20 Years of Traditional Home: McBournie and Faudree(20)
20 Years of Traditional Home: McBournie and Faudree
If you sense a kinship between Charles Faudree and Traditional Home, you're right. The Tulsa interior designer and the 20-year-old magazine grew up together, rising to national prominence at around the same time, leaning on each other to get there, and refining their looks as the years marched by. Faudree's work first appeared in the magazine 19 years ago, as TH toddled into its second year of existence. That story (February 1990) featured a Tulsa home he designed. Even then, he wielded a highly decorative style lush with objects and patterns for an "elegantly eclectic environment that is at once French and English, formal and casual, feminine and masculine." The very next issue, April 1990, served up more -- a 200-year-old saltbox he had transplanted to Tulsa as his own home.
Over the next two decades, we featured nine more Faudree designs, seven of them being his own homes. (The antique saltbox was short-lived for Faudree, a rolling stone who declares that each new house "is the best and my last!") Three times his own homes made our covers: in April 1991, and for Holiday issues in 2000 and 2002. We watched as his fondness for English florals waned and his French style bloomed in full. In May 1995, he was a TH Design Award winner. Like the magazine he grew up with, this traditionalist is still evolving.
