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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

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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-

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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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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.

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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

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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

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