Style The Art Of Giving: RI's Annual Holiday Gift Guide Where we live, you don’t have to travel very far to find unique gifts that are sure to please and impress. Whether you're looking for a memorable "thank you" for a holiday party host, or something local to send to a friend or family member By Editor
Style Going Home For The Holidays: House Tours In Hudson And Kent ‘Tis the season for touring historical houses, and our region has those in spades. On December 9 and 10, folks in Hudson, New York and Kent, Conn. can set off for fundraising tours that will showcase the transition in architectural styles over many decades and highlight the history of the By Editor
Style East Camp Goods: Alchemy And Art By Husband And Wife By Jamie Larson NASA announced recently that its scientists had observed, for the first time, the collision of two neutron stars. One of the many fascinating discoveries made was that the event ejected 200 Earth masses worth of gold into the universe. It’s speculated that these fantastic events are By Editor
Style Kea Carpets and Kilims: A Woven Mix Of Art And History By Jamie Larson Upon entering the humble Hudson shop of Kea Carpets and Kilims, you may not know a thing about the history or plight of the Middle Eastern or Asian tribes that crafted the textiles on display, but the language of form and shape woven therein is universal, and By Editor
Style Fall Garden: Outside In Tropical plants on the deck waiting to be prepared to come inside. By Madaline Sparks It’s October and my panic is setting in. Going from temperatures in the 80s and 90s one week to the 40s at night a few days later has kickstarted my annual anxiety about overwintering By Editor
Style Tea and Textiles: Casana Fuels Hillsdale Renaissance By Nichole Dupont The Hillsdale renaissance has a new patron. Like Kevin Draves and Ken Davis, who gave the town center a beautiful boost when they opened the Passiflora "lifestyle boutique" and the Village Scoop ice cream shop, Carrie Chen delivers a double shot of retail and victuals. By Editor
Style Flourish Market: Old, New, Restored Decor, Delightfully Priced By Lisa Green “You shouldn’t have to mortgage your house to buy fun things,” says Jennifer Knopf, who opened Flourish Market in West Stockbridge, Mass. in December of 2015. The store, which offers a mixture of vintage, antique and new furniture and décor, is one of those shops where By Editor
Style August In The Garden: How To Extend The Beauty By Madaline Sparks It’s hard to believe we’re in the last weeks of summer already. How can that be? Summer doesn’t officially end until September 22, though we generally think of Labor Day weekend as the end. I always feel a little anxious about now because the By Editor
Style A Hudson Success: David DeSantis, Blacksmith Extraordinaire Photos courtesy of David DeSantis. By Jamie Larson The metal work of David DeSantis is astonishing in quality, variety of style and application. That’s why we were dismayed to see his Hudson, New York gallery close earlier this summer. Thankfully, DeSantis is still happy to work in and around By Editor
Style At The Hudson Company, What's Old Is Reclaimed And Customized Hudson Company flooring in a private home in Ancram, New York. Photo by Garrett Rowland. By Jamie LarsonThe Hudson Company, based out of a mill and showroom in Pine Plains New York, is quietly making some of the best reclaimed wood flooring and siding produced anywhere. That’s why so By Editor
Style Lenox Garden Club's 2017 Tour Spotlights Great Barrington Photo by Lisa Vollmer By Amy Krzanik You often hear the phrase “This year’s event will be the best one yet!” and think to yourself, “Well, they have to say that, so people will go.” But this year’s Lenox Garden Club tour of five rarely seen Great Barrington By Editor
Style The High-Performance House, Part 8: Almost There Rona Easton and Lonn Combs of EASTON+COMBS, the award-winning architectural office based in New Marlborough, Mass. have allowed Rural Intelligence to look over their shoulders (and those of their client) throughout the construction process of a high-performance home going up right now. This is the eighth installment in a By Editor
