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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Emma J Page

A Tale of Two Styles: French Elegance Meets Nashville Cool in This Southern Home With European Soul

A large airy kitchen with white walls and wooden cabinets. The is a large kitchen island in the center with white chairs and a pendant light hanging above.

A French-style home located in Nashville, the center of America’s country music scene, seems an unlikely medley – all balance, symmetry and gracious hipped roofs sedately located in a honky-tonk city known for its folk-inspired anthems. But, in fact, the Tennessee town is home to a tapestry of architectural styles that borrow variously from Greek Revival and Federal motifs to modernist shapes.

‘That’s what makes the area so exciting,’ says River Brook’s Leigh Misso, who reworked these interiors. ‘Southern design tells a story that honors a cosmopolitan past but lives fully in the present.’

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