Entire copies of articles referenced below may be obtained through Frances’ office via the Contact tab, above.
Currently…
Frances is writing a series of articles for House Beautiful on the makeover of Bee Cottage, her home in East Hampton. The columns are running in ten consecutive issues, beginning in February 2011. To read from the beginning, click on the image or link above (in green type) and go from there. Links to each may also be found on the Home page.
Excerpts from all over…
Frances’ former Atlanta townhouse was featured in a 10-page-spread in Veranda, 1996. Interior design by John Oetgen.
“…Love, friendship and warmth emanate equally from Frances Schultz’s home and personality. I walk into a townhouse that is a living, breathing, sunny autobiography… Gallery masterpieces hang alongside a niece’s crayon drawing…It’s a house so personal and clearly reflective of Frances Schultz that the visitor wants only to wander around this museum of memorabilia to learn more about her sharp sense of humor, refined tastes, extensive travels and warm character.” —Dossier Magazine
“Frances Schultz…has built a career on her sense of beauty, her storytelling genius, and her warm Southern charm…” —Signature Magazine
“…Tall and slender, Frances Schultz is vocal about the importance of listening to your inner voice…It is this inner voice that lead her to be a writer. Her mother taught her to appreciate the inherent beauty of even a modest home. “She kept a lovely house full of flowers and pretty things, and she was a wonderful cook. I learned to value those things, but I never imagined I might grow up and make it my life’s work.” —Atlanta 30305
“In New York, more than any other place, you can know someone simply by walking through a front door… Frances Schultz lives in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. When you walk though her front door, you see an end table covered with Eiffel Towers and a magazine rack holding the latest gossip from London. You see the names Plato, Thackery and Thoreau on one bookshelf; Halston, Hepburn and Chanel on another. You see a listener’s guide to Wagner and a seemingly endless collection of cookbooks. A table is set with painters’ palettes doubling for place mats, each with fork, knife and napkin pushed through its thumb hole. There’s modern art and classical sculpture, candelabra and bird cages… The bedroom reminds you of 17th-century Europe; the study of 1950s North Carolina. And somehow… all this ties neatly together in one, perfect package…” —Metro Magazine [read more...]
“I think they got tired of hearing about Mama and barbeque, and they wanted to come see it for themselves,” says Frances, host of Turner South network’s Southern Living Presents. “She’s always been proud of her Southern roots,” says the show’s producer, Craig St. John. “That inspired us to come here. A lot of her personality comes from this town. That’s part of what the whole South is about.” —The Daily Southerner
Praise for A House in the South:
“…Ecclecticism, a rich palette, and a “connection to something soulful” result in rooms with refined charm. —Town & Country
“…makes a wrought-iron-and-porch-clad case for indigenous Southern styles… Each home reveals its telltale heart.” —Veranda
“For anyone who has ever thought there was a typical southern home, this book quickly dispels that theory…” —The Atlantan
“My favorite thing about the book is … the interviews with each homeowner—they read like excerpts from a Tennessee Williams play…” —Atlanta Peach
