Entertaining at Newport’s turn-of-the-century seaside “cottages” (read: “humongous mansions”) was clearly not a casual affair. But after last year’s austere holiday party season, we must...
Fall always seems to mark the return of medieval mania. We've noticed this year's Gothic revival has a distinctly Tudor bent. While we love it in a good period film, the more-is-more mantra of tradi...
Name: Bella Location: Prospect Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts I fell in love with this apartment as soon as I saw it a little over three years ago. It's located high on a hill that...
A few days ago we wrote about a gorgeous contemporary home on Providence’s College Hill, but the neighborhood is also where some of the city’s most interesting historic buildings can be found, i...
Based on historic photographs of The Providence Athenaeum, an independent membership library, the space doesn’t look much different than it did in 1838 when it first opened — and that’s ok...
We spent the weekend in Rochester, New York where we heard about this local architectural curiosity, the “Pod” or “Mushroom” House designed by James H. Johnson Architecture for Robert and Ma...
We just returned from a long weekend on Nantucket and, although the weather wasn't picture perfect everyday, were delighted to discover this island's wonderfully refined sense of color. Isolated pop...
Ask and you shall receive! Earlier this week we wrote about the Survey of Modern Homes in New Canaan, CT and waxed poetic about how nice it would be to see the interiors. Then designer Lauren Fister...
Dwell has a great peek inside MIT's Baker House student housing — one of two Alvar Aalto designed buildings in North America!...
The town of New Canaan, Connecticut is considered to have one of the most significant collections of mid-century Modern houses in the United States. Many of the homes are in threat of demolition so ...
With DWR now offering Frank Lloyd Wright furniture, we thought we’d take a peek at the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in New England that is open to the public. The Zimmerman house in Manch...
History buffs, architects, and urban explorers alike will find much to love at ArtInRuins.com, a website that chronicles the rise, fall, and rising again of Rhode Island’s historic buildings. ...
Maybe it’s because we see so many great spaces filled with vintage and thrifted treasures, but (aside from a few obvious details) we almost feel like this adorable sewing room could exist in the ...
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust was founded two years ago in an effort to "preserve significant Modernist architecture on the outer Cape". The New York Times gives us some more insight into the new ...
In the September issue of Martha Stewart Living, the entertaining feature takes us to the Provincetown retreat of New York store owner and expert in all that is découpage John Derian. Built i...
We realize that not everyone (or anyone?) has 7 million dollars to throw at a fixer-upper historic castle these days, but … well, we can look can’t we? Located in the town of Narragansett, Rhode...
The unpretentious Windsor chair is a design staple here in the Northeast — in modern and traditional homes alike. We recently got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Warren Chair Works showroom an...
During this month of "escapes," we're planning a lot of Plan B activities in the event that this awful rain continues through fall. While on vacation in Atlanta, we spent a rainy afternoon in the go...
We've mentioned before how much we like dual-function furniture, like the chair with a drawer we recently blogged. So imagine our surprise when we spotted this snazzy ladder tucked inside an otto...
The human-interest site Quazen has rounded up different example of geodesic domes from around the world — full globes, half domes and Buckminster Fuller originals. We've pulled our favorites f...
Over the weekend we stopped by the Newport Flower Show at the breathtaking turn-of-the-century Rosecliff Mansion, which, like many of the historic Newport mansions, has been carefully preserved and ...
(Welcome Sarah — our newest New England blogger posting from Providence, Rhode Island!) Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture at the RISD Museum of Art (through July 19) presents a large coll...
British tabletop classic Cornishware has been reborn! First produced in the 1920s by T.G.Green & Co, the company that made the collectible blue and white pottery classics (named for the blue sky and...
click thumbnails for larger pics This life-size dollhouse sits in a field in Manitoba. Abandoned in the late 60s, the house was transformed into a giant dollhouse by Saskatchewan artist Heather Benni...
One of the delights of living in Boston (winter sure isn't one of them) is the opportunity to live in old houses with a deep history. We live in a multi-family home that was built in 1907. Recent...
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