A revolutionary rice-based gin, a sleek Texas-inspired floor lamp, rare hand-carved dove decoys, and more honorees highlight the astonishing ingenuity, drive, and sheer skill of the South’s top makers and creatives
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This week in design, Gen Z is using TikTok to turn their rug-making hobbies into full-fledged businesses, while a new hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, brings unsavory comparisons for the city’s disgruntled residents. Whatever comes next, stay in the know with our weekly roundup of headlines, launches and events, recommended reading, and more.
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It’s an honor for
Garden & Gun to celebrate the region’s talented artisans, creative makers, small-business owners, and other entrepreneurs with its annual
Made in the South Awards a spotlight we consider more important than ever. So whether you make small-batch bourbon, fishing flies, can’t-eat-just-one cheese straws, custom furniture, hand-stitched cowboy boots, or an organic skin-care line, if your Southern-made product falls into one of the awards’ six categories Food, Drink, Home, Style, Outdoors, or Crafts enter now.
Winners and runners-up in each category are selected by a panel of
G&G editors and guest judges and will be featured in the pages of the December 2021/January 2022 issue.
When great private collections come to auction, even those closest to the owner tend to discover unseen treasures stashed away for decades. However, for the estate of late journalist and author Julia Reed, to be offered online in Neal Auction’s Important Winter Estates Auction February 5–7, that general truism likely won’t bear out. “Julia didn’t just like to collect things and let them gather dust. She used them all in service to her incredible hospitality and generosity,” Keith Meacham, Reed’s dear friend and a fellow Mississippi native, tells AD PRO. Consistent with her munificence, all proceeds from the sale will benefit the Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust, which partners with nonprofits to support those in need of housing, education, food, and more.
Before she died last August, the writer and long-time
Garden & Gun contributor Julia Reed set up a charitable trust to carry on her legacy. “She wanted to engage her friends, family, and community of readers,” says Keith Smythe Meacham, the chair of the Julia Evans Reed Charitable Trust, Reed’s business partner in Reed Smythe & Company, and her longtime friend. “She wanted to continue what she began so beautifully during her lifetime.” That trust will continue to give to Reed’s favorite nonprofits which support such causes as housing security, food security, education, and the arts in the Mississippi Delta while also targeting other charities that fit Reed’s mission.