Month: October 2013
Sneak Peeks: New Hampshire Revival
By Maria LaPiana First impressions have been known to make or break a job, a relationship—and the perfect abode. Granted,…
Design in Depth: Wakefield To the Trade Day
By Stacy Kunstel There is nothing I love more than design and learning all I can about it. That’s why…
Phoebe Lovejoy Russell: Elegant Thanksgiving Table Design
Photos courtesy of Phoebe Lovejoy Russell The feast always takes center stage on Thanksgiving Day. We pull out our old…
What, When, Where: Tory Burch Home
Tory Burch may be based in New York, but I think she secretly designs with the New Englander in mind. Her…
Friday Favorites 10/25/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor The jewelry designer Michele Mercaldo has been an admirer of the artist Robert Kobayashi since she…
Decor With a Bit of Bling
Three New England designers share their favorite resources for decor with a bit of bling. 1. Holly Hickey Moore, who recently…
Perfect Harmony: Inventive Landscape Design in Vermont
An inventive landscape designer surrounds a house with a composition of color and texture that’s beautifully in tune with the fields, forests, and mountains of north central Vermont.
Hip to Be Square: A vacation home that’s sleek, spare and unabashedly modern
It’s sleek, spare, and unabashedly modern, but this cleverly conceived vacation home fits right in with its more traditional neighbors.
Editor’s Miscellany: William Hodgins Collected at Last
By Kyle Hoepner All photos courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company This past Sunday, a hefty portion of Boston’s design…
Mountain Magic: A Modern Take on The Ski House
A Vermont vacation home has all the familiar ski-house design elements, from its stone facade to its fir-paneled interior walls. Still, this stylish family getaway is anything but predictable.
Designer Snapshot: Transformations
By Paula M. Bodah For Christina Sullivan Roughan, the whole process of design is fun, from the first concepts to…
Shopping Worth the Trip: Bowerbird, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Katherine Forrest was watching a PBS special on the bowerbird when she decided to name her shop after the species….
Playing to Type
We’re not sure when our fascination with typography as a decorative device surfaced. Was it triggered by a renewed interest…
The Art of Compromise
He has one vision, she has another. Thanks to their designer’s fresh perspective, they both get the house of their dreams.