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The Wandering Eye Goes Ethno

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). On Friday January 15, Stair Galleries will have a two session “Asian and Ethnographic” sale.  Before Stair became so international, we grabbed some great buys there in the Ethno field.  The

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The Wandering Eye's Guide to Indoor Plants

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). I love house plants.  I am no gardener.. Perhaps because my mother is a brilliant gardener and a landscape architect, I wanted nada to do with digging in the ground, and

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Deck the Halls at the Berkshire Botanical Garden Holiday Fair

The Berkshire Botanical Garden has a dedicated group of volunteers who act like elves in Santa's workshop all year long, making handmade things for the Stockbridge center of horticulture. Last summer, they worked with artist Matthew Larkin  of Black Barn Farm to create spectacular wire-and-crystal chandeliers to decorate

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Innocents Abroad: Falling in Love with a Fixer Upper

From the moment they first saw Columbia County, Australians Sacha Dunn and Edmund Levine were hooked. "It was like a fairy tale to us," says Sacha, who, like her husband, works in New York as a stylist and set decorator for magazines, print ads, and television commercials.  "

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The Wandering Eye: It’s Huntin’ Season! Oy...

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes reminds me I’m overdue on a new blog—this during an afternoon walk on Woods Road, wearing multiple cunning bits of  “Don’t shoot me!” orange. A vest for

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Chris Lehrecke: A Design Star Shines on Warren Street

Knowing shoppers watch Warren Street with all the urgency that baseball fans bring to the World Series.  Something exciting seems to happen there nearly every day, but no day outshines the recent one when designer Chris Lehrecke opened his eponymous shop.  Lehrecke's work, which normally is available only

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Germain: Great Barrington's New House of Style

You wouldn't be surprised to find a loft-like store with a rural-zen aesthetic on Warren Street in Hudson, but in Great Barrington it feels like a world of wonder. "A woman came in this weekend and said, I feel like I'm in Brooklyn," says

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A Showcase: The Greening of the Hudson Valley & New England

This weekend, Herrington's, the local hardware chain, is hosting, Lean Toward Green, a showcase of environmentally responsible, home building products and systems that promise to make our houses more energy efficient and comfortable.  There will be special seminars on window replacement and insulation, where the tax incentives for

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Shopping Plus: Knitter's Nirvana this Weekend in Rhinebeck

Of course, there will be yarn, thousands of skeins of it, and not just wool either.  There will be cashmere, alpaca and other exotic specialty fibers.  There will also be products made from yarn—sweaters, socks—as well as bags of fleece for those who prefer to do their own

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Historic Hudson's Hidden Gems of Greenport Tour

That's right, Greenport.  It's easy to dismiss this sprawling town, which embraces the city of Hudson on all borders except riverfront.  The part north of the city, anchored by Fairview Avenue, is notable mostly for its strip malls.  But even within this region, a textbook example

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The Wandering Eye: The Hunt Slonem Sale at Stair

In 2001, Hunt Slonem, a New York-based painter with a passion for collecting and preserving historic houses, purchased Edgewood Terrace, an imposing Second Empire-style brick mansion that stands at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Kingston across the Hudson.  After restoring his country retreat to its original

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The Must-See Brine Garden's 1st Autumn Open Day

For the first time, The Brine Garden, in Pawling, one of the most exceptional private gardens in our region, will be open in the fall, when colorful leaves and berries highlight its complex structure. This garden is the magnum opus of its creator, Duncan Brine, a professional landscape designer and

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