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Architect James Carter’s House Is Full of His History By Donna Cornelius
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hen architect James Carter meets with clients, he asks a question: What do you want your house to say about you? His own house makes a statement, but not in stark black-and-white terms. “I wanted to express the duality of my personality – casual and formal, city and country,” Carter said. Thus, the house he built three years ago in Mountain Brook is full not only of treasures collected from his travels, but also family possessions dear to his heart. He’s just as fond of the little toy steam engine that belonged to his father as he is of a Chippendale-style writing table, a Chinese export he found in New York. The house’s walls hold a collection of Italian gouache paintings, maps, portraits – and a painting done by his grandmother when she was 7 years old. “It all means something,” Carter said. Journal photo by Lee Walls Jr.
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