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.