DESIGN
Queen of color
When she was little, “clear” was Jaime Glas’ favorite color.
“Because you can see all the colors through it,” she’d explain.
Today, all those colors ooze from every crevice of her two-bedroom house in Baton Rouge’s Lake Crest neighborhood. All those colors will burst from her rainbow-themed wedding this July. And all those colors get plucked from the 10,000-plus shimmering swatches for her clothing line, Queen of Sparkles.
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Ace of space
“Tracee Short isn’t worried about her security deposit. Within moments of meeting her, she’s already divulging all the rules she had to break to decorate her rental…”
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Finders, keepers
“A framed photo series tells one of the Tulliers’ most personal stories. The black and white images are blurry and hazy—exactly how the Tulliers, who are both deaf, say they can feel when trying to read lips and communicate.”
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Rare bird
“Ethan Melancon doesn’t want his home to feel like a museum. He repeats this over and over as he explains his strategy for outfitting a 1913 rental house in Spanish Town. This has become Melancon’s mantra because, well, he has a lot of antiques…”
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Road to Round Top
“The Hammetts say Round Top is exciting and tiring, quirky and refined, freezing and sweltering, muddy and polished—all in the same trip…”
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Happy chic
“The Jonathan Adler aesthetic is a hit. But it wasn’t always that way…”
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Puncy pastels
“There’s not much sentimental in Laura Brignac’s home. She tells me this offhand, a few minutes after meeting her. ‘Because I left everything after the divorce,’ she explains. But as I look around her space, I’m certain she’s wrong. There’s symbolism in every hue, meaning in every painting…”
“Sometimes, when the weather is nice, Penni Guidry and David Mooney sleep on their porch.
Gauzy lace curtains, blowing gently in the breeze, offer all the privacy they need …”
PROFILES
“Laine Hardy is 5 years old, riding in the car with his mom, when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ comes on the radio. Elvis’ smooth, sultry voice echoes through the speakers, creeping from a whisper to a howl.
By the time the guitar solo hits, Laine is asking his mom who it is and learning about The King for the first time. The song, then 50 years old, is all of two minutes and eight seconds long. But Laine has never heard anything like it. Those electric 128 seconds will change his life forever.
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Essential workers
“When she cleans, she thinks of her uncle. It’s his face she sees as she scrubs the walls of the COVID-19 unit…”
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A seat at the table
“Myra’s Baton Rouge will never look like Houston or Atlanta. It will look like the best, most inclusive version of the city she grew up in. ‘This isn’t a moment for me,’ she says. ‘It’s always going to be a movement.’
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Unstoppable today
“Brooks Nader has been back in Baton Rouge for less than an hour, and all she wants is a bag of hot fries…”
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Forgetting breast cancer
“And maybe it’s part of being a journalist—maybe being an interviewer who knows to get all the details taught her how to be interviewed too – but when Rancic tells a story, she tells the whole story. She never lets anyone forget that the story of how she discovered her breast cancer really starts with another story…”
STYLE
They didn’t drink from cups back in the day. They drank from goblets and tumblers. Little footed juice glasses. Fancy vessels etched with stars, flowers and geometric patterns. …
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Down to earth
“It might be because she’s an earth sign. Hannah Dick is a Taurus. And she wonders if that’s why she’s always dreaming in a neutral color palette…”
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Glow up
“Hidden in an unassuming warehouse off Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, two women are making eye shadows beauty devotees around the globe are dying to get their hands on…”
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A very midcentury Christmas
“Vintage ornaments are rarely perfect. But that’s kind of the point. Little spots or chips are small battle scars, considering these ornaments have lived through 50 or 60 holiday seasons. They’ve adorned dozens of trees—from the age of retro silver aluminum trees to the fragrant, fresh pine and millennial pink artificial styles of today.”
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Burch's tree
“Tory Burch couldn’t have known when she named the Reva ballet flat after her mother the places it would go – that Oprah Winfrey would end up wearing it, or that it would become one of the most coveted fashion pieces of the last decade…”
Everyone tells you your wedding day will go by so fast, you won’t remember half of it.
This is definitely true. But the moments you do remember will be etched on your heart forever.