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letter editor STEVEN VISNEAU, SISTERBROTHER MGMT. 14 O ver the years, my idea of home has evolved from the house where I grew up to many different dwellings, each with its own spirit. It is the farm my mother recently purchased on the southern coast of Oregon, which I lovingly refer to as The Tree House for its surrounding forest of redwoods. It is my aunt and uncle's TriBeCa apartment in Manhattan, where the spare bedroom serves as my uncle's art studio and the terrace is alive with an herb garden impressively cultivated by my aunt. It is my ma- ternal grandmother's Baroque-style family home in Nuremberg, Germany, built by her grandparents in 1910, now historically protected and filled with a mix of antiques and mid-century modern furnishings. It is that same grandmother's residence in California, with its walls of coastal watercolors painted by my grandfather and shelves of objects collected during many lifetimes' worth of international travels. It is my quaint Dallas apartment, with my simple white furnishings and most prized collection of books. On that subject, my latest obsession is Around That Time: Horst at Home in Vogue (Abrams). It is a voyeuristic feast for the mind, filled with delicious images and stories from inside the homes and lives of the world's most elite. During photographer Horst P. Horst's heyday, which began in the 1960s, cultivating a home meant so much more than scouring Pinterest, Instagram, and shelter magazines for inspiration. Decoration was a fine art, and those with means would spend years acquiring items with the intent of passing it all down through generations. One actually had to have taste — and in turn develop one's own style through a mix of travel, reading, conversation, and self-educating. It is a rarity to find those people now, but somehow our home design editor Rebecca Sherman always manages to uncover them. Particularly in May, an issue we dedicate to home and design, Sherman goes to work, finding the most compelling stories to tell and the most exciting interiors to share. Designer George Cameron Nash is precisely one of those rare-air types who is famously passionate about design — and has dedicated his life to creating spaces and developing unparalleled furnishings that are one-of-a-kind in their beauty, detail, and glamour. Months ago, after attending a small party given by Nash at his new Uptown high-rise, Sherman sent me a note. She raved about his nest, and how its perfection came not just from the impeccable design but from the easy urban lifestyle it allowed. The interior is, of course, stunning — a testament to how smaller spaces are often more chic than even the most well-designed, grandiose domicile. It is that same quality-over-quantity philosophy that has made The World of Interiors founding editor Min Hogg a legend. While on the telephone with Hogg, who was at home in her flat in London, Sherman is given the scoop on her beautiful new handmade wallpaper and fabrics — and then offered an impromptu lesson on anti-Kardashianism. I do hope Hogg will elaborate on that for a future issue of PaperCity. Christina Geyer Dallas Editor in Chief christina@papercitymag.com