BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

There’s a wonderful sense of style and relaxed elegance in this hilltop home in Alabama – all courtesy of designer Sean Anderson

- RORY ROBERTSON

THE GREAT ROOM

Raw materials – wood, concrete, steel – look sleek here because of their sculptural quality. Bespoke black concrete coffee table, Birmingham Concrete Design. Gregoire sofa, Verellen. Large Arrow 3 pendants, Apparatus. Elliot chairs, De La Espada. Rug, Moattar

SUN ROOM

The curtains enhance the golden glow and the dark ceiling is a clever twist for a space like this. Curtains, Design Industry by Grant Trick. Chair with wood arms, Lee Industries. Spindle chair, Nickey Kehoe. Sofa, Sean Anderson

Having struck up a rapport with the clients Mark and Nancy Peeples, a couple of emptynesters looking for a relaxed but elegant home in the US city of Birmingham, Memphis-based designer Sean Anderson knew that he wanted to create a house infused with what he terms ‘Californian organic modern style’, intermingled with restrained, classic touches. ‘The house was constructed on one of the highest points in the city between two stone-built stately homes, both dating back to the early 1900s,’ Sean says. It’s for this reason, he explains, that Mark and Nancy were keen for the home to have ‘a sense of permanence’, looking as though it had been there all along.