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24th April 2024
Posted by Susan Sully
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The Search is on for Southern Houses in the Country and Southern Houses on the Shore

  I'm starting two new book projects, Southern Houses in the Country and Southern Houses on the Shore, and am scouting for dwellings in inland and coastal (lake, river, marsh,...

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24th May 2022
Posted by Susan Sully
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Upcoming Events for the launch of The Allure of Charleston

The Charleston Library Society launch of my new book, The Allure of Charleston, was a big success, with a sell-out of audience of 150. Buxton Books offered a pop-up shop...

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10th May 2022
Posted by Susan Sully
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Debut Lecture at the Charleston Library Society

Please join me for the debut lecture based on my new book, The Allure of Charleston, at the Charleston Library Society, and a festive book-signing, on Wednesday, May 18th, at...

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9th August 2021
Posted by Susan Sully
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I’ve been busy doing what I love, and what I hope YOU do, too

None of us want to even hear the word COVID again, but there's no denying that it has shaped our lives. Fortunately for me, the lock-down period came just as...

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17th October 2019
Posted by Susan Sully
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All talk . . . and lots of action

I just finished an hour-long web chat with Jura Koncius, Home and Design writer for The Washington Post, that will be published in excerpts next Thursday. I fielded great, thought...

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15th October 2019
Posted by Susan Sully
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An enchanted Charleston evenining

    I launched Southern Hospitality at Home: The Art of Gracious Living in my beloved hometown of Charleston last week with a party at Mrs. Whaley's Garden . ....

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8th February 2019
Posted by Susan Sully
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Charleston Chamber Music

There are many places in Charleston where you can go to connect with the sights, the textures, and even the fragrances of the 18th- and 19th-centuries, but it's rarer to...

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2nd November 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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Southern Style Now at The Dewberry Hotel

The beautiful Jaimie Dewberry at Charleston’s glamorous Dewberry Hotel, host of Southern Style Now. Just heard a lecture with stylistas Wendy Goodman and Michael Hutton, moderated by Flower magazine’s Margot...

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30th October 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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A Design Puzzler

Is it still called Pattern on Pattern when it's the same pattern in two different colorways?     At the Kravet Showroom at ADAC during this fall's DiscoverADAC programs, showroom...

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30th October 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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Orange you glad you went outside?

After two days of absorbing information about color, design, luxury and how it's being redefined (think Authenticity, Integrity, Refinement, Purity, Uniqueness) at the DDB Fall Market, I went to the...

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30th October 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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Orange really IS the new black

So says Patti Carpenter, Maison & Objets Trend Ambassador, while speaking at the DDB (Decoration and Design Building) Fall Market program in a persimmon-colored cape. .   Check out these...

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1st March 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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Bringing the Indoors Out

There’s something a little magical about gathering near the hearth or around a dining table . . . outdoors. The boundaries between manmade order and nature’s unruly chaos are shaved...

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20th February 2018
Posted by Susan Sully
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The Oculus Window

  An oculus window is not witnessed from the exterior of a house, nor does it frame a view, except of sky. The ancient architects' equivalent of a canned ceiling...

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