Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. Landscape designer and professor David Dew Bruner and realtor/antiques dealer Jonathan Hallam, partners in life, kept separate identities as antiques, art, and design retailers on Hudson's Warren Street. Bruner had his eponymous store on the bustling 600 block and Hallam's was formerly in the relatively quiet 400 one. They decided to join forces a bit off the beaten path, way up on Columbia Street (across from Columbia Memorial Hospital) in the carriage house of a vacant 1910 Beaux Arts Victorian mansion, rumored to have once been built for an Astor and last used as a funeral parlor. The newly opened Hallam+Bruner is located in a stunning space, and opening night on Saturday, February 16, brought a crowd as lofty as the wooden rafters dramatically framing the antiques and art on view (drawings by Bruner, sculpture by Ben Bishop). At left: guests Logan Goodman, renown stage and screen actor David Strathairn, and jewelry artist Gabrielle Kiss.

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David Dew Bruner, painter Rudi Molacek, and Bob Mechling; Colin Stair and Jonathan Hallam.

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Larry Mauro and ceramicist Bob Pesce; independent curator Richard Roth, Benjamin Wilson, and realtor James Male .

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Artist Monica Mechling and gallery owner Carrie Haddad; Geoff Leibovitz and Andrea Elliot of Elliot Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

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Mark Wurm, Mark Ciecko, and Steve Hanlon.





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Landscape architect Susan Kaplan, Mike Jepsen, wife Stephanie Jepsen, and Jackie Krass.

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Historic restoration architect Marilyn Kaplan and painter Tony Thompson; lighting designer Jeff Snider and curator Mason Klein.

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Jessica Bavier and David Dew Bruner; Roby and Rob Whitlock and painter Randall Schmit.

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