Southern Style Now and Traditional Home Showhouse

In 2017, Krista & Tami were hand selected by Robert Leleux of Southern Style Now to design a space in the 2nd annual Traditional Home showhouse in historic Savannah, GA. The pair ultimately chose the Morning Room, an intimate gathering nook directly off of the kitchen that is filled with bright light and which they deemed the ideal place for curling up with a cup of coffee to read the morning news.

For this space, we sought inspiration from the beatnik musings of the Bloomsbury Set - a group of English artists, intellectuals, philosophers and writers who worked and studied together near Bloomsbury, London in the first half of the 20th century, and whose bohemian ways greatly influenced the aesthetics of their time and beyond. Lounge-like, a bit rumpled, far less than perfect - this space is meant to be an artist's retreat. A place to bask in the morning light with time to enjoy the simple pleasures of one's coffee, the art that surrounds, and to take the time to contemplate.