Month: February 2011
Notes from the Field: Pretty as a Portrait
By Karin Lidbeck Brent In today's modern home, a painted portrait is not as common a sight as it once…
Friday Favorites 2/25/2011
Sorae Lee, Assistant Art Director If you’re looking for something functional and decorative for your walls, this light from Ligne…
Sneak Peek: Bless This House
In our upcoming Spring issue of New England Home’s Connecticut we feature Michele and Lee Mergy’s home in Old Lyme….
Book Review: “Yankee Modern: The Houses of Estes/Twombly”
Howard Mansfield, the New Hampshire–based writer who penned the forward to this new book from Princeton Architectural Press, calls the…
Design in Depth: Color Musings
Artist John Scofield‘s recent paintings have me musing about color. Specifically, what colors together prove the most interesting combinations not…
Julieann Covino: The Nature of Grasscloth
To say I was over the moon excited when New England Home asked me to guest post on their new…
Looming Large
In 2008, the interior designer of a big house being built on the coast near San Francisco sent Sam Kasten…
Dramatic Impact
Wendy Valliere has never been one for drama in her life. Her interiors—well, that’s another story. She loves bold patterns…
Winging It
Is taste a moral issue? You might think so, given the outcry from a handful of designers over Boston’s spanking-new,…
What, When, Where: A Tuft Act to Follow
Lots of new products come through my Inbox on a daily basis–some good, some not so good. While I was…
Blue Heaven
Barbara Pervier believes in drapery. “It’s not home until the curtains go up,” the Salem, Massachusetts, designer insists. She also…
Jim M-Geough
For decades a very familiar face in the New England design trade, Jim M-Geough (along with his wife, Susan) owns…
A Return to Glamour
Maybe it’s a reaction to the prolonged economic downturn. Or maybe it’s something as simple as a slight boredom with…
Pigments of Imagination
Back in the 1950s, John Walker’s classmates at the Birmingham College of Art in England might have been forgiven for…
Return Engagement
Different tastes make the world go round—we’ve all heard that expression. Certainly it’s true when it comes to architecture. While…
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