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Hillsdale Tour of 19th-Century Rural Houses

This Saturday, the Hillsdale Preservation Committee will sponsor a pedestrian-friendly tour of historic houses. Some of the houses on the tour originally had been home to farmers, others to farmworkers.  But, though all have grown and changed over the years, their 19th-century character has been retained and all,

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LOCAL's Economy Buoyed By Chocolate Trickle Down

"We are doing very well," says Michele O'Hana, via a crackling Skype connection from her childhood home in West Cork, Ireland, where, as usual, she is spending the summer with her family. "Repeat that please?," I shout, certain I must have heard wrong.  In

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The Hooper Garden: A Passion That's Bigger than Both of Them

Sophisticated gardeners tend to agree that turning the land surrounding a house into a series of garden "rooms" is a great way to bring nature to heel.  This handy design device transforms negative space (ill-defined areas you may gaze across or wander through on occasion) into positive

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Style Shopping: All About Weave

by Scott Baldinger One of the great things about Hudson, New York, is that you can literally fall out of bed (or your car, if you don’t live or weekend here) and into a new and wondrous world of the decorative arts. Sometimes you may even find worlds within

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Style Shopping: Carolyne Roehm's Big DeClutter

We don't normally alert readers to tag sales, as, without actually vetting the merch in advance (impractical), it's impossible to tell which ones are worthwhile.  But earlier this week, when style guru Carolyne Roehm, author of countless books, including At Home with Carolyne Roehm, sent us

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Gardens: A Gertrude Jekyll Legacy

by Betsy Miller Glebe House is an historic landmark in Woodbury, CT, “birthplace” of the Episcopal Church in the United States.  Meticulously restored to its 1750 heyday, it is also one of the first historic houses ever opened to the public as a museum. But, for gardeners, all that pales

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Style Shopping: At 3FortySeven Charisma Reigns

The building started life as an art deco service station.  He started out as a Harvard-trained architect.  Together, what they are in the process of becoming—3FortySeven is still very much a work in progress—is already far more exciting than either of those bio snippets would suggest. Not

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Trade Secrets: The Garden Season's Big Kickoff May 14 & 15

One of the reasons why Trade Secrets, the massive rare plant and garden antiques sale on May 14, is such an enchanting event is its setting: Lion Rock Farm, a 600 acre property on the Salisbury/Sharon, CT, border with breathtaking views of rolling hills and the Taconic range. Owner

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Florence de Dampierre's New Book on Walls that Talk

If they were less witty and exuberant, it might be tempting to describe the books written by Florence de Dampierre (her 5th, Walls: The Best of Decorative Treatments, has just been published by Rizzoli) as reference works.  Thorough and intelligent, rich in history and anecdote, they are rarities—"coffee

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Out on a Limb: Architects Take a Bough

According to Vitruvius, the Roman scholar who authored De architectura, architecture is man's imitation of the nests, lairs, and hives animals build for themselves.  He also famously observed that architecture must have commodity, firmness, and delight. One wonders where he would have stood on treehouses.  These improvised structures

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Style Shopping: Mirror, Mirror

On Saturday, April 23, 441 Gallery, the upstairs exhibition space at TK Home and Garden in Hudson, will host the opening of an exhibition of twenty-eight mostly convex mirrors designed by Cristobal Morales, who lives in Spencertown.  Beautifully crafted and elegant, it takes more than a moment to recognize

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Picture This: Cuba Circa 1890 - 1960

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes’ mother -  ready for Carnival.  Muy Poiret So this was fun…. Last week we went to Cuba to “put on a show!”  Very Little Rascals. Animal prints, plaids, and that great

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