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I won’t bore you with all the reasons why yet another celebrity portrait and cover line promising killer abs is utterly guaranteed to translate into sales success (or why sales success, like it or not, is what ultimately keeps consumer magazines alive). But I can talk a bit on the subject of what we think about when choosing our own covers.

A potential reader’s first glimpse of a publication, obviously, has a critical effect on whether the book actually gets picked up and read, and it can also greatly influence how the contents of a particular issue are received and feelings about the brand in general. What are the hallmarks of New England Home as a brand? Our mission is to present the world-class work of our region’s residential architects, interior designers and landscape designers—not to mention the creators and purveyors of the myriad covetable components that go into such projects—in a way that is fully in tune with the highest journalistic and visual standards. Although technically we are a regional magazine, in that we cover only six U.S. states, our look and feel are intended to rival the very best national and international design magazines.

So, for us, a successful cover will instantly convey a few basic impressions: intelligence, luxury, design sophistication, sheer gorgeousness. Our cover should make readers yearn to be in the pictured locale. Equally important, it should always exude that indefinable but essential flavor of New England in each of the year’s four seasons.

Do we generally succeed? You’ll have to be the judge. Look back over a few past copies and decide. And, just for fun, I’ll run a post in late January on our design blog (blog.nehomemag.com) showing some of the cover choices we considered for this issue. Feel free to comment there about the process or about how you think we’re doing when it comes to first impressions—I’d love to know.

Judging a Book by its Cover

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everly Farms, Massachusetts, architect John Margolis heads the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA). In conjunction with the chapter’s second annual Bulfinch Awards ceremony at the Massachusetts State House in late November, he talked with New England Home about his and the organization’s engagement with the classical tradition.

Kyle Hoepner: Will you give us a brief history of your interest in and involvement with the ICAA? John Margolis: I have been following the Institute of Classical

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Architecture & Art for twenty or more years. I became actively involved in 2001 and became the New England chapter president three years ago.

KH: For readers who may not be familiar with the organization, what are its mission and programs?

JM: The ICAA is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the practice and appreciation of the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts. The ICAA fulfills its mission through four program areas: education, publication, awards and advocacy. We offer lectures,

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KH: What do you mean by “the classical tradition”? Does classical in this context refer to aesthetic style, or is there a deeper set of ideas or orientations involved?

JM: Classicism is much more than a style.

It is an approach to problem solving at all levels. It is about designing enduring buildings, landscapes, furniture, artwork and fittings that all work together harmoniously as a unity. Understanding the proper use of proportional systems is just as applicable today as it was when the Roman architect Vitruvius and the Italian Renaissance architect Alberti formulated their treatises on architectural theory.

KH: What specifically does the New England chapter do?

JM: Our chapter is primarily an educational resource for architects, landscape architects, interior designers, artisans and people who are passionate about the classical tradition and its influence. We are one of fifteen chapters that comprise the ICAA, and are the first chapter to offer an online certificate course in classical architecture, through the Boston Architectural College.

KH: How are relations between the ICAA and the many other organizations in today’s architectural world—the majority of which, I’d hazard, champion architecture derived from twentiethcentury modernism, or sometimes from vernacular traditions? Do you ever feel looked down on or misunderstood?

JM: The ICAA represents a growing collection of superlative designers and artisans who strive to better the built environment with harmonious designs. We don’t expect everyone to subscribe to our thinking, but we are looking for a seat at the table so our voices can be heard democratically.

Twentieth-century modernism has its place, and for others the chaotic world in which we live is an attractive precedent for a particular kind of design thinking.

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apart from all others—except by its inherent excellence. It needs to stand the test of time long after we are gone and aesthetic tastes have changed.

KH: How does this relate to your own work as an architect?

JM: Almost all of my training was derived from the mid-twentieth-century modernist teachings espoused by the Bauhaus and Walter Gropius. Although this was an invaluable part of my development as an architect, it felt limiting and I wanted to know more about the traditions and precedents influencing some of the greatest American

designs of the past 250 years. And despite being educated in the Midwest and on the West Coast, I kept going back to European precedents, and then to Georgian, Federal and Beaux Arts examples, wondering why no one ever talked about them.

So I traveled, toured, read, sketched and walked until I discovered that the ICAA offered me a chance to develop the skills to better understand the classical language and its influence on design in America. My work as an architect has evolved immeasurably since I learned about the outstanding talent affiliated with the ICAA. KH: What do you see as the future of the classical arts and architecture in our world?

JM: Classicism will always be an integral part of our culture—past, present and future. I think people will always respond to things that are beautifully proportioned, enduring, harmonious in design and that fit seamlessly into their surroundings. The challenge for us is to find new and com-

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Ironically, our current culture tends to dissuade people from finding meaning by looking at the past, but rather encourages disposing of the past and starting anew. In this world of finite resources, real sustainability means finding new uses for old buildings instead of tearing them down, making buildings that last when we build them and learning about the countless ideas that were employed in the past to provide thermal comfort and minimize waste.

Some of the ICAA’s other chapters— particularly Southern California—have been successful in partnering with Habitat for Humanity and creating pattern books for housing that is regionally specific and, above all, affordable. In the last seventy years classicism got a bad rap because it was seen as only for the affluent. Beautiful design should always be accessible to everyone.

KH: Is there anything else you’d particularly like to talk about?

JM: You often hear how architectural designs are “of our time” or “of this century,” when in fact most of them are borrowed from the last seventy years. I suppose that’s okay, but let’s be honest: nothing is ever purely original. Our perspective is shaped by our cultural history and the circumstances that preceded us. Similarly, the classical language has always provided us with enduring examples—sustainable ones—that encourage the reuse of buildings over many generations, and designs that are climatically suited to the demands of a particular region. Look at the Parthenon, one of the most famous classical buildings. It was first a Greek temple, then a basilica and then a mosque! Now that’s adaptive reuse.

Here in the United States, from the double-hung and bay windows on a New England townhouse, to the cupola and columned porches of a southern antebellum home, to the deep covered arcades of a Spanish-style mission in the southwest, many sustainable solutions for natural light, thermal comfort and proper energy use have been in play for years. In all cases they were seamlessly integrated into the design, not tacked on later and labeled “sustainable.” We need to study our historical examples freely and create newly interpreted designs for generations to come. •

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Metal Winners The centuries-old technique of silverpoint finds bold new expression in the luminous works Susan Schwalb creates in her Watertown, Massachusetts, studio. BY CAROLINE CUNNINGHAM

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here’s a compelling duality in the work of artist Susan Schwalb. Her complex and gorgeous images are grounded in the technique of silverpoint, a medium most often associated with Renaissance masters like da Vinci and Raphael, and defined by the need for precision and absolute control. And yet Schwalb’s paintings transcend these traditional limitations. There is inherent rigor in their linearity, but there is also fluidity and abstraction. From a distance, the surfaces appear muted and gentle, like watercolors; up close, their unexpected depth and

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power is almost jarring. Schwalb has pushed the boundaries of a classic form and made it modern—and entirely her own.

Schwalb works on the second floor of a rambling Victorian home in Watertown, Massachusetts, that she shares with her husband, Martin Boykan, a composer and emeritus professor of music at Brandeis. Her drafting table stands by a large window and is surrounded by stacks of art books, catalogues and her own drawings and paintings, an arrangement that reflects her perspective that new images are inspired by an interaction with ones that came before. Although she works in series, Schwalb often begins a composition without any notion of what will evolve. “I even buy tools before I decide what I’m going to do with them,” she says.

There’s nothing passive or haphazard in her approach, however. Instead, it’s an active form of discovery by an artist who Top: Night Vapors diptych admits, “I keep finding (2010), silverpoint and something else to do.” acrylic on wood, 12" × This curious and rest- 26". Left: Parchment XXII (1982), copperpoint, fire, less spirit has driven smoke and wax on claySchwalb throughout her coated paper, 10" 9" × career. “I wanted to be an artist since I was five years old, before I even knew what being an artist meant,” she says.

She grew up in New York City, where she still keeps an apartment. She attended The High School of Music & Art, then earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh, where she majored in design and painting. After graduation, she

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Artistry worked in publishing and advertising as a graphic designer and taught at City College of New York and New Jersey’s Kean College (now Kean University). Schwalb continued to draw and paint on her own, mounting some small exhibitions in SoHo in the early 1970s. Then, during a weekend in the Hamptons, she Right: Road Not saw a friend Taken (2011), silverworking in silverpoint, acrylic and point. “My life black gesso on changed on that wood, 30" × 30".

Below: Incident in day,” she says. the Mist #6 triptych Schwalb started (2011), silverpoint by making deliand acrylic on cate floral drawwood, 30" × 90" ings with a stylus, but soon felt constrained by her own figurative imagery, so much so that she began to tear and burn the edges of her work, as if in protest.

Her technique became increasingly bold and expansive when she combined silverpoint with iridescent gold leaf and acrylic paint. In 1997 she set her stylus aside in favor of applying metalpoint directly onto a prepared surface.

The extraordinary paintings that followed explore the illusion of layering and the lyrical effect of colors that melt into one another or shimmer through a screen of horizontal bands. They also suggest memories of light and landscape—sun filtering through trees at dawn, or moonlight

reflected on a quiet sea—in a way that is at once personal and universal. As Edward Saywell, head of contemporary art and MFA programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, observes, “Her work allows us the freedom and opportunity to arrive at our own understanding of these most beautiful of images.”

Schwalb’s most recent paintings begin with beveled wooden panels that she coats with sealer and gesso before carving thin lines into the surface. She applies several layers 40 New England Home January/February 2012

of acrylic paint, which she then partially erases with sandpaper to uncover slivers of color. Finally, she adds more lines in copper, bronze or silver to intensify the sense of spatial depth. There’s a distinctly sculptural quality to this work, an effect intensified by the tapered panels that appear

to float against a wall. The sparkling gradations of silver and black in Road Not Taken, for example, seem to vibrate with visual and emotional force. The poetic title captures Schwalb’s independent artistic journey as well. She has always been a seeker, and followed her own path. And that has made all the difference. • Editor’s Note Susan Schwalb is represented by Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, (617) 859-0190. To see more of her work, visit www.susanschwalb.com.

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For a couple who enjoys city life during the cooler months, Boston-based designer Meichi Peng creates a space to keep them cozy through the chilly season. TEXT BY ERIN MARVIN • PHOTOGRAPHY BY GREG PREMRU • INTERIOR DESIGN AND INTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: MEICHI PENG • PRODUCED BY KYLE HOEPNER

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A stainless-steel ďŹ replace sits within a travertine surround. On either side, custom walnut millwork offers plenty of hidden storage and open shelving for the owners’ collections of books and antiques. Living room furniture is arranged for easy conversation.

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Meichi Peng designed the circular oak dining table, which expands to seat eight. Facing page top: A custom mirror and lamps hang above a V-shaped dresser that Peng designed for the foyer. Facing page bottom: A floating red lacquer cabinet brightens up the kitchen area.

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or many New Englanders, dropping temperatures send a signal to head south for winter, toward second homes tucked away in warmer climes. The return north happens only after the first crocuses have crept up through the melting snow, their soft yellow and lavender heads heralding spring.

Of course, not everyone flies south for winter. Though they spend much of the year splitting time between houses in Rhode Island and Maine, the owners of this modern condo especially enjoy Boston during the cooler months.

They don’t like to miss the city’s transformation into a winter wonderland, when tiny gold lights sparkle from the treetops along Commonwealth Avenue and bundledup ice skaters spiral around the Frog Pond. Even the Pub-

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lic Garden, bereft of its usual riot of color, is breathtaking under a blanket of snow, the statue of George Washington standing taller than ever when topped with three inches of powder.

Craving the comforts of a full-service luxury building, the couple bought into The Residences at W Boston soon after development began. With construction still in its early phases, they were able to combine a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit with an adjacent studio space. This would allow room for a dining area, a large dressing room in the master suite and a small study off the second bedroom. One of the bathrooms would become a laundry room/pantry area, and the kitchen layout could include a peninsula. A gas fireplace would be added to the living

room, giving the couple a place to snuggle on those cool winter nights.

The owners knew they would need more than just a fire to keep the chill out of the contemporary condo, so they brought in Boston-based designer Meichi Peng to warm up the interiors. Known A neutral palette in the for her almost open living/dining area Zen-like, sophisoff by pops of color. ticated but eminently livable aesthetic, Peng fashioned a floor plan that would fit the owners’ lifestyle, incorporate plenty of storage and take advantage of city views.

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Gray-on-gray sets a serene tone in the guest bedroom. Facing page top: Peng designed the upholstered bench with its subtle herringbone-patterned fabric. Facing page bottom: Taking advantage of every square foot, Peng designed custom cabinetry to create a small study across from the guest bedroom.

Downsizing from a residence that was twice as large meant space to put things was at a premium. Peng met the challenge by adding beautiful millwork throughout the condo, concealing an impressive amount of storage with rich wood accents that also add warmth and depth to the offwhite walls. Lighting was another key element, and Peng incorporated square recessed trimless lights into the ceiling—for ample downlighting during the day and dramatic illumination at night—as well as LED cove lighting in the built-ins.

Four windows stretch across one wall of the apartment: on opposite ends of the condo, they open to the master suite and guest bedroom, respectively, while the two middle windows flood the open living/dining area with light. Snow-covered Boston Common and the Public Garden shimmer in the distance.

A neutral palette in the open living/dining area is set off by pops of color—hues of orange and lavender—and sensual textures—slick lacquer, plush velvet, soft chenille. Gorgeous dark-stained wide-plank floors of ipe wood anchor the space. In the living room, sofas and chairs are clad in a natural taupe linen. Seating is arranged for easy conversation, catching a favorite TV show or just relaxing in front of the fire.

On either side of the travertine fireplace surround, walnut shelves hold beloved leather-bound books and ancient artifacts. “When you’re working in a small space you want to make sure that everything is the right scale and proportion for the room so it’s not overcrowded,” explains Peng. “I tried to keep a balance of light and heavy, while still getting the look and comfort the clients wanted.”

In the adjacent dining room, the curved armchairs gathered around a circular table wear the same linen as the living room furniture. Peng designed the table so that it can expand to seat eight, customizing the chairs so they slide underneath to take up less “My clients wanted it to be space. She also modern but not cold, elegant designed the built-in bar with with a warm palette,” says Peng its large mirror about the design. and two vertical sliding glass doors that open to reveal cabinets for glassware and plates, with felt-lined drawers to protect silverware. A red-lacquered bamboo pillow from the Chin Dynasty sits atop the bar. “The client has a lot of Asian boxes and anJanuary/February 2012 New England Home 75

In the master bedroom, soft chenille pillows and crisp Frette linens invite sweet dreams; motorized blackout shades ensure uninterrupted sleep.

Facing page top: Floating shelves hover above a writing desk against one wall of the master bedroom. Facing page bottom: Even with space at a premium, the master closet doesn’t feel cramped.

tiques and African pieces from her travels, and we just tried to tie it all together,� says Peng.

The kitchen mimics most of those in the building, with top-of-the-line appliances resting among gray lacquer cabinets and granite countertops. Sleek camel-colored leather barstools pull up to the U-shaped peninsula.

Across from the kitchen, a fiery red floating glass cabinet brightens the space.

In the master suite, taupe tone-on-tone stripes of Venetian plaster wrap one wall like an unexpected gift. A purple chenille headboard and matching pillows soften the hard edges of the custom-made wood-and-metal canopy bed, and a striped plum area rug cushions bare feet. Window treatments are motorized sheers, with retractable 76 New England Home January/February 2012

blackout shades at the ready when bedtime grows near. A built-in writing desk spans one wall, with room above for a flat-screen TV and floating shelves for family photos.

Heavy velvet drapery in a lavender-gray adds a feminine touch while separating the bedroom from the master closet. Behind the curtain, a half-moon walnut desk, perfect for applying perfume or checking makeup, sits flush against a mirrored wall. Shelves, cubbies and hanging racks add order to the wardrobe.

Across the condo, the guest room maintains a more masculine feel with a textured gray Venetian plaster accent wall and gray bedding. Though a similar smoky color, the velvet headboard and footboard, waffle-weave throw and silk area rug add depth with their light-reflecting textures.

A camel-hued leather chair holds court in a corner, and twin wall-mounted lamps free up surface space on bedside tables for books and personal mementos. “The clients wanted it to be modern but not cold, elegant with a warm palette,� says Peng of the overall design aesthetic.

Here, temperatures have alTone-on-tone stripes of ready started to Venetian plaster wrap one rise: with its perlike an unexpected gift. fect mix of dark and light, simplicity and sophistication, this Boston condo feels anything but frigid. •

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Resources For more information about this home, see page 132.

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PastPresence A sensitive renovation turns a 1790s colonial in the Berkshires into a welcoming home for the present and future while preserving a warm connection to bygone days.

Text by Paula M. Bodah • Photography by Robert Benson • Architecture: Kristine Sprague • Interior design: Keith Lichtman, KL Interiors • Builder: Matt Donald • Produced by Stacy Kunstel

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ome houses, not unlike people, just seem to be naturally warm in spirit. Such is the case with this handsome 1790s colonial in a tiny town in the Berkshires. Perhaps it’s a reflection of the care and attention the original builders paid to the design and materials. Maybe the walls still hold traces of the familial affection and hospitality that filled it through the years. Or it could be just a happy accident of feng shui. Whatever the reason, the house seems almost to glow with good karma. • This home has been well loved from the very start. One family occupied it for much of its first century of life. In the nineteenth century it became a popular inn, hosting such luminaries as Mark Twain and Grover Cleveland (who, in his post–White House years, enjoyed fishing in the nearby brook). Over time, an ell, a second story, a porch and a kitchen were added on to the original structure, each change only augmenting the house’s charm. In the 1970s, Nat

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The property is a year-round retreat for its owners. Facing page top: The home’s colonial integrity survived a series of additions. Facing page bottom: Remnants of the past remain in original door latches, an old mantel given a new coat of paint and the wooden stair to the second oor.

A reproduction of an 1860s wallpaper adorns the dining room. Facing page top: The old keeping room, now a sitting room, holds a secretary that once belonged to the homeowner’s grandmother. Facing page bottom: The family nicknamed the unknown subject of the painting Uncle Jedediah.

King Cole’s widow, Maria, bought the house and gave it a thoughtful renovation that updated its features without erasing its character. The house changed hands once again, and then, in the early 1990s, a young New York couple, visiting the Berkshires with their infant and toddler sons in tow, happened by it and were smitten. “We had just bought an apartment in the city, so we weren’t really looking for a second home,” the homeowner recalls.

“But it was a beautiful house on a beautiful road in a town we’d always sort of coveted, and the price had just been reduced.”

Husband and wife loved the house just as it was—a lucky thing, since they couldn’t afford to turn it into a showcase. “We had everyone’s leftovers, a total mishmash,” the wife says. “It was fine, because the kids were still writing in crayon on the walls at that point.”

Seventeen years later, with the boys on the verge of adulthood, the couple felt the time was right for a facelift, not just to bring the house into the twenty-first century, but also to make it a suitable year-round retreat now that they were almost empty nesters. Entertaining friends and family is a priority for the pair, so the upgrade they envisioned would include an addition. “Our main need was for a big room for gathering and socializing,” the wife says.

A house with such a storied past deserved a respectful renovation, they felt. They found a like-minded partner in architect Kristine Sprague of Lenox, Massachusetts. Sprague went through the

Trellis-patterned wallpaper and vivid green curtains bring glamour to the master bedroom. Right: The warm orangey hues Lichtman used in the living spaces are echoed in the master suite.

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translation of its colonial roots.

whole house, replacing leaky old windows with new six-over-sixes, modernizing the bathrooms and giving all the fireplaces new stone surrounds, hearths and mantels. The biggest part of the job, however, was the new great room, a space of about 750 square feet with soaring double-height ceilings and a full basement.

Such a large room wouldn’t have been found in a Colonial-era home, of course, but like all the people who added to the house before her, Sprague devised a way to make the new section look and feel thoroughly integrated. Mirroring the old house’s postand-beam construction, Sprague applied a textured Venetian plaster to the room’s walls and ceiling, then added old-looking fir beams. “If I only need a couple of old beams I can usually find them,” she says, “but in this case we needed so many, I used new beams and had them distressed to look old.”

At a salvage yard in Hudson, New York, she found the antique half-round windows that sit high on the great room’s walls, flooding the space with light. The room’s focal point is the fireplace, with its herringbone brick interior and wide fieldstone surround that narrows as it rises to meet the ceiling.

New York City designer Keith Lichtman, who worked with the couple on their urban apartment, was happy to be invited to dress up the interiors in their country house. “Of course,” he says, “this house has an entirely different vibe from their city home. Design has to be about respecting the architecture of a home.”

This home called for a design that is traditional at its core but not a literal interpretation of its colonial roots, he explains. “I didn’t want it to be a precious museum exhibit. I wanted it to be traditional, but fresh and clean—beautiful, but for comfortable living.”

Lichtman set the tone by dressing the home’s many windows simply, sticking mostly to Roman shades or panels in luxurious fabrics. “There are no fussy details, no swags or jabots,” he says. He chose furniture pieces with traditional shapes, like the rolled-arm sofas of the great room, then covered them in fabrics in solid colors or small geometric patterns for a more current look. Likewise, he January/February 2012 New England Home 83

scouted out table and floor lamps with classic bases, then topped them with shades that have a cleaner, more contemporary shape.

Tradition asserts itself here and there, in antique pieces like the secretary in a corner of the home’s original living room (called a keeping room in Colonial times, and now used as a sitting room), as well as in the reproduction mid-nineteenth-century wallpaper in the dining room. A palette Lichtman calls “delicious” in shades of apricot, gold and rust leads the eye from room to room. Only the kitchen deviates, where a scheme of demure French blue takes over.

Things take a glamorous turn in the second-floor master bedroom, where Lichtman outfitted the space in a trellis-patterned wallpaper that gives the walls a hand-painted look and dressed the twin windows behind the bed in vivid green crinkled silk panels.

Despite all the renovations, some things remained unchanged, like the simple wooden staircase to the second floor, the wideplank pine floors of the old sections of the house and a number of handwrought door latches—plus one thing the homeowners feel a special connection with. “In our bedroom, there was an old pane of glass with ‘1919’ and ‘Fred’ scratched into it,” the wife relates.

Unable to bear tossing it away, the couple had it added to a basement window. “We’ll never know who Fred is,” the wife says, noting that, oddly enough, it’s the middle name of both her husband and one son. “But it makes me feel a connection to the people who’ve been here before, and I’ll have a connection with those who come after me.” • Resources For more information about this home, see page 132.

Architect Kristine Sprague outfitted the great room’s mantel in natural fieldstone inspired by the property’s ancient stone walls. Lichtman dressed traditional-lined furniture in contemporary patterns. Facing page top: The cozy kitchen adopts a palette of French blue. Facing page bottom: Sprague found the antique half-moon window in a New York salvage yard.

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White cotton-duck slipcovers, barely there draperies, sisal and bleached old wood compose a serenity that supports a lively view. Facing page: Texture, proportions and art placement hold extra importance in a monochromatic design scheme.

A design team celebrates white in all its glory, outfitting their own Boston high-rise apartment in a monochromatic scheme that forms a beautiful backdrop for well-chosen pieces of art and magnificent city views. Text by Regina Cole • Photography by Keller + Keller • Interior design: Paul White and David Nault, Weena & Spook • Produced by Kyle Hoepner

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around a drop-dead gorgeous, never-take-your-eyes-off-the-wonder view? Does the decor have to take a back seat? Can the inside sing duets with the outside? “If you keep it white, the view becomes art, framed against a white background,” says David Nault. • Nault, half of the delightfully named downtown Boston design firm Weena & Spook, makes it sound easy, but the all-white room is the historic ne plus ultra of interior design. In the absence of color, we become acutely aware of texture, scale, shade, shape, placement, line, mass, proportion—in other words, everything that composes the decor. Pure museum-white can act as a brilliant foil, but it can also create unforgiving contrast.

• Two years ago Nault and his partner, Paul White, ascended to a whiter shade of pale when they moved into one of the two slender towers I.M. Pei designed for a sadly degraded East India Wharf in 1971. Followed a few decades later by the ornamented, arched mass of Rowes Wharf, Pei’s two minimalist buildings sparked the renaissance of the Boston waterfront; the neighborhood is now surpassingly chic. Nault and White’s fifteenth-floor apartment surely has the city’s best maritime view as it looks down on the harbor. Tankers, freighters, yachts and water taxis inscribe ever-widening chevron wakes over the sparkling water between the buildings of the North End to one side and South Boston to the other, with the emerald hummocks of the Boston Harbor Islands stretching toward the horizon. • Nault and White (who named their design firm for their cats) transformed their 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom aerie into a white composition James McNeill Whistler would have envied; Syrie Maugham first attempted just such perfection in 1927. Nault and White’s rooms realize those 100-year-old ideas about the transcendent value of white, but not with insipid,

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Rugged end tables that started life as Battery Wharf pier sections join a reďŹ ned upholstered wall and linen-covered coffee table. The designers favor the contrast of rough against ďŹ ne, not only for texture, but to keep the decor from even a hint of predictability.

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Gerald Gavzy’s painting of his swinging granddaughter overlooks the dining table. The homeowners designed the curvaceous wing chairs.

Facing page top: Wood starburst mirrors, antique candlesticks and a ghost chair bring zest to the bath. Facing page bottom: David Nault (seated) and Paul White on their terrace.

afraid-of-color white or rigidly severe, stark white rooms. Their beautiful, workable interior frames the incomparable view with a pure, Zen-like white palette rendered in voluptuous texture and form.

Via carefully edited white furniture, upholstery, walls and draperies accented with almost-colorless neutrals, Nault and White make beloved pieces of art, as well as the view, shine.

The two have honed their demanding aesthetic during seventeen years as interior designers, which followed careers in New York in the world of fashion design. “If you are a great designer, you can design fashion, shoes, interiors—whatever,” Nault explains.

He and White point to other examples of designers who work in several markets. “Renowned Italian fashion houses have been making beautiful leather furniture for years,” White notes.

The pair’s transition from the rag trade to interior design happened organically. “We always lived very beautifully,” Nault says. “We had ideas of how to host, entertain, decorate. At the request of friends while we were still in New York, we began to design and make custom slipcovers with dressmaker construction and detail.”

“I am a great tailor,” White chimes in, beaming.

They left New York for Boston and began to create interiors for residential clients in the city and on the Cape. Weena “If you keep it & Spook rooms are variwhite, the view ously hued, revealing the becomes art, sure use of color the designers developed during framed against years in the fashion indusa white backtry. For their own home, ground,” says however, their vision was uncompromising. “We David Nault. chose this place because it was a nice box, all white,” says Nault. “Our stuff would fit here really well.”

“The kitchen was all done,” his partner adds. “All we had to do was to put up window treatments and bring in furniture.”

Kitchen, living room and dining room flow into each other before large windows. White cotton duck draperies echo the fabric upholstering sofas, chairs, ottomans, the master bedroom’s headboard and even a prominent section of living room wall. “The upholstery softens the hard wall,” Nault explains. “We are big on rough paired with fine. For example, the slipcovers are rumpled, but the walls are tight. The furniture is composed of pure white in clean shapes, while the end tables are pieces of old Battery Wharf piers.”

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The slipcovered headboard is, like all the pristine white fabric in the apartment, easily removed and cleaned. Facing page top: An antique console table contrasts with a white-framed mirror.

Facing page bottom: Chris Chernow’s painting of a woman in a brown skirt is a favorite artwork.

“No one worries about putting a drink on them,” his partner says with a laugh.

White expands on their aesthetic. “We like it monochromatic, but we create texture with grasscloth, woven papers, linens, heathery wools—materials that provide subtle contrast and that complicate the play of light.”

He continues, “Make sure you do a white you can clean. That’s why we use slipcovers in white cotton twill; it’s basically denim, a fabric that wears like iron.”

Just as it draws the eye to the brilliant, everchanging view, white showcases the couple’s favorite pieces of art, including striking contemporary works whose saturated pigments and brushstrokes sing against the clean backgrounds of the walls in the living room and bedroom. Above the master bedroom headboard, a long, horizontal composition by Victoria Wagner encapsulates the serenity and textural contrast of the entire interior.

The designers who have inspired White and Nault may come as no surprise, at least in light of their own living space. “We love Calvin Klein and, for his ability to edit, Giorgio Armani,” says White.

“Also, the European hotelier and designer Anouska Hempel,” Nault adds.

Distinctive as White and Nault’s home looks, Weena & Spook does not have a “signature” style.

“Our primary concern is to get the space and the flow right,” says Nault. Still, he adds, “We almost never do prints for clients.”

Although the interiors they create for clients may be more colorful than their own home, the pair understands what Pablo Picasso and John Singer Sargent knew: without white, colors don’t matter. In their The pair underdesign work, they strategically place color to highstands what Pablo light important architecture Picasso and John or to emphasize beautiful Singer Sargent elements of a room.

But here in their own knew: without white, home, most of the vibrant, colors don’t matter. saturated color comes in through the windows.

From the moment you open the front door, the whole space communicates a deeply satisfying sense of completion, a complex, perfectly proportioned frame displaying a scene full of color, movement and ever-shifting reflections. “When you deal with other people’s colors all day,” confesses Nault, “it’s restful to come home to white.” • Resources For more information about this home, see page 132.

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Field of Vision A contemporary new house on a swatch of historic farmland on Vermont’s Lake Champlain forges an amiable bond with the past while looking resolutely forward. Text by Megan Fulweiler • Photography by Michael Partenio • Architecture: Brian J. Mac, Birdseye Design Studio • Interior Design: Eric McClelland and Peter Lunney, Fleur-de-lis Interior Design • Builder: Birdseye Building Company • Landscape Architecture: H. Keith Wagner • Produced by Stacy Kunstel

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The great room’s mood is enhanced by the ever-changing views. Facing page: On the home’s lower level, steel panels abutting the stone wall are dramatically backlit as night falls.

From steel to soft upholstery, the great room features a wealth of textures and materials. Facing page top: The entry door includes glass and steel inlays. Facing page bottom: Antique maps dress the study.

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o understand fully what a marvel this Vermont house is, you have to know something about its location. The sweeping views across pastures that tumble toward majestic Lake Champlain are phenomenal. Shifting daylight and the changing seasons bring rhapsodic moments when sky and water seem to converge. Sometimes on a wintry afternoon the horizon is painted silky pink, and come full moon, the distant Adirondacks glow silver.

Adding to its magic, this newly constructed modern home sits on a seriously historic site.

The property was parceled off in the 1980s by Shelburne Farms, the 1,400-acre agricultural estate built by William Seward and Lila Vanderbilt Webb and originally landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted. As you make your way to the front door of the home, you travel past the glorious eighteenth-century barns of the old farm, now a nonprofit environmental education center. Surrounded by an almost palpable sense of history, you crest the hill and suddenly there it is—a 6,500-square-foot house whose exaggerated horizontal lines clearly speak to the future.

Remarkably, the juxtaposition of old and new is congenial. The house is modern, yes, but not out of place. It complements the rugged site, mimicking a stone outcropping with its lowslung profile. And even from a distance, the high-quality craftsmanship is evident. Few remember the 1970s house and barn that once stood here. Not meriting preservation, the structures were dismantled and turned over to a recycling company. Only the barn’s foundation remained, and it became the starting point for the 1,550-square-foot Japanese-inspired guesthouse.

“The project really began with a stable and guesthouse,” says Brian Mac, principal architect of Birdseye in Richmond, Vermont. “I used the latter as a study for the main house, creating a vocabulary and a composition of forms and materials that I then expanded. All three buildings are in concert.”

A full-service company, Birdseye oversaw all facets of the project, from construction and custom cabinetry to built-ins (including beds) and metalwork. Such committed involvement streamlined the project and assured that no minute detail slipped by. In contemporary construction, forgiving moldings aren’t an option.

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The oval media room epitomizes modern with its steel-and-onyx coffee table and oversize chandelier. Visitors spy the media room from the entry (top right), while the sculptural steel wall gives the room privacy (bottom right).

oration with the interior designers and the owner and a great deal of fun,” Mac recounts modestly.

The cedar-clad house seems at one with the landscape, which Mac credits in large part to the contributions of landscape architect H. Keith Wagner of Burlington, Vermont. But for all its quiet respect of its environs, the home also has elements of surprise, like the windows that race along the entire lake-facing rear elevation. Mac didn’t allow design to trump sustainability, either.

In addition to its thermally efficient construction, for example, the house includes a geothermal heating and cooling system.

Happily, the home’s interiors don’t fall short of its impressive architecture. Eric McClelland and Peter Lunney of Toronto-based Fleur-de-lis Interior Design display an almost uncanny talent for pairing innovative materials in unusual ways for a seamless fit. Generous applications of hotand cold-rolled steel, granite, marble, onyx, limestone, leather and wool make for a grand mix that’s also simplistic, McClelland says: “We’re letting the outside in, allowing the views to dictate the interior. It’s a sort of glamorized version of the Vermont landscape.”

The entry epitomizes this motif. The owners pass through their custom front doors onto a walnut runway framed with variegated limestone. Above, a shaft embedded with lights mimics a constellation. The glow illuminates a sculpture that sits in a Chinese-red niche with a drawer wrapped in goat skin. “The Chinese red is symbolic,” McClelland explains. This is, after all, a home with Asian flavor; red in China corresponds with fire and symbolizes good fortune and joy. Behind the niche, the back stairwell descends from an office lined with antique maps to the lower level, where dual guest rooms, an exercise room, lap pool and spa wait.

The office and generous master suite occupy this wing as well. The public areas—library, kitchen, dining and great rooms, along with a second office and sunroom—claim the other side of the house. Every space is delineated by its own exquisite marriage of materials. Nothing is ordinary, and much is downright extraordinary. Take the glacier-like raw steel sculpture that protects the media room, the only spot that doesn’t embrace the view. Or the great room’s sophis“We’re letting the views dictate ticated walnut, granite and steel hearth. Flanked on either side by the interior. It’s a glamorized the soaring hearth is a sculpversion of the Vermont landscape.” glass, ture in itself. The hand-tufted silk and wool carpet designating the nearby sitting area evokes the granite’s veining, or maybe bare winter trees—or possibly both.

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Custom cabinets with sapele veneer highlight the kitchen’s craftsmanship. A sculpture of steel branches brings the outdoors in. Facing page top: The kitchen opens to the dining area with its roomy custom table. Facing page bottom: French marble elevates the master bedroom’s fireplace.

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to the usual light-centered-over-table formula, a spectacular galaxy of hand-blown bubbles by Canadian glass artist Gregor Herman favors the buffet. “We used the chandelier to give an unorthodox division to the space,” McClelland says.

In the master bedroom, the designers created a stunning ceiling plane with recessed lights nesting in an Ultrasuede leather grid. The fabric’s luxurious warmth plays off the wall of motherof-pearl tile framed with bird’s-eye maple that rises behind the bed. An exotic French marble adorns the fireplace. “It’s an old-world marble— one you wouldn’t expect to find in a modern house,” McClelland says with delight.

Armani marble covers the vanity and surrounds the tub in the master bath, where the owners have piled some weighty crystals on the floor to promote serenity. As in all the other rooms, the atmosphere is sophisticated, but with an underlying current of rusticity. Most of all, there’s a sense that these spaces will endure.

Without a doubt, the skillful combination of beautiful architecture and marvelous materials has produced a house as memorable as those barns painstakingly crafted centuries ago. • Resources For more information about this home, see page 132.

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—Architectural Digest, October 2011 Soderbergh’s design/build studio focuses on attention to detail and crafting one piece at a time. Discover why collectors, designers and clients rely on Soderbergh’s “green” experience and aesthetic to add tangible depth and soul to their projects.

The vintage reclaimed wood dining table pictured here was commissioned by House Beautiful for the 2010 Kitchen of the Year display at Rockefeller Center. His dining tables won the “Best of Rhode Island” award from Rhode Island Monthly in August 2011.

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Peabody Supply Company Sinking into a water-conserving whirlpool bath and enjoying an “air massage” is not the stuff of dreams… at least not at The Bath Showcase at Peabody Supply Company.

The bathroom and kitchen supply company carries water-conserving and high-ef iciency products by Kohler, Sterling, Grohe and other leading manufacturers. Find everything you could possibly want in a “green” bathroom or sustainable kitchen.

There are ive bath showrooms and eight company locations where products are displayed in Peabody, North Andover, North Chelmsford and Waltham, Massachusetts, and in Kingston, N.H. The lagship stores in North Andover and Waltham each have more than 4,000 square feet of display space.

There are many good reasons to shop at Peabody Supply Company, not the least of which is extraordinary customer service. Visit your local showroom to see how water-conserving and high-ef iciency toilets, faucets and accessories can save homeowners thousands of gallons of water each year. www.thebathshowcase.com Peabody Supply Company 58R Pulaski Street Peabody, MA 01960 (978) 532-2200 www.peabodysupply.com

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Shade & Shutter Systems, Inc. Rolling shutters are the perfect guardians against uncertainty. Glass areas are the weakest points of any home during a wind storm. Thus, rolling shutters make your home a safe haven, creating a potent shield against wind pressure, airborne debris and potential intruders. As an exterior window treatment, rolling shutters are 40 percent more efficient than interior shades, reducing up to 90 percent of solar heat gain during summer months. During cold winter nights, they’ll reduce heat loss and make your home more comfortable.

Rolling shutters are adjustable for light filtering or total room darkening, allowing you to let in as much light as you wish while maintaining privacy. We take pride in the many innovative techniques we have pioneered that allow us to adapt this wonderful product to your home.

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Sunlight Solar Energy Concerned with the size of your carbon footprint? Going solar is a step in the right direction. Sunlight Solar Energy—with of ices in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Milford, Connecticut—has been in the sustainability business since its founding in 1988.

With hundreds of installations all over New England, Sunlight Solar has the experience necessary to provide its customers with highly ef icient solar electric and hot water systems.

“We’re just thrilled. Everybody from Sunlight Solar was knowledgeable, friendly and enthusiastic about the project.

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Trade Secrets Who’s doing what, when, where and how in the New England design business

MICHAEL FEIN

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embarked on its annual (very nonscientific) Romance by Design survey. Not surprisingly, the survey revealed that New Englanders contemplating a second marriage found orthopedic surgeons with admitting privileges at Mass General “the most marriageable of all professionals.” Nothing new there. But we were surprised to find that second place—edging out perennial favorite “Red Sox majority owner” in the marriageability sweepstakes—went to . . . designers and architects. What makes designers and architects such a turn-on? As one survey respondent put it, “they get me without my having to say anything.” What undid many first marriages was the failure of mates to read between the lines, to understand the secret workings of things, the systems, matrices, unspoken desires. But that’s precisely where architects and designers excel. For these masters of the built environment, the invisible is often where the real work gets done. The need for beauty, stability and durability are all anticipated and quietly addressed, like a bouquet that just happens to materialize at the right moment.

• • • “People come to me with an isolated problem, like a bathroom being too small,” says architect Anthi Frangiadis of Archit8 Studio in Onset, Massachusetts. “But an isolated problem doesn’t really exist. It always connects to something else; the smallness of the bathroom is part of a whole system.”

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The bath may be too small for a master suite, but to steal space from the teenager’s bedroom closet would have certain consequences, while to bump it out would create a shadow over the rose garden’s invaluable southern edge. Architect Chris Dallmus specializes in traditional homes, where reconfiguring systems requires a delicate, confident touch. “If we use new materials, they need to work better than the old materials but convey Chris Dallmus the same level of detail,” says Dallmus.

“It’s never apparent. For example, there’s a PVC trim board from AZEK that we are using as the last piece of wood before the foundation. It’s especially useful on old houses without gutters where there’s considerable splash back. We paint it and you can’t tell the difference. Low maintenance is great as long as it doesn’t look low maintenance.” Dallmus’s firm, based in Cambridge and Nantucket, Massachusetts, won Gold and Silver 2011 PRISM awards from the Builder’s Association of Greater Boston. (See more winners on page 122.)

• • • Joseph Cincotta of LineSync Architecture in Wilmington, Vermont, won one of only two AIA awards given in Vermont last year. He is also at the epicenter of the flood damage brought by tropical storm Irene.

And like Chris Dallmus, he’s constantly applying his Yankee ingenuity to the issue of authenticity vs. low maintenance, starting with that same spongy area where structures meet the ground.

“We’ve been putting a layer of metal Joseph Cincotta flashing over the splash area. It’s not just the splashing; it’s those darned weedwhackers you need to look out for. It’s a bit shiny at first, but after a few weeks, the metal develops a nice patina.”

• • • The skilled artisan is often the magic behind a designer’s work. One of the best in the business of marble and granite is Angelo “Ivo” Cubi, founder of Cumar in Everett, Massachusetts. A seventh-generation marble man from Verona, Italy, Cubi is a trade secret of his own for Boston’s most established designers. “Since even with our thousands of dollars’ worth of machinery we have yet to be able to stretch stone, sometimes we have to find a decorative way to hide seams,” explains Cubi’s associate Dawn Carroll. “We just did a twenty-foot kitchen island for a client who loves to sail. We created a thirty-six-inch round compass rose in the middle of the island to camouflage where the slabs join right and left. I found a fossil embedded in limestone while in Ireland on vacation. I gave it to the client for the compass rose centerpiece.”

• • • Lighting is finally coming into its own as an architectural and design element. With today’s LEDs and sophisticated control systems, “lighting is becoming part of the architec-

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ture,” says Doreen Le May Madden of Lux Lighting Design in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her latest project is lighting the Boston Common’s Brewer Fountain, which is undergoing major renovations.

Her scheme entails uplighting each tier of Parisian-style sea gods and nymphs to conceal the luminaires at the base. The plan also calls for lighting the fountain all year long—hardly an extravagance with low-energy, custom-ordered LEDs. • • • Our survey shed light on another seemingly unrelated aspect of coupledom: laptops. As partners waltz through the grand ballroom of cyberspace, the actual physical space they need decreases. Architect Jan Gleysteen of Wellesley, Massachusetts, is noticing the sizing down. “The residual effect of being wired in is that people are becoming less interested these days in the Jan Gleysteen extra rooms they once dreamed about,” he says. “Some are taking living rooms entirely off the program. One room we are often adding rather than subtracting is a study off the kitchen for the kids. That way Mom can monitor screen time and siblings can work together.”

• • • Per our study, designers and architects are sexy because they can sense a feeling even before that feeling can be expressed in words. Take the “I don’t want to be paying the electric bill” feeling. Sean Clarke, general manager of the primo kitchen appliance showroom Clarke Distribution in Milford, Massachusetts, has already turned some of this yearning into a reality, at least on an industrial scale. “It makes me feel good just getting up in the morning,” says Clarke about the 2,304 photovoltaic tubes the company installed over its 106,000square-foot headquarters. “We’re looking at a payback of three and a half to four years,” he says. “But even now we are at net zero, where before we were spending $10,000 to $15,000 a month on power.”

• • • As Anthi Frangiadis reminds us, solar along with everything else is part of a system.

There are no isolated issues. That’s why respondents to our inquiries were so quick to say: Architects get me. Designers get me. The people they work with get me. This connectedness and creativity is their particular

valentine to the world: the wit of a compass rose winking between great slabs of granite, the sunny optimism of a solar-powered fridge, even the stress-reducing service of PVC trim that looks altogether real but won’t rot in the wet weather to come. • Keep in Touch Help us keep our fingers on the pulse of New England’s design community.

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New and Noteworthy To be really good you can’t be a copyist. You can’t take on the role of museum curator. Your designs have to be fresh, creative and connected to the world we live in today. The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has contributed to this greater understanding with its Bulfinch Awards for excellence in New England classical and traditional design. The awards are named for the architect of the Massachusetts State House, Charles Bulfinch, who played a key role in introducing neoclassicism to America. It’s a style that remains as fresh today as the state house’s sparkling golden dome. Here’s a partial list of this year’s awardees: Best Urban Residence: Dell Mitchell Architects, Boston; Best Suburban Residence: Jan Gleysteen Architects, Wellesley; Landscape Design: Gregory Lombardi Design, Cambridge; Interior Design: Carter & Company, Boston.

The design community has come a long way in learning to market itself over the past ten years. The Builders Association of Greater Boston is paving the way with its Prestigious Results in Sales and Marketing Awards, or PRISMS. The awards entwine building with marketing, paying tribute to housing industry professionals for excellence in building and design, but also in sales and marketing. Among the winning designers and architects in the Gold category: Best SingleFamily Residence: Stephanie Horowitz, ZeroEnergy Design, Boston; Interior Design: Cebula Design, Newburyport; Bathroom Remodel: Leslie Fine Interiors, Boston. In the lighting category, Doreen Le May Madden won the new Cynthia Ray Award, created in memory of Ray, a lighting specialist with Lucía Lighting and Design in Lynn, who died tragically in late 2010 after being hit by a car.

And in other awards news, JW Construction, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, won its third Contractor of the Year award from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. The firm was honored for a pool house in Dedham, Massachusetts.

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Design Life Out and about in celebration of design and architecture in New England

THIS TIME OF YEAR WE START THINKING ABOUT WARMTH,

so we were happy to help RUNTAL RADIATORS celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, which coincided with the opening of the newly expanded showroom at the company’s flagship store in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

A surprise snowstorm was no deterrent for the grand opening of the LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAFTSMEN’s new headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire. The enthusiastic partygoers generated a feel-good glow that defied the chill outside.

The feeling was convivial, as well, at the Cambridge Historical Society, where some 150 guests gathered for a party to celebrate the launch of NEW ENGLAND ICONS, a lovely new book by Bruce Should Irving and frequent New England your party be here? Send photographs Home photographer Greg Premru. or high-resolution images, The folks at THOS. MOSER are with information about the as good at throwing parties as event and the people in the photos, to New England Home, they are at crafting furniture, if 530 Harrison Ave., Suite 302, the event at the Maine company’s Boston, MA 02118, or e-mail Boston showroom to celebrate the images and information to pbodah@nehome new Ellipse line is any indication. mag.com.

David Moser talked about the inspiration behind the new collection while guests enjoyed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and sweet treats from Maine’s Black Dinah Chocolatiers.

Boston’s House of Blues rocked with applause for the winners of the 2011 PRISM AWARDS from the Builders Association of Greater Boston. As usual, some of our favorite designers and architects were among the worthy forty-six winners of the biannual awards.

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Ralph Lauren Home Boom Arm Desk Lamp “This task lamp is so sleek, sexy and functional. The user’s ability to manipulate the direction of the light makes it perfect for reading.

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Chloe Wallcovering by Studio E “Studio E is a favorite source for gorgeous hand-painted wallpapers. Chloe is part of their Metallic Collection, and the slight sheen adds depth to the tone-on-tone pattern. I’d use it on a focal wall behind a silk-velvet upholstered bed for a rich, layered aesthetic.” STUDIO 534, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 345-9900, WWW.S5BOSTON.COM

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2 Exotic Woods “I love incorporating exotic wood materials in our projects, because it provides an artistic edge to a traditional, familiar style. Here, I used pear-wood panels to accent the asymmetrical fireplace design.” ATLANTIC PLYWOOD, WOBURN, MASS., (781) 933-1932, WWW.ATLANTICPLYWOOD.COM

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3 De Le Cuona’s Watercolour Fabric “This sophisticated, classic, yummy paisley fabric, shown here in Twig, would comfort anyone who touches it. I envision using it as a throw for lounging in your favorite chair.” WEBSTER & COMPANY, BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 261-9660, WWW.WEBSTERCOMPANY.COM

4 DiscoverTile’s Shiloh Porcelain “When I’m designing a kitchen, I always reach for tiles first. In this case, I used porcelain tile to create an artistic contrast with the cabinets and appliances. Tile adds dimension and texture.” BOSTON DESIGN CENTER, (617) 330-7900, WWW.DISCOVERTILE.COM

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The Contractor of the Year Awards (CotY) honors the best remodeling projects of members of The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) of Eastern MA and Cape Cod. Celebrating superior craftsmanship, the CotY were held on November 9, 2011 and awarded the area’s best remodelers, designers, architects, and suppliers to the remodeling industry. For more information about NARI, membership, and finding qualified remodelers, visit www.emnari.org.

2011 COTY AWARD WINNERS Residential Kitchen Under $50,000 Gold - Miller Construction Company, Inc. Residential Kitchen $50,001 - $100,000 Gold - Oteri Construction, Inc. Silver – Morrison Remodeling & Repairs LLC Residential Kitchen $100,001 - $150,000 Gold - Thorson Restoration & Construction, LLC Silver – Goodfellas Construction Mgmt. LLC Residential Bath Under $30,000 Gold - Francis Harvey Remodeling Residential Bath Over $60,001 Gold - Feinmann, Inc. Silver – Charlie Allen Restorations Residential Interior Gold – Thorson Restoration & Construction, Inc. Silver - Capizzi Home Improvement Residential Specialty Exterior Gold - JW Construction, Inc. Silver – D.R.M. Design Build, Inc.

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Interior designer: Meichi Peng, Meichi Peng Design Studio, Boston, (617) 521-8660, www .meichipeng.com Millwork installation: Herrick & White, Cumberland, R.I., (401) 658-0440, www.herrickwhite.com Custom draperies: Dreamscapes of Boston, Boston, (617) 439-3200 Audio/video installation: Elite Media Solutions, Wellesley, Mass., (781) 237-2929, www.elite mediasolutions.com Venetian plasterwork: Marco Evangelisti, Pietra Viva, Boston, (617) 875-2066, www .pietravivaitaly.com Pages 70–71: Matching sofas by Flexform, www.flexform.it, from Showroom Boston, www.showroomboston.com; sofa pillow fabric

by Castel, www.castelmaison.com, from Donghia, www.donghia.com; lounge chairs from Showroom Boston; custom coffee table and millwork designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; floor lamp by Holtkötter, www.holtkoetter.com, from Casa Design, www.casadesignboston .com; drapery fabric by Carnegie, www .carnegiefabrics.com; fireplace by Spark, www.sparkfires.com.

Pages 72–73: Steel and wood dining table designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; dining chairs by Bright Chair Company, www.brightchair.com; custom millwork designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; drapery fabric by Carnegie; custom entry console and mirror designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; wall sconces by Holly Hunt, www.hollyhunt .com, from Webster & Company, www .webstercompany.com.

Pages 74–75: Bed by Minotti, www.minott i.com, from The Morson Collection, www.themorsoncollection.com; custom bedside tables designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; wall lamps by Nessen, www.nessenlighting.com, from Casa Design; recliner by Lafer, www .laferrecliner.com, from Casa Design; custom silk rug from Steven King, www.steven kinginc.com; Venetian plaster by Pietra Viva; custom bench designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White, with fabric by Ralph Lauren Home, www.ralph laurenhome.com; office chair by Matteograssi, www.matteograssi.com, from Montage, www .montageweb.com; desk lamp by Flos, www .flosusa.com, from Casa Design.

Pages 76–77: Custom bed and bedside tables designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; bedside wall sconces

by Holly Hunt from Webster & Company; recliner by Lafer from Casa Design; floor lamp

by Visual Comfort, www.visualcomfort.com, from Casa Design; custom silk rug from Steven King; drapery fabric by Carnegie; Vene-

tian plaster by Pietra Viva; custom millwork designed by Meichi Peng Design Studio and built by Herrick & White; desk lamp by Europa Design, www.europadesignfurniture .com, from Casa Design; custom closet by Poliform, www.poliform.it, from Showroom Boston; dressing table and chair by Porada, www.porada.it, from Casa Design; wall sconces by de Majo, www.demajoilluminazione.com, from Casa Design; drapery fabric by Romo, www.romo.com, from Calvin Fabrics, www .calvinfabrics.com.

PAST PRESENCE PAGES 78–85 Architect: Kristine Sprague, Lenox, Mass., (413) 637-3980, www.kristinesprague.com Interior designer: Keith Lichtman, KL Interiors, New York City, (212) 989-9121, www.klinteriors.com Builder: Matt Donald, Matt Donald Builders, Richmond, Mass., (413) 442-9594 Landscape architect: Valerie Locher, Valerie Locher Horticulturists, Housatonic, Mass., (413) 528-4512 Window treatment and pillow fabricator: Ruben Ruenes, Union City, N.J., (201) 8636902, www.rubenstudio.com All curtain hardware: Morgik Metal Designs, New York City, (212) 463-0304, www.morgik .com Pages 80–81: Chandelier from Niermann Weeks, www.niermannweeks.com; area rug from Beauvais Carpets, www.beauvaiscarpets .com; chairs from Artistic Frame, www.artistic frame.com; mohair chair fabric from Brunschwig & Fils, www.brunschwig.com; Gallier Diamond wallpaper in Topaz from Brunschwig & Fils; silk curtain fabric from Kravet, www .kravet.com; demilune sideboard from Ethan Allen, www.ethanallen.com; keeping room wool-and-silk area rug from ABC Carpet & Home, www.abchome.com; sofa from Henredon, www.henredon.com, with Larsen fabric, www.larsenfabrics.com; sofa pillow fabrics by Lee Jofa, www.leejofa.com; coffee table from La Forge Française, www.laforgefrancaise .com; floor lamp from Fine Art Lamps, www .fineartlamps.com; curtain fabric by Robert Allen, www.robertallendesign.com; wing chair fabric by Lee Jofa; wing chair pillow fabric by Duralee, www.duralee.com.

Pages 82–83: Wallpaper from Osborne & Little, www.osborneandlittle.com; night tables from Louis J. Solomon, www.louisjsolomon .com; vintage Murano table lamps from 145 Antiques, www.145antiques.com; leather headboard and bed from Charles P. Rogers, www.charlesprogers.com; curtain fabric from Larsen; custom coverlet fabric from Lee Jofa; leaf pillow fabric from B. Berger, www .bberger.com; area rug from ABC Carpet & Home; floor lamp from Donghia, www .donghia.com; loveseat from Mason-Art, www.mason-art.com, with Cowtan & Tout fabric, www.cowtan.com; pillow fabric from Osborne & Little; leather parchment coffee table from Mecox Gardens, www.mecox gardens.com.

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A PASSION FOR PALE PAGES 86–93 Interior designers: Paul White and David Nault, Weena & Spook, Boston, (617) 2686968, www.weenaandspook.com Page 86: Paul armchair and Saddle Arm lounge chair designed by Weena & Spook, slipcovered in Durango Denim from Henry Calvin, www.calvinfabrics.com; coffee table designed by Weena & Spook; hammered silver cake stand by Mary Jurek, www.maryjurek designinc.com, from WA, www.waharmony .com; zinc planter from Winston Flowers, www.winstonflowers.com; throw from Allsaints Spitalfields, www.allsaints.com.

Page 87: White lacquer boxes from Koo de Kir, www.koodekir.com; toss pillows from Classic Country, East Chatham, New York, (518) 392-2211; white cube vase from Jacobson Floral Supply, www.jacobsonfloral.com; mother-of-pearl box from Peach Tree Designs, www.peachtreedesigns.com; Asian chest from Feng Shui Furniture, Chestnut Hill, Mass., (617) 244-0686.

Pages 88–89: Custom mirror and side tables designed by Weena and Spook; crystal table lamps and terra-cotta pots from ICON Group, Boston Design Center, (617) 449-5506.

Page 90: Buffet designed by Weena & Spook; wing chairs designed by Weena & Spook and covered in Durango Denim by Henry Calvin; Big Sur dining table from Crate & Barrel, www .crateandbarrel.com; floor palms by Visual Comfort, www.visualcomfort.com, from Neena’s Lighting, www.neenaslighting.com, with shades from Blanche P. Field, www .blanchefield.com; pillow from Neutral Territory, Barnstable, Mass., (508) 744-7145; sisal carpets from Crate & Barrel; square vases from Simon Pearce, www.simonpearce.com.

Page 91: Ghost Chair from Design Within Reach, www.dwr.com; antique candlesticks from Feng Shui Furniture; mirrors from Wisteria, www.wisteria.com.

Page 92: Headboard and drapery panels designed by Weena & Spook, covered in Duran-

go Denim by Henry Calvin; bedside lamp from Circa Lighting, www.circalighting.com; linen sheets and pillowcases from Restoration Hardware, www.restorationhardware.com; coverlet from Pottery Barn, www.pottery barn.com.

Page 93: Mirror designed by Weena & Spook; console table from Feng Shui Furniture; ottoman designed by Weena & Spook, covered in Durango Denim by Henry Calvin; cotton throw from West Elm, www.westelm.com; antique glove molds from Fishs Eddy, www.fishs eddy.com; painting by Chris Chernow, www .chrischernow.com; wing chair designed by Weena & Spook, covered in Durango Denim by Henry Calvin; side table from Feng Shui Furniture; wool/cashmere throw from ICON Group.

FIELD OF VISION PAGES 94–101 Architect: Brian J. Mac, Birdseye Design, Richmond, Vt., (802) 434-2112, www.birdseye building.com Interior designers: Eric McClelland and Peter Lunney, Fleur-de-lis Interior Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (416) 929-8599, www .fleurdelis.ca Landscape architect: H. Keith Wagner, Burlington, Vt., (802) 864-0010, www. hkw-p.com Builder: Birdseye Building Company, Richmond, Vt., (802) 434-2112, www.birdseye building.com Masons: David Newton, Hinesburg, Vt., (802) 482-2658, and James Bennett, Waltham, Vt., (802) 355-8849 Pages 95–96: Petaluma chandelier by Sirmos, www.sirmos.com; granite fireplace mantel and hearth from Kozmus, www.kozmus.ca; custom carpet by Creative Matters, www.creative mattersinc.com; custom sofa and chaise by Classic Touch Upholstery, www.classictouch upholstery.ca, with sofa and pillow fabric by Télio & Cie, www.telio.com; club chairs by Holly Hunt, www.hollyhunt.com.

Page 97: Doors and paneling by Birdseye Building Company; chandelier by Eurolite, www.eurolite.com; study chandelier by Eurolite.

Pages 98–99: Custom coffee table, bench and sofa by Z&D Finishes, www.z-d.ca; Halo chandelier from Powell & Bonnell, www.powell andbonnell.com; marble fireplace surround by Kozmus; slumped glass above fireplace by AM Studio, www.amstudio.ca; curved hotrolled steel wall by Z&D Finishes; limestone flooring from Stone Tile, www.stone-tile.com.

Page 100: Steel branch screen by Ridgely Studio Works, www.ridgelystudioworks.com; countertops by Kozmus; pendant lights from Studio 1112, www.studio1112.kdraids.com.

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Boston Design Center 9

Meyer & Meyer Architecture and Interiors 62–63

Broderick Building & Remodeling 18

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams 11

Boston Flower & Garden Show 127

Northern Lights Landscape 68

California Closets 69

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Catalano Architects, Inc. 52–53

Patrick Ahearn Architect, LLC 64–65

Charles Spada Interiors 21

Payne/Bouchier Inside front cover

Circle Furniture 123

Peabody Supply Company 113

Citizen’s Bank 141

Pellettieri Associates, Inc. 102

Coldwell Banker Previews International 136–137

Polhemus Savery DaSilva 66–67

Cosentino North America 106–107 Cottage and Bungalow 121 Creative Art Furniture c/o Staples Cabinet Makers 118

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Snow and Jones 13

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Decorating Den Interiors 132

Sunlight Solar Systems 115

Domus, Inc. 54–55

Susan Shulman Interiors 25

Dover Rug 17

Thoughtforms 41

Duffy Design Group 31

TMS Architects 10

EM NARI CotY Awards 131

Viola Associates, Inc. 135

First Rugs, Inc. 117

Walker Interiors 125

Furniture Consignment.com 132 Gleysteen Design LLC 56–57

Wayne Towle Master Finishing & Restoration 6–7

The Granite Group 39

West Barnstable Tables 135

Herrick & White, LTD 123

William Raveis Real Estate 138–139

Hutker Architects 58–59 J Barrett & Company Real Estate 140 J. Todd Galleries 133 J.W. Construction, Inc. 27 Jan Gleysteen Architects, Inc. 60–61 Jeff Soderbergh 112 Kitchen Views 15

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Shade & Shutter Systems, Inc. 114

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Cumar, Inc. 29

Howell Custom Building Group 4–5

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SEA-DAR Construction 119

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While traveling in Venice some years ago on a brief vacation from my drapery wookroom, I picked up a book featuring the beautiful, intricate patterns of the stone floors to be seen around that city. I thought I might one day translate some of those patterns into patchwork with fabric. Then last year we received a ring of samples from Sandra Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prima Alpaca line. The lush colors and texture of the fabric seemed perfect for my stone project. I met with Sandra not long after, and mentioned to her that I might cut up her samples up to make such a patchworkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; she liked the idea and told me to feel free. Around the same time, interior designer Lucie Beauchemin asked if I would donate a charity auction item to benefit Horizons for Homeless Children. So I made two pillows using the alpaca samples and the stone floor of the choir of San Giorgio Maggiore as inspiration. We were all thrilled with the results (and I made up another, even more elaborate, pillow as a gift to Sandra for letting us cut up her samples). A number of other patterns are still waiting for some as-yet-unseen fabrics that will move me to realize more designs.

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