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How and What to Buy at Auction: A Pro's Guide

Here Carey Maloney of M (Group), normally our Restoration correspondent, take us on a digital shopping spree to Stair Galleries forthcoming auction. OK – it’s my profession and my obsession.  I love Old Stuff – I’ve never been that interested in the brand new. I prefer old flatware over the

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High Drama at George Cole's Auction House in Red Hook

Sam Scripps, who lived for decades in an old stone house on the river in Rhineclif, had a passion for antiques and theater. Now, his love of the former will beneft the latter.  On Saturday, March 14, nearly 400 lots from his house will be sold at George Cole Auctions

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Stair Restoration: A Superstar in our Midst

When I first came to New York in the early 1980’s and worked at Christie’s (Fine Art Auctions), there was one firm that defined Fine (read: Very Expensive) English Furniture—Stair and Company.  What Harry Winston was to diamonds, Stair and Company on 57th Street was to English

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Saville Row (with Sass) Comes to Bangall

Interior designer Selina van der Geest does the sort of work—high quality, fundamentally fitting-and-proper, but with just enough edge to make it simultaneously lively and au courant—that leaps off the pages of Elle Décor, where it is routinely published.   It follows, then, that her renown for balancing innovation

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Find Comfort in Cocooning at Nest in Millerton

When times are harsh, people find comfort at home.  And when you're home a lot, you want to fluff up your nest. This impulse for "cocooning," as trend forecaster Faith Popcorn labeled it back in the 1980s, is a constructive way of coping. 'We are

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An Annie Walwyn-Jones Fashion Event at Agapanthus

Stylish, feminine without being frou-frou, versatile, and just-the-right-degree-of-dressy for country nights, fashions by Annie Walwyn-Jones return to Agapanthus on Saturday, February 14, for a one-day event. Walwyn-Jones, who came to the States from her native London in 1972 to attend Parsons School of Design, ended up staying on after she

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The Mount: A Garden in Winter

Rich Pomerantz, who took the photographs for this season's gardening book of choice, Great Gardens of the Berkshires, climbed onto the roof of The Mount, the Edith Wharton historic site in Lenox, to get these extraordinary shots, which are nearly as instructive as they are beautiful. Like the

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The Fungus Among Us, and other Landscaping Salvos

Breaking the soil is the biggest challenge a gardener has.  And once it's broken, keeping it that way—light, loamy and nutritious—is an on-going struggle.  In fact, the verbs "to struggle" and "to garden" often (specifically, from May through September) appear to be

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The Upside of the Downturn

Of course, we're all scared silly, deer frozen in the headlights, and all that.  But the Millbrook-based architect James Crisp, a longtime observer of the ups and downs of the region's fortunes, asks us to consider a few facts: "Prices are cooling for both property

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Fully Booked: Two New Volumes on Gardening in Zone 5

When it's too cold to garden, gardeners dream.  Sitting by the fire, they hatch schemes for the growing season ahead—new beds they hope to add, unsatisfactory ones they plan to remedy or abolish.   And just as the fire requires constant refueling, so does the gardener's

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New Year's Resolution #1: Get Organized

"Organizing," says Johanna Bard of Milan, "is not necessarily about throwing things out."  Bard, whose company, Your Hudson Valley Organizer, is dedicated to helping its clients reclaim their time, space, and energy, belongs to the National Association of Professional Organizers, which routinely holds conferences in far-flung

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A French Twist on American Country Style

French Chic: The Art of Decorating Houses (Rizzolli; $50) doesn't sound like a coffee-table book with a lot of relevance for people decorating Hudson Valley or New England houses.  But the author, Florence de Dampierre, just happens to live in an 18th century clapboard house with Federal-and-Colonial details

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