A farm girl married to a French aristocrat
Courtney Hinton moved to Asheville from Los Angeles with her husband Nick just after they got married. She worked at a design firm for two years, then started Hearth + Home because she wanted to do interiors and antiques in the same place instead of picking one. It was just her until her son Jones was born, and there are four of them now.
Her description of her own style: a Pennsylvania Dutch farm girl married to a French aristocrat, the two of them pioneering out West. That's her line, not ours.
The studio is in one of the oldest buildings in Asheville, twelve-foot ceilings and windows down one side. It's a showroom on weekdays. A good deal of what ends up in her projects comes through that room first.