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The Wandering Eye: Christmas Decorations

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). My Rural Intelligence buddy Marilyn (think Rumpole’s She Who Must Be Obeyed) suggested a blog on Christmas decorations.  She knows we have decorated The New York Public Library for years

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The Virtuous Shopper: Chatham's Do-Good To Do-Well Scheme

Many small towns in these parts are the picture of innocence, but Chatham is one that does not just look the part.  Shopkeepers here tend to bring lofty ideals to their business practices—terms like local, sustainable, Fair Trade, vegan, and U.S.A.-made get tossed around a lot.

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Shop Bells & Sleigh Bells Ring Out in Rhinebeck

Shopping locally is not solely about geography.  It's about supporting independently-owned businesses that give our communities their unique character and patronizing the merchants who can always be relied upon to donate goods and services to fundraisers for our libraries, volunteer fire departments, historical societies, and theatre companies. According

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Shopping: Pookstyle Peps Up Park Row

Museum shops appeal to the sort of people who believe that, as Mies van der Rohe so famously said, "God is in the details"—that a beautifully designed, say, pot-scrubbing brush can so enhance daily life that it's worth every penny, even if it costs something

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The Dominick Dunne Estate Auction at Stair Galleries

Dominick Dunne the author of best-selling novels such as People Like Us and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles who became a household name as a television commentator during the O.J. Simpson trial— always liked being around famous people. He liked being famous himself, so he'd no doubt be

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Bunny Williams on Life After Decorating

In her third book, Bunny Williams' Scrapbook for Living, the New York uber-decorator best known in these parts for generously throwing open her Falls Village garden gate to one and all on behalf of any good cause, tells us how to live in our houses once they are ostensibly

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Wandering Eye: Credit Where Credit is Due

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Disclaimer: This blog is not advice about refinancing your mortgage. I’m wondering what to write about… I’m not crazy about ‘assignments’ (I don’t think I take instruction well…

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The Case for a (Sometimes) Messy and Mismatched House

In her latest book, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of Misspent Life,  Mary Randolph Carter, long-time creative director for Ralph Lauren, makes an amusing and persuasive case for living creatively with collections, clutter, work, kids, pets, art, etc. She also encourages her readers to stop worrying about everything

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Book News: "The Gardens of the Hudson Valley"

In his foreword to the newly published Gardens of the Hudson Valley (The Moncaelli Press; $50), Gregory Long, the president of the New York Botanical Garden, reminds us that we should not take our geography for granted and that "the Hudson takes its place among the world's

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The Belgian Connection: TK Opens in Hudson

An ancient artifact, lit by an early 20th-century industrial lamp, rests on a rough-hewn antique table that’s pushed against a wall that appears to have clocked several hundred years of wear and tear and is all the more beautiful for it. Above the table hangs a large, contemporary, abstract

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10th Annual Cornwall House Tour Spans Four Centuries

"This is the anti-McMansion house tour," says architect and sculptor Tim Prentice, who has worked on two of the six houses in this year's tour, which is centered around bucolic Cream Hill Lake. "You won't see any stone walls with hospital corners here!

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Book News: "The Private Gardens of Connecticut"

Gardens go dormant as the cold weather settles in, but gardeners never do. "Now is the time I start thinking about what I am going to plant next year," says author Jane Garmey, whose just-published collaboration with photographer John M. Hall, Private Gardens of Connecticut (Monacelli Press; $65)

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