THE FOUNDERS

METAL

Two decades in real estate and construction, turning beautiful ideas into finished, on-time, on-budget spaces.

Graham Joyner is the co-founder and operating officer of METAL + PETAL and the driving force behind everything we build.

A native Athenian, Graham spent more than two decades in commercial real estate and construction before METAL + PETAL, learning the discipline of budgets, timelines, and the thousand moving parts that turn a vision into a finished space. That background is what lets the studio make the promises it makes. Where most people see a beautiful room, Graham sees the framing behind it, the cost of getting it right, and the path to delivering it on time. It is the rare pairing of financial precision and creative instinct that makes a design firm actually work.

His fingerprints are on every project, even the parts a client never sees. He shapes how we price, procure, and deliver the work, protecting both the design and the people we build for. The result is a studio that runs like a business and feels like a partnership.

Beyond METAL + PETAL, Graham chairs the Athens Tech Foundation, championing education and community in the city he calls home. When he isn’t building something, he is somewhere in the Lowcountry or the mountains, drawn, like his wife and partner Jade, to beauty that lasts.

PETAL

Twenty-five years and four countries of design, for clients who expect precision and a space that is unmistakably theirs.

Jade Joyner is the co-founder and principal designer of METAL + PETAL, and the creative force behind everything we make.

Her path to the Southeast was not a straight one. Jade spent more than 20 years in Europe, living and working in Istanbul, Warsaw, Vienna, and Budapest, where she launched her design career, building a practice for an international expat clientele who expected the kind of discretion and precision that left no room for error. From there, she brought that sensibility to Washington, D.C., shaping homes for Capitol Hill before settling in the South and building METAL + PETAL alongside Graham. Twenty-five years in, that global eye still shapes everything she touches.

Her work has been published nationally across House Beautiful, The Wall Street Journal, Southern Living, Domino, and Martha Stewart Living, and spans custom new builds and historic renovations, boutique hotels, and high-end commercial spaces. Each one is distinct. Each one unmistakable.

What sets Jade apart isn’t just her eye. It’s the investment. She is present from the first conversation to the final styling, obsessed with the details that most people never notice, but everyone feels. Her clients don’t just get a beautiful space. They get a partner who cares about it as much as they do.