It's becoming a familiar story in our region: A young couple moves to the country and buys a house with a barn so they can work from home. Designer Rob Bristow (photographed with his friend Michelle Childs, left) and his wife, Pilar Proffitt, run a design business called Poesis out of their Lakeville barn, and they invited friends and neighbors into their workshop for cocktails amidst their exquisite, hand-made contemporary furniture. They were hoping to make room for new designs, which will be manufactured in the barn and unveiled in January at Ralph Pucci International in New York City.
WKZE Garden Show host Sally Spillane with Pete Hathaway, founder of Enterprise, a new deluxe step-down facility for recovering addicts in Salisbury, CT.
Photographers Anne Day and John Gruen; Eric & Liz Macaire, the former owners of the Bottle Tree Grocery, who own New York's Bubble Lounge
Hostess Pilar Proffitt with Brigitte Harney of the Harney Tea Bar & Tasting Room.
David Becker of Friend of the Farmer.com and Pamela Winters; artists Karen LeSage and Allen Blagden, who has show opening at Kent's Ober Gallery on Thanksgiving weekend.
Grace Bristow reads a book on a bookcase designed by her father.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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