By CHRISTOPHER MASON :ALNWICK, England
“THE criticism I’ve had is just massive,” said the Duchess of Northumberland, as she led a visitor through the Bamboo Labyrinth of Alnwick Garden. “It’s really staggering the way that Britain views this project. They said I am to gardens what Imelda Marcos is to shoes.”
ancestral home, Bamboo Labyrinth of […]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by admin
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On Location : By FRED A. BERNSTEIN
New Paltz, N.Y.
ON a recent afternoon, Barry Wine ladled out thick, homemade clam chowder to friends gathered around his marble kitchen island. Then he poured the leftovers into a steel canister and inserted the canister into his Pacojet, a $4,000 machine that will make ice cream out of nearly […]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by admin
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On Location : By ALASTAIR GORDON
BEACH Lake, Pa.
THE 21st century peels away along the half mile of Mildred’s Lane, a rutted red dirt drive that winds among trees and rocky outcroppings in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania. The road ends in a turnaround, beyond which stand several wooden buildings of indeterminate age. Even the tousle-haired […]
Posted on May 31st, 2008 by admin
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By JOYCE WADLER : ADMIT it: You do not regard contractors as sensitive creatures. There are times you are not even sure they are quite human. They track all that dirt into your house. They seem unable to clean up after themselves after a day’s work. They are unaware that you have a life, a […]
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by admin
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By PENELOPE GREEN : THE other day, Cody Anderson, an earnest young salesman at Montauk Sofa on Mercer Street, was extolling the many, many virtues of the furniture there while leading me to a buff-colored, chenille-covered, down-filled chaise longue called Stanley. “You want to get right onto it,” he said, taking my bag. “Isn’t that […]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
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By ELAINE LOUIE : LONDON
A GLASS staircase can be a glittering piece of architectural sculpture, a light well for an entire house and a signifier of openness.
It can also be scary.
Kersti Urvois learned that three years ago during a cocktail party at the home she and her husband, Louis, own in Kensington.
Mrs. Urvois, who owns […]
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
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