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Matthew White's La Dolce Vita in Columbia County

You don't normally hear people talk about Hillsdale, NY, and Venice, Italy, in the same breath, but Matthew White has never been interested in what's normal.  An interior designer whose whose work is classical, eclectic, and widely published ( Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home)

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The Woman Behind Farm Girl Farm

When you meet Laura Meister you begin to understand how Farm Girl Farm got its name. On a recent Monday morning, the 42-year-old filmmaker turned farmer is working in a field of lettuces dressed in a very girly batik skirt and a frilly fuscia camisole.  As a solo

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dbO Home's Pop-up Shop Opens in Great Barrington

Since giving up her high-powered marketing job at Elektra Records in New York City in 2006, Dana Brandwein (left with her husband, Daniel Oates) has been making pottery in her barn in Sharon, CT.  Her porcelain and stoneware is found on the tables at the highly regarded restaurant Blue

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Trade Secrets: The Rare Plant & Antiques Fair Turns 10

Trade Secrets is not such a secret anymore. Like a well-tended garden, the rare plant and garden antiques sale grows lusher and more interesting every year, raising ever more money for Women's Support Services, the not-for-profit agency that provides aid to victims of domestic violence

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Just in Time for Spring, the New, Improved Ward's Nursery

There's always good reason to stop by Ward's Nursery in Great Barrington, perhaps the largest and most ambitious gardener's resource in our district, especially on a Saturday in springtime when the chances of bumping into the nursery's affable founder Don Ward, Jr.

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Garden Sheds: Luxuriating in Nature

Say, "garden shed," and what leaps to this earthbound mind is a humble structure with plenty of hooks and bins to store the arsenal it takes to bend nature to (wo)man's will.  Apparently, that is not at all what Berkshire Botanical Garden trustee Matt Larkin

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How to Sell a House: Scenes from a Staging

"I don't like the word 'staging'," says James Male, one of two Columbia County agents with Mark Phillips Realty, a boutique agency headquartered across the river in Durham, NY (Greene County).  "It implies fakery; I prefer to say 'editing.' " Call

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High End On-Line, the Brave New World of Luxury Retailing

"A couple of years ago, big-time luxury retailing changed drastically. The stores became impossible for a small vendor like me to deal with," says Kerry MacBride (left), a Hudson-based jewelry designer whose creations had done well for years at such lofty outlets as Berdorf Goodman, Saks

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The Wandering Eye: It's a Boy!

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Francisco Jose Yunior    “Frankie” I have misgivings.  Is it in appalling taste to mourn the little lost friend publicly in March and then adopt three weeks later in April and ‘announce’

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Shopping: Sideshow Moves to Hudson

Now there's more space for Avratin's growing collection of high-end vintage clothing.

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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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