Style Millbrook Library Tours Beatrix Farrand's Wild Garden in Hyde Park Director of Horticulture Ashley Gamell leads a walk through the newly installed native plant garden at Bellefield, at peak abundance in September By Jamie Larson •
Style Old Growth Modernist Design: Ten Broeck Cottage in Livingston Two architects spent two decades transforming a crumbling 1734 Dutch farmhouse into a modernist family home—salvaging its history in the beams, floorboards, and a dining table cut from a fallen sugar maple. By Mary Angeles Armstrong •
Style Wendy Wisbrun’s Addition to an Early 19th-Century Copake Connects Home to Landscape 1850 Greek Revival occupied an enchanting site beside conserved land, but the house turned little of its attention toward the forest. Until now. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Style "Hudson Folk" Captures the People, Places, and Relationships Shaping the Region’s Cultural Life "Hudson Folk: Creative People and Places in the Hudson Valley" written by Amanda Benchley and Tamara Weiss, with photographs by Elizabeth Cecil, presents the region’s creative life as a web of relationships. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Style The Garden’s Second Season: Fall Blooms, Winter Roots, and a Lighter Approach to Cleanup The garden in fall can be every bit as lovely as it is in spring or summer, and a few shifts in approach can make tending it lighter and more rewarding. By Chronogram Staff •
Style The Berkshire Woodworkers Guild's Labor Day Show Live demonstrations run from stitch-and-glue boat building to shave horse technique, with proceeds funding the next generation of craftspeople. By Jamie Larson •
Style Learn the Art of Fall Container Design at Hollister House The Meadow Rue Gardens co-owner and former graphic designer walks through structure, texture, and cold-tolerant plant selection By Jamie Larson •
Photo by Timothy Hursley courtesy of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Style Porches' New Wing was Designed to Honor the Berkshires’ Rural and Industrial Past, and Porches of all Kinds The FreshGrass Annex, the new addition to Porches Inn by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, translates North Adams's mill-town roofs and local Shaker heritage into a new hotel wing that’s capturing our attention. By Jamie Larson •
Style Lavender Workshop at Hancock Shaker Village, Where 1800s American Herb Trade Began Make soap, body spray, lip conditioner, and syrup on a farm with the deepest herb-growing history in American Shaker communities. By Jamie Larson
Style Mother-Daughter Designers Launch Interiors Pop-Up in Stockbridge Pryor & Peacock reupholster antique furniture in fabric printed from 17th-century illustrations—and argues that furniture has gotten unforgivably boring. By Jamie Larson •
Style Berkshire Furniture Maker Launches New Collection with Design Icon Rafael de Cardenas Kump Studio's Ian Geoghegan on sheen, plywood, Pee-wee Herman, and the collection he just launched with one of design's most in-demand names. By Jamie Larson •
Style Autumn Blackwood Teaches Bibliomancy at Mini CT Bookish Con in Torrington Autumn Blackwood teaches divination through text and how to craft a powerful bookmark. By Jamie Larson •
