Inside the July-August 2012 Issue

Artistry, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans

  "Welcome to my world of ideas,” says artist Bunny Harvey, standing amidst hundreds of paintings in her 3,700-square-foot Providence studio. Life-size works (literally—she...

Featured Homes

Recapturing the feel of an old fishing cottage where every nook and cranny, every creak and squeak, are known only too well by its occupants is like trying to recreate the...
Feathers ruffle easily on the Cape when folks mess with old ship captains’ homes—no matter how sea-worn those houses may be. Maritime legacy is sacrosanct, after all, and,...
Memories of summers at the beach have a way of sticking with you, like sand after a dip in the ocean—only you don’t ever want to brush them away. It was this persistence of...
The famed decorator Mark Hampton once wrote that the “concerns of decorating” may appear frivolous and vain to some, but it is “work that has to do with people and beauty...

Homes and Gardens, Special Spaces

Carole and Gordon Hyatt have an adventurous streak. Their careers—his as a documentary filmmaker and hers as an expert on career building and author of several best-selling...
The lovely home of the Wechsler family in Hartford’s West End was the site for the Junior League of Hartford’s Decorator Show House 2012. The stately 1921 house made an...

Design Ideas, Art and Style, Trends and Ideas

Home automation certainly isn’t a new concept, ­although most agree there was little progress between the Harappans inventing flush toilets in 2600 BCE and Hotpoint...

Product Showcase

Furniture Charles Spada has always had a love for antiques, architecture and design. For over two decades now he has shopped the markets of Europe, bringing home a vast...