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Sheer Beauty
With the lyrical expressions of hydrangeas and cadences contributed by wild roses, quintessential Nantucket properties cannot help but speak to one’s inner poet. Adirondack chairs strike a Great Gatsbyish pose on the wraparound porches, while the commanding widows’ walks sweep in epic views of patchwork moors, of buttermilk beaches, and of sapphire blue waters. These idyllic scenes, like picture postcards, leave their imprints on the mind, where in quiet moments one can revisit them and be transported back to this “faraway” island.
Many seek to translate these timeless images through paintings, photos, words; DONNA ELLE captures them in fabrics and fasteners. The interior designer first encountered Nantucket in the summer of 1974. Visiting the island with a high-school girlfriend, Donna, then a seventeen-year-old clad in clogs, felt the experience as a coming home of sorts. The details of her arrival remain vivid. There she stood with her bicycle below deck on the ferry, feeling the bump of the ship as the mate secured it to the dock. “I disembarked off the vehicle deck and recall the smell of that damp, cool, and misty air,” Donna recalls. The atmosphere seemed familiar. As a child, she had made many visits to Block Island and had spent many happy hours on the ocean in her family’s Egg Harbor cabin cruiser. “The experience of landing on Nantucket in 1974 and calling it home was truly a blessed circumstance,” she says.
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