[New] Style Scene Notebook

Happy New Year from the New England Home team!

2023 will be an exciting year for Hutker Architects. The firm has opened its fourth studio, this one located at 14 Beacon Street in the heart of Boston. Other locations include Vineyard Haven, Falmouth, and Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Congratulations to Colin Flavin and the team at Flavin Architects as they celebrate thirty-five years in business. In addition to reaching this milestone, the firm promoted Heather Souza to the role of principal. We got to know Souza as a 2021 New England Home 5 Under 40 winner; it is always exciting to see the career trajectories of these talented honorees.

SV Design, formerly Siemasko + Verbridge, also marked its thirty-fiveyear anniversary. The architecture and interior design firm has grown from a small business focused on residences to a forty-plus-person team working on residential, institutional, and multifamily projects.

IFDA New England’s Diamond Awards Gala recognized the best and brightest at a festive evening at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. A special congratulations to Bob Ernst of FBN Construction for being honored with a Lifetime Achievement award. Tiffany LeBlanc received the Designer of the Year award, and Stephanie Pavlides was named Architect of the Year. Cheers to the all the winners.

This past October, the Professional Remodeling Organization of New England hosted its annual Youth Remodeling Career Day. Massachusetts high school students enrolled in vocational education programs enjoyed a day of hands-on building activities and expo booths.

Do you have news to share with New England Home? Email Lynda Simonton at lsimonton@nehomemag.com

Digitizing Your Family History Collections

THROUGH JANUARY 31

Experts share best practices for scanning and managing your family history.

American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society americanancestors.org

The Making of the French Garden

JANUARY 13–MARCH 3

This series of eight illustrated lectures, live from France, traces the evolution of French gardens over the past 500 years.

The Garden Conservancy gardenconservancy.org

Being and Believing in the Natural World

THROUGH MAY 7

With the help of objects from RISD Museum’s permanent collections, this exhibit explores the relationship between humans and nature. Providence risdmuseum.org

JANUARY 14

Umberto Giordano’s drama features a nineteenth-century Russian princess who falls for her fiancé’s murderer in this The Met: Live in HD cinema simulcast at The Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Mass. clarkart.edu

Houseplant and Begonia Sale

JANUARY 21–22

Bring the outdoors in with this sale featuring a wide selection of begonias and semitropical plants at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses. Waltham, Mass. historicnewengland.org

Wallpaper in Historic Houses: Manufacture, Conservation, and Replication

JANUARY 25

Join a virtual discussion on everything you've ever wanted to know about wallcoverings.

Historic New England historicnewengland.org

American Perspectives

FEBRUARY 3–MAY 7

A sweeping Portland Museum of Art exhibit that features seventy significant works from the American Folk Art Museum offers insight into the history of folk art in the U.S. Portland, Maine portlandmuseum.org

JANUARY 29

Enjoy music by Purcell, Bach, and Handel as part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s weekend concert series. Boston gardnermuseum.org

Winter Pruning

FEBRUARY 24

Head to the Garden in the Woods to learn basic pruning principles including how to make proper cuts, when to prune, and how to maintain your tools.

Framingham, Mass. nativeplanttrust.org