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A Garden Tour that Takes On The Bigger Picture

There are garden tours and then there is this, the Ancram Preservation Group's Working Landscapes 2009, a tour of eight properties that either are working farms or, if no longer actively working, retain a working-farm aesthetic.  Though there are gardens on all of these properties, the plantings here

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The Wandering Eye: The Mills Mansion

Barely back from another research trip for their book on the great houses of Cuba, our intrepid blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney and his long-suffering spouse Hermes Mallea [Writer's Note: Rather brutal editorializing, RI guys...], an architect, both of M (Group), have hit the historic house trail again.

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Invitation to a Wild Party

According to local legend, a few years ago, Midwesterners Linda Horn and Allan Davidson threw a dart at a map of the Northeast, and it landed on Spencertown, NY, where they have lived and gardened ever since.  This weekend, Horn, an artist, invites anyone who is interested to their property

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Open Days: Lush Litchfield, Blooming Berkshires

The Garden Conservancy's Open Days program is not only about touring extraordinary private gardens, but also about meeting great gardeners in situ.  You see first-hand how gardeners' passions and peculiarities are reflected in the landscapes they create for themselves. You come to understand that gardening requires irrational

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Endangered Architecture: Tour Two and Hear About 10 More

While our Restoration blogger Carey Maloney and his partner in all things Hermes Mallea of the M (Group) are vacationing in Cuba,  we are temporarily usurping his space to announce a not-to-be-missed preservation event.   On Sunday, June 28th, the Preservation League of New York State is conducting a members-only tour

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The Secret Side of Hunter Bee

Hunter Bee, the antiques store that opened last fall in Millerton selling furniture and folk-art objects that give a country house wit and soul, has a funky and fashionable alter ego.  Co-owner Jonathan Bee, who was a club kid in 1980s New York City, has opened a shop-within-the-shop ("I

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The Other Hyde Park: The Vanderbilt Mansion

Among the great Hudson River country houses, McKim, Mead & White’s Vanderbilt Mansion at Hyde Park is a standout—though not in an entirely amiable way.  True, it is a pure expression of the Beaux Arts style, but it looks uncomfortable here, as if it might feel more at

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Getting It Right the First Time: A House Tour in Canaan, NY

Ever wonder why our Yankee forebears seem to have been incapable of designing a bad house, whereas, nearly everything we build requires remodeling every 20 years?  On Sunday, June 14th, the Canaan (NY) 250 Committee launches its Bisesquicentennial Celebrations with an historic house tour, the town's first in

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Shopping: The Discreet Charm of the Upscale Sale

There are few things in life more gratifying than a bargain.   What else can make us feel this way—so virtuous (think of the savings!), yet so naughty (what a steal!), all at once?  This weekend, there are a couple of upscale sales that are worthy of the attention of

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Open Days: Three Perennial Favorites

Some gardens, like some novels, can be taken in at once, with a glance; others bear intense study year after year.  The regional offerings on the Open Days Conservancy Tour on Sunday, May 31, fall into the second camp.  Admission, $5 at each property, may be paid at the door.

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White Webb's Intaglio at Tom Swope in Hudson

Faster than a rumor skittering across a party line—that’s how the grapevine works these days. Take, for example, the case of White Webb, interior designers from New York, and Tom Swope, Hudson gallery owner.  A few months ago, Rural Intelligence ran a story on Swope's hushed

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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Recession? Not Hudson

Last week our restoration blogger Carey Maloney reported on a Manhattan antiques shop, Naga, that recently opened a bigger branch, Naga North, in Hudson.  This week, we are reporting on four new shops that have opened during the past month within just one block on Warren Street.  A coincidence?  Or

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