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Home Improvement: A Day of High-End Show and Tell

No question, the internet simplifies shopping.  You hear about a product, and within a click or two, you know exactly where you can get it, how much it costs, and what it looks like...on a computer screen.  But for certain kinds of purchases—custom work, expensive things, technically complicated

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A Fashion Pop-Up Shop at FACE Stockholm in Hudson

Petria May, a former New York City lawyer who now lives in Great Barrington, has a somewhat incompatible passion for country living and chic city clothing. For the past seven years, she has reconciled these divergent interests in a series of high-end vintage clothing stores, beginning with a shop on

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Country Style + Community Conscience = Hammertown at 25

In the very beginning 25 years ago, there were mostly crafts and gift items. "And lots of dried flowers!" recalls Hammertown Barn owner and founder Joan Osofsky, grinning and wincing at the memory of mid-1980s country style. "We had quilting and stenciling workshops, too." When she

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Devine Garden Open to Benefit Kinderhook Village

September 4  @ 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. For the third and final time this summer, internationally recognized textile designer Michael Devine will open to visitors his jewel box of a garden behind the commercial building in Kinderhook that houses his shop.  The goal of these open garden days

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Rural Outfitters: Peter Becks Village Store Opens in Salisbury

With three boarding schools—Salisbury, Indian Mountain and Hotchkiss—Salisbury, CT, is arguably the preppiest town in our region, but until this week there was no place for prep students or their parents (or grandparents) to buy the high quality sporty clothing and gear that's essential to the

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A Redone Ranch House is Finally Ready for its Close-Up

Two years ago, Jack Thomasson,  producer of the TV show “Blog Cabin” on the DIY Network asked Millbrook architect James Crisp to come up with a plan to transform a dreary 1970s ranch house, left, that happened to be in a wonderful location (overlooking the Bethel Arts Center on the

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George and Suzy, an Avant Garde Pas de Deux

The on-going ArtBerkshires exploration of the enduring influence of 20th-century modernism on 21st-century architecture, art, and crafts puts a well-deserved spotlight put on the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio in Lenox.  The first modernist building in New England, the house is only part of the story there.  The couple who

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Panning for Gold at the New York Designer Fabric Outlet

Shopping for home furnishings fabrics is no picnic for non-professional decorators.  Visualizing which fabric will look and perform best in a given situation is difficult and confusing work.  Which is why, most days at the New York Designer Fabric Outlet in Valatie (Columbia County), New York, the place is as

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A House Grows in Gallatin: Susan Orlean and John Gillespie

On Sunday the writer Susan Orlean ("The Orchid Thief" and a biography of Rin-Tin-Tin that is in the works), will be among the featured authors at the weekend-long Berkshire WordFest, at The Mount in Lenox. Orlean and her husband John Gillespie recently gave Rural Intelligence a tour of

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Dog Days: Artists Unleashed at Berkshire Botanical Garden

A new exhibition opening this weekend promises to be as amusing as the garden sheds show that was here earlier this season. This time Matt Larkin, the show’s curator, has invited a dozen art and design superstars to take something humble and make it into something that is not

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Cuban Photographer Adrian Fernandez at Carrie Haddad

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). We have spent a fair amount of time in Cuba these past three years…lots of time, in fact, as Hermes is working on a book, so we (legally) return every

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The Wandering Eye: Portraits, a Point of View

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Portraits are a tricky thing.  They should be ‘art’—the first thing you should think is, “What a great painting / photograph / statue.”  Not "what a great (or terrible) ‘portrait’…"

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