A Timeless, Calming Kitchen by Sean Anderson

Table Of Content

• Texture and Handmade Touches Define This Moody Memphis Bungalow
• Designer Sean Anderson Sets a Highly Cultivated Tone for a Birmingham, Alabama Home Modeled After a Modern Rustic Villa
• Design, Art, Fashion, or Beyond? Jonathan Anderson Brings the Work of Patrick Carroll to Milan Design Week
• Living Room
• Exploring Corinne Mathern Studio’s Tranquil Spaces at La Tarantella
• About BuildZoom
• House Tours

If the space appears perennially in repose, evocative and graceful like a Still Life painting by a Dutch master, the palette is unfailingly Anderson. In this Alabama home, a modern rustic villa, Sean Anderson pairs natural materials with sleek surfaces and rich textures to create a harmonious dialog of raw refinement. I know this sounds so cliché, but surround yourself with things that you love. What’s so exciting about the industry right now is people starting to own their ideas and decisions when it comes to their homes. There's no way to feel cozier in your own space than by filling it with the things that mean something to you and the objects that you're drawn to.

Texture and Handmade Touches Define This Moody Memphis Bungalow

Over about six days, Anderson and his team emptied the entire home and reintroduced all of the furniture and decor into new rooms. Most of the home boasts previously-loved items from places like 1stDibs, Etsy, and local antique markets. Anderson also pulled from the client’s attic full of antiques as well as from his existing on-display collection and his own firm’s warehouse, where he had been setting aside a few antiques with the client in mind.

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Designer Sean Anderson Sets a Highly Cultivated Tone for a Birmingham, Alabama Home Modeled After a Modern Rustic Villa

In the great hall, for example, is a group of antique brass railway paycheque cans, and in the husband’s master bathroom, an array of antique razors and shaving brushes. None of it is overdone—the home is one of incredible balance and smart aesthetic choices. Vestavia Hills has every support—spaciousness, functionality—for the owners to entertain family and friends. There is a kind of an earthy glamour to the home; a naturalness that threads all of Sean Anderson’s designs. The only façade here is the stunning Alabama fieldstone on the home’s exterior—the rest is forcefully unaffected.

Design, Art, Fashion, or Beyond? Jonathan Anderson Brings the Work of Patrick Carroll to Milan Design Week

In California, any remodeling or construction project that exceeds $500 (labor and materials), requires a contractor to have an active license with the California Contractor State License Board (CSLB). If you’re going to hire a designer, do it early in the design process. Having that watchful eye ensures that the project is executed with exact precision and safeguards against any potential mistakes. “It gets so messy pulling fabrics, and I wanted to be able to leave the office in order so that we come in every day and it’s not too chaotic,” Anderson admits.

His Memphis-based studio creates highly customized spaces for each client, but in all, a careful control and manipulation of light helps to achieve the desired atmosphere. In the 1960s and 1970s, the teaching philosophy of the USC College of Architecture and Fine Arts was influenced by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Institute of Design. The Dean of the USC College, Crombie Taylor, was the former acting Director of the IIT Institute of Design. Consequently, the College's architectural education, like that of IIT, was steeped in Modernism and in particular the Bauhaus aesthetic and the Bauhaus approach to integrating art, architecture, technology and culture. This was evident in the work of the College's faculty, who included the building scientist, Konrad Wachsmann, and the designer of some Case Study Houses in Southern California, Pierre Koenig. Other faculty who influenced Anderson's design aesthetic were the graphic artist John Gilchrist, whose recommended reading included D'Arcy Thompson's book On Growth and Form.

Sean Anderson is a self-taught designer, too, and, unfettered by the constraints that can sometimes come with a formal design education, he’s aesthetically freer for it. He has a gut sense for what looks good and where things should go. The self-taught designer takes a multi-layered approach to create soulful interiors.

Sean Anderson's Cozy, Soulful Style

As a result of his career in the military, he was re-stationed frequently to various locations throughout the Pacific Rim, resulting in long absences from the family during Gary's early childhood and in the family's relocating several times. Homeowners whohire through BuildZoom's free bidding system report high rates of satisfaction, and homeowners who researchcontractors online are twice as likely to be happy at the end of theirproject. BuildZoom is a database of every licensed contractor in the United States.We work hard to figure out who the great contractors are, and who the badcontractors are. Their license was verified as active when we last checked. If you are thinking of hiring Sean Anderson Construction, we recommend double-checking their license status with the license board and using our bidding system to get competitive quotes. Their BuildZoom score of 92 ranks in the top 32% of 336,931 California licensed contractors.

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His traditionalist design roots and innate southern charm would never be a tell, but Sean Anderson has an affinity for darkness. The tonal, mood-setting kind, of course, that often cloaks the walls and ceilings of his residential projects in deep, dark hues. The effect—just like the Memphis, Tennessee, designer himself—is rich with soul. For proof, look no further than Anderson’s office, situated in a small, boxy building in Memphis’s Midtown district, with its black façade paving the way to the equally cocooning palette inside. Often dark and moody, occasionally rustic, and always sophisticated, Sean Anderson’s interiors flip traditional Southern design on its head.

I have no idea where it came from, but it's just patina-ed and beat up. I'm such a huge fan of decorative lighting so that often comes first. Sometimes it's a statement chandelier and other times it's the coffee table.

As most designers will likely tell you, inspiration is all around and shows itself in a myriad of ways. I often find it in more traditional forms like scenes in nature or certain architectural elements, but it also presents itself sometimes in the most unlikely of places. I have found myself walking a grocery aisle and the symmetry of stacked goods or a specific color combo on a label will scream out to me. So really, it’s all around us — it just depends on how much we’re paying attention. A home doesn’t need new furniture or a major remodel to feel revived. Thoughtful rearranging (okay, and a few fresh pieces!) can do wonders, and the Memphis home interior designer Sean Anderson redecorated for his former partner is undeniable proof.

We've made the bid collection process extremely simple (and free). That Vestavia Hills reads as simultaneously fresh and timeless is characteristic of Sean Anderson. His willingness to break the rules, to the extent he recognizes them, is not performative; he’s not an apostate of design doctrine. Vestavia Hills is a home full of heart—and a great deal of soul, too. The home’s dusky hues, meanwhile, highlight slight eccentricity.

Each subsequent detail relies on that initial development, and each decision is consciously made to evoke that feeling. It’s simple — I found the only thing I was remotely good at! From that moment on, my passion for design has become a borderline obsession. So when he recently moved into an eight-room, 1930s bungalow in East Memphis, he was determined to create a place that could hold spaces to entertain and pockets to unwind.

Here at Milan Design Week the nature of “design” often seems conveniently opaque, in fact every bit as opaque as the Carroll pieces through which you could see the wooden bars they were pulled taut around. It is two years since Anderson first approached Carroll to show some of his pieces outside the fashion designer’s first Milan JW Anderson menswear show, although back then they were stretched over models and worn as clothes. Gary Dean Anderson (born 1947) is an American graphic designer and architect. He is most well known as the designer of the recycling symbol, one of the most readily recognizable logos in the world. The California State License Board recommends getting at least three written bids before hiring a contractor. Do not automatically accept the lowest bid - an abnormally low bid may indicate the contractor made a mistake and is not including the same work quoted by their competitors.

So much of what clients come to me for on The Expert are decisions about whether the aesthetic of something fits with their existing furnishings. They're questioning how to infuse the new stuff with what they have. My Expert Showroom is such an easy go-to for pulling products and solving those dilemmas. Sean’s work has received national recognition by publications such as Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Milieu, Departures, Traditional Home, and Garden & Gun, among others. I’m influenced by “feeling.” Step one for me on any new project is to fully grasp the feel, the mood that the space needs to convey.