His strength lies in understanding the relationships between light, composition, and architecture, and how these shape the viewer’s experience within a space.

Kemper is internationally recognized and the winner of several prestigious design awards.

Gwyn Hyman Rubio's first novel, Icy Sparks, was an Oprah Book Club Selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the year

from The New York Times Book Review -
"Rubio is a writer of uncommonly warm and tender vision, often comic, brimming with love and hope...an entertaining and absorbing story.”

Gwyn & her husband have lived in Kentucky for over 20 years -
in Versailles since 2001.

Ouita Michel, of Holly Hill Inn, is committed to the idea that you can find richness and quality in traditional foods. She searches for ways to reinterpret dishes from Kentucky and around the world and, in turn, support local farmers. It’s that “straight from the garden” approach that Ouita feels is the centerpiece of her cuisine.

A former Madeleine Kamman scholar, Ouita was named one of “Forty Under Forty New Leaders for a New Millennium” in the state of Kentucky by the Shakertown Round Table. She has served as president of her local chapter of the American Culinary Federation and has been featured in many publications, including the New York Times, Bon Appetit and Food & Wine.

In 2000, Ouita and her husband, Chris, bought Holly Hill Inn, a 150-year-old home whose storied past and architectural integrity has earned it a place on the National Register of Historic Places. Of Ouita’s food, Martin Booe wrote in a recent issue of Bon Appétit, “Michel creates dishes—like a smoked pork chop with barbecue sauce enriched with coffee and bourbon—that defy categorization but always sing on the taste buds.” And at the end of an eating and drinking tour of the Lexington area, Food & Wine writer Michelle Shih enthused, “My best meal was at Holly Hill Inn.”