At Home in Charleston with Jill Sharp Weeks

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] while the history of Charleston is what drew us to living here when it came to our own home we were seeking to create something that was really quite unique so much so that our first architects actually fired us as our vision made them leery that's when Peter block stepped down Peter and I share a wonderful work history ourselves he got our vision immediately and took it to the next level by suggesting that we remove the second floor now the open living concept is married with the experience of walking into the original 1790 home [Music] [Music] Jill I don't even know what to say I mean I knew you were gonna bring it to the next level when you told me you were creating this house here but I didn't expect something like this I just it's taking my breath away when I designed this space it was really key to me to have a lot of flexibility within this open room so what we found is that this furniture will float and become seven different configurations because you guys entertain a lot we do honestly it's something that is a real bond between my and I we really enjoy it oftentimes were here at this table in front of the fireplace but you know what we really try to utilize the whole house Joe I'm just getting lost in all the vignettes in this house everywhere I look it's a reflection of you and Ray and your life together and I know being a stylist and photography is literally in your DNA and your blood in your work world but how you've translated here in where you live is just remarkable my father was a photographer and I worked as a stylist for 30-plus years so it's how my eye sees its my point of view but what's interesting is obviously when you're styling for a job for work yeah you want everything to be perfect for the camera but what I find so fascinating about here in your own home you of course walk the walk and it's perfect but there's a realness to it you actually do it here as well I know that if I came back and surprised you next week this house would still look as amazing it doesn't now I don't want people to think oh I'm sure she just styled it because Susanna and Stacy were coming it looks like this way in different in creations I bet all the time guilty as charged that is very much the case and it's just the joy that I get out of having cool collections out of seeing the pairings of things since I love typography and I love pattern and the unifying theme here is exactly that from these match books that Ray and I have made to commemorate our wedding to the faces to the prints to the pattern it just all in my eyes seems really perfect but also imperfect because that's a real important thing with me I'm sorry I'm being so nosey but you put your day-to-day flatware in a Dipti container which looks beyond sheet I mean look at what you've done here this is genius and it's almost like an art installation well at notice and remember when I said that I loved to pogrom and all things related to that I couldn't stop and I collect these spoons and get this wonderful engraver in Atlanta to put different numbers on them and then when I set a table it's random it's interesting it's always a conversation starter it's just something that I think is special chills okay buy one of these fakes chlorin have your work talk to me about this amazing to health situation it's so subtle but as you get closer it gets it comes alive look at the quality it's alleged tile these are Moroccan they're handmade there's a range of colors even though they say that they're gray I think there's probably 70 different colors in you told what is this sorry I mean Joshua that's my hood I can't stand are you so although this sounds like a 747 when we turn it on it's kind of worth it to me but this acts as our exhaust fan it's like jewelry I kind of want to wear it as a pendant okay my back Jill these clothespin I'm sorry I'm again a over Europe sessions all these little husbands each have a hard on them which I know that you probably did firstly I just love utilitarian objects and there's nothing more basic than a humble clothespin and I paid a Brander and I just put this little this little heart on it and this is actually part of a logo for my company named stable and I use these for the tabletop to put place cards on I clip my mail together my suspects use them in my hair I just love them a lot this looks like a library how is it gets from also al given that it's the first room off the hallway it was important that this not feel like a bedroom right now my solution to that was to have a Murphy bed that had a table connected to that I know I remember eight wait there it's true so I take all these things off I take this photograph down right this table goes up and then I have a hook and these are the legs of the bed and that comes down I think I have every line in Charleston corner for tonight's party right yeah I like to use beans black beans black-eyed peas rather than moss I make I think it makes just such an interesting pull statement rather than seeing the dirt and is serving I see that yeah I think I'm gonna be happy to send media and what a chic it looks with a black of the beings with you know with the pot and the Myrtle I just and being the stylist that I am I shall we moved all the little twist ties and replaced it chill this is next like a right oh my gosh I wanted to show you what I'm scheming and dreaming about for a weekend retreat that we're building about an hour away from here there's an influence happening in this house which is completely different than we live here and these portraits these are all gonna be hanging in the kitchen it's going to be olive green and very dark those are going to be attached to the to the Front's of the kitchen drawers along with these okay wait I'm sorry I know this is the why you do such beautiful work but I love how you already know the micro detail of certain things but you're using it as a way to inform the overall picture too because the house isn't finished yet no no it'll be done in a couple of months but that's my brain goes to those kind of details as I also am kind of doing a bigger plan I'm truly a frustrated architect but it's been fun to collaborate with people and to be able to really work on space because as much as I love all the tiny details what's most important is the space and getting that right the proportions the scale just so that people feel great in these in these rooms is this is what the little keyholes are gonna look like how about that Jill I love it here how you've hung your great great uncle's impressionistic landscape on the wall in kind of a very deliberate manner here but isn't that his also here that you've just propped on the head court it is and I love leaning art I think it creates just such a great casual and non-committal moment and I just think it means that if I want to have this one here or if I wanna go over here and pop it up on this stool that that just feels really great and so many people would be scared to put their painting low in the ground below me level but I think it draws you over there it makes me want to touch them and it makes me also you forget about when you don't have it if you can just you're gonna look up right and really see it there's nothing makes things a little less precious yes about yes I can tell it's special because it's above your head every night but it makes you have a tangible relationship with it that's so true I love that I set my tables the way I love to dress by being inspired by found objects whether they're in nature or in a flea market it's all about unique textures layers and accessorizing for me Susannah do you remember when I was saying I was just starting to get into a little color this is kind of what I mean I can't have a sofa made out of that but how fun is that huh party tonight oh yes hello this is an entirely different environment well it's like we're in Greece now this is the original floor we tried to just make this a different moment in time everything got whitewashed in fact high gloss because downstairs is all stone yes it's all stone mixed with a little bit of oak so this this was a departure and I love the fact that this and the adjoining bedroom assuming bathroom just have this very moment totally for a moment and can we talk about this this is like part incredibly long bed lounge banquette I mean I'm sure you designed this from scratch what was your aspiration I did and the idea here was that couples are sleeping head to head to toe to toe something of that nature and then we can also kind of use this as a lounge spot those dirty gossip yes I mean here we can catch up and break it down but wait a minute we don't have that much I'm sorry you need to go get changed I guess just come back and get me okay both I'm so excited to be here [Music] [Applause] oh my gosh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Quintessence

Views: 1,218,092

Keywords: Charleston, Jill Sharp Weeks, at home with, interior design, historic renovation, decorating, collecting, fashion, Quintessence video series, Susanna Salk, decor, design video, interior design video, how to decorate, antiques, home tour, tastemaker, decorating ideas

Id: 2FLY0Lv3yxg

Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 21 2019