good people, and everyone really cares. We just want to do the best job we can for everybody.”

Ultimately, Peacock is inspired by the mentality his father’s generation had after the second World War to make everything they needed, a natural approach to seeing a piece of wood and fashioning it into something. He is pushing that to the extremes of some of the finest homes in the world.

And now in Nashville we get to experience that firsthand.

“I’ve lived [in the U.S.] for 33 years now,” Peacock says. “The United States has been an amazing country for me. To be able to start from nothing, build a business and have the support of people with a can-do attitude is really an amazing thing to experience.” NI

Artisans in West Virginia complete Peacock’s vision, many of them learning woodworking from their own family traditions. Right, Christopher Peacock.

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The former mop manufacturing facility has been transformed into a hub for designers, architects, builders and anyone seeking insipiration for their home.

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hen you first walk into the twostory Nashville Design Collective building in Wedgewood-Houston, it is hard to envision it as the mop factory that it once was — until you look up and see large-scale art inspired by the textile.

The partnership of the NDC is between Anne Puricelli and Matthew Quinn, and the result is a one-stop shop for luxury builders, homeowners and designers to get everything they need for home renovation.

Before the NDC partnership, Puricelli’s background was in sales and marketing in the design world, running a French brand of artisan kitchen ranges called La Cornue. Quinn,

owner of Atlanta-based Design Galleria Kitchen and Bath Studio, was a client.

“I’m used to working with designers and architects, and Matthew was one of my clients for years and years and years,” she says.

A San Francisco native, she was moving back to Nashville for the second time when Quinn approached her about opening their second showroom here as Design Galleria was ready to expand.

She took that idea and pushed it further, suggesting that Nashville was ready for a design center. After the two talked about it more, they decided to partner on the Nashville Design Collective, which would be home to the Design Galleria’s new showroom.

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Initial thoughts were rather small scale — maybe something with room for four showrooms, tops.

But once they started putting feelers out to their contacts, they realized they had tapped into something much bigger.

“Then we happened to find the building that we’re in, which was almost 50,000 square feet — much bigger than we wanted,” Puricelli says.

“But, it’s a great building in a great location. We didn’t know exactly that it was this great at the time. So we bought it and kind of just jumped in and got to work.”

Converting the warehouse of the secondbiggest mop manufacturer in the country into a luxury design space took vision, though, and lots of work. Then a pandemic added more stress to the situation. But today, the 15-showroom space is nearly booked, and tenants have been in place for months seeing clients and addressing a nonstop housing market.

“The new construction alone is off the charts, but there’s also so many people moving in from out of state that are buying older homes and redoing them,” Puricelli says. “So you’ve got this perfect storm of population growth with new money coming in, new to Nashville, and some old homes that are really outdated in either construction or styling.”

That’s what makes the NDC singularly poised to explode with activity once COVID-related restrictions are relaxed. That, and community.

Andrew Denny of Textures was one of the first showrooms to open in the space, and he says that is exactly why he wanted to be at the NDC — connecting with others in his field and finding ways to best support each other and their clients.

“Being in community with other folks who are serving that luxury market, and able to support our clients, is really first and foremost the most important thing to us,” he says. “And it’s been absolutely unbelievable. The traffic has been people that are really excellent at what they do — the best interior designers, luxury home builders, architects. It’s really been phenomenal.”

And it’s exactly what Puricelli hoped would happen.

“The camaraderie that’s already come out among the showrooms is so nice,” Puricelli says.

“We are watching this magic happen, and it’s been fun to see because that was always our goal — to walk the hall and everyone’s doors were open and it was a big community. And it’s happening.” NI 74 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS | Fall 2020/Winter 2021

Above, Circa Lighting was one of the first showrooms to open at NDC, owned by Matthew Quinn and Anne Puricelli.

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India Mayer, left, and Katy Shah of Of Note.

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n the midst of Nashville’s exploding growth and rise as a national “It” city, Katy Shah and India Mayer had a great idea. Build a community around the area’s social media influencers by providing them a space to create content, cultivate brand relationships and connect with others in their community so they didn’t feel so alone in building their own brands.

The idea seemed solid before the tornadoes ripped through East Nashville — thankfully sparing the house that was the center of their new business — and a global pandemic took hold of the nation. And months later, it seems just as solid as ever, if not more so.

They had the foundation and commitment to build. And when things are chaos around you, that is sometimes all you need to succeed.

Shah and Mayer first met working for The Callaway, learning from boss Libby Callaway that you could have a successful company

without having rigid guidelines, and that it is okay to always be changing. And they also learned from Callaway how to get larger cities to take Nashville brands seriously.

“The idea had been evolving for the past couple of years,” Shah says. “We both had the experience of living and working in bigger cities in public relations and influencer marketing — I was in New York, and she was in Chicago — and when we moved to Nashville we quickly realized that brands had a hard time talking to people in regional markets outside of New York, LA, Chicago. And with our previous job, we started trying to think of ways to fix that.”

With their company Of Note, they plan on expanding that concept, together, supporting each other as they create a company that works for them now and as they grow their families. Shah is expecting her first child in January.

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another, and it’s a huge risk going off on your own,” Shah says. “And this is how we want to operate our lives. Supporting each other.”

Building Note House The pair had initially been looking in Germantown for something they thought would be more central for area influencers, but they just couldn’t find the kind of house they wanted.

Then their Realtor found the 11th Avenue South home before it was on the market.

Katie Vance with Powell Architecture and Building Studio led the design/build process, working with Shah and Mayer to create a space that would appeal to influencers looking for different backdrops and textures, but also those who really understood good design and quality materials.

Above, Katie Vance with Powell Architecture and Building Studio helped Mayer and Shah achieve their goal of creating a home with different layers and textures to appeal to social media influncers.

“When they approached me about this concept, I was like, ‘Well, I love it.’ It is so different, but I instantly got it,” says Vance, who immediately began concepting ways to make the entire house Instagrammable.

“It was really important to give people a lot of different options for photographing in the space,” she adds. “So giving a marble countertop, giving a wood countertop, giving all kinds of options to shoot different products.”

Powell has mainly done commercial work in the past — Eleven Willow, The Russell Hotel, The Green Pheasant — but would love to do more residential work. Note House was the perfect introduction.

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“We do architecture, interiors and construction,” Vance says. “This was a great project to take through that whole process from start to finish. It has been a great collaboration on the construction and everybody working together.”

Vance, who also runs Porter Flea, loves to put local makers into her projects, especially now as small business and Nashville’s entire hospitality industry struggles through a pandemic.

“I think that’s important to have that woven into the fabric,” she says, inspired by how people have had to redirect their energies and find new ways to stay in business, thinking out of the box with new ideas while knowing it is imperative that they do so to have a chance to make it through to the other side.

“I drove by Marche the other day and couldn’t believe we won’t be having brunch there again,” Vance says. “We’ve got to remember what we’ve lost, but then we also have to keep going and keep building these cool projects and doing these cool things. I have always been so proud of Nashville for having such an incredible hospitality industry and the clients that I’ve worked with. They’ve got to keep pushing so we can get out of this.”

Downstairs is a plethora of visually appealing spaces perfect for shooting all kinds of content — a textured wall, an architectural fireplace surround, a graphic mural by artist Ellie Caudill in an ADA-compliant bathroom.

One room is just for podcasts. Another is

One corner is filled with two big LoveSac beanbag chairs, and plants from Zion Botanicals are in almost every room.

“We really thought, even in this space, like everywhere else in the house, how many photos could they get? How many different textures? We have seven kinds of chairs just upstairs,” says Shah.

For influencers there is a membership model, a monthly fee that gives them access to the house, including the fashion closet, the podcast room and the co-working space upstairs.

Daily rates are available for things like booking the kitchen for a photo shoot or staging the house with a client’s products.

Above, Red Rocks Tileworks partnered with Shah and Mayer to provide materials for Note House. The spiral staircase has already provided lots of visual content online.

“We heard a lot from influencers and content creators that they really felt like they were on an island, and no one really understands what they do,” Mayer says. “They were feeling like it was kind of like the Wild West — they don’t know what to charge brands. They don’t know how to communicate with other influencers and be transparent about the brands they’re working with. They are their own mini brands, which is so Nashville. Everyone’s working on their own. So now we’re bringing the community together.”

So in a time when brands are looking for innovative ways to create content and connect with their audience, Of Note and Note House are just the kind of things they are willing to try to create new partnerships.

“Let’s say H & M sees a photo that gets a ton of engagement, and they love that content. They can reach out to us if they really want to work with that man or woman aside from the house,” Shah says. “It’s a good testing period where they can see the content before having to pay that person, then hire that person for a bigger program.”

Andrew Denny with Textures provided all of the flooring at Note House. He was introduced to the project by Vance, whom he had worked with many times in the past for other Powell projects.

soundproofed for shooting video. A fashion closet is filled with items from brands like H&M for influencers to take and create content. A bathroom was specially designed to be able to shoot long-angle pictures.

“It felt like they wanted to create a world-class environment that would be appropriate for influencers to be able to come in and have a shared workspace. What that meant to us was more of a modern design, not necessarily contemporary, but modern in the process,” Denny says. “I think they hit everything they were looking for.” NI

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“If they’ve got a Pantene commercial, they know most influencers don’t have a giant bathroom that has a perfect angle to shoot it,” Shah says. “We do.”

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“So the influencers would shoot their content downstairs and then come up here to their desk and sit and post,” Mayer says.

And just like downstairs, there are sponsorships upstairs.

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esigner Anna Caro with MOTIV Interiors has a commitment to sustainable design, so when she and her husband, Zack, bought a 950-square-foot house in Ashland City, she knew that together they could build the home they had been dreaming of, one that was connected to nature yet still sophisticated, comfortable and stunning — perfect for entertaining now, with room to grow as a family in the future.

“Because it’s such a small floor plan, we were both thinking about what is essential from the beginning, even before the pandemic happened,” Anna says.

Zack, a Nashville native, was totally on board to let his wife take the lead on the sustainable renovation and design, while he and a work associate handled all of the labor. They hired a neighbor to do the cabinetry and custom built-ins Anna designed, while another neighbor installed plumbing.

“It was a pretty quick design situation because we did demo in one week, and then it was time to start putting it back together again,” she says. “I enjoyed that because I was able to design on instinct alone without fretting over things too much. I had to make decisions quickly.”

Zack wanted a lot of color, and she wanted to have a nice balance of open, bright spaces and cozier spaces.

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With just over 900 square feet to work with, the Caros were confident they could create a home they could live, entertain and work in. The pandemic put them to the test right away, and the result was better than they could have hoped. All the rooms can be open or closed off from each other, making them each work as flex spaces.

is native to Tennessee. They implemented efficient lighting, plumbing and HVAC systems.

“You have to be really smart about every little detail when you’re working with such a small space,” she says. “I think everybody has a different definition of what it means to be comfortable or what luxury is. And for us, it means having great views to the outside and just being able to relax and not have a bunch of clutter around.”

They bought the property in June 2019, moved in midDecember and finished everything at the start of March — just in time to hunker down for the next few months.

Luckily, another neighbor came over and tilled up a 30- by 30-foot patch of dirt that became the Caros’ first vegetable garden. It provided produce through the first months of the pandemic.

Above, the main living room is multifunctional, with space for guests or even an impromtu jam session. Left, a custom headboard with built-in end tables was a space saving solution that made the bedroom smaller but afforded extra room for guest room closets.

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The two were musicians who fell in love playing in the band Anna and The Ladykillers before they got married and moved to the country. She is originally from Clarksville, but her parents met at Yellowstone National Park in the ’70s. They always wanted to go back out West, so she grew up in Bozeman, Montana, in the Rocky Mountains.

“My upbringing really formed a lot of my strong convictions towards conservancy and environmental activism,” she says.

She ultimately moved to Nashville to be closer to songwriting and give the music industry a shot, but the more she got into it, the more she knew it wasn’t the right fit. She went back to school for design at Watkins.

“This renovation proved you can still have everything you want and need within a small footprint by focusing on what is essential and what’s going to give you the most impact for how you want to live your life,” Anna says.

“That’s helpful for distilling it down to what you really need and what you really want. And because we did that, we’ve got a place that we’re really happy with.” NI

Neither of them is afraid of color, and deep greens and blues are the colors they chose.

Below, a neighbor helped build the custom wood built-in seating area in the kitchen, which also now serves as a home workspace.

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rystal Shade started making pottery about 10 years ago, hooked after a continuing education class. Tony Perrin launched his Lock & Key jewelry line six years ago, a coalescence of all the creative professional pursuits he has had over the years, including a background in dance, fashion and costume design.

Both tenants of the 100 Taylor Creative Arts building in Germantown, the two connected after the tornados in March, followed immediately by closures due to COVID-19. Instead of finding their creativity stifled during the pandemic, together they were able to make something beautiful out of something broken.

Perrin’s wife had broken one of his favorite Jonathan Adler vases, and Shade suggested he cover the crack with bronze flowers like he used in his jewelry. The result was stunning, and together they decided to collaborate on a small home décor line in porcelain and bronze, Modern Heirloom, that includes vases, picture frames and jewelry plates.

“The tornado inspired me a lot,” Shade says. “And this is not something I ever would have done on my own.”

Perrin says he is always trying to make lemonade out of lemons, and this collaboration is the perfect example of that.

“I think it’s a really great story of perseverance and partnership,” Perrin says.

The collaboration has since expanded to others in the 100 Taylor Creative Arts Building where they are located, with the opening of Gallery 100, a shop that showcases items made by other artists in the building, like Mary Kathryn jewelry and the Revelhaus beauty line. Of course, each of their individual product lines is there too.

Crystal Shade brings her ceramic skills and Tony Perrin brings his jewelry making techniques to their collaborative project.

Bronze and porcelain combine in a beautiful home decor collaboration.

ART, ARTISANS AND ANTIQUES “Hearing how many galleries have been closing in Nashville and how much transitioning was happening in the building, we approached Ron (Runyeon) and asked if he would be open to partnering with the community in the building, to nurture them and establish a destination that has a gallery and work spaces for the artists’ community at large,” Perrin says.

The answer was an enthusiastic yes, and the result is a return to the kind of collaborative spirit that Nashville has always been known for.

“We’re an artist collective, and I think if there’s more things that we can do to support each other in a positive way, especially during this time. Creating that sort of infrastructure means that as things get easier and we get busier, we’ll already have it established. I’m hopeful for what it can stand for and how it could really help support our community.” NI

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MARIA D’SOUZA OF BEADED SKULL ART

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t all starts with a dream. Or maybe it’s more of an inspired vision. But the design for each animal skull Maria D’Souza handbeads appears in her head before she begins to translate it to the piece.

“I always have a book on my nightstand, and I capture everything,” she says. “That’s like my little Bible that goes everywhere with me. I am so amazed each and every time I look at a particular color that’s come into my mind’s eye or through a vision, and I think, ‘How on earth am I going to get this color?’”

Luckily, D’Souza has bead manufacturers overseas that produce three-dimensional cut beads cut beads specifically for her, and they are excited when she pushes them to get the colors she dreams up.

“Usually it’s a yes,” she says.

Building on skulls of the world’s most beautiful animals, D’Souza combines color and dimension to create one-of-a-kind pieces. She says she is inspired by the seemingly random perfection of nature, as she imagines the spirit of the animal and brings it new life through

Right, the piece titled “Nashville Soul” was made for “The Young and the Restless” star Tracey Bregman from a longhorn skull.

Seated, from left, Tracey Bregman, Maria, D’Souza and Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center CEO Cheryl Strichik.

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color, motion and depth.

“I was looking at Western art, especially when I was out in Arizona and Wyoming, and I would see a lot of people create on animal skulls.

I’m a huge animal lover and wanted to do it ethically, so I found the means and started experimenting with beads and materials, like silver, pewter and copper.”

Honoring the life of the animal is at the core of D’Souza’s art. Mounts from domesticated Longhorns and bison come from small family farms, animal sanctuaries and parks after they have lived out their lives, often cared for as pets. She does not source from factory farms or meat-processing facilities.

“Some of the pets, I get the stories behind them, and those are really cool,” she says.

As for the mounts of wild animals, they are sourced from a network of people known as “deadhead” and “shed” searchers who scour wilderness for skulls, antlers and horns of animals that have died of natural causes or been killed by predators. Animals in colder climates (elk, moose, pronghorn and deer)

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often die in abnormally heavy and sudden snowfalls, ice storms or severe cold snaps.

Most U.S. states require deadhead searchers to purchase a special salvage tag from their state’s wildlife agency to certify, remove and sell found skulls. The import of mounts from African continents and other foreign nations is also highly regulated, and special licensing is required.

It’s all extra effort she is happy to undertake knowing the regulations generate fees that support wildlife conservation and help prevent

Above, detail of “Nashville Soul,” the piece D’Souza completed for Bregman. Left, a closeup of a beaded elk skull.

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poaching. And it’s important to her that people understand that her work comes from a place of honor.

“And just giving it new life, one bead at a time,” she says.

“It’s definitely a process where you have to trust. You have to be in the moment — no design is repeated. I’ve tried repeating designs, and I fail every time. So let’s see what the animal calls for.”

D’Souza has been on many wildlife observatory tours here and overseas, in Africa and in the Middle East. It’s there she fell in love with the Arabian oryx — national animal of Jordan, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — and has built a network of people there to work with.

“In Africa, we actually feed a village when, say, a kudu is hunted. So nothing goes to waste. Everything is used,” she says.

It’s hard for her to say how long each piece takes to complete, especially when they all start in her dreams and visions — if she doesn’t see anything, there’s no work being done. But once she does begin, it can be up to 180 hours for a longhorn or big bison. Recently, a client shipped her an ibex skull from Spain, and it took weeks before the design appeared in her mind’s eye — the pattern, the colors. But once she knew what to do, it was done in about 80 hours.

Always artistic, she painted as a child, her parents joking they couldn’t even fall asleep around her or she would be painting their faces.

“I’ve always painted, always been artistic,” she says. “I think it comes from my grandfather who always painted. He never did much with it, but he always sold locally back in Portugal. So I don’t know whether it’s hereditary or what, but I caught on. I’m very in tune with contemporary art and what you can do with colors.”

Her work is now a part of the permanent collection at the Booth Western Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, as well as the Monthaven Art & Cultural Center in Hendersonville, and she says her ongoing inspiration comes from her exposure to varied cultures — she is Portuguese-Indian and has lived on five continents.

And her ability to give in to the process helps propel her through each project.

“What I realized is that giving up that fear, turning it into blind faith and trusting the process — the steps are totally unknown,” she says. “Clients will ask me if I know what the sketch is going to look like, and I don’t know till it’s finished.

I work in the moment.” NI

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