Inside the May-June 2011 Issue
Party Photos
On June 22, 2011, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams hosted a cocktail reception for New England Home’s advertisers at their Boston showroom.
Featured Homes
Who isn’t familiar with the snowball effect? A minor home improvement project—swapping out an entry door, say—culminates in a stone terrace, a pergola and spruce topiaries....
Nannette Lewis approaches design with more instinct than calculation. For example, this subtle, yet captivating interior in one of Boston’s superb contemporary Back Bay...
The word charming might not be the first term that comes to mind when one pictures a house with eight bedrooms and a five-car garage. Grand—perhaps even palatial—may seem...
“A love affair.” That’s how the owners, designers and builder of this 10,000-square-foot residence describe the collaboration that went into transforming a tree-filled...
Design Ideas, Homes and Gardens, Great Outdoors
Nature may not be composed strictly of flat planes, straight lines and perfect circles, but you can’t find fault its own unique innate geometry. There is beauty in its...
Designers’ Picks, Industry Insider, Designer Picks
The exuberance with which Martin Potter and Jon Hattaway approach both life and design shows up in living color in their work. Their Web site, for example, shows a sitting...
Artistry, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans
“People say you are what you eat. I think it’s that you are what you eat on.” The man who utters that slightly skewed version of the old adage is ceramic artist Mark Shapiro...
Interviews
Fresh from the successes of organizing 2010’s inaugural Maine Prize for Architecture and the Storefront for Architecture exhibition, Maine Modern: 50 Years of Modern...
Design Ideas, Art and Style, Trends and Ideas
I did not know Edward Barnes well, but our paths crossed on several occasions. Not long before he died, he and Mary Barnes came to Haystack to meet with my architecture...
Trade Secrets
As Tom Cruise begins filming Rock of Ages in New York this spring, droves of idling extras will be pondering an all-consuming question: is the ageless actor wearing shoe...
Design Discoveries, Art and Style, Resource Discoveries
When our daughter, Fanny, was about three, we decided to convert her nursery into a bona fide bedroom. As long as her beloved stuffed clown, Ollie, and her Madeline books...
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New England Home showcases the unique architecture and superior design and building that define the luxury home in New England. From cutting edge lofts to historic dwellings, New England Home is your guide to the very best of New England style. Each issue includes beautifully produced images of our area’s most amazing homes, along with profiles of artists and artisans and all the latest resources and design trends.