Workstead gives 19th-century Charleston rowhouse a "southern modernism" makeover
US design studio Workstead has reimagined "heritage elements as modern luxury" during the renovation of this home in Charleston, South Carolina, which was used as a store for selling blockaded goods during the Civil War.
Workstead overhauled the three-storey property and its accompanying carriage house ? a small outbuilding used to prepare food ? which were built in 1853.
The rowhouse is located on a street in the city known as "Bee's Row", where the studio also completed the interiors for another carriage house.
Bee's Row gained its name when the rowhouse and three neighbours were acquired during the country's Civil War by William C Bee. A leading blockader, Bee used the houses to sell the merchandise imported through the Union blockade to the South.
The terraced houses are also said to have been home to the man that inspired author Margaret Mitchel's novel Gone with the Wind, and South Carolina's general superintendent during the Civil War, David Lopez Jr, who is celebrated as "the first practicing Jew to build a synagogue in the United States".
Designed with the aim to celebrate this steep history, Workstead House captures an aesthetic the studio has coined as "southern modernism". Workstead has preserved many of the original details throughout, like the wooden staircase, balustrade and flooring, and left brickwork walls exposed.
Decorative ceiling mouldings, windows and door frames, and fireplaces are also preserved and upda...
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