Friday, July 31, 2009

Peter Rogers

House• July 31, 2009.

This past Tuesday JH and I went up to Kent, Connecticut for the day to visit Peter Rogers who has his country house on the market since he’s decided to acquire a second […]... READ MORE

Monday, July 27, 2009

Washington Social Diary Remembering Old Iron Pants

Across the Nation• July 27, 2009.

It was 1970. I was a rogue teenager working a “cub” job in the Washington Bureau of United Press International. I preferred to work in a newsroom to being in school. Journalism […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 24, 2009

Plant Specialists

House• July 24, 2009.

Philip Roche and Grahame Hubbard have been partners and co-owners of Plant Specialists since 2004. They run their massive, enormously successful landscaping enterprise from a block-long brick compound in Long Island City purchased […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 17, 2009

Georgia Tapert

House• July 17, 2009.

Georgia Tapert owns Georgia Tapert Living, a store in Soho full of the kinds of things that cheer the spirit — the kind of store that is really the place […]... READ MORE

Friday, July 10, 2009

Izhar Patkin

House• July 10, 2009.

Izhar Patkin is an Israeli artist who has lived in New York since the late 1970s. His broad body of work, including the enormously successful ‘Black Paintings’ and more recently ‘Veiled […]... READ MORE

Friday, June 19, 2009

Frank Maresca

House• June 19, 2009.

Frank Maresca, part-owner of the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, is one of the leading experts on and collectors of outsider art in the country. He’s something of a natural educator, carefully defining for […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 22, 2009

Laura Bohn

House• May 22, 2009.

We were swept away by Laura Bohn’s loft in a Beaux-Arts former bank building in the Village. Instead of decorating, she almost seems to sculpt interiors. She is in love with texture, […]... READ MORE

Friday, May 8, 2009

Todd Romano

House• May 8, 2009.

Interior designer Todd Romano is cheerful, impeccably turned and obviously loves entertaining—we practically expected him to sweep into the room with a silver tray full of martinis. His jewel box of an […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 24, 2009

Irwin Weiner

House• April 24, 2009.

Our interview with interior designer, Irwin Weiner, took an unexpectedly comic turn when we wound up talking about his absurd experiences as a gay man conscripted into the South African military. He […]... READ MORE

Friday, April 3, 2009

Carey Maloney

House• April 3, 2009.

Designer Carey Maloney of M(Group) grew up in Texas : ‘It is a country. It’s a great place to be from.’ Every now and then he puts on an extra helping of […]... READ MORE

Monday, March 23, 2009

Garden Grandeur endures at Casa Phippsberger

Palm Beach• March 23, 2009.

In Palm Beach, where escapist landscapes borrowed from English rose gardens, French parterres, Spanish cloisters and Tuscan courtyards amplify the surreal allure of streets lined with imported architectural facades, Casa […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 13, 2009

Marsia Holzer

House• March 13, 2009.

Marsia Holzer, who is British, came to the United States in the 1960s because she found England confining and static and wanted to be in a place where ‘if you have […]... READ MORE

Friday, March 6, 2009

Rosalyn Engelman

House• March 6, 2009.

The artist, Rosalyn Engelman, says that her paintings ‘mirror the passage of time’ and the word ‘mirror’, like all her words, is well chosen. Her paintings are full of luminosity energized by […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 27, 2009

Robert Passal

House• February 27, 2009.

Robert Passal ditched the idea of becoming a news anchor because he didn’t want to spend fifteen years in the boondocks at some tiny local TV station. After burning out working […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 20, 2009

David Kassel

House• February 20, 2009.

David Kassel started ILevel, an art-installation and placement service, in 1990 and he and his staff have, over the years, become the go-to people for picture hanging and placement. They work […]... READ MORE

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Eve Ashcraft

House• February 17, 2009.

Eve Ashcraft provides architectural color consultation for interior and exterior environments – which basically means that when you’re staring at the wall wanting to paint it but have no clue as […]... READ MORE

Friday, February 6, 2009

Clemens Weiss

House• February 6, 2009.

‘I’m in the business of sorting things out, fine tuning and finding a visual language for it,’ says German artist, Clemens Weiss, about his work. He makes no bones about being a […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 23, 2009

Paige Peterson

House• January 23, 2009.

She’s quite something, Paige Peterson. Now a painter, illustrator and writer, she came to New York as a soap opera actress, where she met David Peterson, son of billionaire Pete Peterson. (They […]... READ MORE

Friday, January 9, 2009

Christopher Spitzmiller

House• January 9, 2009.

Ceramist Christopher Spitzmiller makes posh, expensive lamps – if you’ve been following the HOUSE column, you will have seen them in the very poshest living rooms we have covered. He knew early […]... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christopher Hyland

House• December 31, 2008.

Christopher Hyland is a New England boy now New Yorker. But his roots come to the fore every holiday season when he breaks out the traditional Christmas decorations (this year to […]... READ MORE

The Life and Times of Josephine Hartford, Part I