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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Recession? Not Hudson

Last week our restoration blogger Carey Maloney reported on a Manhattan antiques shop, Naga, that recently opened a bigger branch, Naga North, in Hudson.  This week, we are reporting on four new shops that have opened during the past month within just one block on Warren Street.  A coincidence?  Or

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Trade Secrets Weekend: Plants, Antiques & Garden Tours

Trade Secrets is northwestern Connecticut's grandest garden party of the year. What started nine years ago at Bunny Williams's Falls Village house as a community rare-plant-and-antique sale for charity has morphed into a two-day, horticultural carnival—our region's unofficial kick-off to the planting season.

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Susan Silver Antiques: A Survivor of the Mid-Century Storm

Reason suggests that the antiques business should be immune to the vicissitudes of time; but, in fact, the furnishings of the past are just as susceptible to the whims of fashion as any other aesthetic choice.  Twenty-seven years ago, in 1982, when Susan Silver (left), of the eponymous antiques shop

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Michael Devine: Designer without Borders

Michael Devine is the Scarlet Pimpernel of the interior design world. He's here: His headquarters, if a moving target can be said to have a home base, is an enchanting little retail shop (shown here) in enchanting, little Kinderhook, NY, where he sells his own fabrics and stylish

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Sandy Klempner Takes the Fifth with Style

For some people, an interesting shop can be like the bar in Cheers, a place worthy of regular visits, where comfort and stimulation in equal measure are guaranteed, and where at least somebody knows your name. Sandy Klempler Antiques and Interiors in Canaan, NY, just west of the Massachusetts border,

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Let Us Now Praise Rhinebeck's 5 & 10 Cent Store: A.L. Stickle

The village of Rhinebeck is surrounded by landmarks like Wilderstein and Montgomery Place,  but the only truly living, breathing historic site is the A.L. Stickle variety store on East Market Street.  Stickle's is the last of a breed. It's the quintessential small town  5 &

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How and What to Buy at Auction: A Pro's Guide

Here Carey Maloney of M (Group), normally our Restoration correspondent, take us on a digital shopping spree to Stair Galleries forthcoming auction. OK – it’s my profession and my obsession.  I love Old Stuff – I’ve never been that interested in the brand new. I prefer old flatware over the

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High Drama at George Cole's Auction House in Red Hook

Sam Scripps, who lived for decades in an old stone house on the river in Rhineclif, had a passion for antiques and theater. Now, his love of the former will beneft the latter.  On Saturday, March 14, nearly 400 lots from his house will be sold at George Cole Auctions

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Saville Row (with Sass) Comes to Bangall

Interior designer Selina van der Geest does the sort of work—high quality, fundamentally fitting-and-proper, but with just enough edge to make it simultaneously lively and au courant—that leaps off the pages of Elle Décor, where it is routinely published.   It follows, then, that her renown for balancing innovation

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An Annie Walwyn-Jones Fashion Event at Agapanthus

Stylish, feminine without being frou-frou, versatile, and just-the-right-degree-of-dressy for country nights, fashions by Annie Walwyn-Jones return to Agapanthus on Saturday, February 14, for a one-day event. Walwyn-Jones, who came to the States from her native London in 1972 to attend Parsons School of Design, ended up staying on after she

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Holiday Shopping: Gifts from the North Pole

No need to buy on-line, in big-box stores, at soul-sapping malls, or in a glamorous-but-exhausting nearby city that shall go nameless.  Every gift you need for the holidays can be found right here at the charming, sophisticated, fun-to-browse shops in-and-around our own enchanting towns and villages.  When you buy a

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Holiday Shopping: Gifts from the South Pole

Holiday cookies ($3 and up) that taste as good as they look. Sweet William's Bakery, 100 Main Street, Falls Village; 860.824.8180 Handpainted votives from Paris by Geraldine Gonzalez ($30) and beaded handbag ($139) at Paper Trail, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck; 845.876.8050 Gypsy T-shirt with

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