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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

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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

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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

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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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The 63rd Annual Litchfield Open House Day

The collection of antique houses that line Litchfield's North and South Streets are so impressively well-kept that you cannot help but wonder whether they're historic homes or merely facades constructed for a movie set. They are very real indeed, and this weekend you have an

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Lenox Garden Club's 20th Annual House & Garden Tour

The Lenox Garden Club, which has been been around for 99 years, is more than a group of ladies who like to grow flowers and wear big straw hats as they troop around one another's backyards. It's a philanthropic organization that supports all sorts of local

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Spencertown Academy's Hidden Gardens Tour

Some garden tours are strictly fantasy trips; others are more instructive. "People need to bring a pad and a pencil and a camera to this tour, because there are so many good ideas," says Madaline Sparks, contributing gardening editor at Real Simple magazine. "There's a

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The Berkshires' First Lady of Fashion: Mikki Brown

If you see a woman wearing a dress this summer that is so exceptionally pretty, quirky or arresting that you have to stop and ask her, "Where'd you get that?" the answer will more than likely be "The Browns." Located on Water Street in

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