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WHAT’S IN STORE AT PEACOCK ALLEY Peacock Alley shines among makers of fine linens for bed and bath. See its signature understated style in go-to neutrals at its newest store in Austin, Texas, or visit peacockalley.com. 800.275.0784 OCHRE Ochre celebrates 10 years in SoHo with a renovated showroom on Broome St. Ochre continues to stay true to its underlying principles: the use of high quality materials and flawless craftsmanship to create beautiful, innovative design for a worldwide stage. Visit ochre.net. LORI WEITZNER FOR SAMUEL & SONS PRESENTS THE REGATTA COLLECTION Regatta is a collection of performance trimmings woven with solution-dyed acrylic yarns and ombré techniques, in hues that reflect the ever-shifting colors seen in all facets of the natural world. Visit samuelandsons.com. ELLE DECOR AND BAKER FURNITURE AT ART BASEL…
before I began to realize what a garden is. When I was growing up, outside meant either a backyard or the wilderness. The backyard was a circumscribed area, never very large or interesting, that contained a tree or two, a swing set, a tetherball, maybe a picnic table. It was where families would converge for cookouts, where grass had to be mowed and garages had to be cleaned out. The wilderness was a vast expanse of towering trees, deep shadows, dead leaves and twigs that would crunch underfoot, and animals and birds that would make strange and scary sounds. I was never much of a nature boy, and neither held much appeal for me. The former signified enforced fun, the latter was too muddy and dark for comfort, full of…
BUDDING INTERESTS It seemed fated that playwright Jack Staub, above, would write about gardens. His partner, Renny Reynolds, is a renowned florist and plantsman, and together they manage Hortulus Farm, a historic garden in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that covers 100 acres and received more than 5,000 visitors last year. “Renny bought it two months before we met, 38 years ago,” he says. “I started writing about gardens when I started gardening.” Staub, who visits a lush Coral Gables, Florida, garden on page 134, is now the author of seven books, including Private Gardens of South Florida (Gibbs Smith). COUNTRY LIVING Art dealer Kris Ghesquière and his partner, artist Eva Claessens, maintained separate homes in Belgium and France before settling together in Uruguay, in the house featured on page 152, near…
HIDDEN ASSET In a world of oversharers, secrecy seems to have gone the way of the phone booth. But all is not lost: A new crop of home accessories, each equipped with a hidden chamber, celebrates the sly pleasures of privacy, from Fort Standard’s gleaming copper spheres with secret storage inside (thefuture perfect.com) to James Killinger’s brass Cache candlestick with a hollow stone base (rollandhill.com) and Apparatus’s sculptural brass capsules held in crystal (apparatusstudio.com). Clearly, they’re more than meets the eye BLUE BLOODS Chatsworth, home to the Cavendish family and the dukes of Devonshire since 1549 and one of the grandest English country houses, has seen more than its share of fashionable women, among them Georgiana Spencer, the free-spirited ancestress of Princess Diana; Adele Astaire, Fred’s sister; Deborah Mitford, of…
IN A NEW LIGHT Eric Roinestad left a career creating iconic album covers for Capitol Records to become a full-time ceramist, fashioning vessels that recall both his Scandinavian heritage and the folk-inspired work of Southern California’s midcentury designers. His new pendant lamps, which juxtapose playful shapes, are handmade of ceramic stoneware. Each one-of-a-kind piece incorporates multiple LEDs. From left, Lamp 2: 16• dia. x 32• h.; Lamp 1: 17• dia. x 26• h.; pendant rod made to order; $12,500 each. thefutureperfect.com 1 / TRUE BLUE Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen employed Japanese glazing and firing techniques for the slender ceramic base of her sapphire-tinted Blue lamp. 9.5• dia. x 24• h., $2,600. cathrineraben davidsen.com 2 / SWEET AND LOW The Lexxy bench by Century Furniture features forged metal legs in…
ALL THAT JAZZ Nearly a century ago, a hot new sound inspired a revolution in the arts Syncopated rhythms, melancholy blues, and brassy riffs: Those were the keynotes of jazz, the style of music and dance that emerged from the streets of New Orleans and conquered the Western world in the early decades of the last century. But what did jazz look like? In April, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York conjures the era’s joyous, racy zeitgeist in “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s,” an exhibition of 350 furnishings, fashions, and product designs, many produced in the workshops of newly cosmopolitan America. It was a time when word of Paris trends and the discovery of breathtaking antiquities in Egypt—which inspired a wave of Orientalism—traveled with…
