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Excursions: Tours de Force

This Saturday, two tours, one of The Hidden Gardens of Spencertown, the other of Litchfield houses, vie for our attention. Both will kick off with special patrons cocktail parties on Friday night. Litchfield Open House Tour The 61st Annual Litchfield Open House Tour, to benefit the Connecticut Junior Republic, features

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The Heart & Soul of Rhinebeck's Paper Trail (Part 2: At Home)

The sentimental and private side of Paper Trail co-owner Maureen Missner is vividly on display at her 1830s house in Clinton Hollow, NY, which is filled with lake-house furniture from her childhood summers in Michigan and Wisconsin. Her dining table's top came from a beloved butcher's

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Litchfield Garden Tour: Michael Trapp's Once-a-Year Day

Anywhere but New England, that’s where you’d guess Michael Trapp’s fabulous garden is, if you had been led there blindfolded.  Italy, most likely, maybe France, or someplace hot and decadent, where iguanas scoot across mossy stones and parrots squawk in the trees. In fact, Trapp’s legendary

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The Heart & Soul of Rhinebeck's Paper Trail (Part 1: At Work)

Indie card and party stores are an endangered species.  When I need a birthday card, wrapping paper and candles for a cake, I unfortunately find myself heading too often to CVS, Stop & Shop or, most depressingly, Rite Aid. So  it's no wonder that the first time I

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Conservancy Open Day Tour: Garden Variety

What makes a garden good enough to be on an Garden Conservancy Open Day?  All it takes is the artful use of the bits and pieces of land left over once a house, its outbuildings, and its main paths and driveways are in place--in short, a vision--and a prodigious amount

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Trend Alert: Iron Garden Accessories

Two of the best-respected gardeners in northwestern Connecticut—Lee Link of Sharon and Bunny Williams of Falls Village—are both besotted with handmade metal ornaments made by the young fellows at Battle Hill Forge in Falls Village. "I learned about them when I was shopping for plants at the

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Nesting: The Second Home Takes Center Stage

Many people profess that a second home changes their life, but actress Annette Miller can make the case more emphatically and convincingly than most.  Nearly twenty years ago, she and husband, Michael, who were living in Newton, MA, started looking for a little weekend house in the Berkshires. The place

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Salander-O’Reilly Bankruptcy Auction at Stair Galleries

For nearly a year, the art world has been abuzz with news of the closing of the Salander  - O’Reilly Gallery, and its subsequent bankruptcy filing.  On June 7th, Stair Galleries of Hudson conducts the first auction of goods from the collection. “It was a struggle from start-to-finish with

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There's Shopping, then There's Shopping

Behind every good store, there’s an artful shopper.  Most home furnishings stores in our region, for example, select their stock from the furniture market at High Point, NC and from the vendors at various trade shows at the Javits Center in New York.  In other words, the same stuff

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Many States, Many Styles: Easy, Affordable & Fun

Everyone loves this antiques show—serious collectors, dabblers, dealers.  Close to 200 of the latter, some specializing in the fun and affordable, others more serious, will gather this weekend at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, as their kind have for the past 30 Memorial Days, rain or shine (it's

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Garden Tour: Conservancy Open Days Begin on Saturday

Saturday marks the beginning of the Open Days Garden Conservancy Tour season, with some of our region's most exceptional gardens open to the public. (We will keep you informed of tours of other properties on Open Days throughout the growing season.)  Saturday's itinerary has us poking

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Privet House: A Shopping "Revolution" in Warren, CT

If shopping is your recreational drug of choice, then Richard Lambertson and Suzanne Cassano are the dealers of your dreams. Last week, they opened Privet House, which they call an emporium of home goods, antiques and curiosities. They have artfully displayed a wide assortment of things—from antique calligraphy brushes

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