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From The October/November 2017 Issue
Marvels at the Mansion: Dining at the Abbey
Featured HomesThis eclectic space is both uplifting and bright. Barbara Ostrom’s first foray into this room was, to put it mildly, inauspicious. “The whole ceiling was falling off,” she quips when […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
What Shines Within
Art & AntiquesKnife boxes were necessities for a well-appointed dining room. At Mount Vernon, George Washington’s Virginia estate, tours of the house begin in the elegant New Room. (Completed in 1787, it’s […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Marvels at the Mansion: Aegean Dreams
Featured HomesRomantic and elegant, this bedroom is made for dreaming of Greek shores. The mesmerizing blue-green colors of the Aegean Sea and the charming white that characterizes the Greek villages that […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Marvels at the Mansion: Left Bank Loft
Featured HomesLiving room, kitchen, dining room and bedroom — all in 460 square feet. Envisioned as a pied-a-terre in the heart of Paris, Left Bank Loft was the collaborative vision of […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Modern Times
Featured HomesThe end of World War II unleashed playful yet sophisticated designs for the home, including wall clocks. In some cases the best way to describe something is to say what […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Marvels at the Mansion: Happily Ever After
Featured HomesInspired by the Gilded Age, this dressing room embodies the hopes and dreams of every bride. Though inspired by the Gilded Age, this dressing room designed for the bride-to-be as […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Old Is New Again
Featured HomesA 19th- century home gets a midcentury makeover. When Tracey Butler undertook a renovation of her 1895 center-hall colonial-style home in Essex Fells, New Jersey, she brought the residence up […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
An Entirely Different Story
Architecture/BuildA 1950s ranch rises up to become a modern farmhouse. Sometimes it takes a professional to see past what came before and imagine something different. After a string of unfortunate […]
From The October/November 2017 Issue
Marvels at the Mansion: Precious X Two
Featured HomesA nursery for twins can transition as the babies grow. The architecture of this room provided the basis for designer Karla Trincanello’s interpretation of the space. “It’s a large room […]