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The Queen of Mid-Century Modest

When Pam Kueber and her husband David Fisher bought their 1951 ranch house in Lenox in 2001, it was not because they were devotees of the mid-century modern style. Their previous house, in Michigan, had been a 1912 Colonial Revival/Arts and Crafts pastiche, and through renovating that, they

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The Wandering Eye: Now they Want to Close Our Parks?

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). To file under : One More Thing to Worry About…. Let me revise that to : One More Thing to Deal With… Niagara Falls State Park, founded in 1885, is the oldest state

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Our Favorite Garden Blog Gets A New Look For Its 2nd Birthday

One of the first stories on Rural Intelligence two years ago was about Margaret Roach, the former editorial director of Martha Stewart Living, who had recently moved full time to her longtime weekend house in Copake Falls, NY, and started a website called A Way To Garden.com. Since then

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He Was a Very Good Boy: Pancho 1994 - 2010

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). My Pancho died this afternoon. I can’t stop crying. I know, I know he was sixteen, and he lived the life of a prince. I’m crying for me, not

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A Chatham Architect Designs a Prize-Winning Poolhouse

By day, it appears to be a cluster of nicely maintained farm buildings, just as the Chatham architect James Dixon intended. This is but one of the aspects of this poolhouse project that impressed the jury at the Eastern New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which, on

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Interiors: A Hands-On Couple's Graphic Redesign

"The day I met him," says Raina Kattelson of her husband, Robert Butscher, an architect with Wadia Associates in New Canaan, CT, "he was trying to shore up the porch." For some women, that might have been an uh-oh, see-you-around-pal moment of

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Everybody's All American: Paul Rich & Sons

Tom Rich has been betting on North Street's renaissance for 27 years. When he and his parents, Paul and Betty Rich, opened their furniture store, Paul Rich & Sons, in 1983, "Pittsfield was still a GE town," recalls Rich. "The England Brothers department store was

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Prince Charles' Gardener Tells All

Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will be the featured speaker at the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Annual Winter Lecture to be held on Saturday at Monument Mountain Regional High School Auditorium in Great Barrington. “We are delighted that Mrs. Goodenough

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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

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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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