lifestyle hotel the dewberry Charleston, South Carolina Photography by MATTHEW WILLIAMS "It's not a riff off anything; it's its own thing." -HD Awards judge Kemper Hyers 2 3 1 1. The Dewberry, housed in the former L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building, received a facelift thanks to a gray limewash that covered up the original red brick. 2. Henrietta's French brasserie is dressed in a checkerboard floor and globe pendants that speak to the Southern Modernism aesthetic, along with American and European flourishes. 112 3+4. Along with mohair settees in the living room and brass accents in the bar, a midcentury modern design is apparent in clean lines, scooped plaster ceiling lights, and floors salvaged from a tobacco farm in Georgia. 5. Peyton Avrett, whose grandmother worked in the original office tower, fabricated the brass city map hanging on the cherry wood-paneled walls in the lobby. June 2017 hospitalitydesign.comhttp://www.hospitalitydesign.com