2021 Honorary Co-CHAIRS
Mark D. Sikes
Mark D. Sikes is an esteemed designer and tastemaker working on projects throughout the United States. He is known for all-American sensibilities and a fresh take on classic aesthetics. Mark has a talent for creating beautiful and timeless interiors that embody an indoor/outdoor lifestyle. His work has been featured in AD, Veranda, Elle Decor, House Beautiful and The Wall Street Journal and recently published his second book—More Beautiful: All-American Decoration.
Charlotte Moss
With 35 years in the business of design, Charlotte Moss has received numerous honors, including the New York School of Interior Design’s Centennial Medal, Housing Works’ Groundbreaker’s Award, The Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design award, and is named one of Elle Décor’s Grand Master List of Top Designers.
Charlotte has used her experience culled from thirty-five years of decorating homes to design collections of furniture and upholstery with Century Furniture, fabrics and trims for Fabricut, carpets and sisals for Stark Carpet, china for Pickard, clothing with IBU Movement, and cuff bracelets with P.E. Guerin. Charlotte has re-launched her photography prints with Soicher Marin and created five distinct pillow collections with Eastern Accents all available on Perigold. She has recently collaborated with Artemis Design Company to create mules using textiles from her world travels to create her favorite shoe.
Charlotte lectures widely and is a prolific author, having published ten books to date. Charlotte Moss Entertains, is her most recent title (Rizzoli, 2018). Of all her work, philanthropy plays an important role in her life. Charlotte is a Trustee of Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, The Bone Marrow Foundation, American Corporate Partners, The Madoo Conservancy, a member of the International Council of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, and on the Advisory Board of The New York School of Interior Design where she holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree.
James Farmer
James Farmer is a Southern author, interior designer, and speaker known for his ability to create beautifully familiar and welcoming homes. To James, a home engages all of the senses - the pleasantries of colors and materials, the feel of the doorknob warmed by the sun, the smell of fresh laundry, the sound of the closing door, and the taste of supper on the table. Through his design firm, James works with clients to truly create a home.
James is the author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling books A Time to Plant; Sip & Savor; Porch Living; Wreaths For All Seasons; A Time To Cook; Dinner on the Grounds; A Time to Celebrate and A Place to Call Home. His most recent publication, Arriving Home, features design projects from the farmlands of Georgia to the rolling countryside of Connecticut.
In addition, his work has been published in various magazines including Southern Living, House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Southern Home, FLOWER and more. As a frequent event speaker and guest, James’s natural grace and warm personality light up any room. Whether designing homes or sharing his gardening expertise, James Farmer is truly a fresh voice for his generation.
Born and raised in Georgia, James proudly has built his business in his hometown of Perry.
Chip Callaway
Chip graduated from the College of Architecture at N.C State University with a masters degree in Landscape Architecture. Over the past 30 years, Chip and his design staff have designed nearly 1000 gardens ranging in size from large estates to small patios.
During his career Chip has completed commissions from Nantucket and Long Island to Palm Beach and England with the majority of the projects coming from the Carolinas and Virginia.
Tom Savage
Tom Savage was recently named Director of External Affairs for Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library having served as Director of Museum Affairs for fourteen years. From November 1998 until August 2005, Mr. Savage was Senior Vice President and Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art for North and South America where he directed The Sotheby’s American Arts Course, an intensive nine-month professional training program in American fine and decorative arts of the seventeenth century to the present. From 1981 until 1998, he was Curator and Director of Museums for Historic Charleston Foundation directing the foundation’s collections and historic properties including the nationally important Nathaniel Russell House (1808), the Aiken-Rhett House (1818–1858), and Charleston’s oldest public building, The Powder Magazine (1712). A native of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Mr. Savage attended St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, Delaware (1971–1975) and received a BA degree in Art History from The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (1979). He holds an MA Degree in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York (1979–1981).
Mr. Savage attended The Graduate Summer Institute at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1978 and in 1979 was awarded The Marcia Wadhams Carleton Internship at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, Connecticut, properties of The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Connecticut. In addition to internships in this country, he has studied in England at The Attingham Summer School on the British Country House (1980), The Attingham Study Week (1987–1994), The Victorian Society Summer School in London (1984), and The Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar, Cambridge, England (1985).
From 1995 to 2012, Mr. Savage was a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Oak Foundation, the American Alliance with the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Decorative Arts Trust and is a member of the Furniture History Society having, in 1990, presented the society’s annual lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Mr. Savage served as a presidential appointee to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House from 1993 to 2002. He is a former member of the board of the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston and the American Committee for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill.
He is the author The Charleston Interior, published by Legacy Publications, Greensboro, North Carolina (1995) and articles in the Magazine Antiques, the Chipstone Foundation’s American Furniture, Sotheby’s Art at Auction, and Southern Accents. He contributed the essay on the Carolina Low Country to Colonial Williamsburg’s Southern Furniture 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection published by Abrams (1997). Mr. Savage was co-curator for the landmark exhibition “In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad 1740–1860” held at The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, in 1999. For the exhibition catalog published by The University of South Carolina Press, he catalogued the furniture and silver and co-authored two essays.
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