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is still in the air. Once it finally descends far enough for ter-rain and buildings to show as more than just a jumbled blan-ket of overlapped rectangles, the first piquant disparitiesbegin to emerge. The shapes of trees—a bit off. The forms of buildings, even simple utilitarian buildings, curiously dif-ferent in ways it sometimes takes a while to work out. Types of birds, the very cloudscapes and overall look of the atmos-phere, don’t feel quite normal.
Experienced travelers will know by now that I’m comingin to land at a foreign place. The differences are generallymore marked if it is on another continent, but that’s certainlynot necessary to observe the phenomenon. If you couldsomehow be blindfolded and brought in for a quick quiz ofrunway approaches to Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami,Vancouver, chances are you’d be able to identify the distinctflavor of each locale well before setting foot to ground.
Why these reflections now? I was lucky enough recently
to spend a few days in Paris during the run of two concur-rent interior design exhibitions: Maison & Objet and ParisDeco Off. The city—and especially some of its trains—seemed packed with very serious design folk. (Hardcore aficionados of wickedly cool eyewear would have been inheaven.) It was a largely European crowd, in keeping withthe geography of the exhibitors, but one noticed also a heftyadmixture of accents and physiognomies from fartherafield, including North and South America, the British Islesand Asia.
Interestingly, the merchandise on display, although muchof it is available and not infrequently used in the U.S., hadthe same slight air of exoticism as the creamy limestone facades of the Left and Right Banks. Some installations inthe halls of the Parc des Expositions were devoted to thatparticular brand of sharp-edged modernism so beloved inFrance and points south. Along other aisles reposed bedsand consoles that clearly, from the profile of their curvesand the sheen of their surfaces, would feel most at home inthe private spaces of a Dubai palace or a Kropotkinskayaapartment in Moscow. It may sound naive, but I sometimesstill forget how much the character of a region’s soil subtlyinfluences its interiors. Cosmopolitan eclecticism in Milanor Taipei even today is just not the same as cosmopolitaneclecticism in Providence.
We spend a lot of time in this magazine talking about scaleand proportion, fabrics, finishes, taste, color and the joys ofgood client-designer relations. But really, step back with mefor a moment and revel in the simple feel of where we are.How lucky are we to have this New England to love, fromcraggy coast to Back Bay brownstone? Here’s to the basic joyof place, that universal, even if occasionally tacit, context thatallows a publication like New England Home to exist.
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Featured HomesMARCH/APRIL 2011 • VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4
82 Return Engagement In Boston’s Back Bay, a renovation brings a nineteenth-century brownstone back to the lovely proportions and classic design its builder surely intended. ARCHITECTURE: JAN GLEYSTEEN • INTERIOR DESIGN: ANNE
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90 A Perfect Match A true collaboration yields a suburban Boston home that’stotally in sync with its surroundings. ARCHITECTURE: JAMES ESTES, ESTES/TWOMBLY
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98 Blue Heaven Inspired by the view from her second-floor windows, a designercreates her own tiny paradise above the bustle of the Common in Salem, Massachusetts. INTERIOR DESIGN: BARBARA PERVIER • PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA MOSS •
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104 Dramatic Impact An interior designer feathers her own nest in Stowe, Vermont, in bold fashion. INTERIOR DESIGN: WENDY VALLIERE, SELDOM SCENE
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Other Features114 Spring Awakening As we emerge from a particularly dreary winter, what bet-
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Art, Design, History, Landscape35 Elements: A Return to Glamour Lustrous textures, glimmering surfaces,
elegant lines—it’s glamour, 2011-style. EDITED BY CHERYL AND JEFFREY KATZ
Design Destination: Beyond Gorgeosity, Hingham, Massachusetts 42
46 Interview: Jim M-Geough The owner of one of Boston’s more venerableshowrooms considers the role such businesses continue to play in today’s de-sign world. BY KYLE HOEPNER • PORTRAITS BY WEBB CHAPPELL
52 Artistry: Pigments of Imagination John Walker paints bold canvases thatevoke splendor, romance and the grand qualities of the cosmos. BY LOUIS POSTEL
58 Made Here: Looming Large In a onetime school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,Sam Kasten designs heirloom-quality handwoven textiles. BY NATHANIEL READE
People, Places, Events, Products124 Trade Secrets: Winging It Comings and goings (and a few surprises) in
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130 Design Life Our candid camera snaps recent gatherings that celebrate archi-tecture and design.
132 Calendar Special events for those who are passionate about fine design.Now in the Galleries Upcoming art exhibitions throughout New England 132
136 Perspectives New England designers imagine a bright, cheerful sun room.Wish List: Designer Eliza Tan of Acton, Massachusetts, reveals a few of her favorite home products 142It’s Personal: Favorite finds from the staff of New England Home 144
146 New in the Showrooms Unique, beautiful and now appearing in New England shops and showrooms. BY ERIN MARVIN
148 Resources A guide to the professionals and products in this issue’s features.
151 Premier Properties: Manchester, Vermont
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160 Sketch Pad Hartford, Connecticut, designer Joanne Riley turns a bare-bonesthree-season room into a garden paradise.
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Breathe What could be more glamorous than de-canting a beautiful 2005 burgundy, with its gor-geous fruit flavors and strong sense of terroir,into an equally beautiful wine decanter? In theEmpire style, the aptly named Malmaisonfrom Christoflé features a delicate friezeof palm and lotus leaves around theneck of a silver and crystal vessel.8¾"H. $730. CHRISTOFLÉ, BOSTON,(617) 542-2080, WWW.CHRISTOFLE .COM
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Floating on Air It’s a rare material that’s transparentand airy but still has presence. Lighter and more shat-terproof than glass, acrylic furniture first gained popu-larity in the middle of the twentieth century; the currentinterest has been reignited by designers like PhilippeStarck and Jonathan Adler. The Gdansk desk by Spec-trum Limited comes in two sizes and can be custom-sized. 36" × 20" × 32"H, $10,350; 48" × 20" × 32"H, $11,250. D SCALE, BOSTON, (617) 426-1055, WWW .D SCALE MODERN .COM
Behold the Turtle Cast from bronze, the Terrapin lamp,originally designed by Tony Duquette for a penthouse inHonolulu, is topped with an outrageous finial that sportsa Murano glass center. Backlit by a single 40-watt bulb,the shell is supported by an intricate laser-cut column.9½"W × 6"D × 24"H. $11,880. BAKER FURNITURE, BOSTON DE-SIGN CENTER, (617) 439-4876, WWW .BAKER FURNITURE .COM
Fringe Benefit Silver-gray. Mink. Cashmere. Need we saymore? It’s probably not the blanket you’ll want to use for atailgate party or a picnic, but casually tossed on a sofa orat the foot of the bed? That’s glamorous! The throw is 100percent cashmere with a mink border. 55" × 75". $16,000.FRETTE, BOSTON, (617) 267-0500, WWW .FRETTE .COM
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Industry Standard In her book American Glamour andthe Evolution of Modern Architecture, the architecturalhistorian Alice Friedman argues that the aesthetics ofmidcentury modern architecture reflected an increasingfascination with glamour. As a leading modernist archi-tect and furniture designer, Mies van der Rohe elevatedindustrial-age materials to an art form. His MR chaise,with its leather and cowhide straps on tubular stainlesssteel, is as glamorous today as when he designed it in1929. 23½"W × 47¼"D × 37½"H. $7,247. ADDO NOVO, PORT-LAND, MAINE, (207) 221-2780, WWW.ADDONOVO.COM
Into the Deep Indulge in a luxurious soak in this spa-cious bathtub from Waterworks’ .25 collection. Theglamorous white matte tub is beautifully sculpturaland elegantly simple. 70"L × 40W" × 29H". $9,857. DAN-BURY, CONN., (203) 546-6265, AND BOSTON DESIGN CENTER,(617) 951-2496, WWW.WATERWORKS.COM
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Wake Up and Smell the Roses . . . and the black-currant leaves when you light the Baies candle fromDyptique. Since opening its Boulevard Saint-Germainshop in 1963, the Paris-based company has become aworld-renowned purveyor of fragrances and luxurycandles. 2.4 OZ., $28; 6.5 OZ., $60. ROGUES GALLERY, PORT-LAND, MAINE, (207) 773-4900, WWW.ROGUESGALLERY.COM
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Who’s the sunniest ofthem all? Despite its name, the Rain mirror by Ironiesshines in glass and metal (your choice of bronze orbrass). 29"D, $5,610; 34¾"D, $5,985. STUDIO 534, BOSTONDESIGN CENTER, (617) 345-9900, WWW .S5 BOSTON .COM
Glamour Puss If a Hollywood siren could be depictedas a piece of furniture, John Lyle’s Edwin table wouldfill the bill. Like long, lanky gams in stiletto heels, thetable’s bronze legs support a seductive shagreen top. Shown here with a gray shagreen top and whitebronze legs, the table is available in a number of sha-green colors or in French limestone. $4,600. FURN & CO.,BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 342-1500, WWW.FURNCO.US
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Remember Auntie Mame, the madcap heroine ofPatrick Dennis’s 1955 novel? Imagine her portrayed, as shewas on both stage and screen, by the inimitable RosalindRussell. Now—and this is where it gets tricky—imagine Ros-alind Russell’s Auntie Mame in Hingham, Massachusetts.Hingham is a lovely, quintessential New England town ofclapboard houses and well-manicured lawns eleven milessouth of Boston . . . not exactly where you’d expect to findthe globe-trotting Mame.
So, where is this all going? To Peter Levis’s glorious,jam-packed shop, Beyond Gorgeosity, a place where mad-cap Mame would feel right at home. (You may recall thatMame believed in changing her decor with every moodswing, redecorating her apartment no less than six timesduring the course of the film.)
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When we called Levis about visiting his shop he chan-neled Mame, suggesting we sail into the shipyard on themidmorning ferry from Boston’s Rowes Wharf. He went onto suggest that, should we need a rest from all the lookingaround, we might have lunch next door at Alma Nove (a restaurant that happens to be owned by the Wahlbergboys—Mark, Donnie and Paul). Then we could return home,sated, by afternoon. All Beyond Gorgeosity, we’d say. OPENDAILY, 11 A.M.–7 P.M., 15 SHIPYARD DR., HINGHAM, MASS., (617) 901-4333, WWW .BEYOND GORGEOSITY .COM
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or decades a very familiar face in the New England design trade, Jim M-Geough (along with his wife,Susan) owns and operates one of the larger showrooms
at the Boston Design Center. Now home to some twenty-five or more lines of furniture, lighting, window shades and acces-sories, as well as European and Asian antiques, the M-GeoughCompany has been a player on our regional scene since 1951. Kyle Hoepner: Speaking for the public, Jim, what is it, exactly, that design showrooms like M-Geough do? Howdoes the process of working with a showroom go?
Jim M-Geough: We’re a to-the-trade showroom, whichmeans we work with the public only through designers and/ orarchitects. So what we bring to the game is becoming a teammember with the designer to find the correct products. Every-thing we do is pretty much custom. All the manufacturers werepresent are privately owned. The owners show up every day,they’re entrepreneurs, as we are. They love what they do, theyhave a passion about the industry and their work is only avail-able through trade showrooms like ours—they offer productsthat can’t be found in retail stores, with few exceptions.
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KH: So your personal relationships withthe manufacturers and suppliers helpmake sure that the quality is kept andthat all of the Ts are crossed and the Isare dotted?JM: And that things are ordered correctlyand shipped correctly. We follow throughright until the very end. Because theseproducts are not inexpensive. They’re cus-tom made, so they can be very costly, andyou don’t want to have a warehouse full ofthings that didn’t go right.KH: And, presumably, the makers ofthese products see some advantage inworking in this way, too, rather than justputting things out in stores.JM: Oh, absolutely. In most stores, whatyou see is what there is. Here, a designercomes in and sees a table and says, “I lovethat round table, but I really want a rec-tangular one, and I don’t want it in wal-nut, I want it Santos rosewood.” That’swhere we shine. We say, fine, we can doall of the above. We can provide a CADdrawing and samples of finishes, and theconsumer gets to see everything all theway through. It’s a process that’s really en-joyable for them because they’re creatingsomething, along with their designer, fortheir own home. The designers are creat-ing an environment, and they need peoplelike us to help them do their customwork. Having been in the business as longas we have, we know what’s going to workand what’s not going to work. We solveproblems before they end up in the homeand clients get upset.KH: How did you get into this business?JM: I came to work for my dad, whoowned the original business, in Septemberof 1969. I was in construction before thatand thought I’d give this a try. So I camein in ’69 and I said, “Well, I’ll give this acouple of years and see what happens.”Forty-plus years later I’m still seeing whathappens!KH: Are there specific things typical ofNew England that affect how you operateor what you carry? Has being located inBoston had an important influence onyour business?JM: There’s a group of guys with businesseslike ours in other parts of the country—they’ve been my friends for forty years,we’re very close and we get together for aweek every year to talk about business ap-proaches and how to do this the best waypossible. One of them is in Texas. We do alot of similar things but we have to do them
on a different scale, in different colors andtextures. Texas and New England are nightand day, and although the identical basictable might go into our houses, if he does itin oak I’ll do it in a fruitwood. But we alsoswap things back and forth all the time. If I have a line that I think would work wellfor him, I get him involved, and he gets thatline. If he has a line that he thinks wouldwork well for me, I get that line.KH: There’s actually one big difference
between this type of business and a re-tail shop—when you order a piece, you’renot necessarily ordering the entire fin-ished thing from just one company. Ifyou buy a sofa through M-Geough, forinstance, the upholstery fabric will bepurchased separately from a differentshowroom.JM: Right.KH: So it’s a bit more complex . . .JM: It is, there’s a lot going on that way.When you buy a custom table, we may say,“Okay, we have to go to the veneer house.”We have one manufacturer who some-times comes out and meets the client andthen goes to the veneer house and handselects the veneer for the client, because it’san exotic or its something they want that’svery unique. And only then do we start toproduce the table. We’re all but cutting thetrees down.
KH: . . . but the advantage, of course, isthat the client ends up with an entirelypersonalized piece.JM: Exactly. And it’s built to their needs.That’s where the designer comes in. Ourteam and the designer can walk a con-sumer through the process.KH: Have you seen changes in the designbusiness over time—how things get done,how designers work, how the clients andthe designers interact with you?
JM: I would describe it as a workin progress always. In the dayswhen I first started, Providenceand Boston, Hartford and Port-land and Worcester all had threeor four or five really great de-signers. Today, there are a lotmore designers, and they’re edu-cated about design; it’s a very serious business for them. Theother thing is the consumer.Many times, before the consumereven comes in here, they’ve beenon our Web site, they’ve readabout who and what we are.KH: So there’s more designawareness in general?JM: I remember a great old de-signer saying to a client, “Just sitthere, I’ll pick the pieces out and
show them to you near the end.” That’s nothappening today, and that’s a good thing.The home environment is a very importantpart of people’s lives, and the consumer isreally much more educated today, in termsof looking at products and asking ques-tions. The question we get most often is,“Why is this so expensive?” We can answerthat very easily—it’s the quality and thetime involved. If a gentleman is a driving aBMW and is complaining about the priceof a dining table, I might say, “Well, you’llgo through ten BMWs before you get ridof that dining table.” It’s a perceived value.KH: Where do you see things going fromhere?JM: The million-dollar question.KH: For the world, for design, for JimM-Geough!JM: I think the retail side of the home furnishings business has gone so that thereare the deals and the discounts and theplasma TVs with everything, and thenthere is us—there’s not a lot in the middle.I think there’s always going to be a needfor our kind of product, for the peoplewho really care. So I think we’ll alwayshave a designer showroom. •
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ack in the 1950s, John Walker’s classmates at theBirmingham College of Art in England must havewondered why so many plants filled the young artist’s
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The thousands of hours of drawing paid off. At seventy-one, Walker has developed superb artistic muscle: powerful,subtle reflexes between eye and brain. In compositions thatare as rock-solid as a newly poured foundation, Walker’s workis wild with burnt oranges in black horizons and Velasquezpinks feathering past the moon above a turquoise sea.
Walker is a very young older man, a man who has glee-fully eluded decline. Fortune seems to follow him in a low-key way. The National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.,
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es speak with lyric powerand emotion, capturing thefleeting yet grand qualitiesof the cosmos and thehuman race. Here’s a manwith big ideas and large
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feelings who is able toexpress himself in awarm, perfectly con-trolled line. This rawnessversus refinement iseverywhere in the can-vases Walker is workingon in his Boston studio.
In the bright, third-floor space, tall Africanand Oceanic statues—inspiration for his work—cluster like old friends infront of banks of expan-sive windows. “For Walk-er, there’s a seamless con-nection between theAfrican and Oceanic cul-tures and his own work,”observes poet and criticWilliam Corbett.
Art is basic and seam-less for Walker, and so isteaching. As head ofBoston University’s grad-uate painting and sculp-ture program, he hashelped push BU into the forefront of tradi-tional, painting-focusedart schools along withPrinceton, Yale and Columbia. “You have to
work hard here at BU, but if you’re interested in traditionalpainting this is a great place to be,” says Walker. “We’ve wonover twenty Guggenheim Fellowships as well as six of the an-nual prizes from the Royal Academy in London.”
Walker recalls his own formative days: the enormousleap that took him from Birmingham to the abstract ex-pressionist melting pot of New York. His technique was de-veloped to a high polish. What came next was the courage
to connect emotionally to the richness of life. “What got mereally turned on to the possibilities of art was first seeing
Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride,” hesays. “Her hand touching his.It’s a very ephemeral momentand yet it’s forever and everthat touch.”
Not long after, he saw ashow of work by Russianartist Kazimir Malevich. “Ihad no idea a black square
could express so much emotion. It was amazing to me!”Somewhere between Rembrandt and Malevich, Walker
has staked out something entirely his own. •Editor’s Note John Walker is represented by Knoedler & Company,New York City, (212) 794-0550, www.knoedlergallery.com
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n 2008, the interior designer of a big house being builton the coast near San Francisco sent Sam Kasten aneight-inch-by-ten-inch cardboard box. The box con-
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This is one reason why his clients love Sam Kasten, ayouthful-looking man with close-cropped brown-gray hairwho has been designing and handweaving textile art forabout forty years: he can take a miniature natural-historymuseum in a box and translate it into cloth. Born in Chicago
in 1949, Kasten had no interest inweaving until the summer beforehis senior year at the University ofIowa, when he happened to walkinto a weaving shop on Nantucket.He spent the next two weeks of
his vacation in that shop, watching people work their hand-looms. “Something about it,” he says, “got to me.” Oh yeah.
He went back to college, graduated and got a job at thatsame Nantucket shop, which happened to be owned by a textile artist who had himself been taught by some of thebiggest names of the Bauhaus. A few years later Kastenfound himself weaving textiles for such iconic architects asI.M. Pei. He’s still struck by the irony that they wanted to
adorn the inside of their sleek, ultra-modern skyscraperswith fabric made on a crotchety old handloom in Nantucketusing 1,000-year-old technology.
Kasten eventually moved his family from Nantucket to theBerkshires for its cultural offerings: art, opera, theater. As hisbusiness grew he needed more space, so he left his studio inStockbridge, Massachusetts, for a former parochial school in
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however, you see two or three six-foot-wide looms, and MarioAragon throwing the shuttleacross an array of silk and linenthreads, then pulling it into place
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Because Aragon is making a fairly simple weave, he’s ableto produce a yard or more a day, fifty-two inches wide. Withmore complicated cloth, he might weave only a foot. And theweaving is the satisfying part: loading the loom with theright threads can take two weeks. This, plus the high qualityof the silk, wool and linen thread he uses, explains why SamKasten’s fabrics can cost more than $700 a yard, and his rugsmore than $100 a square foot.
Which raises the question: Why? Why endure the expenseof all that hand labor? Why not use machines?
For one thing, handwoven textiles tend to last longer. Withage they develop patina. One of Kasten’s clients raised threekids on and around two sofas covered with Kasten’s silk che-nille, and twenty-five years later the upholstery still looksperfect. Handwoven fabrics also tend to have a liveliness andpersonality that machine-made textiles lack. And when pa-trons pay for Kasten’s textiles, they get a work of art. Somaybe the question itself isn’t fair. Did anyone ever ask Picas-so why he used a brush instead of a sprayer?
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Different tastes make the world go round—we’ve all heard that expression. Certainly it’s true when it comes to architecture. While one person sees a house in a certain light, another takes a completely opposite view. For every admirer of pristine clapboards and forest-green shutters, there’s also one forglass walls and steel railings. This beautiful Boston residence is a perfect example of a home that’s beenshaped by diverse visions. • Years ago, a developer’s modern leanings led him to carve open the build-ing’s second floor to create a double-height living room. It was a theatrical move for a seventeen-foot-wide 1875 Back Bay brownstone. And sure enough, when new owners with a different set of sensibili-ties came along, they decided to reinstate the second floor as it originally was. To help recapture what
had gone missing in the previous remodel and create a more traditional nest, the couple recruited
ReturnEngagementIn Boston’s Back Bay, a renovation brings a nineteenth-century brownstone back
to the lovely proportions and classic design its builder surely intended. TEXT BY MEGAN FULWEILER • PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAURA MOSS • ARCHITECTURE: JAN GLEYSTEEN • INTERIOR
DESIGN: ANNE BECKER • BUILDER: GEOFF CARABOOLAD, METRIC CONSTRUCTION • PRODUCED BY STACY KUNSTEL
A gilded chandelier illuminates the dining table and the shimmery domedceiling above. Facing page: Lovely Gracie wallpaper adds to the magic.Branching trees and birds conjure out-door beauty for the windowless room.
Wellesley, Massachusetts, architectJan Gleysteen and Nantucket-basedinterior designer Anne Becker, whoalso happens to be a trusted familyfriend. “I had to tell them in the beginning that they needn’t worryabout my feelings,” Becker says.
“This had to be their home, not myversion of their home.”
Becker’s client-wishes-come-firstapproach and her fine-tuned abili-ties were the perfect complement to the expertise that Gleysteenbrought to the project. “Training inclassical architecture allows me tounderstand how nineteenth-century design-ers might have handled things,” he explains.
A near-total gutting of the old house en-sued. At the same time that the architectwas seeing to the design—recapturing the
home’s “understated elegance,” as he putsit—he was also ushering the building intothe twenty-first century with brand-newsystems. All that impressive technologyaside, it’s the more visible details that cap-
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Texture adds depth and interest throughout the home.
ture and hold the eye. Gleysteen and histeam made an academic study of the mas-sive moldings, for instance, carefully repli-cating them and then reinstalling them inplaces where they’d been stripped.
Today the ground floor holds a top-notchexercise room and a noteworthy mahogany-and walnut-clad billiard room that’s as ship-shape as a fine yacht; the first floor housesthe more formal living room and the wife’s
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A late eighteenth-century French-stylearmoire anchors the living room. Insync with the home’s tenor, the rug isan Aubusson needlepoint from StarkCarpet. Facing page: A lacquered con-sole and Chinese mirror dress the foyer.
study. And the restoration of the secondfloor has changed everything. Put back to-gether, the space now holds a new kitchen, a warm family room and, at the core, a spec-tacular dining room—“the jewel in themidst,” says Gleysteen.
To compensate for the lack of windowsand enhance the dining room’s sophisticatedambience, Gleysteen created a silver-leafedoval dome for the ceiling. Coupled with acustom-colored Gracie wallcovering, thedome gives the room airiness and sparkle.An antique mirror above the sideboard cap-tures it all. And at night, light bounces frompolished table to silver candelabras and back.Upholstered antique dining chairs promoteleisurely meals and lingering conversations.
Should guests be enticed to pitch in with the dishes, however, it’s no chore in akitchen as well-planned as this. Gleysteen—who designed all the new woodworkingthroughout—equipped the space with a
generous island and a bounty of clut-ter-controlling cabinets. The cabinets’soothing color—“off white and verypale, but more brown than cream,”stipulates Becker—reinforces thekitchen’s timeless look. The ownerstake breakfast seated on a luxe ban-
quette. So smoothly does Gleysteen’s curvedseat unfold beneath the windows, it’s easy to see why it could be pegged as an originalfeature. “The subtleties of scale, based onthe human body, and proportion are a pas-sion of mine,” the skillful architect says.
“Learn them and you can make any roomcomfortable. People often sense that oneroom feels better than another, but theycan’t pinpoint why.”
Texture adds depth and interest through-out the home. The family room walls aresheathed in grasscloth, bringing in a wave oftactile drama. With its sophisticated putty-colored walls, the living room may be thecenter of holiday entertaining, but the fami-ly room is where the owners are most likely
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The homeowners take breakfastseated on a luxe banquette.
Too inviting for breakfast alone, thekitchen’s banquette is a welcominghub. Facing page left: White granitecounters add to the kitchen’s pristinepersona. Facing page right: The nearbyfamily room is conducive to relaxation.
Handsome woodworking offsets the master bedroom’s feminine wallpaper. Facing page right: A custom chaise and a faux bamboo floor lamp create a sereneoasis. Facing page left: The owner’sspaniel settles down in the study.
to kick off their shoes at the end ofthe day. In both rooms, ten-foot-high ceilings create a spacious, spir-it-lifting mood and the decor is acombination of antiques along withnewer pieces—a Becker trademark.“I like to incorporate antiques butnot the overly precious kind that people areafraid of,” she explains. A cylindrical glassRalph Lauren lamp beside a favorite familyroom reading chair is just one of her manymodernizing and upbeat touches.
Nowhere is the tempo livelier than in thewife’s study. Becker equates the red of thewalls to her client’s energetic nature. “It’s a
perfect match,” she says. Offset by whitewoodwork, the bright walls make the smallspace seem to glow. What’s more, they afforda dynamite backdrop for the couple’s prettyspringer spaniel who, eschewing the sisalcarpet, claims the soft upholstered armchairfor naps.
The third floor—site of the master suiteand the husband’s study—is decidedly tran-quil. In the bedroom a flowered wallcovering
teams up with checkered silk curtains. Nei-ther too feminine nor too masculine, theflowers and checks coexist happily. Bonusesinclude a chaise for lounging with a book(and perhaps tea or a cocktail) and a fire-place (one of seven in the house). Beckercustom-designed the bench at the bed’s footfor a perfect fit.
The adjacent master bath displays a mosa-ic tile floor that’s as striking as the one down-stairs in the entry. But here’s a secret: thefloor that greets visitors when the front dooropens is, in fact, also new. When the originalversion proved beyond salvaging, Becker de-vised a mosaic that only appears to have heldsway forever, which is right in keeping withthe owners’ intent.
Of course, down the road someone maycome along and want to give the house morelife-altering changes, but we’re guessing not.Results this perfect are sure to endure. •Resources For more information about this home,see page 148.
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“This had to be their home, not my version of their home.”
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Architect Jim Estes makes use of familiar materials such as red cedarand New England granite for the houses he calls “Yankee modern” instyle. Right: The front door sits undera copper roof set a bit lower than thetwin cedar peaks that flank it.
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A true collaboration yields a suburban Boston
home that’s totally in sync with its surroundings.
TEXT BY PAULA M. BODAH •
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WARREN JAGGER •
ARCHITECTURE: JAMES ESTES,
ESTES/TWOMBLY ARCHITECTS • INTERIOR
DESIGN: KIRBY GOFF • LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE: STEPHEN STIMSON •
BUILDER: TIMOTHY CONNORS,
OLD GROVE PARTNERS
A PERFECT MATCH
A quiet palette keeps the view from the living-room windows front and center. Facing page top: Architectureand landscape design evolved simulta-neously. Facing page bottom: The poolhouse mimics the main house with itsrough-hewn red-cedar cladding.
he sequence ofevents for build-ing a new houseusually goes
something like this: a couple buys apiece of land, hires an architect, over-sees construction and, finally, addslandscaping that complements theirnew home.
The husband and wife who built thishouse, however, took a less orthodox approach. They began the process bychoosing an architect, even before theyhad decided on a piece of land. As theylooked through architecture books andshelter magazines, they found them-selves drawn to the work of James Estesof Estes/Twombly Architects in Newport, Rhode Is-land. “Every home we were attracted to was built byJim,” the wife recalls.
Estes’s style, which he calls “Yankee modern,” suitedthe couple with its reliance on natural materials, suchas the red cedar and granite that are so familiar toNew Englanders, and its emphasis on clean, practicalforms that hark back to simpler times, yet have a de-cidedly contemporary feel. “We wanted somethingmodern, but not the stereotypical stark, cold modern,”says the wife. “We wanted something warm.”
Just as important, she adds, “We wanted somethingthat really embraced its property.”
To make sure they would be able to forge a seamlessconnection between house and land, the two enlistedEstes in the hunt for the perfect spot on which to build.“We considered several pieces,” the architect says. “We walked around them and talked and did someschematic layouts of how a house might sit on the site.”
Their research and discussions led them to a dra-matic stretch of thirteen acres in Westwood, Massa-chusetts, with glacial hills and valleys, rocky outcrop-
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pings, forested areas thick with oak, pine and birchtrees and lowlands lush with fern and witch hazel.Once they settled on the land and a basic sense of howthe house would sit on it, the couple wisely broughtlandscape architect Stephen Stimson on board to en-sure that house and landscaping would evolve togeth-er. “The property had lots of different landscapespaces and habitats,” says Stimson, who has offices inCambridge and Falmouth, Massachusetts. “The own-ers wanted to do some vegetable farming and garden-ing, they wanted spaces for the children to play andfor entertaining and they wanted to respect and en-hance the native ecosystem.”
As he worked on a landscape design that addressedall those wishes and Estes fine-tuned the house, barn,pool house and other structures, the two pros kept in
touch every step of the way. The result is, just as thehomeowners wanted, a beautifully integrated whole.
The entry drive sweeps through a grove of sugarmaples that shield the house from the road for a senseof privacy. Eventually the driveway opens to a dra-matic view of orchards, wildflower meadows andwoodlands that embrace a house so perfectly suitedto the land it looks as if it has grown up simultane-ously with its natural surroundings.
The long, one-story home presides at the top of aridge, its roofline breaking at the midpoint to formtwin peaked wooden roofs. The kitchen, living roomand dining room sit under one peak, the bedroomsunder the other. Jutting out from between the twohalves of the house is the main entrance, topped witha low-pitched roof of copper. The exterior of the
The dining area with its artisan-craftedwalnut table and chairs separates thekitchen and living room in the open floorplan. Top right: Architect Jim Estes de-signed the kitchen with its transom win-dows and mahogany cabinetry. Bottomright: Tall windows make dining in thebreakfast nook like picnicking outdoors.
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house is clad in a mix of broad, rough-hewn red cedarclapboards and irregularly cut granite from a New Hamp-shire quarry. No fussy framing trims the windows. “Theywanted it very simple,” Estes says of his clients.
Simplicity reigns inside, too. Walls in every room arethe same serene neutral shade. “I wanted the interiors tobe as toned down as possible because we wanted the viewfrom the windows to be the focus of the house,” the home-owner says. “I wanted a palette that would go with whatev-er the colors are outside as the seasons change.”
Kitchen and bathrom cabi -netry, crafted of mahogany, isalmost Asian in its simplicity.
The custom-made exterior windows and interiortransoms—and there are many of both, most openingout from the bottom, awning style—are trimmed inhandsome, understated mahogany. Kitchen and bath-room cabinetry, crafted of the same mahogany, is al-most Asian in its simplicity. Lightly polished limestonethe color of sand covers the kitchen countertops andthe floors throughout the main living area. Breakingjust slightly from the utter simplicity, the ceilings aremade of painted boards with a one-eighth-inch gapbetween them. “The gaps create shadows and makethe ceiling more interesting,” Estes explains.
Cranston, Rhode Island–based interior designerKirby Goff brought in carpeting and furniture thatecho the quiet palette and modern lines of the house.Custom-designed Tibetan rugs of silk and wool fromSteven King in a variety of subtle patterns and colorsadd warmth and texture to the rooms. To ward off thechilliness that can result in such contemporary design,Goff chose upholstery fabrics in a range of textures. “Ilooked to menswear-inspired fabrics,” she says. “I usedwool, mohair, cashmere, leather—fabrics with a won-derful hand and that are very organic.”
Because privacy wasn’t an issue, Goff eschewedwindow treatments in favor of Conrad woven grassshades that diffuse light and remove glare without ob-scuring the views.
Back outside, Stimson played off the natural topog-raphy—the long, linear nature of the property, theoutcroppings of stone and the existing meadow andwoodlands—using stone walls and stairways to cre-ates a series of spaces for the many uses the home-owners had in mind. Husband and wife enjoy tendingto the fruit trees, vegetable garden, flower gardensand a kitchen herb garden. The pool area offers plen-ty of space for entertaining, including a clematis-cov-ered pergola that lets guests take a break from thesun. And the couple’s three young children can stagegames on the broad lawn, go exploring in the woodsor chase after the butterflies and dragonflies that aredrawn to the meadows.
Their clients aren’t the only people who love thework Estes and Stimson did. Estes won Custom Homemagazine’s 2010 House of the Year award as well as an honor award from the Rhode Island chapter of theAmerican Institute of Architects, and Stimson wasgiven a 2010 merit award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects.
Awards aside, the true measure of a home is how it feels to the people who live in it. “We love every bit of it,” says the happy homeowner. “My husband and I will live here forever.” •Resources For more information about this home, seepage 148.
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“We wanted a housethat was modern,
but warm, not starkand cold.”
The serene palette and contempo-rary lines continue in the masterbedroom. Left: A stone terrace is aperfect place for evening stargaz-ing. Facing page: Mahogany andlimestone outfit the master bath.
Barbara Pervier believes indrapery. “It’s not home until the
curtains go up,” the Salem, Massa-chusetts, designer insists. • She also
has strong feelings about millwork, tintedceilings and classical proportions. • Pervier, who
lives with her Jack Russell terrier, Ralphie, in an 1830 red-brick house facing Salem Common, put those convictions into practice when shebought her condominium. With carefully considered window treatments, moldings,subtly colored ceilings and other details that lead the eye upward to tall ceilings oroutward toward the view, she created a home with big panache in a footprint meas-uring a mere 640 square feet. • Small rooms in old houses can present challenges,but Pervier’s design creates a sensibility that’s anything but cramped or fusty. With a personality far more expansive than its square footage, her home is a lovely show-case for her antique furniture, art and well-loved collections.
BLUEHEAVEN
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Inspired by the view from her second-floor windows, a designer creates her own tiny paradise above the bustle of the Common in Salem, Massachusetts. TEXT BY REGINA COLE • PHOTOGRAPHY BY
LAURA MOSS • INTERIOR DESIGN: BARBARA
PERVIER • PRODUCED BY STACY KUNSTEL
Pale blue walls make a serene backdropfor warm, neutral furnishings in the livingroom. Facing page clockwise from far left:Drapery panels flanking twin windowsdraw the eye to the view. A nineteenth-century Swedish desk is a cherished oldfriend. A bit of sparkle is never amiss.
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“To guide me, I used the memory of how it felt the first time I stepped into this room,” Pervier says as she snuggles into afireside wing chair upholstered in creamy white linen. “I walkedto the windows and looked out at the Common, the trees, peo-ple walking and the beautiful old buildings. I resolved to alwaysfocus on the view.”
In service to that view, she painted the living room walls acolor she describes as soft blue-gray-green. “This shade of bluebrings the sky in from outside,” she says. “It’s very soothing and makes for a feeling of openness.” The hue is a first for her. “I like blue, but before this I never had blue walls,” she confesses.
Two living room windows gaze down on the iconic New Eng-land cityscape. Flanking them is a single pair of luxurious silkpanels in the same blue as the walls. With a Greek key motif atthe leading edge, each panel drapes the outside of one of thewindows. The sophisticated design seems to increase the room’ssize while placing the view front and center.
Crown moldings the color of ginger line the upper walls,drawing the eye upward and making the room look larger
still. Other elements contributing to the living room’stranquility include the neutral herringbone pattern
of the flat-weave broadloom rug, the simple, paleupholstery on sofa and chairs and the opales-cent Murano glass lamps, all of which bring an elegant restraint suited to the building.“The style of the house is classic, but neutral,”the designer says. “The proportions, to myeye, are perfect.”
Pervier has loved historic architecture since,as a child, she visited an aunt who lived on
Boston’s Marlborough Street. “I loved to visit thegrand old brownstone, and I used to say, ‘Someday
I’m going to live in one of these beautiful houses.’”Her old-house fondness, however, has no truck with fussy
fabrics or crowded rooms. “I’m not someone who likes a lot ofpattern. I always like things fresh, simple. I use a lot of neutrals;I like to come home and feel serene,” she says. “Also, when thebackground is neutral, it allows objects to stand out.”
This philosophy informs the bedroom, where millwork ap-plied to soft beige walls lends distinction and a sense of space. A coverlet and pillows in a standout Manuel Canovas plaid inplum, beige and cream drive the color scheme for the room.
Above the fireplace, twin sconces flank a Federal bull’s-eyemirror. “The sconces are brass, which I painted with gold-leafpaint,” Pervier says. “It softens them and makes them look lessgarish beside the antique mirror.”
She used the same trick to age the brass of the bedside tablewith a soft patina. “I have always loved to mix old and new,” shesays. “Sometimes the new has to be aged a bit.”
“I like thingsfresh, simple. I like to comehome and feelserene.”
Large architectural prints bring aspacious sensibility to the kitchen’ssmall dining area. Facing page top:At the kitchen’s business end, a stonegarden plaque echoes the house’sneoclassical spirit. Facing page bot-tom: Barbara Pervier and Ralphie.
Applied molding and a sophisticatedsilk plaid bring formal elegance to thebedroom. Facing page top: Pervieradded pierced corner blocks, crownmoldings and a chair rail to recreatepast glamour. Bottom: In the bedroom:collections and reflections.
In the kitchen, a whitemarble countertop with warmgold veins sets the tone. Thenarrow room allows for atable and chairs at one end.The walls here are blue, too,though a paler shade thanthat of the living room. At thekitchen’s far end, a windowlooks down on a wide peren-nial bed planted by the de-signer. “I have it all,” she says,“a home that suits me perfect-ly, a wonderful city neighbor-hood and even a garden!”
Pervier stresses the impactof local history on her designwork. “Where a house is locatedis very important,” she says.“When you live in a town richwith heritage, you have to ac-knowledge that. In the livingroom, the gilt head mounted onthe wall between the windows ismy nod to the figureheads onSalem’s famous China clippers.”
In another nod to the sea, Pervier has strewn seashells all about her home. Sheplaces them on fireplace mantels, heaps them in bowls andkeeps them on the desk as paperweights. Ever since she was achild, when her father collected them on a posting to Okinawa,Pervier has loved seashells. “I’m a nature girl,” she says with alaugh. “They make for interesting shapes and textures in mostany kind of room.”
Perhaps they’re also responsible for her penchant for irides-cence, whether in a collection of silvery elements on a tabletop,clear glass drawer pulls that reflect and refract sunlight in thekitchen or the delicate tints she applies to ceilings. “A room isn’tpainted if you leave the ceiling bare,” she declares. “The soft tintsreflect light in flattering ways and can be subtle echoes ofstronger colors.”
The designer knew she had gotten her home just right whenshe participated in the annual house tour sponsored by HistoricSalem. “Lots and lots of people came through,” she recalls. “AndI got lots of positive comments, mostly from women. What I re-member best, however, was hearing a man say, ‘I could moveright in here.’ Then I knew that it works!” •Resources For more information about this home, see page 148.
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“A room isn’t painted if
you leave the ceiling bare,” she declares.
Interior designer Wendy Valliere storedthe blue Parisian doors for years untilshe finally found a place for them onthe porch wall of her home, accented byher collection of Majolica. Facing page:A garden blooms atop a tiny additionthat replaced an unattractive bulkhead.
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DramaticImpactAn interior designer feathers her own nest
in Stowe, Vermont, in bold fashion.WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY STACY KUNSTEL • PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL PARTENIO •
INTERIOR DESIGN: WENDY VALLIERE, SELDOM SCENE INTERIORS • ARCHITECTURE: ERNEST RUSKEY,
TEKTONIKA STUDIO ARCHITECTS • BUILDER: B&D BUILDERS
endy Valliere has never been onefor drama in her life. Her interi-ors—well, that’s another story.She loves bold patterns and col-ors, red- and black-lacqueredwoods, even flocked paper on
walls and ceilings. Her 1842 farmhouse in the heart of Stowe,Vermont, is color-saturated, pattern-packed and filled withantiques and art, playing out her favorite design themes.
When she bought the house, it was hardly the sweet,brick-front home you see now. Rather, it was a stark whitestructure filled with brown shag carpeting and a MeerkatManor collection of tiny rooms.
Accustomed to tackling seemingly impossible projects fordemanding clients, Valliere rarely saw the fourteen-month
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renovation as daunting. With the assistance of architect ErnestRuskey of Stowe’s Tektonika Studio Architects, she strippedthe house down to just three walls, installing all new electrical,plumbing and air conditioning systems and moving almostevery door and window. “We literally took the roof off, re-moved floors and reconstructed the house,” says Ruskey.
A wide covered porch wraps around the front and alongone side of the house, showing off a glossy black ceiling tomatch the exterior window trim. Valliere added three fire-places to the house, including one on a screened porch addi-tion at the back.
Not only did she recreate a house, she also rebuilt a lifeand business that she had left behind after fifteen years onNantucket. Almost nine years ago, in the wake of being em-broiled in the trial of her longtime client, former Tyco CEO
Dennis Kozlowski, the designer was ready to escape thelimelight. “There was so much negative press, so many ru-mors, mistruths. I felt extremely uncomfortable,” she says. “I decided to take a few years off, staying in Vermont, takingcare of old clients and not working with anyone new. All Idid was work prior to that.”
The painful period allowed Valliere to reconnect withfriends and to do the things she loved. “I hiked, I biked, I skied and kayaked,” she says. “I got healthy physically and emotionally.”
Her business, Seldom Scene Interiors, opened its Ver-mont location in the 6,000-square-foot barn that sits just behind the house. She’s as busy as ever with clients in NewEngland, Florida and England, but now she approacheswork on her own terms. “I ski before I go to work every
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With its eccentric mix of color and pattern,the living room conveys cozy charm. Facingpage top: A twig pergola houses the per-fect lunch spot. Facing page bottom: Val-liere added the broad wraparound porch.
Freestanding cabinets between the diningroom and kitchen display a collection ofblue and white Staffordshire dishes. Fac-ing page clockwise from top left: Vallierewith her housemates, Elise and Teddy. Redlacquered cabinetry was inspired by a fa-vorite shade of Chanel lipstick. An antiquepainted chest and Venetian-glass mirrormake a handsome powder room vignette.
morning,” she says. “I don’t care if it’s minus-20 degrees. Inthe summer I bike or hike.”
After years of working on spaces for other people, Valliereembraced the chance to express her own tastes in her Ver-mont home. “I’d always wanted to do Chanel lipstick–redcabinets in the kitchen,” she says. “I hadn’t done it for aclient, so I thought in this cold climate I’d do it for myself.”
Even in this day of instant color matches, the hardestthing was finding the precise shade she wanted. Making mat-ters more complicated, red typically oxidizes over time andeventually turns a cranberry hue, not what the designer hadin mind. So she painted several coats of a custom high-glossred on the cabinets and then topped them with several layersof non-yellowing clear finish.
The countertops and backsplash of handmade blue-and-white tile are similar to those Valliere had in her Nantuckethouse. They complement her extensive collection ofStaffordshire transferware, most of which sits in a wall ofglass cabinetry that divides the kitchen from the diningroom. A red, white and blue kitchen might at first seem anunusual choice for the Canadian-born designer, but the finallook is definitely more French then Uncle Sam.
At the front of the house Valliere provided visual separa-tion between the square living room and the entry and stairareas by having an elaborate design painted on the ceiling.She re-covered existing pieces of furniture in favorite fabricsin a mix of patterns. “It’s supposed to be cozy, warm andcomfortable,” she says. “The drapery fabric has cows on itand really speaks to Vermont. There are just a lot of things Ilike in that room.”
In warmer months, the screened porch serves as the pre-ferred gathering spot and dining area. A collection of antiqueHeywood-Wakefield wicker surrounds the stone fireplacewhile a pair of blue doors Valliere purchased at a Paris fleamarket hangs on a wall of black-painted brick.
Upstairs, one of two guest rooms revisits the red, white
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and blue theme of the kitchen. Here, the colors come in theform of antique quilts Valliere converted into draperies, ared-and-white toile wallcovering, and a headboard coveredin blue velvet. A giant swan footboard she found in Pariscompletes the room’s theatrical look.
The drama of the guest room has nothing on the mastersuite, however. For years Valliere’s wardrobe has consisted of black and white with the occasional Hermès flourish, andshe carried the theme to her own bedroom and bath. Wallsand ceiling in the bedroom are covered in black-and-whiteflocked wallpaper while a custom rug, chandelier, dresser,chair and bedding continue the color scheme.
In the bathroom she started with a black-and-white wall-covering, then painted the cabinetry and woodwork shinyblack. A gleaming nickel-clad tub reflects its surroundings.
Outside, Valliere created a number of spaces for relaxing orentertaining, including a fire pit, an outdoor dining area undera twig pergola and a small structure over a bulkhead doortopped with her version of a green roof. In the spring the roofblooms with pansies, summer finds it covered with geraniumsand during the winter it’s laid with greenery and holly.
“I had a lot of fun with this house,” says Valliere. “I’m gladI took my time doing it. It’s a very personal house.”
She loves the town of Stowe as much as she loves herhouse. “I knew I wanted to live in town like I did on Nan-tucket,” she says. “I wanted to live where I could walk to cof-fee and get the paper. I wanted to see traffic and people. It’san amazing place. It’s magical. Stowe’s like Nantucket wasback in the day. It’s the best of a lot of worlds.”
While she wouldn’t change the location, she is after all, adesigner, and things in her own home change. “The diningroom table comes and goes, as does the kitchen table,” shesays. “I wouldn’t sell the transferware, the light fixture in thedining room, any art, old wicker or the blue French doors.But everything else I can redo, remake and find again.” •Resources For more information about this home, see page 148.
A flocked fantasy in black and white, themaster bedroom shines in its absence of color. Facing clockwise from top left:Antique red and white quilts serve as gue-st room draperies. Added drama comesfrom the velvet headboard and antiqueswan footboard. The master bath echoesthe bedroom’s black and white theme.
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NATURAL INSTINCTS
Open, flowing lawns and an outdoor fireplace cater to theactive family that summers here. Stone walls and walkwaysweave through abundant native plantings, the low-mainte-nance landscape a nod to the rustic, unassuming characterof Cape Cod itself. Photography by Michael J. Lee
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Designer Michael Coutu, Sudbury Design Group, Sudbury,Mass., (978) 443-3638, www.sudburydesign.com
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THE BIG PICTURE
Every tree, shrub, stone and grassy swath of lawn—even the magnificent man-made pond—is strate-gically placed to ensconce you in the natural beautyof this 100-acre site and frame the glorious viewbeyond. Photography by Bill Sumner
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Designer Julie Moir Messervy, Julie Moir MesservyDesign Studio, Saxtons River, Vt., (802) 869-1470,www.jmmds.com
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GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Nestled within an old apple orchard, this formal gar-den is resplendent with blooms and adorned bysculptures and a water fountain. A redbrick walkwayand white picket fence add to the picturesque scenewith its breathtaking views.
Location Central New Hampshire
Designer George Pellettieri, Pellettieri Associates,Warner, N.H., (603) 456-3678, www.pellettieriassoc.com
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
Fieldstone walls, majestic oaks and rolling meadowspay homage to agrarian roots. But history won’trepeat itself here: cut limestone, solar panels, a pooland studios for art and music mark a contemporarynew chapter in this changing landscape. Photogra -phy by Brian Vanden Brink
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Designer Kris Horiuchi, Horiuchi Solien LandscapeArchitects, Falmouth, Mass., (508) 540-5320, www.horiuchisolien.com
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One anti-Winger recalls how, as a young girl habitually late for her art class, she scampered along the MFA’s palatial500 feet of freezing, windblown granite facing Huntington Av-enue. Up the marble steps to John Singer Sargent’s luminousrotunda she sped. There she found herself entranced, mar-veling at how she had been transformed from a shivering waifin Boston’s February dusk to an Italian princess! It was magic.
No such magic was in store in the MFA’s new wing for ourprincess waif, now an architect. She complains that the stairsleading to the new galleries brought her to a tight landing,where she was met by an inauspicious set of fire doors andthe steely jaws of a freight elevator—a major affront to herdesign sensibilities. “Creating a welcoming transition fromone space to another is an essential part of the design vocab-ulary,” she explains.
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Taking the other side, Jeff Stein, cur-rently on sabbatical from his position asDean of Architecture at the Boston Ar-chitectural College, heartily approves ofthe transitions and treatments of spacein the new wing: “It’s not like the usualfaceless, darkened galleries with stuff inthem. I enjoy its scale—how it allows formany different views.”
The MFA controversy got us thinking: what makes for agreat transition in the home? How do designers pull off thechallenge of orchestrating transitions—from room to room,outside to inside, public to private—that are warm, wel-coming and rational?
• • •After an arduous decade turning around a spy satellite com-pany, Carey Erdman made his own transition five years ago, switching to a career as an interior designer. Guests whovisit the roof deck of his South End home are amazed atwhat they find—a lush container garden Erdman createdthat makes the roof “like a whole extra floor.” In his clients’homes, he often uses botanicals to mark transitions. “We canalter the perceived depth of a space by placing dark, coarseplants in the foreground and fine-textured, lighter plants onthe far side of the room,” he says. As another example: “Wecan signal a change of purpose or energy in a space withbotanicals, as well: grouping lush, tropical plants around asoaking tub for a spa-like, private feeling, or bright, bloom-ing plants in a breakfast gazebo to provide a sense of freshenergy as you start your day.”
• • •Designer Wendy Valliere has offices in Stowe, Vermont,and on Nantucket, but she also spends quite a bit of time
working in Europe. “We just did a largeapartment on Boulevard St.-Germain inParis, and now we’re totally restoring aGeorgian castle on 1,000 acres outsideLondon,” she relates. Valliere shares herown trick for creating a welcoming tran-sition: “I love to introduce a home with a‘view corridor’—that is to say, a clear vi-sual trajectory from the front door to a
significant feature: a beautiful outdoor space, a grand stair-case, a fantastic fireplace.”
• • •Sandy Lawton, a builder and architect with ArroDesign, is part of an avant-garde group that’s using tough fabric instead of hard-to-recycle rigid plywood forms for pouringconcrete. One fabric-formed house Lawton is working onwith his students—he’s also a teacher at Yestermorrow De-sign/Build School in Warren, Vermont—is uniquely curva-ceous and inviting. What stands out is the transition fromoutside to in, marked by the front-door casing. Lawton and his students imprinted a Baroque-patterned, burnt-
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• • •Good transitions areall about color andlighting, says PRISMAward–winning designer Michael Cebula, of Newbury-port, Massachusetts.“In terms of color, rep-etition of key hues cre-ates an atmosphere of comfort and calm,”he notes. “A color-scheme evolution canmaintain a feeling of continuity by featuringthe same colors in different aspects. For ex-ample, if a foyer were painted in an earthyred tone, an adjacent room could presentthat same red in a printed fabric or decora-tive accent piece.” Lighting choices, he adds,“should sustain a level of relevance to eachother, not only in style, but also in degree ofbrightness. A steady, soft light makes differ-ences less jarring and eases one into a newdesign environment.”
• • •Concord, Massachusetts–based designerKristin Drohan cites French doors as anessential element of her design vocabu-lary. “They’re a relatively inexpensive wayto communicate a transition, and they feelluxurious,” says the designer. “Recently, Iadded double French doors inside a mas-ter bedroom to set off the sitting areafrom the sleeping. The doors also servedas one extra threshold this mother of fourlittle girls could use to escape the house-hold mayhem.”
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For the second year in a row, Nantucket-based interior designer Kathleen Hayhas won “Best International InteriorDesign” in the International PropertyAwards. The 2010 awards, sponsoredby Bloomberg Television, Google UK,Kohler, Maserati, the InternationalHerald Tribune and the New YorkTimes, had more than 60,000 entriesfrom 110 countries in 21 categories.
Let no one accuse Habitat for Humanity In-ternational of giving out easy gradesor honors. Of its 1,500 U.S. affiliates,just two a year receive Habitat’sClarence Jordan Award. This yearone of the coveted awards went toGreen Mountain Habitat for Humanityfor a passive house project in Char-lotte, Vermont. Design credits go toarchitect J.B. Clancy of Boston’s Al-bert, Righter & Tittmann Architects,where 2007 New England DesignHall of Fame inductee James V.Righter is senior partner.
After almost four decades on Boston’sNewbury Street, Marc Glasberg hasmoved his Marcoz Antiques to St.James Avenue, taking over the spacevacated by Arclinea.
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Portland Flower Show:“Enchanted Earth” Through March 13 Each year the interiors of antique build-ings on Portland’s eastern waterfront aretransformed into lush garden spaces. In addition to gardens that delight thesenses, vendors offer an array of garden-ing items, and informative lectures edu-cate visitors on a wide variety of topics.Portland Company Complex, Portland,Maine; (207) 775-4403; www .portlandcompany.com/flower; 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Thurs.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $15
38th Annual Connecticut Spring Antiques ShowThrough March 13 This is the premiere show for pre-1840American furniture and decorative arts.More than sixty of the country’s most re-spected antiques dealers present out-standing examples of furniture, porcelainand pottery, American silver and pewter,fine art, brass and ironware, textiles andmuch more. Connecticut Expo Center,Hartford, Conn.; (860) 345-2400; www .ctspring antiques show.com; 10 a.m.–5 p.m.Sat., 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sun.; $10
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15th Annual Southern New Hampshire Home andLandscape ShowThrough March 20 Meet local and regional building andlandscaping contractors to discussplans, and browse various products andservices to learn about the latest ideasin home renovation, planning and up-dating. Rockingham Park, Salem, N.H.;(978) 534-0587; www .northern shows.com; 4–9 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sat.,10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $6
Carnival of Dreams This second-annual gala event featurescarnival games with prizes, live andsilent auctions and a special menu ofdelicious dishes from Boston’s top chefs.Proceeds will benefit the Room toDream Foundation, whose mission is tohelp provide chronically ill childrenthroughout the greater Boston area withhealing environments. Artists for Hu-
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North Shore Home & Landscape ShowThrough April 17 The North Shore Home & LandscapeShow is known as a one-stop shoppingresource for homeowners and potentialhomeowners looking for the latest inrenovating, upgrading and planningideas. Topsfield Fairgrounds, Topsfield,Mass.; (978) 534-0587; www .northernshows .com; 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sat., 10a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $6
A Collaborative VisionThe architectural profession is undergo-ing tremendous change. Disciplinaryboundaries have diminished. As practi-tioners become more collaborative, proj-ect delivery becomes more integrated.Audrey O’Hagan, the Boston Society ofArchitects’ 2011 president, talks aboutopportunities to collectively re-examinethe architect’s role and ways to forgenew paths to ensure growth, outreach,visibility and relevance. Rabb LectureHall, Boston Public Library-CopleySquare, Boston; (617) 951-1433; www.architects .org /lectureseries; 6 p.m.; free
Beyond Shelter GalaSample delicious fare from thirty of theBoston area’s finest restaurants, dance tolive music and win fabulous auction
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Connecticut Home &Remodeling ShowThrough March 27 At Connecticut’s largest and longest-
running home and remodeling show,the Home Builders Association of Hart-ford County offers attendees a one-stopshopping experience in home productsand services. Find a wide range of homeimprovement, building and remodelingexhibits featuring thousands of ideas forthe home and yard. Connecticut Con-vention Center, Hartford, Conn.; (860)563-4565; www.cthomeshow.com; 5–9p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $10
Concord & Lakes Region Home ShowThrough March 27 Visit the Concord & Lakes RegionHome Show to gather ideas for renovat-ing, redecorating and improving the in-side and outside of your home. EverettArena, Concord, N.H.; (978) 534-0587;www.northernshows.com; 10 a.m.–6p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $6
30th Annual Duxbury SpringAntiques Show Through March 27 More than fifty quality dealers displaytheir wares at this annual antiques show,which is sponsored by the DuxburyBoosters Club to benefit high schoolathletics. Lunch and homemade bakedgoodies will also be available. Appraisalday is Sunday, March 28. Duxbury HighSchool, Duxbury, Mass.; (781) 934-0111; www .duxbury boosters .org; $7
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and raffle prizes, including trips, auto-graphed sports memorabilia and more.All proceeds benefit Friends of Boston’sHomeless transitional programs, whichhelp more than 200 homeless individu-als each year move beyond shelter tolead independent lives in the communi-ty. House of Blues, Boston; (617) 755-3208; www.fobh.org; 7 p.m.; $100
Residential Design &ConstructionThrough April 29 This younger sibling of the originalBuild Boston show, focused specificallyon residential design, will feature 100exhibitors showcasing the most up-to-date industry trends. The event includesmore than eighty-five workshops forprofessionals and consumers. Be sure to stop by New England Home’s booth!Seaport World Trade Center, Boston;(781) 821-6730; www.rdcboston.com; 10a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thurs., 10 a.m.–3 p.m.Fri.; visit Web site for workshop and con-ference costs
Art in BloomThrough May 2 The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) willonce again host the annual Art inBloom festival of flowers, featuringarrangements by fifty local garden clubsand professional florists. This year themasterful arrangements will be inspiredby works hanging in the MFA’s new Artof the Americas Wing. Events includeworkshops, guided tours, a lecture anddemonstration by renowned floral de-signer Nancy Clarke and more. Muse-um of Fine Arts, Boston; (617) 267-9300;www.mfa.org; 10 a.m.–4:45 p.m.Mon.–Tues. and Sat.–Sun., 10 a.m.–9:45p.m. Wed.–Fri.; $20
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Michael Carter pictures the sunroomas a luxurious space that lets home-owners enjoy the outdoors in everyseason of the year. CARTER & COMPANYINTERIOR DESIGN, BOSTON, (617) 227-5343, WWW.MCARTERANDCO.COM
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LIZ STIVING-NICHOLSAgave Sofa from Lee Industries“Lee has a new line of fully uphol-stered furniture for indoors or out. I recently used this sofa in a three-season space. It’s casual, comfort-able and durable.” SUNDRIES FURNI-TURE, FALMOUTH, MASS., (508) 495-5588,WWW.SUNDRIESFURNITURE.COM
KATE JACKSONNineteenth-Century French Daybed“Who wouldn’t want to cozy up onthis one-of-a-kind antique daybed?I’m particularly fond of the simplelines and industrial feel of the framecombined with the soft, textured-linen cover.” THROUGH KATE JACKSONINTERIOR DESIGN
MICHAEL CARTERMemphis Recamier “With its fresh,clean lines, the Memphis chaise fromJANUS et Cie’s Loom collection com-pletely dispels the notion that wickeris only good for Victorian porch fur-niture.” BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617)737-5001, WWW.JANUSETCIE.COM
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Kate Jackson’s selections show herpenchant for melding the old withthe new, complementing furnitureand finds discovered at antiquesshops with stylish new pieces to cre-ate unique spaces. KATE JACKSON
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KATE JACKSONKatsugi Fabric “This is one of my all-time absolutefavorite fabrics. The beautiful large-scale print sings‘sunny days are here to stay.’ I’d design long draperieswith a mini pinch-pleat header and mount them onaged rubbed-bronze hardware, perhaps over a bam-boo shade.” F. SCHUMACHER & CO., BOSTON DESIGN CEN-TER, (617) 482-9165, WWW.FSCHUMACHER.COM
MICHAEL CARTERHorizon Shade “A woven shade likethis one allows for privacy but lets asoft light in, and is a great opportunityto add texture to a room.” BARROWS,THE WINDOW SHOPPE, NEWTON, MASS.,(617) 964-4580, WWW.BARROWS.BIZ
LIZ STIVING-NICHOLSConrad Shade “I always make an effortto introduce my clients to eco-friendlyoptions. Conrad shades are hand-wovenusing sustainable fibers, and their quali-ty and beauty are unsurpassed. They’verecently introduced acrylic fabrics thatare resistant to soil, mildew and fad-ing—perfect for a sun-drenched room.”M-GEOUGH, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617)451-1412, WWW.M-GEOUGH.COM
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MICHAEL CARTERAzimuth Dining Table “I’m drawnto this glass-top table, designed by Michael Vanderbyl, because it’sso utterly chic and crisp, destined to be a future classic.” JANUS ET CIE
LIZ STIVING-NICHOLSTisbury Game Table “This table works forcasual dining as well as games. It’s made of reclaimed barn board, and I’ve paired it with Chappy side chairs in a beautifully saturated navy blue zero-VOC painted fin-ish. Add the Thomas Paul jute pillows and a triptych by Natural Curiosities, and onewall of your sunroom is complete.” THROUGHMARTHA’S VINEYARD INTERIOR DESIGN
KATE JACKSONVanderbilt Harvest Table “What abeautiful way to recycle! This table iscrafted with traditional hand tools usingsouthern yellow pine rafters and beamsfrom the late 1700s that were incorpo-rated in an early twentieth-century Vanderbilt family stable in Portsmouth,Rhode Island.” JEFF SODERBERGH FURNI-TURE, NEWPORT, R.I., (401) 845-9087, WWW.JEFFSODERBERGH.COM
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1 Modern Floor Lamp from Las Palmas Collection“I love this lamp because it combines contemporary flair with a bit of glitz.It is perfect in a traditional or modern setting.” M-GEOUGH, BOSTON DESIGNCENTER, (617) 451-1412, WWW.M-GEOUGH.COM
2 Scoop Chair from Gloster“What a decadent outdoor spot for lounging. The shape reminds me of agiant scoop of ice cream. How cool and delicious for summer!” AILANTHUSLTD., BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 482-5605, WWW.AILANTHUSLTD.COM
3 Gate Andirons from John Lyle Design“These andirons with a Greek key design are a strong geometrical accent to any fireplace. They provide a beautiful gleam to a transitional room. Verychic!” FURN & CO., BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 342-1500, WWW.FURNCO.US
4 Custom Hand-Knotted Nepalese Carpet “This beautiful wool and silk hand-knotted carpet feels as luxurious as itlooks. The subtle pattern and coloring make an elegant backdrop for fur-nishings in any room.” STEVEN KING DECORATIVE CARPETS, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 426-3302, WWW.STEVENKINGINC.COM
5 Ikat Fabric from Bermingham & Co.“This handwoven silk has such rich vegetable-dye colors. The diffused pattern gives an artisan quality while at the same time being very ‘today.’Wonderful for accent pillows and occasional chairs.” BRUNSCHWIG & FILS,BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 348-2855, WWW.BRUNSCHWIG.COM
6 “Gilded” Glass Sinks from Vitraform“These sinks are amazing. The metallic and ebonized finishes on glass provide a very glamorous and sophisticated focal point in a powder room. I can’t wait to use them!” BILLIE BRENNER LTD., BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617)348-2858, WWW.BILLIEBRENNERLTD.COM
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Paula M. Bodah, Senior EditorNew England, with its preponderance of Shingle- and Colonial-style houses, would ap-pear an unlikely spawning ground for a modern movement in architecture. As ironic as it might seem, though, our area holds some of the earliest—and many of the finest—examples of modernist houses in the country. Wantproof? Take a look Tomorrow’s Houses: New EnglandModernism. Architect and critic Alexander Gorlinshows us twenty-seven houses from Maine to Con-necticut designed by such mid-twentieth-century lu-minaries as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Miesvan der Rohe and Walter Gropius. These architectsand others, Gorlin writes, “reinterpreted native tradi-tions such as the ancient stone walls of forgottenfarms as essential elements of their composition.”Built of wood, stone and glass, the clean-lined, oftenspartan homes reference the past, look to the futureand speak to today’s yearning to live in harmonywith the natural environment. Geoffrey Gross’s pho-tographs show the houses at their very best, bothinside and out. $65. AVAILABLE THROUGH RIZZOLI,WWW.RIZZOLIUSA.COM, AND AT AREA BOOKSTORES
Karin Lidbeck Brent, Contributing Editor A long, cold winter (like the one we’re just emerging from) is bearable—even welcome—when I can snuggle next to thefireplace wrapped in a soft mohair blanket. My fetish for col-lecting throws is evident in my living room, where a giant antique basket overflows with cozy favorites. And when I’mstyling a room, a throw casually draped over an armchair orfolded meticulously on a bed is the final touch that makesthe scene feel warm and real. I recently discovered a design-er who breathes excitement into the traditional throw.Dublin-born Sarah O’Sullivan-Kim travels back to her nativecountry to find inspiration for her popular Ireland-made col-lection of contemporary merino, cashmere, lambswool andmohair blankets. The color palettes range from eye-poppingbrights to soft neutrals in plaids and geometrics, and theyare so yummy you want to eat them! You can find O’Sullivan-Kim’s blankets and other cozy comforts at Sorcha, her littlegem of a shop that specializes in contemporary Celtic artand design. $215–$229.98. HINGHAM, MASS., (781) 749-7110, WWW.SORCHASTORE.COM
Kyle Hoepner, Editor-in-ChiefWilton, New Hampshire, woodcarver William J.Schnute happened to send me a postcard recently,showing some of his work. I fell in love immediatelywith this set of white oak doors he created for theentry to a client’s house. The organic disorder ofthe foliage, depicted in high relief, is extremelycompelling, and slices of geode lurk subtly in thesculpted root system. Schnute says his work isoften based on plant and animal motifs drawnfrom a client’s home environment, creating a kindof “slice through the landscape.” Pieces will fre-quently incorporate stone, glass or other materialsin addition to the carved wood. His one-man stu-dio also produces memorable gates, signs, man-tels, headboards, room dividers and other variedarchitectural items. OAK LEAVES STUDIO, WILTON, N.H.,(800) 621-2506, WWW.REDSHIFT.COM/~OAKLEAVES
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1 Sometimes it’s tough to get out of bed,but don’t expect things to get any easierwith Serena & Lily’s comfy cotton sateenbedding, now at Summer House Fur-nishings. The sophisticated yet sweetAnnabel collection features a pattern ofbirds and blooms in pale blues and pa-paya, perfect for a guest room or teen’sboudoir. RYE, N.H., (603) 319-1655, WWW.SUMMER HOUSE FURNISHINGS.COM
2 Talk about global influences: designerDennis Duffy discovered the AlternativeVital collection, a Spanish line of sustain-able furniture, while at Maison & Objet inParis this past January. The sleek, sophis-ticated pieces are a perfect fit for hisBoston showroom, D Scale. BOSTON, (617) 426-1055, WWW.DSCALEMODERN.COM
3 Vagabond House recently released anew collection of lighthearted animal-inspired tableware. This owl pitcher issure to be a—excuse the pun—hoot atyour next soiree. The quirky pewterpitcher (complete with wide glass eyes)is available at Decorative Interiors.MANCHESTER CENTER, VT., (802) 362-4836, WWW .DECORATIVE INTERIORS.COM
4 Dine in style around the Batavia diningtable, just in at M-Geough. The beautifuloak burl banding and pecan inlay make agreat conversation starter, and its circu-lar design ensures flowing dialogue atmealtimes. The hand-planed walnut tablecan expand from 66 to 86 inches shouldan intimate family dinner grow into afeast with friends. BOSTON, (617) 451-1412,WWW.M-GEOUGH.COM
5 We always turn to Devonia Antiqueswhen it’s time to set an elegant table.And what could be more enchantingthan these circa-1890 Cauldon shell soupbowls? The rare, artist-signed set oftwelve is adorned with intricately detailedsea creatures in pastel tones, perfect fora party. BOSTON, (617) 523-8313, WWW.DEVONIA -ANTIQUES.COM
6 Avolli owner Tricia Mitchell is always onthe hunt for fabulous Swedish, Danish andnorthern European antiques and homefurnishings. One of her latest finds is this1920s French crystal-and-glass chandelier.We think the emerald green gives it unex-pected flair. SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE,(207) 767-1901, WWW .AVOLLI .COM
New in the ShowroomsUnique, beautiful and now appearing in New England’s shops and showroomsBY ERIN MARVIN
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7 Baby, it’s (still!) cold outside, so when youneed to warm up grab a Harbor blanketfrom Unison. New at Addo Novo Home,the soft all-fleece blanket is available inthrow and bedding sizes and comes in arange of cozy colors including pecan,olive, ivory, graphite and cranberry(shown here). PORTLAND, MAINE, (888)276-1994, WWW .ADDO NOVO HOME .COM
8 Showroom has a bevy of new piecesfrom Casa Milano in stock this spring, in-cluding a box-shaped inox steel end tableon wheels, a low-slung oak coffee tableand these black leather-covered Martinarmchairs—a contemporary, comfortabletake on a director’s chair. BOSTON, (617)482-4805, WWW.SHOWROOMBOSTON.COM
9 Osborne & Little has just launched fourspring collections. The Laguna wallpaperis part of the company’s Grand Tour col-lection, which draws inspiration from Ital-ian treasures such as scrolling acanthusplasterwork, marine birds and woodedlandscapes. Laguna features a repeatingsilvery stork motif against a soft lilac-graybackground. BOSTON, (617) 449-5506,WWW .OSBORNE ANDLITTLE.COM
10We recently blogged about the colorfulAchille chairs now available at Casa De-sign, but another new item also caughtour eye: the curvaceous Kiko stool byPorada. Top its ten walnut ribs with afabric or leather cushion, and it be-comes the perfect place to sit a spell.Without a cushion, it’s an eye-catchingend table. BOSTON, (617) 654-2974, WWW.CASA DESIGN BOSTON .COM
11 This whimsical late-1800s “dolphin bench”is just one of many turn-of-the-centurytreasures waiting to be discovered atNothing New Antiques. Measuring four-and-a-half-feet long, the quartersawn oakbench boasts hand-carved, sea-inspireddetails on the arms, feet and front panels.It’s in mint condition with its original fin-ish; the seat raises for storage. ARUNDEL,MAINE, (207) 286-1789
12 Now available at Steven King DecorativeCarpets, Chops by Rug-Art is a hand-knotted Indo-Tibetan rug inspired by thecontours and timbre of the electric guitar.Fully customizable to any size, shape orcolor, Chops features playful forms that“appear to dance across a soft texturedground in a profusion of rhythm, harmo-ny and balance.” BOSTON, (617) 426-3302,WWW.STEVENKINGINC.COM
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RETURN ENGAGEMENTPAGES 82–89Architect: Jan Gleysteen, Jan Gleysteen Archi-tects, Wellesley, Mass., (781) 431-0080, www.jangleysteeninc.comInterior designer: Anne Becker, Anne BeckerDesign, Nantucket, Mass., (508) 228-1448Builder: Geoff Caraboolad, Metric Construction,Boston, (617) 787-1158, www.metriccorp.comPages 82–83: Custom-colored wallpaper fromGracie, New York City, (212) 924-6816, www.graciestudio.com; antique French pine buffetfrom Dillon & Co. Antiques, Plymouth, Mass.,(508) 747-2242, www.dillonandcompany.com;custom oval table from Guy Chaddock throughRobert Allen/Beacon Hill, Boston Design Cen-ter, (617) 482-6600, www.robertallendesign.com; two sets of antique circa 1880 FrenchLouis XIII upholstered oak dining chairsthrough Eron Johnson Antiques, Denver, Colo.,(303) 777-8700, www.eronjohnsonantiques.com, with woven raffia fabric by F. Schumach-er & Co., Boston Design Center, (617) 482-9165,www.fschumacher.com; tape trim on chairs bySamuel & Sons, Boston Design Center, (617)951-2526, www.samuleandsons.com; antiquegilded French Louis XVI mirror through Re-gency Antiques, Boston, (617) 742-3111,www.regencyboston.net; gilded chandelier with rope attachments by Vaughan throughWebster & Co., Boston Design Center, (617)261-9660, www.webstercompany.com.Pages 84–85: Black-lacquered Chinese consolefrom Danish Country Antiques, Boston, (617)227-1804, www.europeanstyleantiques.com;Chinese mirror in tortoise finish from Carvers’Guild, West Groton, Mass., (978) 448-3063,www.carversguild.com; custom mosaic tilefrom New Ravenna, Exmore, Va., (757) 442-3379, www.newravenna.com; Romanian Aubus-son needlepoint rug in living room throughStark Carpet, Boston Design Center, (617) 357-5525, www.starkcarpet.com; tufted camel-backsofa by Barbara Barry from Baker, Knapp &Tubbs, Boston Design Center, (617) 439-4876,www.kohlerinteriors.com, with mohair velvetfabric by J. Robert Scott, New York City, (212)755-4910, www.jroberscott.com; English-armclub chairs through Baker, Knapp & Tubbs withsilk chair fabric from Brunchswig & Fils, BostonDesign Center, (617) 348-2855, www.brunschwig.com; Chinese Chippendale chair and gildedcarved stool from Minton Spidell through M-Geough, Boston Design Center, (617) 451-1412,www.m-geough.com; silk textured chair fabricby Ralph Lauren and stool fabric by ClarenceHouse, both through Webster & Co.; barrel-back chair with exposed wooden frame byCharles Fradin, Denver, Colo., (323) 930-1057,www.charlesfradinfurniture.com; coffee tableby Niermann Weeks through M-Geough; floralbrocade fabric by Scalamandré, Boston Design
Center, (617) 574-9261, www.sclamandre.com;pair of blue and white Oriental ceramic lampsby Vaughan through Webster & Co.Page 86: Stove by Wolf, (800) 222-7820,www.wolfappliance.com; sink by HarringtonBrass in satin nickel and pot filler by Rohl insatin nickel from Billie Brenner Ltd., Boston Design Center, (617) 348-2858, www.billiebrennerltd.com; custom upholstered chair infamily room through Anne Becker Design withfabric by Jane Shelton through Webster & Co.;red throw pillow fabric by Fortuny, New YorkCity, (212) 753-7153, www.fortuny.com; embroi-dered throw pillow from Chelsea Textiles Ltd.,New York City, (908) 233-5645, www.chelseatextiles.com; glass ribbed lamp from RalphLauren through Webster & Co.; curtain fabricfrom Quadrille through Furn & Co., Boston Design Center, (617) 342-1500, www.furnco.us;grass wallpaper through Berkeley House,Boston Design Center, (617) 451-6874, www.berkeleyhouseinc.com.Page 87: Antique English regency tilt-topbreakfast table in palisander wood from Tri-anon Antiques, Boston Design Center, (617)443-1020, www.trianonantiques.com; hemp-textured banquette cushion fabric by F. Schu-macher & Co.; throw pillow fabric by PeterFasano through Webster & Co.; Roman shadefabric by Travers through The Martin Group,Boston Design Center, (617) 951-2526, www.martingroupinc.com; tole chandelier from FDOGroup, Boston Design Center, (617) 737-2800,www.fdogroup.com; caned bar stools byMcGuire through M-Geough.Page 88: Wallpaper from Cowtan & Toutthrough The Martin Group; silk curtain fabricfrom JAB for Stroheim through Ailanthus,Boston Design Center, (617) 482-5605, www.stroheim.com; custom bench designed byAnne Becker made by Artistic Frame Compa-ny, New York City, (212) 289-2100, www.artisticframe.com with fabric from Groves Brothersthrough Furn & Co.; alabaster double gourdlamp with silk shade from Frederick CooperLamp Co., Boston Design Center, (617)-482-6600, www.frederickcooper.com; Milan trellispattern carpet in oatmeal from Stark Carpet;custom chaise lounge through Anne BeckerDesign with fabric from Cowtan & Toutthrough The Martin Group; faux bamboo floorlamp from John Rosselli, New York City, (212)593-2060, www.johnrosselliassociates.com;custom round tufted ottoman through AnneBecker Design with fabric by Travers throughThe Martin Group; ottoman tassel fringe by F.Schumacher & Co., Boston Design Center, (617)482-9165, www.fschumacher.com. Page 89: Ladybug Red wall paint from Ben-jamin Moore, www.benjaminmoore.com; cus-tom upholstery through Anne Becker Designwith chintz fabric by Brunschwig & Fils; sisalrug by Stark Carpet; pair of chinoiserie mir-rored sconces by Vaughan through Webster &Co.; antique paper maché table from BraswellGalleries, Stanford, Conn., (203) 357-0753,www.braswellgalleries.com.
A PERFECT MATCHPAGES 90–97Architect: James Estes, Estes/Twombly Archi-tects, Newport, R.I., (401) 846-3336, www.estestwombly.comInterior designer: Kirby Goff, Cranston, R.I.,(401) 490-5929Landscape architect: Stephen Stimson,Stephen Stimson Associates, Falmouth, Mass.,(508) 548-8119, and Boston, (617) 578-8960,www.stephenstimson.comLandscape installation and stonework: R.P.Marzilli, Medway, Mass., (508) 533-8700,www.rpmarzilli.comBuilder: Timothy Connors, Old Grove Partners,Needham, Mass., (781) 444-3566Cabinetry: Joseph Yoffa Custom Woodworking,Newport, R.I., (401) 846-7659 Page 92: Custom living room carpet from StarkCarpet, Boston Design Center, (617) 357-5525,www.starkcarpet.com; sofa, armchair and ot-toman from B+B Italia through Montage, Boston,(617) 451-9400, www.montageweb.com; sofaand chair fabric by Holly Hunt, New York City,(212) 755-6555, www.hollyhunt.com; ottomancovered in leather from Edelman Leather, BostonDesign Center, (617) 330-1244, www.edelmanleather.com; lamp by Palmer Hargrave throughThe Martin Group, Boston Design Center, (617)951-2526, www.martingroupinc.com.Page 93: Swimming pool by Custom QualityPools, Billerica, Mass., (978) 663-8290, www.customqualitypools.com.Page 94: Dining table by Peter Zuerner, Zuern-er Design, North Kingstown, R.I., (401) 324-9490, www.zuernerdesign.com; dining chairs byPaul Bergeron, Bergeron Inc., Assonet, Mass.,(508) 644-7126; custom rug from Stark Carpet.Page 95: Table and chairs from B+B Italiathrough Montage; chair seat leather from Edel-man Leather.Page 97: Custom rug from Stark Carpet; chairfrom B+B Italia through Montage.
BLUE HEAVENPAGES 98–103Interior designer: Barbara Pervier, BP Interiors,Salem, Mass., (978) 744-6461, www.bpint.comPages 98–99: Birdbath wall color by SherwinWilliams, Boston Design Center, (617) 737-1647,www.sherwin-williams.com, with BenjaminMoore Dove White trim, www.benjaminmoore.com; Cord ceiling molding trim from Farrow &Ball, Boston Design Center, (617) 345-5344,www.farrow-ball.com, Sail Cloth ceiling paintfrom Benjamin Moore; mahogany demilunetable with satin wood, walnut, rosewood andboxwood inlays from Baker, Knapp & Tubbs,
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Boston Design Center, (617) 439-4876,www.kohlerinteriors.com; yew box on standfrom Baker, Knapp & Tubbs; small painting overdemilune by Ronald Barton, Brookline VillageAntiques, Boston Design Center, (617) 542-2853,www.brooklinevillageantiques.com; sofa fromLandry Upholstery, Peabody, Mass., (978) 532-0907, www.landryhomedecorating.com; antiquepine box on cocktail table from Brookline VillageAntiques; gold-leaf starburst mirror from TheMartin Group, Boston Design Center, (617) 951-2526, www.martingroupinc.com; seeded glasssconces from Chapman Lighting through FDOGroup, Boston Design Center, (617) 737-2800,www.fdogroup.com; cherry chest with boxwoodstringing from Richelieu Furniture, Richelieu,France, www.richelieu.cc; carpet from CrescentCarpet Importers, www.crescentcarpetimporters.com; drapery rods from Antique Drapery RodCo., Dallas, Tex., (214) 653-1733, www.antiquedraperyrod.com; cocktail table by EJ Victorthrough Robert Allen/Beacon Hill, Boston De-sign Center, (617) 482-6600, www.robertallendesign.com; mirror over chest from Mirror Fairethrough Baker, Knapp & Tubbs; chair fabric byBarbara Barry through Kravet, Boston DesignCenter, (617) 338-4615, www.kravet.com; pony-fur ottoman with nail-head trim from Baker,Knapp & Tubbs; small painting from KaminskiAuction Gallery, Beverly, Mass., (978) 927-2223,www.kaminskiauctions.com; star lamp fromBaker, Knapp & Tubbs; French chair from Olythrough FDO Group with raffia chenille fabric byBarbara Barry for Kravet; throw pillows byPindler & Pindler through Berkeley House,Boston Design Center, (617) 451-6874,www.berkeleyhouseinc.com.Page 100: Dishwasher drawer from FisherPaykel, www.fisherpaykel.com.Page 101: Arctic wall color from C2, www.c2color.com; Classic Gray ceiling color from Ben-jamin Moore.Page 102: Sail Cloth wallcolor and Dove Whitetrim by Benjamin Moore; lavender and gray linenfabrics by Pindler & Pindler through BerkeleyHouse; architectural moldings from Lynn Lum-ber, Lynn, Mass., (781) 592-0400, www.lynnlumber.com; white duvet and shams from Bar-bara Barry Poetical Bedding, available at fine re-tailers throughout New England; plaid fabric byManuel Canovas through The Martin Group;headboard from Charles P. Rogers, New YorkCity, (800) 582-6229, www.charlesprogers.com;chandelier from The Home Depot, www.homedepot.com, painted in Benjamin Moore Sailcloth.
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Manchester, VermontThanks to its enviable location in the valley between the majestic peaks of the Greenand Taconic mountain ranges, Manchester has been a resort town practically since itwas chartered and named by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1761. Over the years,the town saw its share of marble mills, iron mines and lumber companies, but itspopularity as a summer vacation spot for the middle and upper classes spawned bythe Industrial Revolution kept it from becoming overdeveloped. Not that the town isanti-business: the venerable Orvis Company has been making its fishing equipmentand selling sporting goods and clothing here since 1856, and with some fifty outletstores, Manchester is Vermont’s Mecca for shoppers. It’s also home to a handful ofcreative technology companies that have sprung up since the start of the new cen-tury. Manchester dodged a bullet in the 1930s when a Works Progress Administra-tion plan to carve ski trails on Mount Equinox fell through, saving the town from be-coming just another overbuilt ski resort. Instead, it retains its small-town feel even asit draws thousands of visitors in all seasons. For the lucky 4,500 or so people whocall it home year-round, Manchester stands as a perfect example of a town that hasinvited progress but held onto its soul. —Paula M. Bodah
Situated on almost fourteen acres, this home looks out on meadows, mountains and stands of mature trees.The five-bedroom, 6,471-square-foot house lists for $1.549 million with Vermont Country Properties Sotheby’sInternational Realty, Manchester, Vermont, (802) 362-5040, www.vermontcountryproperties.com
If You Lived Here...Setting Nestled in the Green MountainNational Forest, the southern Vermonttown of Manchester sits at the foot of3,850-foot-high Mount Equinox.
Commute The nearest big city is Albany,New York, about fifty miles away. A two-and-a-half-hour drive will bring you toBurlington, Vermont, or Hartford, Con-necticut; Boston is a three-hours-plus trip.
Attractions The Equinox Resort has beendrawing visitors—including PresidentsTaft, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Ben-jamin Harrison—since it opened in the1850s. Hildene, the mansion built by Abra-ham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, isa popular museum house. The SouthernVermont Arts Center is a respected venuefor both the visual and performing arts.
Housing Houses for sale run the gamutfrom Colonial Revival and Federal– peri-od to cape-style to contemporary, butalmost all are set on good-sized swathsof land with mountain views.
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Your Next-Door Neighbors Manchester’ssmall, affluent population includes univer-sity professors and employees of thearea’s technology firms. As a resort town,Manchester is also home to many peoplewho work in the hospitality industry.
How You’d Spend Your Free Time Man-chester boasts upwards of fifty outletshops and a variety of boutiques and gal-leries. The arts are a big part of life here,too; the Southern Vermont Arts Centerholds exhibits and performances all year.For winter sports enthusiasts, Manchesteris close to a number of popular ski areas.
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Eugene Lawrence Interior Architecture & Design 68–69
F.H. Perry Builder 31
First Rugs, Inc. 43
Furniture Consignment Gallery 158
The Granite Group 80
Herrick & White, Ltd. 139
Housewright Construction 49
Hutker Architects 133
J Barrett & Company Real Estate 154
J. Todd Galleries 127
Jenn-Air 81
Judd Brown Designs 141
Katherine Field and Associates, Inc. 21
Kinlin Grover Corporate 157
Kitchen Views 39
Kristen Rivoli Interior Design 131
LaBarge Custom Home Building 139
Landry & Arcari 25
LDa Architects & Interiors 50
League of N.H. Craftsmen 159
Leslie Fine Interiors, Inc. 4–5
Marble and Granite, Inc. 23
Maverick Integration Corp 125
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New England Lifestyles Design 70–71
Northern Lights Landscape 56
Parc Monceau 150
Patrick Ahearn Architect, LLC 137
Quidley & Company 53
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RiverBend & Company 24, 32
R.P. Marzilli & Company, Inc. 6–7
Sanford Custom Homes 123
Schranghamer Design Group 72–73
Seldom Scene Interiors 74–75
Snow and Jones 34
South Shore Millwork 28
Stone Technologies 63
Sudbury Design Group 2–3
Susan Dearborn Interiors 76–77
Susan Shulman Interiors 78–79
Taste Design, Inc. 149
Thoughtforms 29
TMS Architects 26
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Upstate Door 125
Vermont Verde Antique Marble Co. 128
Walker Interiors 27
Wayne Towle Master Finishing & Restoration 57
William Raveis Real Estate 155
Winston Flowers 10–11
Wolfers 112–113
Xtreme Audio & Video 64
Zen Associates 51
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