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Style Shopping: Material Man Peter Fasano

No one can accuse Peter Fasano of failing to see the forest for the trees. He sees both the big picture and all the details—the forest, the trees, the branches, the bark, the leaves, the veins within the leaf, and, just as important, the empty spaces in between that

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An Outstanding Outlet: Pine Cone Hill's New Pittsfield Store

On January 12, Pine Cone Hill opened an honest-to-goodness warehouse outlet at its world headquarters in Pittsfield. For several years, the 17-year-old company founded by Stockbridge native Annie Selke has had a store on the Lenox Road, where it sold its distinctive, beautifully-made and often winsome comforters, quilts, sheets, rugs

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Gilded Moon Framing Rises Anew in Millerton

Jill and Paul Choma are betting again on the future of Millerton. Six years ago, the couple who'd been running a framing business out of their home in East Fishkill in southern Dutchess County, decided to open a custom framing shop in Millerton. "It was a leap

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The Virtuous Shopper: Chatham's Do-Good To Do-Well Scheme

Many small towns in these parts are the picture of innocence, but Chatham is one that does not just look the part. Shopkeepers here tend to bring lofty ideals to their business practices—terms like local, sustainable, Fair Trade, vegan, and U.S.A.-made get tossed around a lot.

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Shop Bells & Sleigh Bells Ring Out in Rhinebeck

Shopping locally is not solely about geography. It's about supporting independently-owned businesses that give our communities their unique character and patronizing the merchants who can always be relied upon to donate goods and services to fundraisers for our libraries, volunteer fire departments, historical societies, and theatre companies. According

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Shopping: Pookstyle Peps Up Park Row

Museum shops appeal to the sort of people who believe that, as Mies van der Rohe so famously said, "God is in the details"—that a beautifully designed, say, pot-scrubbing brush can so enhance daily life that it's worth every penny, even if it costs something

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The Belgian Connection: TK Opens in Hudson

An ancient artifact, lit by an early 20th-century industrial lamp, rests on a rough-hewn antique table that’s pushed against a wall that appears to have clocked several hundred years of wear and tear and is all the more beautiful for it. Above the table hangs a large, contemporary, abstract

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Home Improvement: A Day of High-End Show and Tell

No question, the internet simplifies shopping. You hear about a product, and within a click or two, you know exactly where you can get it, how much it costs, and what it looks like...on a computer screen. But for certain kinds of purchases—custom work, expensive things, technically complicated

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A Fashion Pop-Up Shop at FACE Stockholm in Hudson

Petria May, a former New York City lawyer who now lives in Great Barrington, has a somewhat incompatible passion for country living and chic city clothing. For the past seven years, she has reconciled these divergent interests in a series of high-end vintage clothing stores, beginning with a shop on

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Rural Outfitters: Peter Becks Village Store Opens in Salisbury

With three boarding schools—Salisbury, Indian Mountain and Hotchkiss—Salisbury, CT, is arguably the preppiest town in our region, but until this week there was no place for prep students or their parents (or grandparents) to buy the high quality sporty clothing and gear that's essential to the

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Panning for Gold at the New York Designer Fabric Outlet

Shopping for home furnishings fabrics is no picnic for non-professional decorators. Visualizing which fabric will look and perform best in a given situation is difficult and confusing work. Which is why, most days at the New York Designer Fabric Outlet in Valatie (Columbia County), New York, the place is as

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The Berkshires' First Lady of Fashion: Mikki Brown

If you see a woman wearing a dress this summer that is so exceptionally pretty, quirky or arresting that you have to stop and ask her, "Where'd you get that?" the answer will more than likely be "The Browns." Located on Water Street in

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