Mount Pleasant Town Hall Magazine

12 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.MPTownHall.com MOUNT PLEASANT Town Hall M ount Pleasant has a historical lineage that shines brighter than the luminescence of an oyster shell under the midday sun. For centuries, it has served as a place where families can grow, agriculture can thrive and community can flourish. This plot of land overlooking the Cooper River has withstood hurricanes, battles and floods. It has grown in size, economy and stature. Now, the legacy of sweetgrass baskets, indigo, cotton fields and Shem Creek Beyond the Steel and Stucco Designing Mount Pleasant’s Town Hall By Kalene McCort shrimp will live on in the new Town Hall – 92,000 square feet of carefully crafted construction with a charm that reflects the very essence of this coastal community. Katherine Fishburne and Andrea Kuhfuss, the interior design duo behind the stunning structure, found the Lowcountry – with its marshlands and towering moss- covered trees – to be the essential muse. They worked with the town to deliver a one-of-a-kind structure, and the end result was a building of beauty, character and understated elegance. “I love the process of seeing an idea go from initial plans and paper to reality,” said Fishburne, who spent her childhood weekends roaming construction sites in Hilton Head Island with her builder dad. Starting in 2013, Fishburne and Kuhfuss lived and breathed this massive project. Long nights spent in the studio sketching out digital renderings, extensive meetings with furniture distributors and numerous construction- site strolls, tinged by airborne sawdust and the distinct sound of saws meeting planks, dominated their days for four years. For these two ambitious visionaries, every minute was fueled by unrelenting bursts of creativity and inspiration. Photo by Jess Wood. For Andrea Kuhfuss, left, and Katherine Fishburne, every minute of designing Mount Pleasant’s Town Hall was fueled by unrelenting bursts of creativity and inspiration.