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Battle Hill Forge: Alternative Metalworkers with Indie Spirit

In a funky barn-red building hard by Route 7 in Falls Village, CT, Willy Blass, Israel "Izzy" Fitch, and Jeffrey Vanam turn metal into poetry. Over the past five years, they have handcrafted everything from custom andirons and chandeliers to garden gates and nature-inspired jewelry.  Once a local

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The Best Little Stationery Company in the Berkshires

It would be easy to walk or drive by Museum Facsimiles on North Street in Pittsfield without thinking to stop in. But that would be a serious lapse in judgment if you're the sort of person who still writes thank you notes by hand or sends birthday and

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Ancient Language Yoga Wear Made in the Berkshires

Ancient Language is the apt yet counterintuitive name of Annette Kramek's fashion-forward company, which pioneered manufacturing clothes specifically for practicing yoga. "When I first showed some sketches to Kripalu in 1997,  yoga wear was not even a category," says Kramek, who began her career by designing

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Dabney McAvoy: A Homey Home Shop in Great Barrington

It seems Dabney McAvoy could not have opened her new home furnishings store anywhere but this crooked little house on Route 7 near the old Barrington Fairgrounds. After all, her concept was to offer a range of objects and furniture—clean smelling Nest candles ($32), striped wool throws from England

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Margaret Roach: Droppin’ Out is Hard To Do

In her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, Margaret Roach often quotes pithy pop song lyrics to bring home a point in her account of how, at the height of her powers, she walked away from money and

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Style Shopping: griffinGB, A Comedy of Manners

Some resale shops specialize in couture, others in labels straight from the mall.  Some reject any garment that is more than three years old; others would dismiss anything that new as merely "used."  At griffinGB, a store in Great Barrington that debuted on Black Friday, there are no

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Wandering Eye: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ears, Noses & Throats

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). I don’t know about the rest of you out there, but me, I am interested in SUN and HEAT right now.  It might be bright outside, but it’s cold.

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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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How We Live: A Cool Cottage Heats Up the Chatham Countryside

"I left New York City kicking and screaming," says the photographer Laura Resen (left).  "Now there's no way I would go back.  I don't want what it is; I miss what it was." The story of how a sophisticated, Manhattan born-and-bred artist,

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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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Urban Intelligence: Road Testing Hudson

From the city, to the country, then back to the city again; this seems to be a growing trend hereabouts.   People leave New York for greener pastures, then come to realize that they miss some of the simple pleasures of urban life—taking a morning stroll to get the paper

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