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Shopping: Tivoli Mercantile Puts the Red Back in Red Hook

As bright and cheerful as the bouquet of zinnias that greets customers as they walk through the door, Tivoli Mercantile, the new shop in Red Hook owned by Jill Cornillon, has something for everyone; at least, everyone who is likely to be walking down East Market Street in Red Hook

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Hollister House Garden's "Late Season" Plant Sale Plus

Those great sweeps of bright orange day lilies that looked so vibrant and "country" in our garden in July?   Nothing but yellowing foliage and dry stalks now.  The thyme-and-alyssum walk that was the essence of charm just a few weeks ago? Shot-to-seed, and in

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The Wandering Eye: Boning Up on Upholstery

There is a constant up here in the country:  We all share resources, but even so, we all have gaping holes in our Rolodexes/Palms/Outlooks.  “Do you have a good, cheap painter?” (Dream on.)  “My mowing guy quit! Who do you use?” (First tell me why he quit...) “My

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The Wandering Eye: The Taconic, Reconsidered

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are princpals in the M (Group). So, there we are cruising along the Taconic headed back to town on a pleasant Sunday evening.  Pondering.  Pensive.  Bored out of my gourd.  What to fix The Eye on next?

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Two House Tours with a Focus on History

To get the most out of a historic house tour, it's crucial to use your imagination, to "be there" at every stage in the property's development.  Same building, 100 years later, is never the same, even when it has been preserved in amber as

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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-

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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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