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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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Antiques: New in Hudson, Naga North

Over the years we’ve seen Hudson offer a mini lesson in globalization: There are dealers who concentrate in the arts and wares of all four corners of the earth, but until now there was no one specializing in the arts of Japan. That’s changed…. Jim Marinaccio and his

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Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

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Trade Secrets Weekend: Plants, Antiques & Garden Tours

Trade Secrets is northwestern Connecticut's grandest garden party of the year. What started nine years ago at Bunny Williams's Falls Village house as a community rare-plant-and-antique sale for charity has morphed into a two-day, horticultural carnival—our region's unofficial kick-

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Wishing Won't Do it, Saving and Slaving Will

Some would argue that the ramshackle property you see at left is my house.  This is a scurrilous contention I would hotly deny. What I see when I look at my house is not what you see, or anyone else, for that matter.  When I look, it is already painted

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Susan Silver Antiques: A Survivor of the Mid-Century Storm

Reason suggests that the antiques business should be immune to the vicissitudes of time; but, in fact, the furnishings of the past are just as susceptible to the whims of fashion as any other aesthetic choice.  Twenty-seven years ago, in 1982, when Susan Silver (left), of the eponymous antiques

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Michael Devine: Designer without Borders

Michael Devine is the Scarlet Pimpernel of the interior design world. He's here: His headquarters, if a moving target can be said to have a home base, is an enchanting little retail shop (shown here) in enchanting, little Kinderhook, NY, where he sells his own fabrics and stylish

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