Design, Craft & Style: The Next Generation

Stephanie Hunt has built a freelance writing career of more than 25 years on wide-ranging curiosity and a natural way with words. Her bylines span reported features, design and travel stories, profiles, essays, and the occasional book review.

Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Hunt is the author of three books, including Enchanting Gardens: Inspired Landscape Design. She is a contributing editor for Veranda and editor-at-large for Charleston Magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Garden & Gun, Veranda, and FLOWER, as well as Faith & Leadership, Orion, and Southbound, among others.

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Aldous Bertram is an Interior Designer and Artist living in Charleston. Originally hailing from the UK. Aldous obtained a PhD from Cambridge University, focusing on the historical influence of China upon English gardens and architecture. Building upon this subject, Aldous published Dragons and Pagodas, A Celebration of Chinoiserie in 2021, which looks at all aspects of Asian influence upon the decorative arts. Having previously worked for Amanda Lindroth, Aldous now draws upon his British design sensibilities to create memorable and joyful interiors, mixing antiques with layers of color and pattern to achieve a timeless, collected look. A long-time artist, Aldous also produces room portraits and watercolor paintings for sale, as well as a number of product design collaborations.

Tom Podhrazsky is an artist, designer, and craftsman. After growing up immersed in the arts, he graduated from the American College of the Building Arts in 2013, and then worked under the designer Andrew Gould for ten years. During that time, Tom has been involved with various facets of the building process: From hands-on restoration and construction, to building documentation and design.

In 2023, Tom founded his own design studio, Tom Henry Design Company, an award-winning firm dedicated to the cultivation of beauty in architecture. In addition to his studio work, Tom is a professor at the American College of the Building Arts where he teaches design, and a Georgian Paper’s Programme Fellow at Mount Vernon where he is researching the history and development of plaster raised paneling. Tom’s combined skills as an artist and craftsman makes him particularly good at designing beautiful buildings and spaces, and he brings that expertise to every project he works on. He regularly travels, takes classes, and conducts research to improve the quality of his work.

Rebecca Atwood is an artist and textile designer whose namesake company creates fabrics, wallcoverings, and home goods drawn from her original hand-painted artwork. Raised on Cape Cod, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and launched Rebecca Atwood in Brooklyn in 2013, beginning with hand-dyed and hand-painted pillows.

Her designs start in her sketchbook in watercolor, gouache, and ink and are produced through digital printing, screen printing, weaving, and embroidery. In 2019, she created Hunter Douglas’s first artist collaboration, a collection of shades and drapery and also boasts partnerships with Pottery Barn and Method for Target. In 2024, Atwood painted a custom mural for Southern Living’s Idea House on Johns Island.

Atwood is the author of three books: Living with Pattern (2016), Living with Color (2019), and The Harmonious Home (2025). After several years in Brooklyn, she moved her business to Charleston around 2022, and currently lives in Charleston with her husband and daughter.

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Sebastian von Marschall is the principal of Sebastian von Marschall Architect, a boutique residential architecture firm he founded in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2020.

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The firm specializes in traditional design, pairing classical principles and close study of architectural precedent with spaces suited to contemporary living.
Von Marschall received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. His design approach took shape during 3 years at Peter Pennoyer Architects in New York, where his involvement with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art broadened his understanding of classical design principles. He later moved to Charleston, his wife’s hometown, and worked as a senior project architect at Beau Clowney Design before establishing his own practice.

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According to the firm, it has completed new construction and renovation projects from Maine to Georgia, ranging from historic Charleston residences to an apartment in New York’s Carnegie Hill neighborhood.

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In 2024, the firm’s South of Broad Garden Folly in Charleston received a Philip Trammell Shutze Award from the Southeast Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA). The small garden pavilion recalls 18th-century Chinoiserie with its pagoda roof, yet every element was fabricated digitally and assembled on site.

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Kirby Caldwell is an interior designer and the founder and principal designer of Kirby Caldwell Inc., a Charleston-based studio focused on boutique hospitality and residential interiors.

Kirby Caldwell came to interior design by way of the backcountry. After studying fine arts and architecture, the Southern-raised designer skied Oregon’s backcountry and worked in the wine industry there before landing in New York, where she spent roughly a decade immersed in the city’s design world. She dealt in vintage furniture, designed textiles and furniture, worked on the interiors team at Soho House Design + Build and in product design at The Rug Company, and traveled frequently designing boutique hotels and clubs for an international firm.

When her first child was born, Caldwell headed back South and founded Kirby Caldwell Inc. in Charleston. She runs the studio as a one-person practice by choice, staying close to every project and working hand in hand with architects, contractors, and clients from first concept to completion.

Her work centers on boutique hospitality and residential interiors, and her portfolio includes the Post House Inn, Common House, Pendolino, The Douglas, and the Transcard Office. Caldwell favors rooms that feel gathered over time rather than overdesigned. Antique and vintage finds sit alongside custom furniture and lighting of her own design, and the architecture of historic spaces is always given its due.

She lives that approach at home, too. Caldwell, her husband, and their two daughters live in a Charleston carriage house dating to about 1740, a home featured on HBO Max’s Where We Call Home.

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