Travel• January 31, 2023

Let’s Get Lost (Yucatan Style)

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Pam Sheehan

House• March 4, 2011.

Visiting the painter Pam Sheehan gave us one of our rare treats—the New York home of an artist—there are so few of them now and there is something about the authenticity and ‘undesigned’ aesthetic of artists’ houses that fascinates us. As JH said while he was photographing, “Every frame is a still life.” Pam, who also makes [&hellip... READ MORE

Friday, February 25, 2011

Richard Gillette

House• February 25, 2011.

Richard Gillette has a genuinely artistic sensibility that makes for painterly, even somewhat mysterious, interiors, a selection of which are now beautifully showcased in his new book The Art of the Interior (Rizzoli). He sees himself as both a painter and a designer and still does hands-on artwork for clients, the part of the job he finds the [... READ MORE

Thursday, February 24, 2011

VANDERBILTS UNDER THE PINES

House• February 24, 2011.

One forever associates the Vanderbilts with Newport and the opulence they created there. However, many of the family preferred the (relatively) simple pleasures of Bar Harbor, the Maine resort once considered second only to Newport. Patriarch William Henry Vanderbilt first took the family up to Maine in the early 1880s. He leased Devilstone, th... READ MORE

Friday, February 18, 2011

Jeff Lincoln

House• February 18, 2011.

It’s always interesting to interview a designer who started out as something else entirely, and this happens surprisingly often. Jeff Lincoln’s shift from being a journalist at The Wall Street Journal to taking over the family design business seemed to us a particularly dramatic change but he says he approaches design in exactly the same wa... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Palm Beach Social Diary Hearts, Flowers & True Love: A Palm Beach Wedding Diary

Palm Beach• February 15, 2011.

Palm Beach divorces make for breathless headlines, their every detail etched into the public record by vigilant court stenographers. The town’s weddings don’t attract the same spotlight. By the time some land on Palm Beach, taking that first quick-step around an Ocean Boulevard ballroom, their white-dress-walk-down–the-aisle may be but a hazy... READ MORE

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Trouble With Footmen: Servant Problems in Old Bar Harbor

Social History• February 9, 2011.

In 1941, Chicago heiress and philanthropist Louise de Koven Bowen, the major patron of Jane Addams’s Hull House settlement, made a difficult decision: She must sell her beloved summer home, Baymeath, at Hull’s Cove near Bar Harbor. Mrs. Bowen was in her eighties, America was about to enter World War II, and her grandchildren would soon... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Palm Beach Social Diary

Palm Beach• February 8, 2011.

Finally at long last the temperature in Palm Beach is seasonally warm, 70 degrees or more … and all I can say is whoopee! In fact it is just perfect down here, clear, sunny, and toasty warm with no humidity. Let me tell you, we are all thrilled not to be shoveling snow up north! Well, Palm […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 4, 2011

Shamir Shah

House• February 4, 2011.

We wanted to describe architect and designer Shamir Shah’s work as ‘precise’ but it’s a difficult word because it so easily denotes chilly calculation and that would be a disservice to such a humane man. He has a born elegance. His work has a sure, quiet feel to it, infused by a deep feeling for the natural […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 28, 2011

James Andrew

House• January 28, 2011.

We confess that we thought James Andrew, interior designer and dandified blogger of the “What is James wearing?” site, was going to be insufferably self-promoting but we couldn’t have been more wrong for he is a tender, thoughtful soul who served us pastel-colored macaroons from Payard, specially bought for us. He was disarmingly, sweetly h... READ MORE

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Pinafore Sails Down East

Social History• January 25, 2011.

Prelude: Pinafore makes the Dilettante long for Cosi I should like Gilbert and Sullivan better than I do. But I don’t. I’m fairly well rounded musically, but I need only to hear the opening strains of “I Am The Captain of The Pinafore,” or “Three Little Maids Are We” (am I the only one reminded […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 21, 2011

Florence de Dampierre

House• January 21, 2011.

We arrived before Ms. de Dampierre and when she whirled in from Litchfield County where her ‘serious’ house is, she was loaded with orchids, sugar cookies and carrying a large fur purse that looked alive. Oh, and she was wearing a huge Davy-Crockett-meets-Prada fur hat, high fur-and-suede boots laced with fur pom-poms and a bright orange pais... READ MORE

Friday, January 14, 2011

Palm Beach Social Diary

Palm Beach• January 14, 2011.

The Campus on the Lake program at The Society of The Four Arts is celebrating Palm Beach’s Centennial and The Four Arts’ 75th Anniversary with a four-part lecture series, “The Shaping of Palm Beach,” generously sponsored by The Private Client Reserve of U. S. Bank. Each lecture is $20 and will be held at 3 […]... READ MORE

Pauline C. Metcalf

House• January 14, 2011.

Pauline C. Metcalf, historian and author of a recently published book on Syrie Maugham (Syrie Maugham, Acanthus Press 2010) lives in a Carnegie Hill building where she has an office just a few flights down from her apartment. We got into a back-and-forth about her subject, the renowned interior designer and wife of novelist Somerset Maugham. Famo... READ MORE

Friday, January 7, 2011

Jennifer Post

House• January 7, 2011.

Like all interesting people, designer Jennifer Post is full of contradiction: she lives what she calls an “elegantly minimalist” life with a ferociously efficient intensity and yet there’s also something, dare we say, kooky about her too: witness the skinny and unexpected Christmas tree with a few lights slung upon it or the fact that she l... READ MORE

Friday, December 17, 2010

Bielecky Brothers

House• December 17, 2010.

Bielecky Brothers Inc. produces handcrafted custom, wicker, rattan and cane furniture in a huge family-owned factory in Woodside, Queens. The firm has been in business since the late 19th century when Andrew and Conrad Bielecky emigrated from Poland and starting weaving baskets on a Lower East Side corner. Despite the fact that nearly all ratt... READ MORE

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Palm Beach Social Diary The Great, the Grand & the Great-Grands

Palm Beach• December 14, 2010.

With real estate sales of note appearing to be on a holiday hiatus, I wandered over to Bradley Park Saturday morning for the momentous kickoff of the Centennial Commission’s marathon of events commemorating the Town of Palm Beach’s 100th anniversary. There is nothing like a tent in Bradley Park to draw a crowd. And though […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 10, 2010

Arthur Dunnam

House• December 10, 2010.

Arthur Dunnam is the design director of Jed Johnson Associates, the design firm founded by the late Jed Johnson who famously started his interior design business in the fourth floor bedroom of Andy Warhol’s house. Arthur has taken the company forward and we chatted to him in his Sutton area apartment, which took ten months to […]... READ MORE

Friday, December 3, 2010

Campion Platt

House• December 3, 2010.

At first the architect and designer, Campion Platt seemed to want to hide behind long, brainy answers to our questions (we cut quite a lot of them) but he loosened up and he’s such a nice man—has an endearing love of dark chocolate and thriller movies, created the most gorgeous non-saccharine pink bedroom in New […]... READ MORE

Friday, November 19, 2010

Darren Henault

House• November 19, 2010.

How entertaining to interview interior designer Darren Henault! He’s chatty and open (though admits to a ‘melodramatic’ side, which, alas, we didn’t see). Henault lives with Michael Bassett, a corporate attorney, and their gorgeous two-year-old twins, Bunny and Lulu. The family recently moved from a Soho loft into a grand 19th-century Fif... READ MORE

Friday, November 12, 2010

Alexa Hampton

House• November 12, 2010.

Alexa Hampton’s new book, Alexa Hampton: The Language of Interior Design (Clarkson Potter) makes no bones about the fact that, in Ms. Hampton’s view, interior design follows rules, has its own grammar and is something that, if worked at with sufficient diligence, can be learned. She herself, not always a willing pupil, was “dragged” by h... READ MORE

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