Charleston, SC
Preview - An Antebellum House, Held Lightly
Working on historic Southern architecture requires a kind of ethical patience I didn't fully understand until this project. The house — a pre-Civil War single in the Ansonborough neighbourhood of Charleston — had been through six owners and four renovations before it came to my clients, a historian and her sculptor husband. Parts of it had been, as the historian put it, "improved to within an inch of its life." Our work was largely corrective.
