Charlotte Lucas & Liz Carroll photograph by Indigo Photography

Memorizing your address can be a childhood milestone. For the Harris sisters, the North Carolina roads they called home are more than memories — they’re woven into the bold, bespoke patterns of the wall coverings and fabrics made by the sisters’ company, House of Harris.

Eager for a creative collaboration, Charlotte Harris Lucas and Liz Harris Carroll conceived of their company in 2017 while on a trip to Paris. By the time the designers’ flight landed back home, their first sketches were already underway. Within a year, the women’s designs were gracing foyers, dining rooms, bedrooms, and showrooms.

the dusty-blue Airlie fabric photograph by Anna Routh Barzin

“As we started designing the collection for House of Harris, we had these drawings that reminded us of different places and streets where we’d lived — in Asheville, Wilmington, Charlotte, and Fayetteville — and the idea to give the [wallpaper street] names came to us pretty organically,” Carroll says. Lucas and Carroll — who now live in Charlotte and Wilmington, respectively — were trained not only in school but also by the influence of their mother, a designer herself.

A fusion of timeless classics and maximalized whimsy, the collections vary from Vanderbilt, featuring sherbet-hued bouquets of pink, lemon, and orange, to Airlie, with its dainty leaves and vines in dusty blue and peach.

House of Harris reflects both of the sisters’ styles. They sketch, color test, and tweak their work until the product suits them. “We have a Southern-rooted style,” Carroll says, “but we’re doing it in a very new way.”

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