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At Home with Interior Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth

Like the rooms he designs for his city and country clients, Matthew Patrick Smyth is easy-going, tailored and unpretentious. The interior designer, who divides his time between homes in Manhattan, Paris, and Sharon, CT, has built an enviable career by combining his good taste and sense of appropriateness with

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Kamilla's Brings Flower Power to Millerton

The brightest and most exuberant spot in Millerton's retail scene is undoubtedly Kamilla's floral boutique on Main Street (next door to Terni's.) With its chartreusey walls and pots of blooming plants and refrigerator of flowers, it's cheery and uplifiting even on overcast

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Style Shopping: The Royal Wedding and We

What, precisely, does the British royal wedding have to do with the likes of thee and me? Thanks to Selina van der Geest, owner of the Bangall (Dutchess County) shop NL-GB, quite a lot, as a matter of fact. This weekend, Red Devon Restaurant in Bangall, together with its

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Splendid Peasant Antiques: A Modern Approach to Folk Art

Kitty and Martin Jacobs understand if you're just as interested in their stunning contemporary house as their museum quality collection of antique folk art. After all, they built this house on a dirt road in Sheffield two years ago not only as their home but as a destination

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Style Shopping: Stair Galleries' Albert Hadley Warehouse Sale

This Friday, Stair Galleries in Hudson will conduct an auction that includes items from the warehouse of Albert Hadley, interior designer extraordinaire, who is retiring at 93. As Christopher Petkanas writing for the The New York Times recently observed, in the late 1970s through 80s and well beyond, Hadley was

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Ornamentum: Jewelry That is Art and Vice Versa

Crafts, in general, fare badly in the hierarchy of art; jewelry-making perhaps most of all, particularly in the U.S., where it is still too often dismissed as a pass-time for 1960s-style drop-outs. Stefan Friedemann, who with his wife Laura Lapachin owns Ornamentum, a Hudson gallery

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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

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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

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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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