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Post Thanksgiving Mega-Sale: A "Traditions" Tradition

If you love luxury linens, you already know Traditions, though you may not realize it.  The drool-inducing bedding in the Neiman-Marcus, Orvis, Charlotte Moss, and Horchow Collection catelogs?  Traditions. The irresistible matelasse coverlets on the shelves at Classic Country in East Chatham and at all the Hammertown Barn stores? They&

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Shop for a Cause: Hammertown Gives a Damn Plus a Percentage

Money is infamous for burning holes in pockets, but there’s something else money often does that isn’t bad at all: It makes the person who has a little or a lot more than he needs want to give some of it away--not recklessly, but effectively, so that suffering

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Saperstein's: The Store That Time Forgot (Thankfully)

If you're old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter was president, then you probably remember shopping for Levi's and Duofold long underwear at a store like Saperstein's. One of the mainstays of Millerton's Main Street, the store is anticipating, counterintuitively, a robust

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A New Museum Shop at Clermont

Our faithful correspondent, interior designer Carey Maloney, partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in M (Group), fills us in on the holiday shopping potential of the new museum shop at Clermont. No one appreciates a good museum shop more than me.  I have to fight my assorted demons to hold out

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Atelier Renee, A Framer in Red Hook

Our Rural Restoration Blogger Carey Maloney, an interior designer who is a partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in the M (Group), expounds on why Atelier Renee, in Red Hook, is such an outstanding place to get art, maps, and pictures, especially old ones, framed. Many of the framers we’ve

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Shopping: An Americana Auction at Copake

If you're frustrated by the high prices at many antiques stores and jonesing for something new for your house that connects you to the past, you should do like the dealers do: bid for bargains at the Copake Auction gallery. This Saturday, Copake is holding one of its

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Live & Learn: The Well-Appointed House, Circa 2008

Ever had that nagging feeling when talking to one of those guys who charge a lot of dough to cure what ails your house that you are slogging through a marsh?  (This sensation can be especially pronounced when a hyper-verbal Know-Nothing is holding up both ends of a conversation with

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Pringle & Zimring is Now Open 24/7

One of our mantras is "Shop Local," but sometimes it's inconvenient  or impossible.  Betsy Zimring of Pine Plains, who runs an interiors-and-gift-shop in Millerton, understands, so she has launched an online boutique, PringleandZimring.com, so her faithful customers can patronize her store wherever they are and

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Tag sale: Brush up your Basic French

In honor of Bastille Day (July 14), and because she just rented her house for an entire year, Carol Neiley, owner of Basic French, is having a tag sale at her Red Hook shop this weekend (Friday-Monday).  Most of the stuff in the sale comes from her much-published (Victoria, Country

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The Heart & Soul of Rhinebeck's Paper Trail (Part 1: At Work)

Indie card and party stores are an endangered species.  When I need a birthday card, wrapping paper and candles for a cake, I unfortunately find myself heading too often to CVS, Stop & Shop or, most depressingly, Rite Aid. So  it's no wonder that the first time I

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Trend Alert: Iron Garden Accessories

Two of the best-respected gardeners in northwestern Connecticut—Lee Link of Sharon and Bunny Williams of Falls Village—are both besotted with handmade metal ornaments made by the young fellows at Battle Hill Forge in Falls Village. "I learned about them when I was shopping for plants at the

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Salander-O’Reilly Bankruptcy Auction at Stair Galleries

For nearly a year, the art world has been abuzz with news of the closing of the Salander  - O’Reilly Gallery, and its subsequent bankruptcy filing.  On June 7th, Stair Galleries of Hudson conducts the first auction of goods from the collection. “It was a struggle from start-to-finish with

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