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Kips Bay Show House

“The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind,” wrote Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of…

Cultural Explorations Historical Design Travel

Rococo Style in Italy

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If I told you the most surprising thing I found in Parma, Italy, was France, would you think I’d lost my mind? I’m not speaking…

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Poem at Streamsong

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I’m visiting Streamsong Resort near Tampa to experience the natural beauty and incredible architecture, the latter created by Alberto Alfonso, who was featured in my…

Conservatory at NY Botanical Garden on a bright summer day

Furniture Design Garden Design Nature Writing

Beatrix Farrand Gardens

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Powerful things happen in a garden. Beyond the miracle of riotous color and the vibrancy of burgeoning life, momentous occurrences have transpired on the garden…

Art Cultural Explorations

Insiders in Outsider Art

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There’s a backbone of stubbornness running through the south. It skirts along the undulant edges of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains toward the foothills of the Cumberland…

Architecture Books

Creation’s Patient Search

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The title of this post references a book penned by the lauded Swiss architect Le Corbusier, first published in 1960. In all honesty, it’s more…

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Taking a Page (or Two) from Eudora Welty Books

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Taking a Page (or Two) from Eudora Welty Books “Why don’t you design a chair, Saxon?” My normal response to the question, posed by the…

Films Furniture Design Television Series

A Jet Set Fantasy

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When the Bernhardt Jet Set buffet flowed through the raucous column of my Tweetdeck during the #HPMkt Twitter chat on the evening of March 12th, I chased…