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Susie Godwin's knack for mixing and matching allows
for framed family photos to seem right at home alongside
cloisonne animal figurines and majolica earthenware, and
for a display of costume jewelry to look like a work of art
itself. e large family room opens to a dining area and the
kitchen, while large windows look out onto some of the 60-
some varieties of shrubs, plants, flowers, herbs, water features
and natural areas on the sprawling lot. A modern sectional
and large gas fireplace with glittering lava rocks look perfectly
at home sharing the room with a British campaign chair, an
antique Kobi chair that belonged to Prescott's grandmother
and a pair of 1940s Brutalist milk glass sconces.
e Godwins, by the way, spared every tree they possibly
could when clearing their lot and put many of the ones that
couldn't be saved to good use. e dining table, for instance,
was craed from milled hickory.
eir home is a mix of the whimsical and the priceless
that includes a spare room that Susie Godwin has turned into
an art studio for her and her grandchildren's creative pursuits
and a powder room off the entryway that is punctuated by
Cole and Son wallpaper featuring Asian tigers. "I love my
Asian tigers," Susie Godwin said.
Some years ago a friend
asked Susie how long she
had been collecting art. She
thought about the then-ages
of her children, Lacy and
Harry, and answered,
"Oh, about 18 years."
