Winter 2018

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Homes and Gardens

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Editor’s Say
AS A COMPANY based in Houston, we witnessed first hand the destruction and loss of thousands of homes in our area. Then over the following months, we watched as even more homes were destroyed by storms and wildfires elsewhere in the world. Amid crise
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Featured Designers
Working in consort with his life/work partner, Jason Flinn, Serge Castella is known as a distinctive interior designer, product designer, and antiques dealer. Though born in France, Castella has long been based in Spain. His and Flinn’s projects are
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Architecture as Art
Two kinds of architecture prevail in the Massachusetts Berkshires—the manmade and the natural. The skyline profile of the forested namesake mountains undulates for many miles, with the range culminating in North Adams at Mount Greylock, the state’s h
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Crystal Clear
Entering the Baccarat Hotel New York begins a study in the art of crystal making. And just as in that ancient trade, it starts with fire. A single flame, encased in glass as to be seen from both the street and the foyer, recalls the fires of the clay
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Maison Mignon
Kimberly von Koontz designs things that grow. Dahlias, carnations, daisies, and varieties of meadow grasses are just some of the many things she cultivates and lives with— and shares with others for whom she designs. After years of working in women’s
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Holiday Traditions
For her Madrid home, designer Isabel López-Quesada always wants the décor to be, as she says, “lavish, happy, and full of life without any of it lessening the importance of the Christmas tradition.” Every year, she incorporates natural elements she f
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Dream Weavers
Wicker. The very word conjures images of sculptural woven sofas and lacy high-backed chairs stationed along a wide porch. “Wicker has very romantic connotations, it’s incredibly relaxed,” says Lulu Lytle, an owner of the London-based company Soane, w
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By The Sea
THE FIRST THING a father’s two teenage daughters said upon his buying a dilapidated century-old-plus fisherman’s house as a weekend retreat was, “We will never go there.” But once the work by designers Serge Castella and Jason Flinn was complete, the
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Balancing Act
SUZANNE TUCKER FOUND the perfect project. For her clients in San Francisco, the second home she has created for the husband and wife couple, she was allowed to do what pleases her most professionally. “I’m passionate about architecture, and so, for m
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A Life In Lisbon
TASTEMAKERS WHO KNOW Victoria Fernandez well see her as someone who never follows fashion, but rather inspires it. “When I moved from London to Paris several years ago, I sold all my brightly colored clothes at auction at Christie’s, in what was refe
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Open House
SOME INTERIOR DESIGN DECISIONS are not just about color and pattern, texture and treatment. They can be about something as mundane as having clients who sneeze too much. But a good designer must respond to all of the variables of a project to make it
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On Calm Waters
ARCHITECT JEFFREY DUNGAN remembers the design challenge. He was asked by a couple to create their vacation home on scenic Lake Martin in Alabama and when he took his first look at the lot, steeply cascading down to the water’s edge, he now recalls sa
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Treasured RETREAT
THE HOUSE IN THE HILLS of northwestern Connecticut is a picture of New England rectitude—white clapboard siding, slate roof, stone chimneys, dormers, and fanlights. It’s all genteel and proper. But the interiors of the spacious home present a much di
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Go Shopping
Ballgown: Chaparral, W01025/03, Color: Antique Brass, JIM THOMPSON, jimthompsonfabrics.com. Trim and belt: Cable Chain Border, ADELPHI PAPER HANGINGS, adelphipaperhangings.com. Written by: David Masello. Photography: Simon Brown, simonbrownphotograph
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Elizabeth Chambers Hammer
WHAT CAN’T YOU RESIST AT YOUR BAKERIES? It’s always a tie between our carrot cake, lemon squares, and banana pudding. In terms of savory foods, I love our California turkey and the pimento cheese with crackers. BEST ADVICE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN? From my

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