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Chris Lehrecke: A Design Star Shines on Warren Street

Knowing shoppers watch Warren Street with all the urgency that baseball fans bring to the World Series.  Something exciting seems to happen there nearly every day, but no day outshines the recent one when designer Chris Lehrecke opened his eponymous shop.  Lehrecke's work, which normally is available only

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Germain: Great Barrington's New House of Style

You wouldn't be surprised to find a loft-like store with a rural-zen aesthetic on Warren Street in Hudson, but in Great Barrington it feels like a world of wonder. "A woman came in this weekend and said, I feel like I'm in Brooklyn,

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A Showcase: The Greening of the Hudson Valley & New England

This weekend, Herrington's, the local hardware chain, is hosting, Lean Toward Green, a showcase of environmentally responsible, home building products and systems that promise to make our houses more energy efficient and comfortable.  There will be special seminars on window replacement and insulation, where the tax incentives for

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Shopping Plus: Knitter's Nirvana this Weekend in Rhinebeck

Of course, there will be yarn, thousands of skeins of it, and not just wool either.  There will be cashmere, alpaca and other exotic specialty fibers.  There will also be products made from yarn—sweaters, socks—as well as bags of fleece for those who prefer to do their own

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Historic Hudson's Hidden Gems of Greenport Tour

That's right, Greenport.  It's easy to dismiss this sprawling town, which embraces the city of Hudson on all borders except riverfront.  The part north of the city, anchored by Fairview Avenue, is notable mostly for its strip malls.  But even within this region, a textbook example

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The Wandering Eye: The Hunt Slonem Sale at Stair

In 2001, Hunt Slonem, a New York-based painter with a passion for collecting and preserving historic houses, purchased Edgewood Terrace, an imposing Second Empire-style brick mansion that stands at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Kingston across the Hudson.  After restoring his country retreat to

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The Must-See Brine Garden's 1st Autumn Open Day

For the first time, The Brine Garden, in Pawling, one of the most exceptional private gardens in our region, will be open in the fall, when colorful leaves and berries highlight its complex structure. This garden is the magnum opus of its creator, Duncan Brine, a professional landscape designer and

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New York Botanical Garden Offers Courses at Bard

Throughout the fall, the New York Botanical Garden will once again offer a selection of its popular gardening and landscape design classes on Saturdays at its satellite center at Bard College.  The inaugural one-day course, Gardening with Ornamental Grasses, is this Saturday.  As pre-registration is essential, our advice

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Shopping: Everyone You Need to See in One Convenient Place

The Fine Home Source Show this Saturday in Millbrook is perfectly timed.  Now that the rainy season is finally behind us, a refresher course in domestic amenity is in order, so we and our poor water-logged houses are prepared for the next challenge.  In a fraction of the time

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The Wandering Eye: Doris Leslie Blau Lands in Hudson

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes is getting worried.  My favorite NYC resources keep establishing outposts in Hudson, so I’m able to do ‘city shopping’ in the country. I have even more excuses for my

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A New Gilded Age Cottage With A Happy Disposition

It seems like it would be impossible to wake up in a bad mood in this house in Lenox, MA. When the publicity-shy owners called the New York design team of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta to see the house they were building in the Berkshires, Diamond demanded that

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Cedar Heights Orchard in Dutchess County on Open Days Tour

Garden Conservancy Open Days are drawing to a close for the season.  On Saturday, September 13, there is just one in our region, Cedar Heights Orchard, William and Arvia Morris' large property in Rhinebeck, New York. After a major storm twelve years ago, the Morris' created a “wild”

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