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Elon’s personal resident decorator gives Elon^JaceMft
Stone offers decorating assistance to administrator’s offices around campus
Stone dedicates her time to improving and mod
ernizing various locales throughout Elon, includ
ing refurbishing the office of Ernie Nestor.
Colin Donohue / Photographer
Men's basketball coach Ernie Nestor's office was recently refur-
bished by Lucile Stone, Ban's personal decorator and fias also
tteen usinp her talents to redesign President Leo Lamben's office.
Lindsay lennings
Reporter
When Elon needs a facelift,
administrators call on Lucile
Stone.
A former professor in the
School of Education who traded
an academic’s life for the life of
a part-time decorator. Stone
dedicates her lime to improving
and modernizing various
locales throughout Elon,
including refurbishing the
office of new basketball coach
Ernie Nestor. She is also using
her talents to give President
Leo Lambert’s office a new
look.
Elon’s resident decorator
received her first assignment
from former university presi
dent Fred Young. He asked her
to fix up a few of the offices on
campus. Ever since then she has
been employed by Elon to
reupholster furniture and pick
out artwork, furnishings and
lamps for offices and buildings
around campus. Stone has also'
been decorating the stage u.sed
at Commencement and
Convocation for 25 years. For
this year’s Convocation, she
ordered flowers to create a
beautiful background and the
program.
Currently, Stone is working
to update Lambert’s office suite
by creating stylish leather
wingback chairs to match the
new motif. To design a new
look, she chooses a fabric and
then works with painters to cre
ate a matching paint for the
walls. Stone’s decorating touch
can also be seen in Belk
Library, where she just finished
hanging three new art pieces.
These shadow boxes are five
feet in length and made of wood
that is painted black.
The edges are rimmed in a
soft gold and the inside of the
boxes are lined with a green silk
that brings out the green leaves
painted along the stairwell.
Stone said she found these
pieces at the Wholesale
Furniture Market that takes
place in April and October in
High Point.
Stone says, that these boxes
are “perfect for the big space.”
Stone is also adding two new
pieces of art in the Writing
Center this week and artwork in
the study rooms to complement
pieces of art work done by the
department.
Stone’s appreciation of art is
evident in other areas of cam
pus as well.
“Art is such a personal
thing,” she said, so after select
ing a piece she consults with a
variety of people to be sure the
art will be welcomed. Stone
selects rugs and carpets also
manages all of the floral
arrangements throughout cam
pus. She selects containers and
places the pieces and forms
contracts with the people who
attend to needs of the plants.
“I should think about retir
ing, but I love doing it and I
only work half time on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and for
other special things,” Stone
says, expressing her joy of
beautiful Elon. Most of her
work is now done over the
phone.
Although, this is her 36th
year working at Elon, Stone is
still dedicated to working hard
and says “I will go wherever
there is work to be done.”
Contact Lindsay Jennings at pen-
duium@elon.edu or 278-7247.
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