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Natural Selection
A simple plan in sync with its surroundings makes for an unencumbered but effective shoreline landscape design. Sometimes residential landscapes…
Good Gracious
When the clients called interior designers Gary Chase and John Roch, they had just purchased a 10,000-square-foot spec house on…
Master of Understatement
This classic Fairfield County beauty keeps an unassuming countenance, but never skimps on luxury or style. Less than an hour’s…
All Hands On Deck
From boyhood, Arthur Curtiss James vowed he would one day sail around the world in his own yacht. Over the…
Young at Heart
The original plan called for a teardown and do-over. Down would come the turn-of-the-century barn, and up would go a…
Fancy This
Anyone who has ever driven the winding Route 127 along the North Shore of Massachusetts knows the pleasure of slowing…
Saving Grace
Three centuries ago, a man built a stately house—a mark of his success as a ship’s captain—on Martha’s Vineyard. It…
Sweeping Beauty
Some people say architect Philip Johnson faked the tears he shed upon seeing Spain’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for the first…
Gothic Novel
A sweet brick cottage for one becomes a grand home for two with-out losing an ounce of its charm. Twenty…
Continental Drift
So many of us have a vision of the kind of house we’d like to build. It may be…
A Home of Her Own
A talented client and her architect transform a lack-luster ranch into a camera ready space for the next phase of…
Love at First Site
A casual Internet click leads to a made-in-heaven match between a homeowner and the perfect designer for her suburban Boston…
Let There be Bright
To hear Jocelyn Chiappone tell it, it was like walking into a war zone. Exposed wires protruded from walls. Chunks…
Kindred Spirits
Linen, silk, and gossamer wings aside, there is nothing more finely woven than the mother-daughter relationship. When it’s good it’s…