Holiday Splendor at the Payne Mansion

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Presents “Holiday Splendor at the Payne Mansion.” The Florida West Coast Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) will expand the scope of its popular Holiday Showhouse in the Mansion for 2011, decking the entire first floor with stunning holiday décor.
Eleven talented designers will transform Selby Gardens’ Museum of Botany & the Arts into a glittering Holiday Showhouse, even creating a kitchen on the sun porch. “We decided to keep the house looking like a home, as if Christy and Anne Payne were our clients,” said Will Brown, ASID president and chair of ASID’s Payne Mansion Executive Committee. “We’ve chosen the classic phalaenopsis orchid as a unifying theme while letting each designer shine in the area they’ve chosen to decorate.”

The Holiday Showhouse will be open December 1, 2011 through January 2, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily and during the evenings of Lights in Bloom, December 16-23 and 26 & 27. For more details, please visitwww.Selby.org, the ASID website or the ASID Facebook page.

**Please note the Payne Mansion will be closed from November 26 to November 30 as the designers prepare for the opening. A visit to the “Holiday Splendor” Showhouse is included in the price of admission to the Gardens. The Showhouse will also be open to the public during Lights in Bloom on the evenings of December 16 – 23 and on the 26th and 27th from 6 to 9pm. Lights in Bloom is a ticketed event $14 for adults; $12 for members; children 11 and under enter free.