Antique Garden Furniture Grows to Antique Stone Fireplaces
As featured in Architectural Digest, page 44

"I was in France looking for antique garden furniture," says Darryl Savage, owner of DHS Designs, "and met some people with access to antique stone fireplaces dating from the Loire Valley. I took pictures of the first one to Charlotte Moss, and she bought it." Savage who now has about 50 of the antique stone fireplaces at his warehouse in an old dairy barn near Annapolis, Maryland, calls them "just as sculptural as stone statuary," explaining that they have as much of the feeling of the master carver's hand involved."

     The antique stone fireplaces represent the most recent addition to Savage's collection of antique garden sculpture (left) that he shows in his Annapolis shop: carved pillars, urns filled with stone fruit, and animal figures, including mythical beasts, which he describes as having "lots of patina and character." Moss says about Savage, "He sees the interesting quirk." One of the first pieces the New York designer bought was a 19th century marble figure of a woman, headless, that she put in her East Hampton rose garden.
     After five years in business, Savage had acquired a national reputation with such a designer clients as Brian Murphy and Paul Vincent Wiseman, as Well as Moss.