ABOUT ANNA

Anna Booth is the founder of Atlanta-based Anna Booth Interiors (formerly known as Anna Braund Interiors!) With a traveled eye and a storyteller’s keen sensitivity for capturing meaningful detail, Anna creates spaces that are true expressions of beauty, emotion, and memory. Believing that no two interiors—just as no two stories—are ever the same, she approaches each new project with a philosophy that design begins with the history of the space and the story of the people that live within them. The sophisticated interiors that result reflect the architecture in which they are rooted and the one-of-a-kind stories of the individuals living within them, while leaving space for more to unfold, as life itself unfolds over time, in the seasons and years to come.

In addition to her widely followed “Friday Feels” Instagram feed (published every Friday), Anna’s work has been featured in Veranda, Southern Living, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, and Atlanta magazine’s HOME. In Winter 2020, she introduced a special collection of hand-crafted mirrors made in England in partnership with Holland Macrae. We loved sitting down with this designer, and hope you enjoy our interview with Anna!

Describe your style in three words or less:

Nostalgic, tailored, authentic.

What have been the three biggest influences on your aesthetic in your life:

My Mom was an interior designer and her collection and stewardship of antiques provided me an appreciation for them early on. We didn’t have much, but what we had was sentimental and timeless, and she taught us to be good stewards of them. My Dad was a writer, and through his time in England and vocation in the country’s spiritual and literary authorship, instilled in me an appreciation for the English sensibility that I believe carries through my work today.

How did you start your company, and/or what is your favorite thing about what you do:

From an early age I played with my Mom’s drafting tools, and my love for interior design continued through college as a hobby while I studied Fine Art. As far back as I can remember I helped my friend’s design their bedrooms, dorm rooms, and following college their first homes, baby’s nurseries, and this all on the side of my career in the arts. Word of mouth provided my first client, and for three years I side hustled doing interiors until I had enough money saved in an envelope to go on my own and not have to worry about making money the first year. I knew that if I worried about how much I was making my creativity would stifle, and then I would have nothing.

Do you have a mentor in your career, and if so, how have they helped to shape your trajectory:

Being a part of DLN (Design Leadership Network) has provided me the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with colleagues in generations before me, both architects, interior designers, and landscape architects. It is here in these relationships where questions are safe, and guidance is trusted.

What does your home say about you:

My past has informed my present.

Where do you find inspiration:

Nature’s color palettes, cultures traveled, a maker’s craft, people’s stories.

Who are your style icons:

To know your style is to know yourself, so I think it’s more about being introspective than outwardly focusing on others.

What are your key ingredients for entertaining:

Come as you are, Diptyque candles, golden retrievers, vintage etched glassware, having a meaningful conversation with everyone present

Do you collect anything:

A book and a piece of pottery on every trip, photographs to help me remember.

Favorite Instagram accounts to follow for inspiration:

@milleumag, @davidnettosays, @geraldbrandinc.

What are you working on right now:

My mirror collection with Holland Macrae launched this year so it's been exciting and rewarding to see it come to fruition. With respect to interiors, our projects focus on whole homes, both here in the US and abroad, and range from Southern Vernacular to Greek Revival. It’s important to me to have no two projects look the same, for no two clients are the same.

Wardrobe staples:

Cartier Tank, Ann Mashburn button-up with sleeves rolled up, jeans and boots.

Favorite fabric/wallpaper:

Rose Tarlow.

Best interior advice you ever received:

Listen.

Best career advice you ever received:

Be honest in everything.

Types of home purchases you invest in, and save on:

Invest in all, purchase slow.

Your greatest extravagance:

Time with friends and family.

Favorite places to shop for home:

Holland Macrae, Holland & Sherry, Bungalow Classic, Robuck, Obsolete, Amy Meier, Casa Gusto.

Most prized possession and why:

Photographs of my Dad and I, I miss him.

Your interiors motto:

Care about how it's made and where it’s made, and buy it once.

Your life motto:

Everytime you bury pain you bury joy.

Advice for someone looking to define their own interior style:

It takes a great deal of energy and patience to sit with yourself and discover who you are.

Take Ten: My Favorite…

Food: Avocados

Drink: Coffee

Hotel: The Dorchester in London, and inside is a secret door that takes you to a hidden Cantonese restaurant which was a favorite to my Dad and Godfather, and they have both passed un-expedidly in the past three years and I believe that is why I cherish it.

City: London.

Bedding: Lietner.

Tea or Coffee (and how do you take it): French press coffee.

Playlist: Alexis French classical piano in the morning becomes Fleetwood Mac in the afternoon.

Weekend Activity: Running at the river.

Design Book: A Place to Call Home and The Great American House, Gil Shafer. I am beginning Donald H. Ruggles book, Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture, Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being.