Equestrian Quarters
The home at this Kentucky horse farm is a joyful foil to its barns, not a perfect match. Designed by architect Quinlan Terry with interior design by Anthony P. Browne, the home’s rooms have a graceful layered quality. “I tried to create what takes generations to achieve—the appearance of comfort and that ‘inherited look,’” Browne told AD in the October 1989 issue. The dining room faces the property’s five horse barns, but even without that view, the copious amounts of horse artwork inside makes the property’s focal point abundantly clear.
A Smoky Mountain Spot
Homeowners Kreiss and Sandy Beall designed Toad Hall, their Smoky Mountain compound, to be “a combination of rugged and refined.” Working with architect Jack Davis and interior designer Suzanne Kasler, the property is adjacent to their property Blackberry Farm. The acclaimed boutique hotel sits on 4,200 acres, enjoying an array of crops, orchards, and animals, including pigs, chicken, and sheep. While working on their private property, Kasler worked to match that bucolic splendor, and the structure’s log construction, but “introduce the fabulous.” Published in the June 2009 issue, the resulting interiors are plenty wonderful—most of all the great room, which flaunts a well-appointed kitchen on one end.