Photos by Kyle Haines
Welcome to 595 South Sixth Street
Jill D'Artignac and Jim Plunkett
Haus und Garten Tour 2022
Jill D'Artignac and Jim Plunkett
Haus und Garten Tour 2022
Enjoy Jill and Jim's artsy, whimsical and delightful home on South Sixth Street. View rooms with select items from their world traveling escapades.
The attractive white floral themed front yard framed by bright green boxwoods.
From Jill:
We consider the rug in the living room a piece of art. It is a one of a kind piece purchased on a trip to Morocco. Every knot is hand tied and each piece of yarn is hand spun. The rug was designed in the tent home by a Bedouin woman in traditional style. I am amazed by the imagination, artistry and craftsmanship conveyed in color choices, and the beautiful and intricate patterns. The rug took approximately two years to construct. Sadly, in traditional Bedouin culture, women are bound by honor and tradition to stay within the environment of the family and are not allowed to conduct business. Thus, her husband or another male family took the rug to a local rug exchange/ cooperative where it was bartered for basic food and cash. The local rug shops then purchase the rugs from the cooperative.
We consider the rug in the living room a piece of art. It is a one of a kind piece purchased on a trip to Morocco. Every knot is hand tied and each piece of yarn is hand spun. The rug was designed in the tent home by a Bedouin woman in traditional style. I am amazed by the imagination, artistry and craftsmanship conveyed in color choices, and the beautiful and intricate patterns. The rug took approximately two years to construct. Sadly, in traditional Bedouin culture, women are bound by honor and tradition to stay within the environment of the family and are not allowed to conduct business. Thus, her husband or another male family took the rug to a local rug exchange/ cooperative where it was bartered for basic food and cash. The local rug shops then purchase the rugs from the cooperative.
The Mossant Poster was the first piece of art that Jim and I purchased together. We loved both the whimsical theme and the color palette & used it to inform the tone and color palette for the kitchen. The Mossant poster was first printed in France in1938 and was designed by artist Leonetto Cappiello who created a style that revolutionized the art of poster design.
An artsy wall sculpture on the brick wall in the kitchen, commissioned by Jim.
Part of the potato chip can collection.
Mexican bar stools found on 1st Dibs. Jill's favorite part of the kitchen.
Jill next to her colorful New Orleans painting and sunny sunflowers.
The Japanese Satsuma vase was inherited from my grandmother. It lived on a shelf in her front room, where the things that got you spanked if you touched them lived. I was fascinated by it as a child. I have no idea how it came to be in her possession but I suspect that one of my mother's boyfriends sent it to her during the war to gain favor with my mother. My grandmother always told me that it depicts Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in caricature....
Eleanor is on the opposite side of the vase.
Eleanor is on the opposite side of the vase.
The Mennonite shelves fill a front room wall
and the sliding ladder that runs along a groove between the floor boards.
and the sliding ladder that runs along a groove between the floor boards.
Jim's Doobie Brothers poster with the band members signatures!
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Whimsical statues collected by Jill's grandmother framing the mirror in the downstairs 1/2 bath.
Vintage advertisement depicting the digestive benefits of smoking Camel cigarettes,
while setting people right with the more expensive tobacco experience.
while setting people right with the more expensive tobacco experience.
I inherited this bedroom furniture from my grandmother. It was constructed in Statesville, GA. before the civil war. I spent every Christmas eve of my childhood tucked into that bed with two or three of my cousins as we waited for Santa to arrive. My older brother was born in it ..my mother realized that she was not going to make it to the hospital in town so Miss Ruth, the county nurse ,was sent for and she delivered him...To this day he is early for every appointment and family gathering..
The matching dresser housed our junk drawer where my grandmother placed used satin ribbons, powder puffs, old utensils, pocket knives and anything else she thought we might use to "play pretend"..In my grandmother's world view, we were expected to create our own fun and boredom was not in her vocabulary. I am pretty sure this is where my love of found objects such as vintage powder boxes, hats and hankies comes from.
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The Japanese Kimono that inspired the colors and theme of the master bedroom.
Jill and Jim took out shelves from a built-in bookcase in order to frame the beautiful robe.
Jill and Jim took out shelves from a built-in bookcase in order to frame the beautiful robe.
JayJay, our cat, is an Applehead Siamese cat we adopted from a local rescue and we simply serve as his valet and maid...
At night Jill and Jim feel like they are living and sleeping in a treehouse, as the bedroom window view is of treetops.
The trees also cast shadows on the ceiling of the bedroom. What fun!
The cleverly combined shower and clawfoot tub in the master bath.
The monochromatic art on the wall that divides the bedroom and the closet space.
The pergola is our day book reading and nightly glass of wine unwinding spot. We love to repurpose items we drag home from antique (AKA junk stores) and transformed two metal milk crates into planters. Jim collected some of the antique bricks that were going to be tossed out when the city installed the new walkways and we used them to create the brick area rug in the center of the pergola.
Our back porch furniture is reminiscent of my grandmother's summer lawn furniture that I loved as a child. The rug mirrors the lines and curves in the patterns found on the chairs.. Jim and I love whimsey and have included it in all of our inside and outside living spaces. We painted the Blue Dogs as we drank copious amounts of wine during a Village Connections fundraiser...We always ask people to guess who painted what dog to see if they can distinguish between our two very different personalities! They seem to always know that Jim painted the dog with the fangs and blood dripping from its mouth.....
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HOUSE 595 South Sixth Street ISSUE XX
