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Flipping the Scripts

In the summer of 2017, Emily Moss Wilson ’05 found herself in a New York City boardroom with Lifetime network executives looking for someone to direct happy holiday movies. Given her background in thrillers, she had to work to convince them that she understood “nobody’s gonna get murdered.”

Wilson wrote and directed her first thriller in 2014. Drink is a short, eerie film about a mother whose life is changed after a night in an old motel room; it has more than 5 million views on YouTube. In 201

Dorothy Draper — Paxton Place Design

Most of the spaces she designed were for elite crowds, but Draper’s style aimed to bring extravagance to everyone. She has been remembered as saying, “there seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”

Some of Draper’s notable works include the Metropolitan Museum of Art cafeteria, nicknamed “The Dorotheum” in her honor, the Greenbriar Hotel & Resort, and some unique fabric patterns, such as “Romance & R

House Plant History — Paxton Place Design

While houseplants may seem commonplace now, they were not always around. They were once just, well, plants! So how did some plants make the jump from sunning in the garden to enjoying the AC?

Early houseplants can be traced back to ancient China, where greenery in the home was viewed as a symbol of wealth.

Meanwhile, in the Babylonian Empire, Emperor Nebuchadnezzar was busy commanding the building of a multi-story indoor garden for his wife. Today, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are known as o