DISCOVERIES Southern Charm

At her modernist home in historic Charleston, interior designer Angie Hranowsky writes her own rules

- MITCHELL OWENS

For a modern-minded woman like Angie Hranowsky, Charleston, South Carolina might not seem like the optimum location, architecturally. "I've always lived in older houses," admits the interior designer, a Holy City resident for decades. "I like rooms to feel collected, to have texture and history, a mixture of contemporary and classical. They're always the most interesting spaces." A decade ago, though, she went in search of a new place and found nothing that turned her head. A friend suggested that she just build a house, but all that work, Hranowsky recalls, "didn't appeal to me either." Until suddenly it did. "It would be my own house and exactly what I wanted."