About Me

With his dashing, daguerreotype good looks and mastery of the details of 400 years of English and Continental antiques, William R. Eubanks carries himself with the assured demeanor of another era. His unabashed residential designs are replete with eye-popping ormolu and Aubusson, tapestries, statuary, porcelain, the occasional taxidermy, lavish draperies, French doors opening onto English gardens. Each interior, in its way, is an ecstatic, near-apotheosis of splendid Southern living.

Born in Memphis, Eubanks was often taken out of school by his parents to go visiting, traveling hundreds of miles by road and rail for weeks on end to call on relatives and friends. Southerners tend to align themselves with English design traditions, Eubanks points out, and in his estimation, every home visited informed his understanding of interior design as an expression of ideals of comfort and achievement.

Elvis and Eubanks had big plans for Graceland at the time of the singer’s death in 1977, a year after Eubanks first opened for business. What did he tell Presley when asked how he liked what the King had done with the place so far? Eubanks, a born diplomat and genuinely kind, said, "I told him I’d never seen anything like it before in my life." If you’re like most Americans, you’d likely say the same in one of Eubanks' Palm Beach dining rooms. Let’s hope you get the chance.

400 Hibiscus Avenue
Palm Beach, FL 33480
561-805-9335
www.williammreubanks.com

Member Since

Feb 22, 2006

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