November-December 2007
For residents of Martha’s Vineyard, having a fireplace, wall or pool terrace created by island stone artisan Lew French is as good as owning a Picasso.
All the best people summered in Newport in the late nineteenth-century, and Marble House, inspired by a French palace, was the first of the grand “cottages” on the city’s mansion row.
A designer gives his Greek Revival home on Boston’s North Shore a bright new look with an eclectic approach that marries period details, Old World inspiration and thoroughly modern influences.
With a renovation and a redesign, a starter home in Marblehead, Massachusetts, becomes the house of a lifetime.











