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settling back into our regular lives—regretfully or with joy-ful anticipation, depending on individual temperament—it’s time to take a look at the season’s social calendar.
In the natural world autumn is all about mellowripeness, harvest and preparation for a winter’s rest. Inthe human sphere (or at least its more urban-orientedsectors) autumn is all about events. September is wheneverything starts up again. The symphony’s openingnight approaches; the first opera production looms notfar off. New England’s auction houses are gearing up fortheir fall sales. Various charities are fine-polishing prepa-rations for their annual benefits; the temperature out-doors is once more conducive to road races and bike-a-thons. And, of course, a few tardy friends hoping tosqueeze in last-minute dinner parties are hotly contestingthe handful of free dates left in our schedules.
But, just in case your calendar’s not totally packed, hereare three upcoming events of particular interest in our corner of the world.
Following a two-year hiatus, the renowned forty-nine-year-old Ellis Antiques Showwill relaunch as the Ellis Boston Antiques Show and move back to its long-hallowedlocation in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. From October 21 to Oc-tober 23, some forty international exhibitors will have antiques, decorative arts, fineart and jewelry on offer, and the October 20 gala preview will continue the traditionof benefiting Ellis Memorial, Boston’s first settlement house.
New England Home itself also has two important, complementary events comingup. Please join us on the evening of Thursday, September 15, for our second 5 Under40 awards, honoring a handful of New England’s most promising young designers(see the special section starting on page 85 for full details). Then, on Thursday, No-vember 3, we’ll be celebrating the fifth annual New England Design Hall of Fame, agala awards ceremony and dinner to fête our region’s top established talents in archi-tecture, interior design and landscape design. This year’s honorees will be announcedin early October—but don’t wait until then to save the date!
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On the cover: All the traditional delights of an island summer can be enjoyed in the contempo-rary Martha’s Vineyard retreat architect Peter Breese designed for a young family. Photograph byBrian Vanden Brink. To see more of this home, turn to page 104.
Featured HomesSEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 • VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1
104 Dramatic License A contemporary Martha’s Vineyard house proves you don’t have to go the classic route to get a home filled with the mellow vibe of an island summer. ARCHITECTURE: PETER BREESE, BREESE ARCHITECTS • INTERIOR
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112 Smooth Operator A desire to get rid of a popcorn-textured ceiling sparks a bold redesign that brings an urban penthouse apartment to new heights of elegance. INTERIOR DESIGN: DALIA TAMARI, DALIA KITCHEN DESIGN • PHOTOGRAPHY:
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120 Down East Meets Downtown Revamping a stately classic on the Maine coast gives the old house a hip new interior that celebrates its waterfront loca-tion and reflects its owners’ urban sensibility. ARCHITECTURE: PAUL G. GOSSELIN,
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130 Special Focus: Kitchen and Bath Design Four kitchens and one specialbath that blend beauty and function to show New England designers at theirbest. TEXT BY PAULA M. BODAH
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Art, Design, History, Landscape35 Elements: Color Commentary All the colors of the rainbow bring bright
style to the house as autumn breezes begin to blow. EDITED BY CHERYL AND
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Design Destination: Simple Pleasures, Providence 42
46 Artistry: Background Stories Boston artist Susan Harter’s dreamy, clas -sically inspired landscape murals bring the dramatic finishing touch to many a gracious New England home. BY JANICE RANDALL ROHLF
52 Past Perfect: Castle in the Clouds Moultonborough, New Hampshire BY PAULA M. BODAH • PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATHAN EIKELBERG
People, Places, Events, Products140 Trade Secrets: Keeping Custom Comings and goings (and a few surprises)
in New England’s design community. BY LOUIS POSTEL
144 Design Life Our candid camera snaps recent gatherings that celebrate archi-tecture and design.
148 Calendar Special events for those who are passionate about fine design.Now in the Galleries: Upcoming art exhibitions throughout New England 148
154 Perspectives Three New England designers concoct a sophisticated home bar.Wish List: Designer Heidi Pribell shows off a few of her favorite products forthe home 160It’s Personal: Favorite finds from the staff of New England Home 162
164 Resources A guide to the professionals and products in this issue’s features.
173 Advertiser Index
176 Sketch Pad Newport architect Ross Cann uses the latest technology to helphis clients get the picture.
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Color CommentaryBack in the day when retail chains still had a heart-
beat and a style office, our friend James Sullivanwas the fashion impresario of the now-defunctJordan Marsh, a large department store indowntown Boston. James was enamored withbold color and delighted by its power to trans-form a hapless shift into a hot number. Alwaysone to walk the walk, James never left homewithout a brightly colored pocket square peek-
ing out of his suit jacket, matching socks be-neath his trousers. Lately we’ve found ourselves
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every room of the house. This fall, we’ll be welcom-ing shorter days and darker skies in bright style.
Orange Crush What happens when you take a tradi-tional wing chair and upholster it in a decidedly untra-ditional way? Love at first sight. The Jackson ChairCrazy (also available in green/blue and, for the faintof heart, in gray/black) has wool fabric, great lumbarsupport and a high-density foam seat. 27"W × 36"D ×44"H. $4,725 AS SHOWN. LEKKER HOME, BOSTON, (877) 753-5537, WWW .LEKKER HOME .COM
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On the Move Nada Debs is an Iraqi-born, RISD-trained, Beirut-based designer. Her newest piece,the elegant and versatile Pebble table, expands andcontracts depending on the setting, with tops thatspin and colors that can be switched. (A good fitfor a girl on the move.) This version has brass legsand Tapis d’Orient tops, but custom colors are alsoavailable. 94½"W × 22"D × 21"H EXPANDED, 59" × 33½"× 21" CONTRACTED. $12,000 AS SHOWN. BG GALLERIES,HINGHAM, MASS., (617) 901-4333, (781) 749-2411, WWW.BEYOND GORGEOSITY.COM
A Great Fit Vibrant color meets clever design in thisstackable six-piece food-prep set. The dishwasher-safe Nest 6 from Joseph Joseph includes two mix-ing bowls and four measuring cups. $36/SET. BLACKINK, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., (617) 497-1221, AND BOSTON, (617)723-3883, WWW .BLACK INK BOSTON .COM
Blue Heaven Long day? Stretch out on JonathanAdler’s down-cushioned Templeton sofa. With itsLouis XVI–inspired base and clean lines, it’s pureparadise. It comes in a rainbow of colors besidesthis luscious blue. 78"L × 35"D × 32"H (ALSO AVAIL-ABLE IN A 91" LENGTH). $3,700 AS SHOWN. BOSTON, (617)437-0018, WWW.JONATHANADLER.COM
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Color Wheel It’s called the Rings cutting board,but you can also use this tempered-glass disc asa serving platter or trivet. The super-hygienicsurface is nonporous, odor repellent, easy toclean and won’t get marred by sharp knives orhot pots. 11¾"D. $28. ABODEON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,(617) 497-0137, WWW.ABODEON.COM
Trade Secret In Texas Hill Country, just outside ofAustin, Kyle Bunting and his team have been re-defining the use of hides in interior applications.A favorite of designers and architects, Bunting’sdesigns have helped create unique spaces fornearly a decade. The herringbone Mr. Crowley,shown here, is available in a host of sizes andcolors for rugs or upholstery. PRICED ACCORDINGTO SIZE. WEBSTER & COMPANY, BOSTON DESIGN CEN-TER, (617) 261-9660, WWW.WEBSTERCOMPANY.COM
Roll With It FilzFelt carries German-milled 100percent wool felt in fifty-four colors and fivethicknesses. The goods are biodegradable andrenewable, as well as water resistant. Offeringboth thermal and acoustic insulation, felt is greatas a floor covering, place mats, wallcoverings—and that’s just the beginning. $74.50–$161.50/YD.FILZFELT, BOSTON, (617) 391-6230, WWW.FILZFELT.COM
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Secret Garden Inspired by children’s fairytales, the Meander Garden pillow from theSwedish duo Adam and Viktoria willbrighten up any sofa with shades of or-ange, peach and pumpkin. 18½"SQ. $275.TRILLIUM, NANTUCKET, MASS., (508) 228-4450, WWW .TRILLIUM NANTUCKET .COM
Hot Seat The Atlantic Lowback chair in Per-simmon from O&G Studio was an instant hitat the 2011 International Contemporary Fur-niture Fair in New York City. It comes in sev-enteen other finishes, too. SHOWN, 27⅛"H ×20½"W. $515. WARREN, R.I., (520) 247-1820, WWW.OANDG STUDIO .COM
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If the story of Simple Pleasures, Mary and AliceMoore’s charming Providence shop, were a fairy tale, itmight go something like this. Once upon a time there was ablacksmith’s shop known as Mahoney’s Forge. The little ivy-covered forge lay tucked away like a treasure at the end ofWaterman Street. For many years, beginning in 1895 in fact,blacksmiths toiled away there, making shoes for horses andlater, forging weather vanes and crafting hardware for thebig old houses and public buildings that lined the streets ofdowntown Providence.
The blacksmiths, in their leather aprons and tweed caps,seemed very happy as they worked away at their craft. Andthen one day, they noticed that people were riding in cars(not on horses), checking the weather with digital barome-ters (not weather vanes) and buying new doorknobs online(not from the local forge).
Alas, Mahoney’s Forge was forced to shutter. It stood for-lorn and crumbling for almost ten years until Mary Moorefound it and fell in love with the place. Mary, a Rhode Is-land School of Design alum, asked the forge’s owners ifshe, along with her sister and another friend, could rent it.The owners agreed and the trio soon opened a florist shop,where they designed and sold floral arrangements andpotted plants.
Since then the shop has grown, carrying all sorts of sur-prising items for the house, the garden, the body and thesoul. There are hand soaps, soup bowls, scarves and spoolsof string, totes and teacups, and still, an occasional nosegay.
Mary now runs the shop with her daughter Alice, andmost days the pair can be found there, arranging and sell-ing their wares very happily ever after. OPEN TUESDAY–SATURDAY, 11 A.M.–6 P.M. 6 RICHMOND SQUARE, PROVIDENCE, (401)331-4120, WWW .SIMPLE PLEASURES PROVIDENCE .COM
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usan Harter never feels more appreciated than whensomeone says, “What a pretty room,” and doesn’teven notice her huge, panoramic murals right away.
“A lot of muralists want to be the star of the show,” she says.“I’d rather give you a lovely backdrop for your life.”
Like her custom murals—classically inspired landscapesdone in a loose, painterly style—Harter is all about under-statement, in personality if not in stature. Like most of hermurals, she stands well over six feet tall. “I get a lot of jokesabout not needing a ladder to paint,” says the artist, a bit
weary of the comments. Herheight may come in handy, butshe’s built her reputation on herexacting craftsmanship and thework ethic behind it.
Prominent Boston interiordesigner Eugene Lawrence, whocalls himself “very, very, very particular,” is a longtime Hartercollaborator. “She is talented and doesn’t have a big ego,” hesays. “She is always able to capture the essence of what I want.”
Harter earned a degree in art from Harvard and then wenton to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts inBoston. She took a job at a nonprofit organization, but oneday, just for kicks, she pulled an old chair out to the lawn ofthe Cambridge, Massachusetts, house she rented with room-mates and started giving it a new look with a little decorativepainting. “I scavenged cast-off antiques from my millionaireneighbors,” she says with a laugh.
A woman strolling by asked her to paint a coffee table. “Shesaid she was an interior designer,” Harter recalls, “and offeredto pay me a figure that was greater than my weekly salary.”
Today, some fifteen years later, Harter teams up regularlywith Lawrence, as well as noted Boston-based interior de-signers Gerald Pomeroy and Charles Spada, creating mutedscenes that she describes as “evocative, not descriptive.”
Spada comments that heand Harter have workedtogether on many projectssince their early collabora-tions—a dining-roommural painted in grisageand chinoiserie panels ona large buffet. “Her workis always lovely and ap-propriate,” he says.
Take, for example,Harter’s mural of a spring
Boston artist Susan Harter’s dreamy, classically inspired landscape murals bring the dramatic finishing touch to many a gracious New England home. BY JANICE RANDALL ROHLF
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Clockwise from left: Sampleof digitally printed wallpaper(2011); rolled canvas samplesof the 2011 collection; muralfor The College Club ofBoston (2008), interior de-sign by Gerald Pomeroy
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garden that rose up on either side of thegrand entry stairway in the 2009 Kips BayShow House, considered by many to be the premier showcase of professional interi-or design.
Until now, Harter has hand-painted hermurals on canvas in her Boston studio, aprocess that takes anywhere from four toeight weeks, depending on the size of theroom, and requires the help of assistants.The meticulous work is time-consumingand the labor costly. Consequently, her mu-rals carry the sort of price tag that only af-fluent customers can afford. In an effort tomake them accessible to a wider range ofpeople, this fall Harter plans to launch a col-lection of mural wallpapers that will comein both printed and hand-painted versions.“I will still do some custom murals for oldclients or inter-esting proj-ects,” she says,“but I plan to focus in the future onthe mural wallpaper collection.”
The hand-painted collection will let clients mix and match theirchoice of color palette and landscape. Three-foot-by-six-foot samples will show the colors and level of detail; black-and-white line drawings will depict the different landscapesavailable (fields, gardens, rivers, woods and the like). Based
on the client’s selections, Harter will then create a hand-painted mural.
She also plans to offer at least fifteen printed designs—“a great choice when you love the look of a hand-paintedmural, but it’s just not in the budget,” Harter notes. Thanks
to a cutting-edge digital print-ing method developed by herhusband, Matt Harter—a“computer genius,” she callshim—these copies are almostindistinguishable from theoriginals. In fact, the firsttime the artist received a rollfrom the printer, even sheasked, “Why are you return-ing the original?”
Others have been fooled,too. Sharing one of her favoritestories, Harter recalls twoyoung boys playing in an areawith walls featuring her mu-rals. “We’re outdoors,” one ofthe boys said with delight, andthen caught himself. “I knowthat they’re not really trees, butthey feel like trees.” •
Editor’s Note Susan Harter canbe reached at (718) 576-1362. To see more of her work, visitwww.susanharter.com.
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Right: Junior League ofBoston Decorator ShowHouse (2006), interior designby Michael Carter. Below, leftto right: Detail of “Villa Gar-den” (2011); detail of “KipsBay,” based on a mural forthe Kips Bay Decorator ShowHouse, N.Y., (2009); detail of“No Green In It” (2011)
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Despite his success, Plant neverforgot his roots. While other menof his generation and means builtItalianate villas and marbledwellings modeled after Frenchpalaces, he and his wife, Olive,chose the Arts and Crafts style fortheir sixteen-room home. Michael
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Lucknow was, indeed, built inharmony with nature. The stonethat faces the home was takenfrom the surrounding area andshaped by local masons. Much ofthe lumber used inside and outwas cut from the property andhand-hewn by shipyard workers inPlant’s hometown of Bath, Maine.Plant went one better than nature,
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2011 5UNDER40 WINNERS
DEBRA FOLZ * Furniture & Accessories
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New England Home is proud to introduce our second round of 5 Under 40
awards, shining a spotlight on the hottest emerging talent in residential de-
sign in New England. The winners—all five of whom are under the age of
forty—were nominated by their peers and then selected by an all-star com-
mittee of regional design leaders who considered four categories: architecture,
interiors, furniture and home-design products and accessories. Take note: 5
Under 40 winners are the people to watch, producing some of the most beau-
tiful and innovative work available today.
The slate of winners for 2011 was selected by a diverse committee of pro-
fessionals representing different facets of the New England design communi-
ty: interior designer Dennis Duffy, product designer Carol Catalano, architect
Lisa DeStefano and New England Home’s Kyle Hoepner.
Lisa DeStefano commented on the judging process, saying, “I was hon-
ored and thrilled to be part of such an exciting award recognizing the future
of design in New England. The amount of talent to review was eye-opening,
and it was great to witness the talent in so many differ-
ent areas. I look forward to watching how they will posi-
tively affect our communities and built environment.”
The judges pored over scores of nominations to select
this year’s winners, who will be honored at a reception on
September 15, 2011, at The Galleria at 333 Stuart Street
in Boston. (There’s still time to join in the celebration; see
page 100 for ticket information!) As part of the festivities,
each winner designed a custom rug that was produced by
presenting sponsor Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and
Carpeting and will be auctioned off at the reception event
to benefit the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based charity,
Barakat. (Read more about Barakat and the rug design
process on page 100.) Be sure to keep an eye on what
comes next from this talented group of design stars!
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Designers to WatchTEXT BY ERIN MARVIN • INDUCTEE PORTRAITS BY MICHAEL FEIN
1. BARAKAT’S PURNIMA BANGERA, JERRY ARCARIOF LANDRY & ARCARI, JINHEE PARK, RACHELREIDER, DEBRA FOLZ, KELLY HARRIS SMITH ANDNIMA YADOLLAHPOUR. 2. INTERIOR DESIGNERDENNIS DUFFY. 3. ARCHITECT LISA DESTEFANO.4. NEW ENGLAND HOME’S KYLE HOEPNER.5. PRODUCT DESIGNER CAROL CATALANO.
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Debra Folz was studying interior design at the New Eng-
land School of Art & Design at Suffolk University when she
came across the Three Skin Chair by Ron Arad. “As soon as
I saw it, I thought, ‘That is for me, I want to be a part of
that,’ ” she recalls. Wanting a more hands-on relationship
with materials and manufacturing through smaller-scale ex-
plorations, Folz went on to pursue a graduate degree in fur-
niture design from RISD. She’s never looked back.
Folz has found inspiration in Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola’s ability to
design for mass production while maintaining a handmade feel, as well as in
FRONT Design Studio’s creation of physical objects initiated by conceptual
inquiry. Recurring themes in Folz’s own designs include pairing industrial
surfaces with domestic handcrafts, reinterpreting traditional manufacturing
techniques in contemporary objects and making things with which their own-
ers can associate their own memories.
Connecting with people through her work is one of Folz’s most rewarding
experiences. She points to her The Whole Story photo albums as an example:
“I really enjoy the idea that the photo albums I have made are living in peo-
ple’s homes, telling their stories,” she says. Along with her ongoing explo-
ration of material boundaries at her studio in Boston’s South End, Folz leads
furniture design studio courses at the New England School of Art & Design
at Suffolk University. “Stepping out of the studio and sharing what I’ve
learned with my students and watching them apply their imagination and cre-
ativity to new information perpetuates inspiration in my own work,” she says.
Debra Folz and her small-scale productions of furniture and accessories are
truly an inspiration to us all.
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DEBRA FOLZJINHEE PARKRACHEL REIDERKELLY HARRIS SMITHNIMA YADOLLAHPOUR
Boston’s Big Dig may have been a nightmare for commuters,
but architect Jinhee Park made the most of it—literally.
Using 60,000 pounds of salvaged steel and concrete from the
dismantled I-93 highway, Park designed the Big Dig House
in Lexington, Massachusetts. According to Park, the proto-
type building demonstrates how infrastructural refuse can be
salvaged and reused to save money, resources and energy.
Park is a founding principal of the Cambridge, Massachu-
setts–based firm SsD (SINGLE speed DESIGN). Whether she’s working on
a home in Newton, Massachusetts, a cultural center in Korea, a house of tow-
ers in the Mongolian desert or even a fleet of food trucks, she approaches de-
sign as “a convergent, interdisciplinary and sustainable venture” that inte-
grates form with energy-efficient strategies.
She used these same principles when designing her rug with Landry & Ar-
cari for the 5 Under 40 charity auction. “It’s like a water drop coming out of a
corner of a room, highlighting and activating a typically underutilized space,”
says Park of her carpet design. “It can inspire people to use the wall and floor
more instead of furniture. The concept is to maximize space within a mini-
mum footprint to further the notion of sustainable minimal living.”
In addition to her 5 Under 40 award, Park has been recognized by the Archi-
tectural League of New York and the American Institute of Architects. As the
result of winning an international design competition, Park’s design for a
10,000-square-foot contemporary art gallery—a free-standing, museum-quality
building in the Heyri Art Valley of Korea—will be completed later this year.
We look forward to seeing more unique, sustainable solutions from her for
many years to come.
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Interior designer Rachel Reider never forgets the old
adage “home is where the heart is.” Although she regularly
travels the world, Reider always returns to New England,
bringing with her a wealth of ideas she’s picked up along
the way. “New places, environments and cultures ignite
my creativity,” she says. “You never know where you might
find inspiration.”
We can see the result of that inspiration in each of Rei-
der’s projects, which are known for the designer’s creative mixing of styles,
colors and textures. Her “functionally chic” interiors are individually tailored
to her clients’ needs, whether a city dwelling in New York, a Florida beach
house or a ranch in Montana. One of her most memorable projects happened
here at home: her transformation of The Veranda House in Nantucket, Mas-
sachusetts. “It was our first boutique hotel design and a great study in mix-
ing historic architecture with a more modern interior—a somewhat revolu-
tionary concept at the time for Nantucket,” she recalls. “I still remember the
moment of shock when the owners approved everything in my design plan,
from the zebra-patterned bench in the common space to the brightly pat-
terned wall paper in the dining area.”
Reider’s work has been featured here on the pages of New England Home as
well as in Travel & Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Design New England and the
Boston Globe. Prior to launching her own firm, Rachel Reider Interiors, she
worked at Jennifer Palumbo, Inc. and Koo de Kir. Ultimately, Reider says, the
design process should be inspiring and fun. Thanks to her varied background
(she has degrees in interior design as well as American studies and art history)
and her sense of adventure, a Rachel Reider design is always both.
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“Felt” probably isn’t the first thought that comes to mind
when someone mentions “fabric”. . . unless you’re Kelly
Harris Smith.
A born-and-bred southerner from Virginia, Smith now calls
Boston home. After graduating from Northeastern University
with a degree in architecture, she worked at Boston-based
firms, all the while experimenting with materials and tex-
tiles. Her involvement with contemporary architecture and a
life-long love of “making things out of the unexpected” eventually led Smith
to open FilzFelt, a company that imports and distributes German wool felt.
Along with her partner, Traci Roloff, Smith works with architects, interior de-
signers and product designers on custom projects that use felt in unexpected
ways: flooring, perforated wall panels, pillows, upholstery applications and more.
FilzFelt’s colorful products have been featured in Interior Design Magazine,House Beautiful, Boston Home, Martha Stewart Living, Architecture Boston, BostonCommon and the Boston Globe, among others.
Smith is also a founding member of the Boston Design Salon and the cura-
tor for Design Nearby, an annual exhibition of local artisans at the Pinkcom-
ma Gallery. When it came time to create a rug with Landry & Arcari for the 5
Under 40 charity auction, she proved her prowess with other textiles. “When
the opportunity to design a rug came along, I started thinking about symbols,
grids, pixels and the repetition of shapes,” she says. “In particular, the plus
sign appeals to me because although it is just a simple shape, it’s also a figura-
tive symbol for positive (not negative) and more (not less).”
We expect to see Smith’s upbeat designs and positive energy radiate out into
the New England design community (and beyond) for many years to come.
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Nima Yadollahpour’s goal, he says, is to “create intelligent
spaces that infuse ideal functionality with a quality aesthetic
for the inhabitant.” He strives for what he calls a unique ar-
chitectural language: “distinguished, simple, elegant and,
most importantly, timeless.” Yadollahpour’s lofts, single- and
multi-family homes, additions and renovations all share a
thoughtful attention to materials and construction, but they
don’t share a design style. “Our design styles have ranged
from modern minimalist to conservative traditional, from the culturally in-
spired to historic period design,” he says.
Yadollahpour graduated from Syracuse University and worked at such
Boston firms as Payette Associates and Office dA, as well as the Montreal-
based Provencher Roy Associates, before founding ONY architecture in 2005.
Over the years he’s been a design critic for the Boston Architectural College,
Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University, Syracuse University and Went-
worth Institute of Technology in Boston.
A native of Iran, Yadollahpour immigrated to the U.S. at the age of ten.
Though he’s now living in Boston, Yadollahpour looked to his roots for inspi-
ration when designing the rug he developed with Landry & Arcari. “Like
most of our architectural or interior design work, I tried to start designing this
project from a meaningful source as inspiration,” he says. “In this case, I felt
that using my Persian heritage would be fitting, especially for designing a
rug.” The design of his Esfahan rug is based on the historic city’s fertile farm-
land; Yadollahpour used a satellite image of the area’s topography as a starting
point for the design. The finished rug represents the fields, vegetation, man-
made structures and a curving road. A timeless aesthetic, indeed.
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Presenting sponsor Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and Carpeting plays a spe-
cial role in the 5 Under 40 celebration, seeing to the creation of the unique
and beautiful rugs designed by each of the winners. Once the winners have
settled on the designs for their rugs, Landry & Arcari turns to its weavers in
Nepal to carry out the rest of the process. “I’m amazed at some of the con-
cepts and ideas that the designers have, not having gone through this before,”
says Landry & Arcari’s Jeff Arcari. He points to Nima Yadollahpour’s design,
based on a topographical map, noting that it’s the first time they’ve done a car-
pet that has just the warp and
weft of the actual foundation
showing in places. Debra
Folz’s pattern, based on a flock
of birds or a school of fish, is
unusual, too. “She wanted to
bevel each of them to create a
three-dimensional look to a
carpet that is usually two di-
mensional,” Jeff explains.
Each winner’s unique de-
sign is sent to Nepal, where it
is translated onto graph paper,
with each box representing a
knot. “These weavers are ex-
perienced, so they don’t al-
ways follow it knot to knot,”
says Jeff. “There’s always a
small amount of human inter-
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the rugs so much beauty and
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Rugs take about ninety
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Each five-by-eight-foot rug is woven by two to four weavers, both native
Nepalese and refugees from Tibet, using a blend of wool, mohair, silk and
cotton. The one nod to modernism is the use of chrome dyes, which provide
more accurate color than natural dyes, says Jeff.
The winners’ rugs are set to be auctioned off during the September 15,
2011, awards celebration. As with last year’s rug auction, proceeds will bene-
fit the Cambridge-based charity, Barakat.
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A contemporary Martha’sVineyard house proves you don’t have to go theclassic route to get a homefilled with the mellow vibeof an island summer.TEXT BY LISA E. HARRISON •PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN VANDEN BRINK •ARCHITECTURE: PETER BREESE, BREESEARCHITECTS • INTERIOR DESIGN:INTERIORS STUDIO MARTHA’S VINEYARDAND LIZ STIVING-NICHOLS, MARTHA’SVINEYARD FURNITURE COMPANY •BUILDER: BAUMHOFER BUILDERS •MILLWORK: SOUTH SHORE MILLWORK •LANDSCAPE DESIGN: BREESE ARCHITECTSAND CARLY LOOK DESIGN
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Realtors live and die by three words: location,location, location. In the case of this Martha’sVineyard house, about twenty-five yards madeall the difference. Confronted with an existingstructure on the eastern edge of the property,and owners eager to rehab and add on, architectPeter Breese of Vineyard-based Breese Archi-tects, floated a bold plan. • After walking muchof the three-acre lot in the heart of Mink Mead-ows, a Vineyard Haven community coveted forits proximity to a secluded north shore beachand semi-private nine-hole golf course, Breesetossed out the idea of starting fresh. Sure, thetired A-frame could be salvaged. But, intent onmaximizing views and creating balance, the ar-chitect had fallen for an alternate angle. “I couldsee stronger water views from the center of theproperty,” says Breese. “It was covered withtrees, but we could create clearings.” • OwnersAmy and Peter Wagner were easily swayed.After all, it was the view—two ponds, the ocean
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beyond, ferries shuttling through the sound, Cape Codoff in the distance—that initially hooked Amy. The cou-ple, whose primary home is in California’s Silicon Valley,are East Coasters at heart. “We really wanted our threeboys to experience what we did thirty years ago,” saysAmy. “It’s an old-fashioned place—the kids jump off thedock, there are no stoplights.”
The previous owners also had three boys, now grownand parting with their childhood summer home. It was,in essence, a serendipitous passing of the torch.
Under a tight deadline, Breese and his talented teamset to work: the 6,000-square-foot house would be fin-ished and furnished in fourteen months, just in time for
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the boys— Jackson, Ben and Christian—to welcome summer with a plunge in the pool. A predominantly sin-gle-story structure (the guest quarters float above thegarage), the four-bedroom houseis spread out to capture waterviews, covering 240 feet fromgarage to master suite. An angledcrossing wing that holds the din-ing room, kitchen and livingroom adds visual interest andcleverly masks the perception of length. The bedrooms line up along the east-west axis and catch water views tothe north.
With twelve exterior doors, ranging in width from threeto sixteen feet, barriers between inside and out magicallydissolve. “You feel like you’re in this amazing nature pre-
serve,” says Amy. “We wanted this whole beautiful sceneoutside to be accessible to us in the house.”
A large screened porch off the kitchen and dining room,
The four-bedroom house is spread out to capture water views, covering 240 feet
from garage to master suite.
Custom furnishings, including a built-inbench designed by architect Peter Breeseand crafted by boat builder Marty Harris,lend a maritime feel to the living room.Top left: Stone veneer panels visuallybreak up the shingled exterior. Bottom left:A private perch off the living room offers aglimpse of ferries shuttling in the distance.
Interior walls were banished to allow for easytraffic flow and conversation. Found objectslike the vintage sign turned dining table con-trast with commissioned works such as thehand-blown glass chandelier. Facing page top:A connector linking the garage/guest quarterswith the main house doubles as a wet bar andchanging area for the pool. Facing page bot-tom: The overriding goal was to integrate thehouse with its striking coastal landscape.
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a deck off the master suite and a cocktail-hour-ready terrace that wraps the pool areaafford the family ample opportunity to baskin the great outdoors.
Form meets function beautifully in thelengthy connector that ties the garage to themain house. Designed as a privacy screen forthe pool area, it’s multifunctional: doors slidewide to reveal a wet bar, changing area andbuilt-in benches. Wet feet are welcome on thefloor of wood and a concrete compositemixed with sea glass and seashells. In awhimsical nod to the Wagners’ passion forsailing, an oversize outdoor shower is fash-ioned from red cedar and adorned with cleatsthat double as door pulls.
Though it was the mellow, sun-drenchedsummer vibe of the Vineyard that beckoned,“the house,” Amy admits, “is not low-key inany way.” Sweeping ceilings with modifiedscissor trusses—a structural necessity—lendorder and balance. Subtly curved walls con-jure the arc of a boat hull and create a softnessthat plays against the asymmetry of the win-dows. The house itself and all the rooms areorganized along centerlines, Breese explains,
which grounds the space and gives it a sym-metrical steadying hand.
Breese and designer Liz Stiving-Nichols,who was at the time a consultant for Breese’sInteriors Studio Martha’s Vineyard, collabo-rated on the interior design. Amy had one di-rective: “We wanted it to look beautiful, but ithad to be functional,” she says. “We’re really afamily-focused family, down-to-earth peopleliving in a cool space.”
Breese and Stiving-Nichols heard her andran with it, crafting an aesthetic at once cooland comfortable. In the central living space,walls were banished, allowing the kitchen, din-ing area and living room to flow from one tothe next for an open, airy effect and maximumwater views. Custom countertops and furnish-ings delineate the rooms and provide visualpop. The counter that separates the dining
Subtly curved walls conjure the arc of a boat hull and create a softness that plays
against the asymmetry of the windows.
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room from the kitchen is a handy work/storagespace for Amy, an avid cook; viewed from thedining room, it contains the ultimate dinnerparty conversation-starter: an abstract sculp-ture that mimics the floor plan of the house.
What Breese calls “precious elements”—adining-room light fixture designed by a SanFrancisco artist, fossils embedded in thekitchen backsplash and the white quartzkitchen island top—blend with simple foundobjects, like the sign Breese unearthed at theBrimfield Antiques Show and converted intothe dining table or the old lantern that sitson the range hood for a unique and charm-ing effect.
All woodwork and ceilings, except the built-ins, are painted Winds Breath by BenjaminMoore, forming a pale, but warm backdrop forthe cabinetry and furnishings. Breese designedthe more intricate pieces to suit the surround-ings. The master suite, for example, features acustom closet and dresser in one, a headboardwith a clever cutout that lets the bed float in acentral location and shelving that hugs thecurve of the wall. In keeping with the loose
maritime theme, the architect enlisted a for-mer boatbuilder to execute his designs.“There’s decoration and there’s architecture,”he says. “The built-ins are both architectureand design. They tie everything together.”
Remarkably, the homeowners didn’t seejust how perfectly everything came togetheruntil the project was complete. Though theWagners were on hand for the laying of thefoundation, they didn’t visit the island againuntil the house was move-in ready. Amy (whohappily describes herself as “very opinionat-ed”) stayed connected via remote meetings,and boxes brimming with samples arriveddaily at their West Coast home. Still, there’sno substitute for seeing it in person—a fin-ished, furnished summer retreat. Her verdict:“It’s an amazing place.” •Resources For more information about this home,see page 164.
In keeping with the loose maritime theme, the architect enlisted a former boat builder
to execute his designs.
A large found boulder makes a divingrock for the Wagner boys, while an inte-grated corner hot tub beckons bathers.Facing page top: The master bath’s di-verse materials include stone tile floor-ing, a bio-glass countertop and bleachedwalnut cabinetry. Facing page bottom: Abuilt-in in the master bedroom, designedby Breese and executed by South ShoreMillwork, cleverly masks a flat-screen TV.
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SmoothOperatorA desire to get rid of a popcorn-textured ceiling sparks a bold redesign that brings an urban penthouse apartmentto new heights of elegance. WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY STACY KUNSTEL • PHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL PARTENIO • INTERIOR DESIGN: DALIATAMARI, DALIA KITCHEN DESIGN • BUILDER: PAUL DUDLEY
By breaking through the ceilingsof her Brookline home, designerDalia Tamari was able to reinventher penthouse apartment, movingwalls and reinterpreting rooms.
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DDalia Tamari had lain down for a nap whenshe found herself gazing up at her bedroomceiling. As she pondered the white-pebbledsurface she’d lived with since moving into theseventh-floor Brookline, Massachusetts, pent-house with her family, she started tracing thetrack of the air-conditioning vents with hereyes. The longer she mapped the vents, themore convinced she became that she couldreroute them to get more ceiling height andreplace the popcorn texture she’d despised forthe past fourteen years.
There was one way to find out, so Tamarihurried to find a broom. Easily enough shepoked the broomstick through the ceiling todiscover she could add at least a foot of head-room above the bed. A second jab also hitnothing. Again and again she poked holesthroughout the apartment, down the hallsand into the living room, a cloud of plasterdust following her. She determined the routeof the air-conditioning vents and left a ceilingof Swiss cheese in her wake. “I thought, if Ican open the ceiling I can move the walls,”says Tamari, the design force behind DaliaKitchen Design in the Boston Design Center.
To spare him a shock when he got home,Tamari called her husband at work to informhim of her destructive afternoon. “I calledGadi and told him—all excited—about myfindings,” recalls Tamari. “By the time he gothome he was calm. He knows that when itcomes to design, sometimes my logic is notquite predictable.”
Her methods might have been unconven-tional, but Gadi could hardly argue with theresult. Besides the ceiling, not a single interiorwall escaped unscathed as Tamari remade theapartment. She reconfigured soffits andbeams, brought in new molding to redefinerooms, installed new paneling, redesigned thekitchen and added new furnishings to turn themodest apartment into a showplace of design.
By removing a bedroom (the last of thecouple’s three children were now gone),Tamari and Gadi were able to add space notonly to their family room and bedroom, butalso to the kitchen, dining room and livingroom. “That is when we made an apartmentfor a couple,” says Tamari.
The sophisticated new living room has a
wall of black paneling thatcleverly disguises two eleva-tor doors and a coat closet.“I didn’t want to see doors,”says Tamari. “I just wantedyou to feel like you were inthe apartment.” The otherwalls wear simple taupepaint, with a tuxedo stripeof black molding near thetop to define the areaswhere the ceiling was raised.
The award-winningkitchen designer, whosework carries her betweenthe East Coast and Israel,where she grew up, filled theliving room with matching
sofas by Fendi, Biedermeier-esque chairs and elongatedcustom coffee tables. Artwork given as a gift from her twodaughters hangs above the fireplace; elsewhere she displayspaintings that once hung in her parents’ house in Italy.
Tamari had stared down just about every design chal-lenge, but the kitchen designer faced a number of compli-cations in bringing together her own cooking area. Giventhe apartment’s size—and her insistence on full-size appli-ances—space was at a premium. “The kitchen is very shal-low,” says Tamari. “Insome parts it is like afaçade.” On one wallcabinets are onlynine inches deep.She met the chal-lenges with her usualcreativity, devisingsuch unconventionalsolutions as installingthe oven at an angleto suit the space.
The Mark Wilkin-son–designed cabi-netry was made inEngland and hand-painted to look like furniture. “It’s low-key, nothing shiny,” says Tamari. “It will stay looking goodfor a really long time.”
Down the hall from the kitchen sits a marble statueagainst a shuttered window, perfectly framed by the mas-ter bedroom’s doorway. The bedroom is a quiet sanctuarywith its upholstered walls and headboard, which temperthe light that floods the public spaces and soften anybuilding sounds.
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The intimate dining area opens to abalcony. Facing page top: Black pan-eling disguises elevator doors and acloset on one wall of the living room.Facing page bottom: Modern linesand traditional architectural featurescombine throughout the apartment.
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Clockwise from top left: With Boston beckoningin the distance, the city apartment becomes anurban getaway. A dining area completes thespacious deck, turning it into the perfect enter-taining space. A secluded corner off the masterbedroom is ideal for sunbathing. Tamari de-signed custom planters to define the perimeter.
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The Tamaris like to invite friends to enjoy summer evenings on the deck. “It’s
an escape in the city,” Dalia says.
Rich with detail, but quiet in color, the cus-tom kitchen holds full-size appliances de-spite its small area. Facing page clockwisefrom top: Upholstered walls and head-board in serene shades of cream quiet themaster bedroom. A long hallway ends atthe master bedroom. The kitchen includesa coffee bar and breakfast prep area.
taken the most time to complete.She had long dreamed of changingthe mahogany deck that surround-ed her top-floor abode. “I held backuntil I knew what I wanted,” shesays. Even then, the process tookmuch longer than she had antici-pated. Over a seven-year period shesubmitted various plans that thebuilding’s management wouldn’t accept. Finally she hit on a schemethat everyone agreed on, and shewas able to build the 2,000-square-foot deck area outside her door.
Connected to the living roomvia a sliding door, the wide, opendeck boasts a full view of theBoston skyline, a lounge area and adining area for family dinners orentertaining. The Tamaris like toinvite friends to enjoy summerevenings on the deck. “It’s an escape in the city,” Dalia says.
While Tamari conceived the design, Winston Flowerscoordinated and installed the plantings that define thedeck’s perimeter, incorporating boxwood, grasses, liliesand other blooming flowers. “We needed to have plantsthat could withstand the wind,” says Tamari.
For the lounge areashe found tables on-line and throughRestoration Hardwareand bought threeBubble Club sofasfrom Design WithinReach. “I didn’t gocrazy with expensivestuff,” she says.
The large deck isn’ttheir only outdoorspace; on the oppositeside of the apartment,bedroom doors open
to a smaller, private deck with two lounge chairs ideal forthe sunbathing and book reading that Gadi favors.
The new decks more than doubles the size of the apart-ment, giving the couple extra space to enjoy when theweather’s right, whether it’s taking in the city lights on awarm summer night or a glorious view of changing leaveson an autumn afternoon. Inside, too, the view couldn’t benicer. Looking around their sophisticated rooms (or up atthe high, smooth ceiling), the Tamaris find that their newenvironment suits them perfectly. •Resources For more information about this home, see page 164.
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DownEastMeetsDowntown
Revamping a stately classic on the Maine coast gives the oldhouse a hip new interior that celebrates its waterfront locationand reflects its owners’ urban sensibility. TEXT BY NATHANIEL READE • PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC ROTH • ARCHITECTURE: PAUL G. GOSSELIN, SALMON FALLSARCHITECTURE • INTERIOR DESIGN: DENNIS DUFFY • BUILDER: BRIAN SLEEPER, PERIODDESIGN RESTORATION • LANDSCAPE DESIGN: JACQUELYN NOONEY LANDSCAPE •PRODUCED BY KYLE HOEPNER
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After a century beside the ocean, vir-tually the entire exterior of the houseneeded replacing, from new cedarshakes to the rot-proof trim. Its origi-nal appearance, however, remains.
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They wanted visitors’eyes to go to the ocean, not their designchoices, but they also wanted to create a bit of surprise.
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The owners fell in love with the housein part because of its views, which include iconic Maine landmarks such as the Isle of Shoals and Boone IslandLighthouse, the tallest lighthouse inNew England. Plantings and stone ter-racing enhance house and property.
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hen the subcontractors walked in theymostly thought this job was crazy, recallsBrian Sleeper. “What the heck is this?” theygrumbled. “It’ll never work.” They askedhim, “Do you like this, Brian?”
Sleeper had been hired by two business-men from Manhattan to make changes to the housethey’d bought, a 6,000-square-foot turn-of-the-twentieth-century classic just seventy-five feet from the shoreline inYork Harbor, Maine. Built in 1910, it blended the Shinglestyle then popular in posh summer enclaves with a moreconservative, Federal-style form. Sleeper’s regularplumbers, electricians and finish carpenters were accus-tomed to seeing maybe a few modern touches in newconstruction, or to restoring historic houses to some ap-proximation of their original look. These clients, however,wanted sheets of quartz in the bathrooms, custom-mademahogany washstands hung from century-old walls and,perhaps most startling of all to Sleeper’s crew, a staircasemade of paneled glass.
What did Sleeper think? “I told ’em,” he says in his mel-lifluous Maine accent, “ ‘I’m waitin’ to see how it lookswhen it’s all done.’ I was just goin’ with it.”
The couple had been summering in the Ogunquit areafor a decade, and fell in love with York Harbor’s oceanviews and its sense of history. Because it had once been asummer destination for the privileged on a par with BarHarbor and Newport, it had many stately homes. Theyalso liked the sense of culture and arts they found there—Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, after all, had oncepainted in these parts. When they saw the Captain’s Walk,a bluff that runs along the water, they decided, “That’swhere we want to live,” one of the men recalls. Homes inthe area rarely change hands, so when this house came onthe market, the men snapped it up.
When Sleeper, known for his skill with older homes,walked in the door in December of 2007, his firstthought, he admits, was, “This is gonna be a really goodjob.” A century of proximity to high winds and saltwaterhad given the house a good beating. He noticed sagging
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Clockwise from far left: The occasional antique lends eclecticism to the contem-porary interior. Original details such ascoffered ceilings and dark-stained floorsblend with modern elements like the fire-place’s stone facing. Maritime-inspired cables support the bubbled-glass staircasepanels. Furniture is simple and clean-lined.
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Dennis Duffy designed the resin-topped dining-room table and the buffet. Right: The vintage barstoolswere once used by Maine factory workers. Below left: Patinated bronze anchors the ethereal glass drops of thedining room chandelier. Below right: Apowder room holds a custom vanity.
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floors, stuck doors, cracked horsehair plaster, windowsyou couldn’t open. The kitchen had metal counters fromthe 1950s, and some ceilings were covered with four-by-eight-foot sheets of paneling. It needed a lot of work.
The clients initially thought they just wanted the kitchenand a couple of bathrooms renovated. Then Paul G. Gos-selin of Salmon Falls Architecture took a look at the sunporch, a later add-on supported by dubious posts, and toldthem that if they had a party in there for twenty people, hewouldn’t dare come. After a closer look, the homeownersdecided to replace all the windows in the house, enlargingthem on the ocean sides to bring in the views. They alsodecided to run air-conditioning ducts, which meant the oldknob-and-tube wiring had to go. Within a month, every-one agreed it would be best to blow out the interior, rightdown to the studs. Said one of the clients, “It’s like whenyou pull on a thread, and it just keeps unraveling.”
Once the canvas was bare, Boston-based designer Den-nis Duffy had to decide what to put on it. He was pleasedto discover that the clients had strong design sense, which
they communicated well. Duffy says they all “respectedthe history of the house, which has great bones.”
The original floor plan and the look of the house insideand out were retained. Duffy and his clients kept thehardwood floors, albeit staining them dark, and salvagedall the original hardware. They kept original moldingsand coffered ceilings. The new kitchen cabinet doors werecrafted to match the original doors.
After seeing their New York apartment, however, Duffyknew that a traditional interior wouldn’t work for hisclients: no “pastels and wicker,” no heavy antiques withtraditional dark reds and greens. The designer says hewanted to preserve the old house, “but also liberate it.”
So he employed a mid-twentieth-century moderniststyle, something he and the clients both love, the kind ofdesign we tend to associate with Prairie-style ranch hous-es and such designers as Marcel Breuer or Paul Frankl.Duffy designed custom pieces of furniture, includingbedroom dressers and the dining-room table and cabi-nets, and kept to a light palette throughout the house. For
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the furniture they mixed modern designs with traditionaltextiles and traditional designs with modern textiles. Theywanted visitors’ eyes to go to the ocean, not their designchoices, but they also wanted to create a bit of surprise.
It was those surprises that started the subcontractorsgrumbling—in particular the staircase. Duffy and his clientshad considered something traditional there, dark and wood-en, but the stairs stood between rooms on the shore side andthe windows onto the ocean. After much discussion they hiton clear panels with the softened quality of beach glass, sup-ported in part by naval-inspired cables.
These modernist ingredients posed a technical challenge.A century-old house settles; the floors, walls and ceilings arerarely perfectly straight or square. If you stick to historicmoldings and fixtures, Sleeper says, it’s fairly easy to make itlook good; inconsistencies can be passed off as character.Modernist lines, however, require right angles and precision.He recalls installing one-foot-by-two-foot quartz tiles in thebathroom. You run them up the wall square and level, butwhen you get to the funky old ceiling, then what do you do?Sleeper says, “We worked it out.”
When it was all done, Sleeper’s subcontractors ate theirwords, he says. There’s enough history in the original hard-ware and trim to keep the look balanced, and enough of amodernist flair to make it feel new. Take, for instance, thatstaircase. As Sleeper explains, you can stand outside thehouse on the wall farthest from the water, look in the nearwindows, through the staircase and out the far windows tothe ocean. And isn’t that the point of an oceanfront house?To see the ocean?
Says Sleeper: “It works.” •Resources For more information about this home, see page 164.
A guest bath shower takes full ad -vantage of the home’s water views.Facing page top: A guest bedroomalso provides ocean views, as well asbreezes. Facing page bottom: A once-awkward space off the main entrancenow functions as a sitting room.
UsefulEleganceSmall or large, contemporary or classic, these smashing rooms show that function and
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beauty can make for a blissful partnership. BY PAULA M. BODAH
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT
A simple directive—the color blue—set the designers off and run-ning, mixing textures and patterns that play off an azure that looksas though it came straight out of an autumn sky. American walnut,glass mosaic tiles, stainless steel, resin and recycled-stone and glassterrazzo all find their way into this kitchen that’s grounded in a modern aesthetic vernacular. Photography by Greg Premru
Location: Weston, Massachusetts
Interior design: Manuel de Santaren and Kim Clark, Boston DesignCenter, (617) 330-6998, www.manueldesantaren.com Architecture:Charles R. Myer and Partners, (617) 876-9062, www.charlesmyer.com
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OPEN SEASON
Two bedrooms, two baths and a walk-in closet were opened upto create a dramatic master suite for a single man who wanted tomaximize his ocean views—even from the tub. Black accentsmake a bold statement against the striking Ann Sacks tile wallsand oak parquet floor. Photography by Shelly Harrison
Location: Winthrop, Massachusetts
Interior design: Mary Courville, Mary Courville Designs,Winchester, Mass., (781) 721-1934; www.marycourvilledesigns.comLighting design: Doreen Le May Madden, Lux Lighting Design,Belmont, Mass., (617) 484-6400, www.luxld.com
“We set the tile so that theveining goes in different
directions to maximize itsimpact. The goal was
an open space with plentyof drama.” —Mary Courville
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COUNTRY COMFORT
An updated version of a classic farmhouse kitchen mixestraditional elements like the butter-yellow cabinetry andreclaimed ceiling beams with clever touches such as thecustom bronze and quilted-stainless-steel range hood andthe idea of letting the island do double duty as the ban-quette’s back. Photography by James R. Salomon
Location: Cumberland, Maine
Interior design: Nicola Manganello, Nicola’s Homes,Portland, Maine, (207) 899-3218, http://nicolas-homes.com
“It’s comfortable, as wellas good for entertaining.Everyone seems to endup in the kitchen. Idesigned it with that inmind.” —Nicola Manganello
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SMALL MIRACLE
A small kitchen feels more spacious with the clever conversion of a wall to a curved half-wall that forms theback of the dining area’s banquette. The stylish sweep atthe closed end of the wall, echoed beautifully in themosaic backsplash above the stove, sparks the room’scontemporary new look. Photography by Dan Cutrona
Location: Duxbury, Massachusetts
Design: Cameron Snyder and Judy Whalen, RoomscapesLuxury Design Center/Kitchen Concepts, Rockland,Mass., (781) 616-6400, www.roomscapesinc.com
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“The penny-roundmother-of-pearl shades ofthe hanging lights speak
to the mosaic back-splash and add a bit ofshimmer.” —Judy Whalen
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ALL IN THE FAMILY
The look is fresh, fun and casual in this kitchen for ayoung family. Pristine white and sparkling stainless steelform a backdrop that lets bright touches like the navy-blue cabinets and hand-block-printed orange polka-dotroman shades stand out. Photography by Nat Rea.
Location: Providence
Interior design: Courtney Taylor, Taylor Interior Design,Providence, (401) 274-1232, www.taylorinteriordesign.com
“The goal was a kitchen that works for a family to
prepare simple, casualmeals but also for turning
out exquisite meals forcompany.” —Courtney Taylor
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Trade SecretsWho’s doing what, when, where and how in the New England design businessBY LOUIS POSTEL
example, this magazine’s logo. What are those little extrabits coming off the edges of the N, the E, the H and so on?Call Editor Hoepner and get him to clean them up! We’reonly teasing, of course. We actually like those little bits—they even have a name: serifs. We like them because theyremind us of the marks made by a man chiseling lettersinto stone. You could call them flaws, but we prefer to seethem as signs of individuality, imperfections that couldonly come from a sweaty, skilled hand attached to a highlyconcentrated mind. Individuality is in the DNA of the de-sign business, after all. The very definition of custom is “notoff the shelf.” Sad to say, achieving nonconformity in ourmass-market, wrinkle-free culture remains a struggle. Con-sider the perfectly spherical, electric-green Granny Smithapples arrayed in so many interior design spreads. Who canargue with such perfection? Compared with the bruised,misshapen little devils at the farmer’s market, it’s a no-brainer. But if we in the design community find factory-produced flawlessness hard to resist, how do we convinceour clients that the handmade, custom piece, with all its in-evitable imperfections, is the way to go?
• • •Peter Polhemus of Polhemus Savery DaSilva ArchitectsBuilders in Chatham, Massachusetts, is custom all the way.“When I was in architecture school I began to see and un-
derstand the vast range of human experience it was possibleto express through design,” Polhemus says. “On Pleasant Bayin North Chatham, there’s a house designed by my partnerJohn DaSilva where the spaces are especially inspirational.Think Alvar Aalto meets Antoni Gaudí. What could havebeen an ordinary sunroom, for example, is like a chapelshimmering with light from the sea. John designed whitegothic arches rising to a geometric ceiling, all in rich cedar.Our finish carpenters did an amazing job in precisely align-ing and angling those cedar boards to a point where theymeet at a skylight.” You’d have to look pretty hard to see any-thing less than perfect here.
• • •Seventeen years ago DJ Travers began work at South ShoreMillwork in Norton, Massachusetts, sweeping floors. Todayhe is the plant manager, with 40,000 climate-controlled feetof lumber and computerized machinery at his disposal.Where does craftsmanship come in?For Travers, it’s everywhere. “Take adoor. You can tell a production doorright away because they come off themachine with rounded holes to accom-modate cheaper hardware. A high-enddoor is all squared off. For that we needa guy with a chisel,” Travers says. “Themachinery salesmen come in and say,‘There you go—all you have to do is press a button.’ But ittakes a fine craftsman to operate the machine, someonewho knows what the piece is supposed to look like. Thatkind of knowledge takes years of working by hand.”
• • •Design impresario Karla Little founded the Fine Furnish-ings & Fine Craft Show in Providence, where the sixteenthannual event takes place October 21–23. “Custom,” saysLittle, “is the new vintage.” What’s new with her exhibitors?“Housing for electronics that doesn’t look like an entertain-ment center, like automated bookshelf tops bringing upflat-screen TVs,” she says. Also, “tables with hidden, easy-to-use leaves for expanding families, custom pieces to holdgrowing collections. And stools of all kinds.”
• • •New to the Providence show this year will be thirty or so
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woodworking full-time. He is seeing theimpact of NBSS’s Preservation Carpentryprogram all over New England. “A lot ofhistoric stuff just got trashed in the past.Especially the molding around doorswould just get ripped out to make roomfor more modern doors,” he says. Hispreservation carpenters, on the otherhand, use old tools to mill perfect replicasof the original molding designs.
• • •June was a big month for designer KristenRivoli: she won both an IIDA New Eng-land award for “Best Private Residence”and the Perspectives in Design award for“Best Interiors: New Construction.” Re-cently, the Winchester, Massachusetts, de-signer shopped a lot of machine-made car-pets for a stair runner and foyer. Finally,she and her clients worked with StevenKing at the Boston Design Center to createa hand-tufted rug. Chocolate-brown withtaupe interlocking squares and rectangles,the rug took eight Nepalese weavers work-ing a single loom months to complete. Youmay recall some concern a few years agothat custom rugs involved child labor inslavery-like conditions in India, Nepal andPakistan. Steven King partners with Good-Weave, a group committed to ending childlabor in the carpet-making industry, andhis Nepalese rugs are GoodWeave certified.
• • •Architect Bill Boehm sent his plans for in-sulated wall panels not to Nepal, but to theDepartment of Corrections here in Massa-chusetts. In a pilot program with theBoston Architectural Center, where Boehmis an instructor, inmates built the panels ata prison workshop. While training in greentechnology skills was a plus for prisonersabout to be released, there was an upsidefor Boehm as well. “It would have been im-practical to take up a master carpenter'stime on the site to make these panels,” hesays. “Having them delivered to the site re-ally helped.” One can see Boehm’s finishedhouse just outside the medium securityprison for women in Framingham. It re-places a trailer used for family visits.
• • •Now if we were truly obnoxious, one couldtake a microscope and check Boehm’s pan-els and Rivoli’s rugs for flaws. And imper-fections there would be: evidence perhapsof a wood knot, or errant sheep whosewool spent the Nepalese night in the rain.But if we’re wise we’ll accept these imper-fections as signs of what Peter Polhemus
calls “the vast range of human experience”and come to love them. •Keep in Touch Help us keep our fingers on the pulse of New England’s design community.Send your news to lpostel @nehomemag .com.
Let no one accuse Hubert Murray of think-ing small. The former president of theBoston Society of Architects andchief architect of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project,Murray has beenbreaking newground in thehealth careworld. In addi-tion to settingup a green hos-pitals programfor PartnersHealthCare, Murray is overseeing thedevelopment of a new and unusualmuseum slated to open its doors inDecember. The Paul S. Russell MDMuseum of Medical History and In-novation will be a stand-alone build-ing on the Massachusetts GeneralHospital campus designed by the ar-chitectural firms Leers Weinzapfel inBoston and Museum Design Associ-ates of Cambridge. “It will be lookingforward as well as backwards,” saysMurray. “Exhibits will include the firstdemonstrated use of anesthetics butalso a futuristic incubator for ThirdWorld countries made entirely ofToyota parts.”
Trade Secrets is happy to provide an updateon a house featured in the 2011 issueof New England Home’s Cape & Is-lands. Husband-and-wife architectur-al team Michele Kolb and EricRosenberg were recently awardedLEED Gold certification for their ownhouse on Nantucket. Making the cer-tification even more special: it’s theisland’s first historic house to earnLEED Gold.
Designer and entrepreneur Jill Goldberg ofthe Hudson showrooms likes to “rein-vigorate.” To celebrate the fifth an-niversary of her shop in Boston’sSouth End this fall, Goldberg is takingover the former Looc Boutiquearound the corner at 12 Union ParkStreet. The move affords her someinteresting niche spaces and an addi-tional 500 square feet. “The frontwall will have a panoramic junglescene in six different colors of gray,hand-painted by de Gournay,” shesays. A loft in the new space will fea-ture a transitional line of custom kids’furniture by ducduc, which manufac-tures its wares in Connecticut.
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historic home on the East Side of Providence for the party tokick off the Providence Preservation Society’s thirty-secondannual FESTIVAL OF HISTORIC HOUSES. The house was inthe early stages of remodeling, so we look forward to beinginvited back to see the sure-to-be-gorgeous results.
It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful setting than the 300-plus bucolic acres of Twin Farms in Barnard, Vermont, whichplayed host to an exclusive preview of the new Pure Artisancollection of glassware from SIMON PEARCE.
The Natick, Massachusetts, showroom of DOVER RUG &HOME hosted celebrity interior designer James
Swan, who signed copies of his book 101Things I Hate About Your House. No
doubt he found plenty to love amongDover’s fabulous rug collection.
Organizers of the BERKSHIREDESIGNER SHOWCASE pulled outall the stops for the show house’s
opening celebration. Ventfort Hall,the Gilded Age mansion in Lenox,
Massachusetts, that has been dressed tothe nines by designers, antiques dealers,
artists and artisans, was further decked out with an Englishcountry picnic theme.
LEKKER HOME marked its debut of two Belgian-designedbut made-in-America lines of furniture by welcoming the col-lection’s designers—Laetitia Low of Marie’s Corner and PaulDelaisse of Central Station—to the South End showroom.
Glamour reigned at the Great Gatsby–themed party theNew England chapter of the INTERNATIONAL FURNISH-INGS AND DESIGN ASSOCIATION (IFDA) threw to honorits new members. Party-goers turned out in 1920s attire andsipped mint juleps poolside as live jazz drifted over the lawnsand gardens of the DeShazo Estate in Milton, Massachusetts.
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IFDA From left to right: Shirin Tahsili, NicoleHogarty and Deborah Berger • Bob Ernst,Vivian Robins and Ray Bachand • KathieChrisicos, Donna Terry and Linda Merrill
BERKSHIRE DESIGNERSHOWCASE From top to bottom: Barry C. Webber •Mary Ann Snyder, Tjasa Sprague andJane Fitzpatrick • Kathleen and ThomasTetro • Anne Undeland • Kelly Wickliff,Thomas Hayes and Kristine Sprague
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Brimfield Antiques ShowThrough September 11This is your last chance in 2011 to visitthe largest antiques show in the coun-try—actually a smorgasbord of abouttwenty privately run shows featuringmore than 6,000 dealers—spread outover a mile in this quaint Massachusettstown. Route 20, Brimfield, Mass.;www.brimfieldshow.com; starts at day-break; check Web site for ticket pricing
Portland Symphony Orchestra’sDesigner Show HouseThrough October 2Seventeen designers and landscapersfrom around Maine were invited totransform fifteen distinct areas of theHamlen House on Portland’s WesternPromenade. The PSO Show Housecombines old and new in coastal de-sign, showcasing the designers’ innova-tive talents and the classic beauty ofPortland, Maine. A Gatsby-themed galapreview party September 9 ($100) kicksthings off. 149 Western Promenade,Portland, Maine; (207) 842-0800;www.portlandsymphony.org; $25
Provincetown Art Associationand Museum’s Annual FallConsignment AuctionThis auction presents vintage fine art byprominent Provincetown artists. A pre-view of the works will be on view Sep-tember 3–19 in PAAM’s galleries andonline. Provincetown Art Associationand Museum, Provincetown, Mass.;(508) 487-1750; www.paam.org; 7 p.m.
The 6th Annual NewportMansions Food & Wine FestivalThrough September 25This upscale weekend experience fea-tures hundreds of wines from around theworld, fabulous food, cooking demon-strations by celebrated chefs, live andsilent auctions and a gala celebration.Special guests include wine editor RayIsle of Food & Wine and television per-sonality and restaurateur Lidia Bas-
tianich. Rosecliff and Marble House,Newport, R.I.; (401) 847-1000;www.newportmansions.org; check Website for ticket pricing
The Golden Ball TavernMuseum’s Outdoor AntiquesShow This annual show features 100 dealersfrom New England, New York, Pennsyl-vania and New Jersey. The Barn of Do-nations will showcase treasures given byfriends of the Golden Ball Tavern. Sat-urday luncheon tickets ($40) includeadmission, a Tavern tour and lunchunder the tent. Tickets to the Friday-night preview party ($85) are availableto Friends of the Tavern. The GoldenBall Tavern Museum, Weston, Mass.;(781) 894-1751; www.goldenballtavern.org; 9 a.m.–4 p.m.; $7
8th Annual Vermont FineFurniture & WoodworkingFestivalThrough September 25This premiere woodworking event com-memorates the traditions and finecraftsmanship of Vermont woodworkersand features wood furniture, bowls, bas-kets, jewelry, carvings, flooring and cab-inetry. A free shuttle runs to the Marsh-
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CalendarSpecial events for people who are passionate about design
Galerie d’OrsayBoston(617) 266-8001 www.galerie-dorsay.comHenri Matisse, Jazz SuiteSeptember 1–30Tuan & SammounOctober 1–31
R. Michelson GalleriesNorthampton, Massachusetts(413) 586-3964www.rmichelson.comLewis Bryden: New WorkOctober 1–December 31
Arden GalleryBoston(617) 247-0610www.ardengallery.comMargaret GerdingSeptember 1–28Sherrie WolfOctober 3–29
Gallery XNew Bedford, Massachusetts(508) 992-2675www.galleryx.orgResplendent in ConvergenceSeptember 7–October 2Low BrowOctober 5–30
Clark GalleryLincoln, Massachusetts(781) 259-8303www.clarkgallery.comAlex MacLeanDonald SaafSeptember 6–October 2Jane Smaldone & Tabitha VeversOctober 4–30
Gallery ZProvidence(401) 454-8844www.galleryzprov.comEwa Romaszewicz: The EmotionalLandscapeSeptember 8–October 1 The Dilakian Brothers, RenaissanceArtists Gagik and HovikOctober 6–November 5
Victoria Munroe Fine ArtBoston(617) 523-0661www.victoriamunroefineart.comVarujan BoghosianSeptember 15–October 29
Send notice of events and gallery shows to Calendar Editor, New England Home, 530 HarrisonAve., Suite 302, Boston, MA 02118, or by e-mail to calendar@ nehomemag. com. Photos andslides are welcome. Please submit information at least three months in advance of your event.
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Billings-Rockefeller National HistoricalPark, where you can enjoy ranger-guid-ed park tours and watch artisan wood-working demonstrations. Union Arena,Woodstock, Vt.; (802) 747-7900;www.vermontwoodfestival.org; 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sun.; $10
OCTOBERThe Exacting Eye of WalkerEvansThrough January 29, 2012This exhibit uses new scholarship to ex-amine the post-Depression-era work ofphotographer Walker Evans. Evans(1903–1975) captured a place in Ameri-can social, cultural and artistic historywith his unforgettable images of theGreat Depression. Florence GriswoldMuseum, Old Lyme, Conn.; (860) 434-5542; www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org;10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tues.–Sat., 1 p.m.–5 p.m.Sun.; $9
Design BostonThrough October 6This annual event at the Boston DesignCenter includes two full days of accred-ited CEU courses, introductions of new collections and products, BDCshowroom celebrations and keynotespeakers. New England Home’s DesignerLuncheon will take place on October 6.To the trade. Boston Design Center,South Boston; (617) 338-5062; www.bostondesign.com; free
Lakes Region Parade of HomesThrough October 10The parade presents the very bestbuilders, developers, tradesmen, re-modelers and related home construc-tion industries. This open-house eventshowcases new, custom, remodeled andmodel homes, all of which have beenprofessionally decorated. Ticket pricealso includes admission to the SouthernNew Hampshire Parade of Homes October 15–16. Locations throughoutNew Hampshire; (603) 228-0351;www.nhparadeofhomes.com; 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; $5
RISD Alumni and Student FallArt Sale Like a large, upscale bazaar, this salefeatures thousands of original items designed by RISD students and alumnifrom around the country and the world.Items include furniture, home acces-
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sories, rugs, jewelry, ceramics and photography. Benefit Street, Providence,R.I.; (401) 454-6618; www.risd.edu; 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Martha’s Vineyard Food andWine FestivalThrough October 15The annual festival celebrates the verybest of the island’s local food and wine,featuring the fresh seafood and producefor which the region is known. An arrayof renowned chefs combine forces to cre-ate seasonal menus that showcase thelocal flavor. Edgartown and Oak Bluffs,Mass.; (508) 280-0080; www.mvfoodandwine.com; check Web site for pricing
Roseland Fine Arts and CraftsFestivalThrough October 16The two-day juried fine arts and craftsshow features 175 artisans and theirwares, including jewelry, woodworking,pottery, glass, paintings and clothing.The festival offers live music, a foodcourt and first-floor tours of the his-toric Roseland Cottage. Roseland Cot-tage, Woodstock, Conn.; (617) 994-5900,ext. 5514; www.historicnewengland.org;10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; $5
Boston Antiques and DesignShow and SaleThrough October 16Browse the wares of a variety of high-quality dealers and see why this eventhas become one of the most popular an-tiques shows in New England. ShrinersAuditorium, Wilmington, Mass.; (781)862-4039; www.neantiqueshows.com; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sun.; $10
Heart of the Home Kitchen TourVisit extraordinary kitchens in distinc-tive historic and contemporary homesthroughout Hamilton, Wenham, Bever-ly and Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massa-chusetts, during the Wenham Museum’sfourth annual Heart of the Home
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Kitchen Tour. Begin or end your tourwith a visit to the cooking hearth in themuseum’s circa-1690 Claflin-RichardsHouse and discover how families livedand cooked more than three centuriesago. Wenham Museum, Wenham, Mass.; (978) 468-2377; www.wenhammuseum.org; 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; $15-$20
The Ellis Boston Antiques ShowThrough October 23After a two-year hiatus, the nationallyknown Ellis Antiques Show returns to Boston with forty outstanding ex-hibitors offering antiques, decorativearts, fine art and jewelry, continuing the tradition of supporting Ellis Memo-rial. A gala preview on Thursdayevening will benefit this important social service agency. The Cyclorama,Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; (617) 363-0405; www.ellisboston.com;1–9 p.m. Fri., 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $15
Fine Furnishings ShowThrough October 23The Fine Furnishings Show is a market-place for exceptional custom furnitureas well as handcrafted home accessoriesand original art. Craftsmen from acrossNorth America will exhibit and selltheir unique artisanal wares. Rhode Is-land Convention Center, Providence;(401) 816-0963; www.finefurnishingsshow.com; 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 10a.m.–5 p.m. Sun.; $10
Gather Up the Fragments: TheAndrews Shaker Collection Through February 5, 2012This exhibition of more than 200 ob-jects from the Andrews Collection willfeature Shaker furniture, printed works,visual art, tools, textiles and small craftcollected over four decades. Drawingfrom the most comprehensive collec-tion of Shaker materials ever assembled,the exhibition will provide insight intothe Andrews’s complex role as pioneersin the field of Shaker studies. PortlandMuseum of Art, Portland, Maine; (207)775-6148; www.portlandmuseum.org; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Thurs. andSat.–Sun., 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Fri.; $10 •
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NICOLE HOGARTYVenegas and Company Stainless-Steel Bar Top “This is not your typical stainless-steel bar top. Thefresh approach mixes a mirror edgedetail with a random, nondirectionalorbital finish on top for a result that is both modern and refined. It’s crafted locally and can be cus-tomized to each project.” BOSTONDESIGN CENTER, (617) 439-8800,WWW.VENEGASANDCOMPANY.COM
ROSE ANN HUMPHREYStarbay Malawi Bar “This beautiful,portable folding bar in marine-var-nished rosewood and leather is areplica of a British salon bar. With itsrolling casters on the bottom, it’sfunctional, great for small spaces andcan be used indoors or out.” THROUGHHOME LIFE BY ROSE ANN HUMPHREY
For Nicole Hogarty, design is aboutreflecting a client’s personal style. Shechose elements for setting up a homebar with the thought of promotingconversation and encouraging gueststo linger. NICOLE HOGARTY DESIGNS,
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RACHEL HAZELTON AND NANCY DUKASCalcutta Marble “White marble is a classic countertop material,reminiscent of a timeworn bar in a Paris cafe. We like Calcutta mar-ble for its dramatic gray veining.”ITALMARBLE COMPANY, LYNN, MASS.,(781) 595-4859, WWW.ITALMARBLE.NET
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RACHEL HAZELTON AND NANCY DUKASWindow Barstool “This stool, whichcomes in leather or Lucite with polishedchrome, is the ultimate in chic. Understat-ed yet fashion-forward, it will complementany interior style, from classic to modern.”JANUS ET CIE, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617)737-5001, WWW.JANUSETCIE.COM
NICOLE HOGARTYQuintus Hamilton Barstool“This stool has it all—beautiful lines, comfort, abit of an armrest and a seatthat swivels just enough for you to enjoy the companyof those all around you.”STUDIO 534, BOSTON DESIGNCENTER, (617) 345-9900,WWW.S5BOSTON.COM
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ROSE ANN HUMPHREYStarbay Queen MaryBarstool “The rosewoodyacht stool with its inlaidcompass rose, leather seatand brass base makes aperfect companion to theMalawi bar.” THROUGH HOMELIFE BY ROSE ANN HUMPHREY
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Barware
NICOLE HOGARTYBulle D’Argent Ice Bucket “This isa stunning example of form andfunction. I love its simplicity andsophistication. You’ll want to keepthis on display even when it’s notbeing used.” CHRISTOFLE, BOSTON,(617) 542-2080, WWW.CHRISTOFLE.COM
ROSE ANN HUMPHREYNorwich Chiller “This piecefrom Simon Pearce keepswine chilled in beautiful fash-ion. It will stand as a focalpoint on any bar.” SIMONPEARCE, BOSTON, (617) 450-8388, WWW.SIMONPEARCE.COM
Rose Ann Humphrey believes thehome should be a restful place, arefuge from the busy outside world.Her clients, she says, feel that “there’sno place like their home, as there isno one just like them.” HOME LIFE BY
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RACHEL HAZELTON AND NANCY DUKASSwarovski Crystalline CocktailGlasses “Instantly add glamourand sparkle to even an informalget-together by serving marti-nis in this fabulous, gleamingstemware.” SWAROVSKI BOU-TIQUE, BOSTON, (617) 578-0705,WWW.SWAROVSKI.COM
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The Harvard University graduate,who also studied at the New YorkSchool of Interior Design, is knownfor distinctive work that blends acontemporary aesthetic with the col-ors, textures and patterns found inthe out-of-doors. “I like bringing na-ture indoors, not only with color, butwith elements of the world beyondour four walls,” she says. “I’m delight-ed by pieces that echo the patternsand textures of the natural world.They keep us connected to natureand help balance us.”
Classic design has its place in Pri-bell’s work, but she introduces fresh,modern twists for a youthful, yetsophisticated, appeal. “My goal,” saysthe designer, “is to help clients trans-form ordinary spaces into extraordi-nary environments. I translate mypassion for color, texture and patterninto spaces that ultimately reflect myclients’ distinctive personalities.”HEIDI PRIBELL INTERIORS, (617) 354-1445,WWW.HEIDIPRIBELL.COM
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1 Ironies Sotto Table“There is nothing in the marketplace like this coffee table. The ice-bluecast-resin top evokes the sensation of water—cool, refreshing and calming.The pattern creates a sense of virtual fluidity. One of my new favorite items,this dynamic piece can sit in any room.” STUDIO 534, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER,(617) 345-9900, WWW .S5BOSTON .COM
2 In a Twist Fabric by Lilly Pulitzer“This richly woven brocade, shown here in Seafoam, features a simple mesh pattern that creates a versatile building block for any interior. I lovethe border where the rope pattern untwists, forming a fringe pattern. I seethis being used as skirting for a sofa or the leading edge of a draperypanel.” LEE JOFA, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 428-0370, WWW .LEEJOFA .COM
3 Kadour Chandelier by Yaron Dekel“I’m fascinated by the shimmer and movement of these mouth-blown pen-dants that seem to capture the fleeting luminescence of bubbles. The de-sign is exquisite, with each bulb nested within a glass sphere covered bygolden gossamer threads and captured again within a second sphere. It isan innovative, dramatic chandelier.” THROUGH HEIDI PRIBELL INTERIORS
4 Swedish Stripe Florence Broadhurst Rug from Cadrys“This dynamic carpet is a great example of how design can be translatedfrom one medium to another. Cadrys used the pattern and colors of anoriginal Florence Broadhurst wallpaper to create a woven carpet that wouldmake a stunning foundation for a large space such as a living room.” STEVENKING, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 426-3302, WWW .STEVEN KINGINC .COM
5 Nervous System’s Hyphae Lamp“This lamp is an imaginative interpretation of nature. The intricate forma-tions of leaf veins are very organic, and no two lamps are exactly the same.The shadows it casts make it a perfect ‘mood’ light and a wonderful choicefor a bedroom.” SHUTESBURY, MASS., (347) 637-8311, HTTP://N-E-R-V-O-U-S.COM
6 Osborne & Little’s Nizam Wallpaper“Paisleys are timeless, but this one is also playful and unexpected in its boldscale. What I admire most is the balance of a complex color scheme, drawnwithout incorporating any field colors. I would love to see this add some‘wow’ to an entrance foyer.” BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 737-2927, WWW.OSBORNE AND LITTLE .COM
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Perspectives • It’s PersonalFavorite finds from the staff of New England Home
Stacy Kunstel, Homes EditorYears ago when I first moved to New Hamp-shire, artist Holly Alderman showed me a historic home on the shores of Dublin Lake.As we walked through the generously sizedrooms hung with art, I couldn’t help but noticethe historic hand-blocked Dufour wallpaperand its infinite tones of gray. The house as itwas no longer exists, but the images from thewalls live on in a new collection by Holly soldexclusively through Antiques on Five. The digitized scenes can be custom-colored andscaled to fit your needs, and can be printedon paper, fabric, mirrors or glass, giving de-sign professionals multiple ways to delightclients with a piece of period design in newform. PRICED ON FOOTAGE OR YARDAGE OF SCENE.BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 951-0008, WWW.ANTIQUESON5.COM
Kyle Hoepner, Editor-in-ChiefIn case anyone still doubts that social networking—that is, the universeof Facebook, Twitter and similar online generators of conversation andconnections—can in fact be functional, consider the following circulartale. Last May, while in New York City to attend the International Con-temporary Furniture Fair, I found myself also dropping in on a partycosponsored by #DesignTV, a lifestyle chat group on Twitter. I was in-vited to this event by @abcddesigns (otherwise known as Amy Beth, aNew York– and Connecticut-based artist, designer, stylist and blogger).During the evening I met Karen Young of Hammocks & High Tea(@HammocksHighTea) and got to know a bit about her tex-tile studio in Brooklyn that produces beautiful, eco-friendly textiles with a fresh take on global—particularly Caribbean—designsensibilities. But . . . wereYoung’s fetching products,such as the Masai napkinshown at right, available inNew England? Well, yes, at theSouth Boston premises of@TwelveChairs, another node inour mutual online network. $60/FOUR.TWELVE CHAIRS, BOSTON, (617) 701-3496,WWW.TWELVECHAIRSBOSTON.COM
Paula M. Bodah, Senior EditorThe dramatic new Bill Sofield Collection of furniture forMcGuire is nothing short of show-stopping. Just look atthe modern, sophisticated silhouette of the MustiqueSedan Chair. Sofield was inspired by his memories of trav-eling in Europe when he designed this chair, hand-wovenfrom Danish cord and supported by long, sleek satin wal-nut legs. The soft welting that runs along the arms andedges gives it a lovely, finished look, and the cushiony up-holstered seat and back make it supremely comfortable.The fifteen-piece collection also includes a slipper chair,lounge chair, sectional sofas and dining chairs, all just asbeautifully crafted. It would be a no-brainer to outfit asunroom in the collection, but the pieces would lookequally handsome in the living room. $4,796. M-GEOUGH,BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 451-1412 WWW.M-GEOUGH.COM
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DRAMATIC LICENSEPAGES 104–111Architects: Peter James Breese AIA, with
Matt Coffey, Debra Cedeno and Jessica Cook,
Breese Architects, Vineyard Haven, Mass.,
(508) 693-8272, www.breesearchitects.com
Interior designers: Peter Breese with Kristen
Ellsworth, Interiors Studio Martha’s Vineyard,
Vineyard Haven, Mass., (508) 693-8220, www
.interiorsstudiomv.com
Interior design consultant: Liz Stiving-Nichols,
Martha’s Vineyard Furniture Company, (888)
305-7891, www.mvfurnitureco.com
Builders: Mark Baumhofer and Keith Estes,
Baumhofer Builders, Edgartown, Mass., (508)
693-8220
Millwork: South Shore Millwork, Norton, Mass.,
(508) 226-5500, www.southshoremillwork.com
Landscape designers: Breese Architects and
Carly Look, Carly Look Design, West Tisbury,
Mass., (508) 693-9608
Landscape contractor: Josh Kochin, Land-
scope, Edgartown, Mass., (508) 696-8812,
www.landscopeinc.com
Pages 104–105: Windows, doors and sliders
throughout house fabricated by Dynamic Win-
dows, www.dynamicwindows.com.
Pages 106–107: Sofas by Flexform, www
.flexform.it; fabric by Cowtan & Tout, www
.cowtan.com; cocktail and side tables by Hud-
son Furniture, www.hudsonfurnitureinc.com;
swivel chair by Jae Omar Design, www .jae omar
design.com, with fabric by Cowtan & Tout;
built-in sofa designed by Breese Architects,
fabricated by Marty Harris Furniture, www
.marty harris furniture.com; pillows designed by
Liz Stiving-Nichols, fabricated by Destiny Interi-
ors, (508) 627-6900; pillow fabrics by Kravet,
www.kravet.com, Cowtan & Tout, Sanderson,
www.sanderson-uk.com, Manuel Canovas,
www.manuelcanovas.com, Rogers and Gof-
figon, (203) 532-8068, and Duralee, www
.duralee .com; built-in TV cabinet designed by
Breese Architects, fabricated by South Shore
Millwork; lamp by Arteriors, www.arteriors.com;
deck furniture from Restoration Hardware,
www.restorationhardware.com.
Pages 108–109: “Koi” chandelier by Nikolas
Weinstein Studios, www.nikolas.net; dining
table designed by Interiors Studio Martha’s
Vineyard, fabricated by Hudson Furniture;
dining chairs from Constantini Design, www
.constantini design.com, with fabric from
Brentano, www.brentanofabrics.com; rug from
Chilewich, www.chilewich.com; built-in dining
server designed by Breese Architects, fabricat-
ed by Marty Harris Furniture; kitchen island
countertop is Concetto semi-precious stone by
Caesarstone, www.caesarstone.com, fabricated
by John Mello, The Mello Company, (802) 345-
0773; island base designed by Breese Archi-
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tects, fabricated by Gary Harcourt, Against The
Grain Cabinets, (508) 693-7414; counters by
Caesarstone; kitchen table designed by Breese
Architects, fabricated by Gary Harcourt,
Against The Grain Cabinets; kitchen chairs
from Hudson Furniture with neoprene fabric
by Knoll, www.knoll.com; lighting from Rocky
Mountain Hardware, www .rocky mountain
hardware.com; hanging cabinets designed by
Breese Architects with metal hangers fabricat -
ed by David Tonnesen, www .david tonnesen
.com, and glass fabricated by Bendheim Glass,
www.bendheim.com; appliances by Viking,
www.viking.com; backsplash by Green River
Stone, www.greenriverstone.com; cabinet hard-
ware from Rocky Mountain Hardware; sea-
stone tile floors in connecting hall fabricated by
Matrix-Z, www.matrix-z.com; bio-glass counter-
top fabricated by John Mello, The Mello Com-
pany; sconces and plumbing fixtures from
Rocky Mountain Hardware; built-in designed by
Breese Architects, fabricated by South Shore
Millwork; pillows designed by Liz Stiving-
Nichols, fabricated by Destiny Interiors; pillow
fabrics from F. Schumacher, www .fschumacher
.com, Cowtan & Tout and Osborne & Little,
www.osborneandlittle.com.
Page 110: Sconces and plumbing fixtures from
Rocky Mountain Hardware; pendants from
Bocci Lighting, www.bocci.ca; bathtub from
Wet Style, www.wetstyle.com; sinks from Laca-
va, www.lacava.com; wall and floor stone tile
from Martha’s Vineyard Tile Co., www .mvtileco
.com; bio-glass countertop produced by White
Diamond Bio Glass, www.coveringsetc.com,
fabricated by John Mello, The Mello Company;
swivel chairs by Martha’s Vineyard Furniture
Company with fabric by Kravet; ottoman from
West Elm, www.westelm.com; wallpaper from
Weitzner Limited, www.weitznerlimited.com;
bed designed by Breese Architects, fabricated
by Marty Harris Furniture; mattress from Select
Comfort, www.selectcomfort.com; bedding
from Calvin Klein, www.calvinklein.com; built-
ins designed by Breese Architects, fabricated
by South Shore Millwork; pillow fabric from
Kravet, Cowtan & Tout and Zoffany, www
.zoffany.com.
Page 111: Pool furniture from Frontgate,
www.frontgate.com, and Gloster, www .gloster
.com; rug from Pottery Barn, www .pottery barn
.com; planter from Design Within Reach,
www.dwr.com; grill from Viking, www .viking
.com; grill base designed by Breese Architects,
fabricated by Bill Nash, Nash Woodworking,
(508) 693-3666.
SMOOTH OPERATORPAGES 112–119Interior designer: Dalia Tamari, Dalia Kitchen
Design, Boston Design Center, (617) 482-2566,
www.daliakitchendesign.com
Builder: Paul Dudley, Dudley Builders, Canton,
Mass., (781) 828-5017, www.dudleybuilders.com
Painter: Leo McSweeney, Lexington, Mass.,
(781) 862-1016
Page 112–113: Sofas from Fendi, www .fendi
.com; armchairs from Webster & Company,
www.websterco.com, with fabric from F. Schu-
macher, www.fshumacher.com; glass-base lamp
from Blanche P. Field, www.blanchefield.com;
demilune by Mark David, www.markdavid.net;
sisal rug and black rug from Stark Carpet,
www.starkcarpet.com; all small tables from
Holly Hunt, www.hollyhunt.com; mirror from
Antiques on 5, www.antiqueson5.com; curtains
fabricated by Cathy Crist, www.cathycrist.com.
Page 115: Dining chairs from Webster & Com-
pany; dining table from Holly Hunt.
Pages 116–117: Flooring from HandyDeck Sys-
tems, www.handydeck.com; sofas from Design
Within Reach, www.dwr.com; dining tables and
chairs from Frontgate, www.frontgate.com; ta-
bles from Restoration Hardware, www
.restoration hardware.com; plantings and main -
tenance by Winston Flowers, www .winston
flowers.com; custom planters from The Chan-
dler Company, www.thechandlercompany.com.
Page 118: Nightstands from Dalia Kitchen De-
sign; night lights from Restoration Hardware;
upholstery fabric from Webster & Company;
chest from Holly Hunt; shutters from Back Bay
Shutter Company, www.backbayshutter.com.
Page 119: Range and hood from La Cornue,
www.lacornue.com; refrigerator and freezer
from Sub-Zero, www.subzero-wolf.com; oven,
coffee machine and dishwasher from Miele,
www.miele.com; microwave from Sharp, www
.sharp usa.com; pendant lights from Dalia
Kitchen Design; backsplash tile from Tile
Showcase, www.tileshowcase.com; cabinets,
pulls and counters from Mark Wilkinson, www
.mwf .com.
DOWN EAST MEETS DOWNTOWNPAGES 120–129Architect: Paul G. Gosselin, Salmon Falls Archi-
tecture, Biddeford, Maine, (207) 283-4247,
www.salmonfallsarch.com
Interior designer: Dennis Duffy, Duffy Design
Group, Boston, (617) 542-2074, www .duffy
design group.com
Builder: Brian Sleeper, Period Design Restora-
tion, York, Maine, (207) 451-1593, www .period
design restoration.com
Landscape designer: Jacquelyn Nooney Land-
scape, Eliot, Maine, (207) 439-6075, www
.jnlinc.com
Pages 124–125: Entry rug from Steven King,
www.stevenkinginc.com; living room rug from
Riyani LLC, (201) 226-9822; Preston coffee
table from D SCALE, www.dscalemodern.com;
Preston ottoman from D SCALE with Great
Plains fabric, www.hollyhunt.com; Jonesy chairs
from D SCALE with fabric from Henry Calvin,
www.calvinfabrics.com; sectional designed by
Duffy Design Group; Nessen floor lamps from
Wolfers Lighting, www.wolfers.com; sheer cur-
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rics by J. Robert Scott, www.jrobertscott.com,
and Corragio, www.corragio.com; Kofod Larsen
credenza from Neven & Neven Moderne,
www.nevenmoderne.com; pillows designed by
Duffy Design Group; side table from Noonan
Antiques, www.noonanantiques.com; fireplace
surround designed by Duffy Design Group,
fabricated by Stone Source, www .stone source
.com; gourd-shaped table lamp from Antiques
on 5, www.antiqueson5.com; Spring Street
table lamp, patent leather oval stool and oval
mirror from D SCALE; track lighting from
Lightolier, www .lightolier .com; sun room rug
from Stark, www.starkcarpet.com; custom sofa
from Summer Hill, www.summerhill.com,
through Duffy Design Group, with fabric by J.
Robert Scott; standing lamps from Hudson
Furniture, www.hudsonfurnitureinc.com; nest-
ing tables from D SCALE; X table from Julian
Chichester, www.julianchichester.com; Montana
lounge chairs, York ottoman and Butterfly arm-
chairs from JANUS et Cie, www.janusetcie.com,
with fabric from Zimmer and Rhode, www
.zimmer-rhode.com.
Pages 126–127: Carlotta dining chair from
Andreu World America, www .andreu world
america.com, with fabric by Bergamo,
www.bergamofabrics.com; dining table and
custom buffet designed by Duffy Design
Group through D SCALE; custom curved ban-
quette designed by Duffy Design Group
through D SCALE with seat material from
Kravet, www.kravet.com; back fabric from
Maharam, www.maharam.com; area rug from
Riyani, LLC; Kevin Reilly sconces from Holly
Hunt; Arctic Pear chandelier from Ochre Light-
ing, www.ochre-net; powder room sconces
from Phoenix Day, www.phoenixday.com; wall -
covering by Maya Romanoff, www .maya
romanoff .com; captain’s mirror from BDDW,
www.bddw.com; kitchen runner from Stark
Carpet; custom cabinetry by Atlantic Design
Center, www.atlanticdesignctr.com.
Page 128: Rug from Steven King; custom night
tables from Duffy Design Group with hardware
from York Street Studio, www.yorkstreet.com;
bench from Cumberland Furniture, www
.cumberland furniture.com; Presidio table lamp
from Boyd Lighting, www.boydlighting.com;
drapery fabric from Pindler & Pindler, www
.pindler .com; sitting room tub chair from ICON
Group, (617) 449-5506; Jonathan round table
from Hudson Home, www.hudson-home.com;
cowhide rug from diseño bos, www .diseno
bos.com.
Page 129: Washstand from Waterworks,
www.waterworks.com; medicine cabinet from
Robern, www.robern.com; curtain by Duffy
Design Group in Glant fabric, www.glant.com;
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A.J. Rose Carpets 103American Society of Interior Designers 174Arco, LLC 153Ardente Supply Company 81Atlantic Design Center 10–11Back Bay Shutter Co., Inc. 95Barbara Bahr Sheehan Interior Design 29BayPoint Builders 31Belongings 163Boston Architectural College 165Boston Design Center 17Bradford Design, Inc. 28Breese Architects 142California Closets 102Catalano Architects, Inc. 4–5Charles Spada Interiors 6–7Clarke Distributors 67Classic Kitchens & Interiors 80Coldwell Banker Previews International
168–169Colony Rug Company Inside back coverThe Converse Company Realtors 172Cornice Realty 172Cottage and Bungalow 155Creative Art Furniture 14Crestron Electronics, Inc. 19Cumar, Inc. 34Cutting Edge Systems 84Dalia Kitchen Design 153David Sharff Architect, P.C. 55Decorating Den Interiors 151Domus, Inc. 50Dover Rug 51Ellis Boston Antiques Show 145F.H. Perry Builder 23Ferguson 64Fine Furnishings & Fine Crafts Show 167First Rugs, Inc. 149Furniture Consignment.com 173The Granite Group 82Gregory Lombardi Design 24Hope’s Windows 25Howell Custom Building Group 39Hudson 30Hutker Architects 97Installations Plus, Inc. 69J Barrett & Company Real Estate 171J. Todd Galleries 61Jeff Soderbergh 26Jenn-Air 15Kelly Taylor Interior Design 159Kitchen Views 57Landry & Arcari 86–87LDa Architects & Interiors 83League of N.H. Craftsmen 161Leslie Fine Interiors, Inc. 2–3, 99Lou Lou’s Decor 175Lynn Creighton Realtor 172Marble and Granite, Inc. 71Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival 174
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Martha’s Vineyard Interior Design 155
Marvin Windows 59
Maverick Integration Corp 159
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams 1
Molly McGinness Interior Design 173
Morehouse MacDonald & Associates 33
New England Architectural Finishing 157
Northern Lights Landscape 147
Patrick Ahearn Architect, LLC 45
Peabody Supply Company 73
Pellettieri Associates, Inc. 44
Peterson Party Center, Inc. 163
Polhemus Savery DaSilva 150
Prospect Hill Antiques 53
Quidley & Company 47
R.P. Marzilli & Company, Inc. 152
RiverBend & Company 75, 157
Robert Wallace Real Estate 172
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RPM Carpets 141
Sally Weston Associates 27
Sanford Custom Homes 49
SEA-DAR Construction 166
Shade & Shutter Systems, Inc 161
Snow and Jones 37
South Shore Millwork 41
Stonegate Gardens 56
Sudbury Design Group 12–13
Sundries Furniture 165
Susan Dearborn Interiors 32
Susan Shulman Interiors 43
Taste Design, Inc. 166
Thomas J. O’Neill, Inc. 21
Thoughtforms 18
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Toto 77
Triad Associates, Inc. 62
Walker Interiors 143
Wayne Towle Master Finishing & Restoration8–9
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William Raveis Real Estate 170
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Woodmeister Master Builders 91
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