Month: June 2016
On the Market: A Condo at Battery Wharf in Boston
If the wish list for your next home includes luxury, water views, beautifully appointed rooms, and the services of a first-class hotel—this property will pique your interest. P.S. It has location going
Say It With Flowers
Jim Douthit tells a great story. The one about how he stumbled into the landscaping business and wound up founding one of Greater Boston’s preeminent outfits is an
No Boundaries
As Sarah Amos shows off some of the finished and in-progress colorful abstract prints that fill her barn-like northern Vermont studio, she reflects on how to describe what she does.
Trends and Tastemakers 2016
Can it be true that New England was once a design backwater? That architectural excitement happened elsewhere, while stodgy Brahmins made do with their grandparents’ houses and furniture, quietly proud of the threadbare rugs?
Splendor In the Grass
The owners of a large, 1920s Federal-style home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, certainly felt lucky to live in a dwelling designed by William Perry, the architect
Past As Prologue
Architect Guy Grassi could walk by the small parking lot at the end of the block only so many times before he just had to have the property. He and his wife, interior designer Lucie
Five Questions: Ryan Newton
How does being the fourth generation to join your family company affect your outlook? My great-grandfather started this business in 1958, with my
Made in the Shade
The first directive: save the trees. The homeowners had spent weekends and summer vacations in their Falmouth home for a dozen years, and while they
Stylish Garden Planters
A green thumb is optional when you have a stylish garden planter that steals the show. 1. Dora Maar Planter Jonathan Adler, multiple New England locations, jonathanadler.com 2. Estate Zinc Round Planter Restoration Hardware, multiple New England
Smooth Sailing
The pastoral site surrounded by lush, bird-filled conservation land is lovely. Not far from the ocean but removed from the happy hubbub, it’s the
Joining the Fun
That deep-blue ring of water that surrounds an island offers a sense of separateness from the world. Away from mainland troubles, anxiety
Indulge in a Day of Design
Litchfield County, Connecticut is a magnet for interior designers, and the design-savvy, so it seems only natural that it is the location for the chic design summit called “Day of Design.” The event takes place at the luxurious Mayflower Grace in Washington,