A touch of nostalgia marks the upstairs home office, furnished with several vintage pieces: a teak Danish dresser, a Hans Wegner armchair, and Jo Hammerborg’s 1962 Orient pendant, made from a copper shade with rosewood detailing.
Orient lamp by Jo Hammerborg at Lightyears.
At Coyuchi, Laura Jo Wegman designs and oversees the production of the entire product line including sheets, blankets, towels, robes, sleepwear and more. Since her arrival, she's totally transformed the brand, introducing new materials, textures, and color palettes, and drawing inspiration from her immediate environs: the fog, the shore, the trees, and the colors of west Marin.
Via Cup of Jo, photo by Alpha Smoot
A. Quincy Jones’s Katzenstein residence.
Buckner and Roberts both expressed admiration for Jones’s thoughtful details—including the sloping glass, angled columns, and Wrightian light shelf.
The Davises’ living room is filled with modern designs, including two lounge chairs by Jens Risom for Knoll and a BoConcept sofa. Mary Jo created the artwork.
Mary Jo Davis, Marja Preston, Jonathan Davis, and Tia Preston gather on the deck. “The community is the biggest selling point,” Preston says. “The icing on the cake is sustainability.”
In the house architect Jan Vanweert designed for his cousin Jo Vanweert (pictured here) and Sofie Hens, cutaway portions of concrete walls create curved passageways and open sight lines between rooms.
The Davis family—Everett, Jonathan, Mary Jo, and Dashwood—enjoy a meal around a Room & Board Montego dining table at their home in The Village. Their residence is the “Aria” style, one of four house types available in The Village. At 1,549 square feet, Aria houses feature two bedrooms.
In the dining room, Tang installed a built-in reading bench under the windows. It’s upholstered in ikat fabric and anchored by bookshelves at one end. The vintage Danish cabinet belongs to the owners, while the brilliant, deep orange pendant was sourced by Tang’s team. It’s a 1960s Equator pendant by Jo Hammerborg for Fog and Morup.
Walk Housing in London, 1988. Photo by Jo Reid/John Peck.
Ractliffe, Jo
The “self-build” experience offered the family an opportunity to level up some DIY skills. Jo did much of the work with her father. “I learned to redo the electrics,” says Jo. “Only one of my plug sockets doesn’t work!”
Laura Jo Wegman.
The “self-build” experience offered the family an opportunity to level up some DIY skills. Jo did much of the work with her father. “I learned to redo the electrics,” says Jo. “Only of my plug sockets doesn’t work!”
The Waterloo International Terminal, 1993, in London. Image courtesy Jo Reid/John Peck.
Heather Jo Leuthold working the John Deere with the Santa Catalina Range towering behind.
Heather Jo Leuthold working the John Deere with the Santa Catalina Range towering behind.
Heather Jo Leuthold working the John Deere with the Santa Catalina Range towering behind.
Mrs. Libby Besse, left, with SarasotaMOD volunteers Jo Ann Lovell and Elliott Himelfarb.
The twisted “Segal Staircase” (“It’s almost like a ladder that spins around,” explains Jo)—a signature element in the neighborhoods’ homes—got a fresh look, with panelling in front of each stair and stabilizing poles. It also received a striking coat of turquoise paint. “I can’t remember the Pantone color, but needless to say there was a big argument about it for six months,” laughs Jo. “I guess I won.”
Cover photo of Season 1, Episode 2 of the Rancho Redux show by Scott and Heather Jo Leuthold.
Cover photo of Season 1, Episode 2 of the Rancho Redux show by Scott and Heather Jo Leuthold.
Cover photo of Season 1, Episode 2 of the Rancho Redux show by Scott and Heather Jo Leuthold.
Organization of African Unity, Bamako, Mali
Photo courtesy Mary Jo Arnoldi
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If it no longer brings you joy, it’s absorbing space; Source: Anna Zajac/Cup of Jo
The exterior is still clad in timber like the original, but Jo took the palette darker and selected wider planks to modernize the look. “We kept the rhythm, but changed it slightly,” she says.
The twisted 'Segal Staircase' (“It’s almost like a ladder that spins around,” explains Jo) that was a signature in the neighborhoods’ homes got a fresh look, with panelling in front of each stair and stabilizing poles. It also received a striking coat of turquoise paint. “I can’t remember the pantone colour but needless to say there was a big argument about it for six months,” laughs Jo. “I guess I won.”
Baroda Square Lynwood Calypso print from the Nate x Jo-Ann Fabric Collection #nateberkus #joann #fabric
Downstairs, the framework of battens were skimmed with drywall to quiet down the look. “It was busy and hard on the eye, and we couldn’t put pictures on the wall,” says Jo.
The only piece of art in the kitchen is also Jo's first-ever auction purchase: a portrait of a woman by an unknown 17th-century European artist won at Christie's in the 1980s.
Tastemaker, author, and designer Robin Wilson is pictured here at seven months old with her parents, Jo Ann and Rubin Wilson, in Austin, Texas.
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