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Holiday Shopping: Gifts from the North Pole

No need to buy on-line, in big-box stores, at soul-sapping malls, or in a glamorous-but-exhausting nearby city that shall go nameless.  Every gift you need for the holidays can be found right here at the charming, sophisticated, fun-to-browse shops in-and-around our own enchanting towns and villages.  When you buy a

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Holiday Shopping: Gifts from the South Pole

Holiday cookies ($3 and up) that taste as good as they look. Sweet William's Bakery, 100 Main Street, Falls Village; 860.824.8180 Handpainted votives from Paris by Geraldine Gonzalez ($30) and beaded handbag ($139) at Paper Trail, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck; 845.876.8050 Gypsy T-shirt with

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HunterBee Brings A Flea Market Aesthetic to Millerton

For many years, Kent Hunter and Jonathan Bee spent weekends visiting flea markets and antiques fairs, buying furniture and funky decorative objects that they had no room for in their apartment in New York. They stored their finds in Bee's parents house in Great Barrington. "When the

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Post Thanksgiving Mega-Sale: A "Traditions" Tradition

If you love luxury linens, you already know Traditions, though you may not realize it.  The drool-inducing bedding in the Neiman-Marcus, Orvis, Charlotte Moss, and Horchow Collection catelogs?  Traditions. The irresistible matelasse coverlets on the shelves at Classic Country in East Chatham and at all the Hammertown Barn stores? They&

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The Souce Perrier Warehouse Sale Returns

Apparently, the Source Perrier Catalog is grinding down operations, which means there will be continual clearance sales at the Canaan, CT, warehouse. This weekend, you can shop Thursday - Saturday (November 13 - 15) from 10 AM to 4 PM. Cash or check only. No credit cards and no delivery.

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Shop for a Cause: Hammertown Gives a Damn Plus a Percentage

Money is infamous for burning holes in pockets, but there’s something else money often does that isn’t bad at all: It makes the person who has a little or a lot more than he needs want to give some of it away--not recklessly, but effectively, so that suffering

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Saperstein's: The Store That Time Forgot (Thankfully)

If you're old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter was president, then you probably remember shopping for Levi's and Duofold long underwear at a store like Saperstein's. One of the mainstays of Millerton's Main Street, the store is anticipating, counterintuitively, a robust

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Conserving Water, One Raindrop at a Time

This Saturday, November 8, as part of their Green Gardening Educational Series, The Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge will offer a special two-hour talk on water conservation in the garden by guest lecturer Marcus de la Fleur.  Mr. de la Fleur, a landscape architect with the Conservation Design Forum in

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Food for Thought: The 6th Annual Northwest Connecticut Kitchen Tour

The last thing you're probably thinking about at the moment is renovating your kitchen. But now's a good time not only to day dream about new cabinets, countertops and appliances but also to put together that binder of ideas and inspiration so when the economy bounces

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A New Museum Shop at Clermont

Our faithful correspondent, interior designer Carey Maloney, partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in M (Group), fills us in on the holiday shopping potential of the new museum shop at Clermont. No one appreciates a good museum shop more than me.  I have to fight my assorted demons to hold out

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Atelier Renee, A Framer in Red Hook

Our Rural Restoration Blogger Carey Maloney, an interior designer who is a partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in the M (Group), expounds on why Atelier Renee, in Red Hook, is such an outstanding place to get art, maps, and pictures, especially old ones, framed. Many of the framers we’ve

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New York Botanical Continuing Ed Sallelite at Bard

It begins with the first sign of fall and grows more pronounced with every passing week.  Gardeners who for months have been bounding (well, perhaps not quite bounding) out of bed at 5 a.m. to squeeze in as many hours of muddy bliss as possible, retreat indoors to mope

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