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features september/october 2013
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built 1670
Heritage Restored A deft renovation of
a 17th-century house highlights its history
and extends its legacy as a gathering place
for generations.
108
built 1870
Vive Le Chalet A couple looking for a
small vacation house in Newport, Rhode
Island, are happily sidetracked by a classic
manse in need of restoration.
116
built 1900 s
Family Sequel Past and future memories
of childhood summers by a Vermont lake
prompt a sensitive renovation of a fishing
cabin into a fun and functional retreat.
124
built 2002
A Novel Move Authors Sue Miller and
Douglas Bauer find happiness and inspiration
in the simple style and urban views of a
South End loft.
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park-like piece
of property,
and we wanted
to bring the
colors from the
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32 24 Publisher’s Note
32 visit • Rethinking the Ranch
Architect Anna Gitelman’s Modernist
aesthetic turns a ranch-style house into
a sleek home for her family.
45 selections • Black + White
Interior designers extol the virtues of
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68 art • First Love
After years working as an interior
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renovated 1670 house in Massachusetts.
Photo by Michael J. Lee. story, page 102.
TWICE AS NICE • In Colonial New England, it was a luxury to have a house with two rooms. The popular hall-and-parlor design, used to
build the original 1670 house featured on Page 102, might seem primitively basic to us today, but it was a quantum leap for 17th-century
souls craving a little privacy. A rectangular box, the one-and-a-half-story house had a single interior wall with one door separating the
hall, usually a larger space with access to the outdoors and used for cooking and all-purpose living, from the smaller parlor, most
commonly outfitted with a bed for the adults. Such a configuration required two chimneys, one on each end of the house so that both
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and featured on Page 102 was originally built with a simple
two-room, hall-and-parlor floor plan (Page 14), while the
2002 loft-style condo on Page 124 was designed with a simi-
lar basic public/private floor plan. Lifestyles and tastes have
changed over the last 343 years, but ultimately we somehow
ended up with the same spatial concept. As the centuries
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passed, rooms designated for specific purposes — dining
rooms separate from kitchens, front parlors just for receiv-
ing guests — were more and more appreciated. Until they
weren’t. Open concept is the modus operandi in home design today, but like everything in
life, to make it work requires balance. The postwar ranch-style house architect Anna Gitel-
man reconfigured (Page 32) from an uninviting series of boxy little rooms into a light-filled
home where a modern family can easily interact has a second-floor addition that removes the
bedrooms from the ebb and flow of the open living space. As for that 2002 loft, too much open
space had to be contained so that its owners, authors Sue Miller and Douglas Bauer, could
have quiet, private places in which to write and study. In design (and in communications,
technology, and politics!), the challenge is to find the right balance of openness and privacy.
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joeann hart is the author of the novels Float and Addled. She earned a
master of fine arts degree in writing and literature at Vermont’s
Bennington College under the exacting tutelage of instructor Douglas
Bauer, whose renovated Boston loft, which he shares with novelist Sue
Miller, Hart writes about in this issue. a novel move, page 124.
william morgan is an architectural writer and photographer based in

Providence and Design New England’s contributing editor for
architecture. He also joins our list of bloggers at DesignNewEngland.com
with his “Around New England” postings on the region’s idiosyncrasies.
For this issue, he wrote about an old-fashioned barn raising at the
Jamestown Community Farm in Rhode Island. design focus, page 76.
sam gray has been photographing homes for architects, builders, interior
designers, and magazines for more than 20 years, sometimes traveling far
from his own home in Wellesley, Massachusetts. For the story on artist
Sarah Benham, however, he returned to Southeastern Massachusetts,
Architecture and where he spent his summers growing up. “I really enjoyed the setting of
furnishings in harmony Sarah’s home,” says Gray. “A small pond, rolling grounds, and a comfort-
able artist studio all made for a relaxing day of photography.”art, page 68.
susan teare photographs residential and commercial architecture and

landscapes. Based in Burlington, Vermont, she happily headed north to
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as flip-flops and cookouts give way to sweaters
and hot apple cider, we are preparing for that most distinc-
tive of seasons, autumn in New England. We’ll gather once
again with colleagues old and new to hear about summer
adventures (see what our editorial team has been up to with
the behind-the-scenes video of our photo shoot at artist
Sarah Benham’s studio on DesignNewEngland.com) while
anticipating all that’s to come before year’s end.
A highlight of our summer was meeting interior designer
Alexa Hampton, who delivered a hilarious — and informative
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— keynote talk and slide show at the Nantucket Historical
Association’s Designer Luncheon. That the picture-perfect
day on the island was capped with a stumbled-upon kitchen
tour sponsored by the Nantucket Preservation Trust was the proverbial icing on the cake.
We also were on hand for Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Garden Awards ceremony. Boston
residents from nearly every corner of the city were rewarded for their hard work and creativity
in beautifying their neighborhoods.
Looking ahead, we hope to see readers and colleagues at Massachusetts Horticultural Soci-
ety’s Downton Abbey-themed fundraiser at Elm Bank in Wellesley on September 15 (Page 139).
We are salivating at the thought of Newport Mansions Eighth Annual Wine & Food Festival,
September 20 through 22 (Page 131). And we love getting our antiques fix at the Ellis Boston
Antiques Show, October 24 through 27 (Page 130). Of course, DNE’s Design Salons return
this fall, featuring new and familiar hosts and speakers with plenty of insight for the design-
minded set. (Details on Page 137. Register at DesignNewEngland.eventbrite.com.) For now,
enjoy the wonderful renovation tales from parts of New England near and far.
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the red, box-shaped
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the house an edge on a street
in suburban Marblehead,
Massachusetts, where more
traditional houses are the
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Rethinking the Ranch

Architect Anna Gitelman uses her Modernist aesthetic to turn an
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an open first-floor plan allows for
easy family interaction, especially in
the kitchen, where Gitelman prepares
dinner while Miriam, 12, plays with
Simon, 5. Adding a pop of color to the
black-and-white scheme is a playful
armchair from Montage (below), a
favorite place for Simon to unwind.
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nna Gitelman knew two things: She
wanted to raise her children in a subur-
ban neighborhood where kids could play
freely in the streets, and that a house
that would satisfy her Modernist design
aesthetic and seamlessly meet the needs
of her busy family probably didn’t exist — she would
need to create it.
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and their two children, Miriam and Simon, now 12 and 5, respectively.
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in desperate need of updating but was in just the kind of quiet, cozy
neighborhood they had in mind.
“It had very good bones but was extremely dark,” says Gitelman
of the house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. At 1,500 square feet with
small, boxy rooms, it would take some doing to bring it up to Gitel-
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Gitelman, she would probably
individual space but still be together” — and building a the kitchen so that Gitelman and her husband can prepare
have been . . . an architect. “I liked
second floor. dinner and still see and communicate with their children. drawing and had a love of math.
Removing a wall that closed off the kitchen from the The family bedrooms were moved upstairs to a mod- Architecture is an art, but at the
rest of the house was the first step. Next, two small bed- ern 900-square-foot addition designed by Gitelman, who same time requires a lot of
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University, where she investigated innova-

tive technology and construction. “Mov-
ing to Boston was the best way for me to
advance my architectural background to
include the most modern methods that just
weren’t being taught in Russia,” she says.
Her architectural projects boast inventive
yet affordable designs, and her home is no
exception. For instance, the new second
floor is sheathed in red fiber cement pan-
els that create a bold facade impossible to
miss among the more traditional houses in
the neighborhood. The panels, typically
found in commercial buildings, were less
expensive than most conventional mate-
rials used in residential construction. The
siding does not touch the main structure
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a marble-tile floor and tub surround and the
sharp edges of the rectangular wall-mounted sink
contribute to the clean, crisp lines of the master
bathroom, which is warmed by a wall-mounted
Runtal radiator that doubles as a towel bar.
of the house, so that rain falls between the

layers and flushes out a drain, preventing
harmful moisture from building up.
There are six heating zones in the
house, but only one is usually needed. A
heat pump warms the house in early spring
and late fall, and the family relies on oil
during the New England winters. Passive
solar gain and generous cellulose insula-
tion contribute to keeping things comfort-
able and energy costs down. In the ceiling,
Gitelman used a soy-based foam insula-
tion, an environmentally conscious choice
that expands 100 times its size to fill in tiny
gaps and make an incredibly tight seal.
Although more expensive than traditional
fiberglass, it is cost-effective in the long
run, says Gitelman.
Surprisingly, her modern methods
were rejected by many contractors. “The
general reaction to my plans was negative,”
says Gitelman. “Many people don’t want
to learn the new techniques.”
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For Gitelman, however, the most important
result of the renovation is the ease with
which family time just happens.
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BLACK + WHITE
Design is never as simple as black or white.
But using just the two colors, plus a few
neutral hues, produces high-contrast spaces
with energy and graphic charm. We invited
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virtues of the strictly two-tone palette in
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“I LAYER TEXTURE INTO A BLACK-AND-WHITE
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Martha’s Vineyard
6 Interior Design, Vineyard
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2. porcelain flooring with chalkboard 4. magnetic wallcovering 5. wall accent 6-inch cleats, West Marine;
Oxford Castano, Porcelanosa, panels, Simpson Magnetism in natural, channel beadboard, The westmarine.com.
Boston Design Center; Door Co.; Weitzner Limited; Nantucket Beadboard
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washstand Etoile Metal
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chandelier
Monaco
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Niermann
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3. drapery Abaza Resist in
charcoal, F. Schumacher & Co.,
Boston Design Center;
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chair Louis XVI Side Chair,
Dennis & Leen; dennisandleen.
com and available at
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5 pany, Boston Design
Center; webster
company.com.
4. chair
upholstery
Snake Charmer in
08, Osborne & Little.
5. tile accent Small Herring-
6 bone Carrara Marble in honed
finish, Ann Sacks, Boston
Design Center; annsacks.com.
6. flooring Nero Marquina
Marble in honed finish, Ann
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ELEMENTS, LIKE THE CHAIR, CHANDELIER, AND MIRROR.”
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tional; rug-art.net and avail- Caesarstone; caesarstone. Zuni in 01, Colombier Chandelier Salad and Dinner Plates in
able at Steven King, Boston com and available at United Lorca, Osborne in bronze, Vaughan; white, Williams-Sonoma;
Design Center; stevenkinginc. Marble Fabricators, Boston & Little, Boston vaughandesigns.com. williams-sonoma.com.
com. Design Center; unitedmarble. Design Center, 7. wallpaper Bark in table (dining room)
2. flooring Walnut in Elated com. osborneandlittle. onyx and chalk, Scion; Rectangular Glass Table with
Gray, Carlisle Wide Plank 4. cabinetry finish Chelsea com. scion.uk.com and available Base, Factory Glass Direct;
Floors, Boston Design Center; Gray, Benjamin Moore; mirror Continental at The Martin Group Inc., factoryglassdirect.com.
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chair (in adjacent 5. wall paint Alaskan black, Modern History; martingroupinc.com.
dining room) Chloe Skies, Benjamin Moore. modernhistoryhome. 8. cabinet pulls The Home
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About the designers

liz stiving-nichols studied interior design
in Chicago, moved to Martha’s Vineyard, and
worked at Hutker Architects for seven years
before founding the environmentally friendly
Martha’s Vineyard Furniture Co. in 2008.
' 3 2 ' 3 6 ( ø ' , %8 , % 1 ø ; 3 3 ( 7 8 3 ' / : 8 There, she designs tables, chairs, benches, and
stools, and produces them with business part-
ner and environmental consultant Billy Wat-
terson. Two years later, she opened her own
interior design firm, Martha’s Vineyard Interior
Design, and furnishings boutique, Bespoke
Abode, in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
Raised in New Jersey, tanya capello became
interested in design scouring European flea
markets for authentic antique furniture and
beautiful vintage objects. She came to the
Boston area more than a decade ago, enrolled
in classes at The New England School of Art
& Design at Suffolk University, and has been
unceasingly composing designs for a long list
of clients both in the city and on Cape Cod.
brett johnson began designing interiors in
New York, and his work extends from coastal
Maine, which he has called home his whole
life, to Florida. The product component of his
business, Maine Street Mercantile & Mfg. Co.,
is all about his home state. It produces custom
furniture entirely made in Maine as well as
decorative objects to spice up the home.
resources (page 45): Selvaggio mosaic, Nero Mar-

quina Marble, and Small Herringbone Carrara Marble,
all in honed finish, Ann Sacks, Boston Design Center;
annsacks.com. Raven, Caesarstone; caesarstone.
com and available at United Marble Fabricators,
Boston Design Center; unitedmarble.com. Round
Entry Metro Set in white brushed bronze, Rocky
Mountain Hardware; rockymountainhardware.com.
Oxford Castano, Porcelanosa, Boston Design Center;
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An open floor plan that connects the kitchen
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on the fringe where they can talk to you but
not functioning kitchens. I contend that all wraps near the fridge. Everything should be
not get in the way. It is best to lay out your
cabinets less than 12 inches wide are useless.
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hen you fly over the Bahamas and look down on the colors of the water, it’s so entered by doors flanking the
beautiful,” says the owner of a sybaritic spa bath in Hamilton, Massachusetts. walnut vanity, the master
bathroom’s design features
“You could say that we are blue-green fans.”
sensuously curving lines and a
“This is not your typical master bath,” says architect David Mehlin of Ips- blue, green, and sand palette
wich, Massachusetts, the brains behind an ambitious multiyear project that inspired both by California
converted a six-stall horse barn and attached carriage house into an expansive and comfortable family forests and Bahamian waters.
home. The bathroom is part of an addition housing a garage and workshop on the ground floor with a mas-
ter bedroom and bath above. A bridge over a lower-level breezeway connects the main house’s second-
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“Usually, when we do bathrooms, we do bright,” Mehlin says, “but what the

homeowners specified brought a grotto to mind.”
“They wanted an oasis of tranquillity,” says Gracyn Robinson Whitman,
owner of the Wenham, Massachusetts, interior design studio A CASA Design,
who executed the handsome decor for the 300-square-foot bathroom. Amenities
include a deep vertical soaking tub fitted with headrests and reached via walnut
steps installed into a corner of the room, a built-in walnut vanity with a double-
trough sink, and an enclosed water closet. But the main attraction is the spacious
pebble-floored shower stall boasting a lighted bench and multiple showerheads
and jets on two walls. The serpentine exterior wall of the stall is covered with a
mosaic of blue and sand-colored glass tiles inset with a window of watery-looking
translucent glass. The wall curves against a backdrop of Ann Sacks’s Aura cerulean
and aquamarine 12-by-24-inch glass tiles with striated patterning.
“The Aura tile was the driving design element for the whole bathroom,” the
homeowner says. “It brings those Bahamian waters to mind.”
“Overall, the room has a beachy, fluid feel,” says Robinson Whitman, “which
reflects the owners’ desire to bring in natural elements. But we did not only look
walnut steps built into a corner provide access to the deep soaking tub, which is fitted
with headrests and built-in seats. The patterning of the floor tiles mimics the age rings on
tree trunks. Multiple body jets and showerheads (facing page, left) make for a sybaritic
experience. The deep blue tile was the design inspiration for the whole room; one piece acts
as the transom above a translucent glass panel, which resembles sheeting water. A bench at
the far end of the shower (facing page, right) is aglow with LED lighting.
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custom-designed vanity from Slim Larsen
Design where rounded corners and shelves
evoke the profile of the shower walls. It also
affords ample storage and the 4-foot-wide
trough sink accommodates double faucets.
to the Atlantic Ocean for our inspiration.

The homeowners had lived in California,
so for pavers [for the floor] we chose 9-by-
30-inch porcelain tile that has concentric
rings, like those of a sequoia tree trunk.”
She adds, “The materials and the way we
used them evoke nature. We emulated nat-
ural curves instead of using straight lines
in details like the shower threshold. There
is movement throughout the whole space.
No rectilinear lines are facing you as you
walk in.”
Opposite the shower, the vanity, a dark
walnut piece by wood craftsman and sculp-
tor Slim Larsen of Slim Larsen Design in
Rockport, Massachusetts, has curved sides
instead of squared-off corners; the glass
shelves flanking it also were cut to conform
to the curve. “We needed side-by-side
sinks but were restricted by the available
space,” says Robinson Whitman. “That led
us to choose the trough sink,” which, at 48
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the shower is a custom profile 3/4-inch-square
mosaic in three tones: non-iridescent Rain,
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inches wide, provides room for two people

without the additional space required by
dual sinks.
Opaque light blue glass subway tiles
compose its backsplash and cover the wall
enclosing the soaking tub.
“Fitting the various patterns of glass
tiles presented some challenges,” says
Chris Waelter, a Salisbury, Massachusetts,
masonry and tiling professional. “Creat-
ing a serpentine glass wall was a demand-
ing project. And to fit the large blue tiles
around the arched window was challeng-
ing. Glass tiles are more difficult to cut
than ceramic; you have to use a specialty
blade made for glass,” he says. “The big
tiles themselves were actually easy to work
with, though they were irregular — not all
of them were perfectly flat.”
A grace note is sounded by a piece of
the large blue tile that was cut to fit into a
transom above the translu-
cent glass panel in the shower
for more
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the opposite wall, brings light
into the shower and keeps it from feeling
cave-like. LED lighting along the edges of
the shower bench and shelving helps as well.
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masonry has been repointed, fresh
birches have been planted, evergreen
hedges replaced, and the fountain
water system has been repaired.
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The legendary gardens at Naumkeag are being returned to the glorious vision created by their renowned designers
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t took Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele 30 years to create 1891 that currently owns 107 other properties in Massachusetts. “To
the gardens at Naumkeag. The Trustees of Reservations, restore the gardens, we have received a challenge grant, which will
which now owns the Shingle Style Gilded Age cottage (a match contributions up to $1 million by September 30 of this year. The
44-room country house) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, will rest will be raised from private donations.”
spend the next three years and $2.6 million to restore them. Mabel Choate’s father, prominent New York attorney Joseph
“We received Naumkeag in the 1950s and have not done Choate, built Naumkeag in 1885. For the design, he turned to the famed
any true infrastructure work since then,” says Barbara Erickson, pres- firm McKim, Mead & White, then christened the house with the Native
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original grounds, designed by Nathan Bar-

rett, included a tennis court, a cut-flower
garden, and an orchard. When Mabel Choate
inherited the house in 1929, she and now
renowned landscape architect Fletcher Steele
began to create a series of gardens that still
stands as a transcendent example of modern
American landscape design. The gardens are
also rare surviving examples of the work of
Steele, who is considered America’s first mod-
ern landscape architect.
The two met in 1926, when Steele was
gaining professional prominence and Choate
was about to inherit Naumkeag. After she
heard him speak at the Lenox Garden Club,
she invited him to visit the estate. It was the in one of the last gardens Mabel Choate and
beginning of an inspired partnership that Fletcher Steele established, the Rose Garden
lasted until the gardens were completed in (above, top), serpentine gravel paths descend
TOP, FRED COLLINS. INSET, COURTESY OF THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS (2013)

1956. Chaote died in 1958. below the house designed by McKim, Mead &
White. The quatrefoil beds will be replanted with
“We are able to move forward with con-
floribunda roses. An archival photo (above)
fidence because we have over 1,000 pages of shows Choate’s Peony Terrace.
Fletcher Steele’s notes,” says Mark Wilson,
the trustees’ statewide curator of collections most iconic example of Art Deco landscape.
and west region cultural resources special- Built in 1938, they were Steele’s answer to
ist. “We also have letters, invoices, over 200 Choate’s request for an easier path from the
McDougal Architects plans, plus black-and-white photos. This

helps us to pinpoint everything from specific
top lawn to the cut-flower garden. The steps
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In Steele’s drawings, the dark blue of the the Afternoon Garden — with Venetian poles that
will once again wear their original bright colors —
grottoes is augmented with light and dark blue her “joy and delight”; the Linden Allée was
paint on the masonry staircases. Today, the modeled after Germany’s wooded walks; from the
masonry is free of paint. “We are celebrating Evergreen Garden, a view of the mountains; the
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Choate’s first collaboration. “They both had
a strong artistic sense, and they both trav-
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noon Garden cemented Mabel Choate and
Fletcher Steele’s relationship. If it had not
worked, he would have moved on.”
Choate called the Afternoon Gar-
den her “joy and delight.” Its 17 brightly
painted Venetian poles, which create an
enclosure without obscuring the view, will
be returned to their original hues. A knot
garden of clipped boxwood surrounds a
pool, the hedges sporting an edge of shiny
black anthracite fragments salvaged from
Naumkeag’s coal bin. “Mabel Choate’s
playful side was expressed through the gar-
dens,” Barbara Erickson says. “She wanted
Naumkeag to be fun as well as graceful.
“Steele’s designs were not driven by
the landscape, but by the personality of his
clients,” she says. “Rather than walk the
grounds, he would come into the house to
see how they lived.”
Phases three and four will bring back
Choate’s beloved Peony Terrace, which
boasts her collection of Chinese and Jap-
anese tree peonies; the Rose Garden, with
its floribunda roses set into winding rose-
colored gravel paths, and the Chinese
Temple Garden, Steele and Choate’s last
project,built as a place for the collection of
Chinese sculptures Choate brought back
from her travels.
During her lifetime, the Naumkeag
grounds included extensive greenhouses,
vegetable terraces, agricultural fields, and
barns. When they are restored in phase five,
to be completed in July 2016, Naumkeag
will once again grow food.
The gardens will remain open to the
public throughout the restoration. “This
way, people can appreciate the complexity
of landscape architecture,” Erickson says.
“It is easy to appreciate beautiful gardens,
but the restoration of the Naumkeag gar-
dens will enable visitors to watch ongo-
ing work and to understand the genius of
Fletcher Steele.”
“People always remark on the fact that
they are able to walk around the gardens
just as Mabel did,” Mark Wilson says. “An
intact [historic] garden is so rare.”
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After years of working as an interior designer, Sarah Benham returns to her first artistic passion — painting
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arah Benham makes everything look effortless. Her Effortlessness, as it turns out, takes hours and hours of work, day
studio in Dartmouth, Massachusetts — an 1800s after day. “Like anything,” says Benham, who started painting full
barn with whitewashed walls, aged wide pine board time four years ago, “you have to put the hours in. Most of the time
floors, exposed beams, and a vaulted ceiling — I’m learning how to solve things and struggling, in a good way, to say
appears to be a perfect light-filled space for creating what I want to say.”
art. Her wooden easel, old-fashioned studio stool, In the last year, Benham’s paintings have been featured in shows
and utilitarian table piled with paints and brushes in Tiverton, Rhode Island, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and other
suggest pared-down simplicity. Her paintings convey a clarified exis- South Coast New England galleries. She regularly participates in the
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with no faces. “My paintings now are looser, and the faces have more
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that has always revolved around art, be it fine or decorative. She
worked as an art photographer for many years, and her images are in
museum and private collections around the country, including Har-
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for some New York City designers. For 25 years, she ran a successful
benham’s paintings line the walls of her barn-turned-studio (above), where

whitewashed walls, a vaulted ceiling, wide pine board floors, large windows,
and a white slipcovered sofa give the space a simple, comfortable air. The
painting of a girl in a white dress is titled The Recital Dress, and on the wall to
its right is The Park, Benham’s take on New York’s Central Park. Her painting
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wild turkeys that share the
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interior design business under her married name, and Benham studied painting at the University of
Sarah Spongberg, with clients from Mississippi to Mississippi. She and her husband, Andrew Spong-
Nantucket. Now her focus is on her art alone. berg, a physician, moved from the South to Massa-
“I’ve been around art my whole life,” says Ben- chusetts in 1971 and have made it their home ever
ham, who grew up on a farm in Mississippi. Her since.
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the first pair were a gift from the late Allen
Haskell, a legendary New Bedford nursery
owner who planted an apple orchard on their
property and became a friend.)
“I find inspiration in the landscape all
the time,” says Benham, who notices juxta-
positions of color that delight her eye. “I’ll
see things blooming right next to each other
that are so lovely, and I bring blooms into the
studio because the colors are so interesting.”
the palette found in her paintings is reflected in

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cocktail party, beach, park, or, as with The Critic
(above), in an art gallery setting.
Memories, snapshots, and imag-

ery from many types of media are Ben-
ham’s primary sources of inspiration for
the figures and settings of her art. A paint-
ing called The Recital Dress, for example,
shows a girl in a simple white dress: “It’s
just a memory of a recital dress my mother
made,” she says.
Benham painted another work called
The Park after taking numerous photos
when she was in New York City’s Central
“I find inspiration in
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Benham constantly pushes herself to
learn. She has studied with George Dureau,
the New Orleans painter and photogra-
pher, David Loeffler Smith, a former col-
league who headed the painting depart-
ment at the Swain School of Design, and
John Borowicz, a Dartmouth-based artist.
On her own, she has been studying master-
pieces, recently working on an interpreta-
tion of Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, a
1656 oil on canvas known for its unconven-
tional perspective. And she is still turning
for inspiration to her late mother, who lived
and painted in the studio in her later years.
Her strong spirit still lingers in the stu-
dio, says Benham. “Now, when I’m paint-
ing, I ask her, ‘What do you think of this,
Mama?’ And I hear her say, ‘Well, I can see
you are starting to understand color.’ ”
Benham knows that whatever the pur-
suit, success requires hard work, which she
welcomes. She also values the simplicity,
comfort, light, and beauty that were the
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1620. The sweet, domesticated Malus domes- North America’s first real apple orchard was on the slopes of not-
tica, which we consume today, was but halfway yet-Boston’s Beacon Hill, where the eccentric Reverend William Blax-
through its march around the world then, having started in the prehis- ton settled, alone, in 1625. When the Puritans bought some of his land
toric forests of central Asia, thence along human trade routes west- and moved in a few years later, he is said to have ridden his trained bull
ward until finally making it to the British Isles, thanks to the Romans. through the streets of the fledgling community, handing out apples and
Some 70 varieties grew there, the fruit venerated for its deliciousness, flowers to his new neighbors.
nutritiousness, and versatility, both in cooking and as the source for In 1796, Amelia Simmons penned the nation’s first cookbook,
the much-consumed hard cider. The Pilgrims helped it make its leap American Cookery, in which she wrote:
across the Atlantic, almost certainly packing seeds and grafted seed- Apples … are highly useful in families, and ought to be universally cul-
lings aboard Mayflower. tivated, excepting in the compactest cities. There is not a single family but
The grafted plants were clones of trees that did well in the old might set a tree in some otherwise useless spot, which might serve the two-
country, but conditions were different enough on the coast of Mas- fold use of shade and fruit; on which 12 or 14 kinds of fruit trees might eas-
sachusetts Bay that many didn’t survive. Happily, apple trees have ily be engrafted, and essentially preserve the orchard from the intrusions of
a peculiar way of reproducing: Every apple contains traits from both boys, &c. which is too common in America.

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mates vary, but the average Colonial adult
drank up to a gallon a day. By 1810, Ver-
mont had 125 distilleries making 173,000
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were (and are) sunny hillsides with good
“air drainage,” which allows cold air to flow
downhill unimpeded in spring, protecting
the new blossoms from frost.
There are hundreds of apple orchards,
mostly small and family-owned, spread across
New England. Some are pick-your-own, some
are family-friendly, some wholesale only. More
than 40 varieties are commercially grown,
though some varieties dominate, with McIn-
toshes comprising nearly 70 percent of Ver-
mont’s crop, for example. Despite the rise
of commercially desirable types, old-time
apples with names like Pound Sweet, Black
Gilliflower, Roxbury Russet, Esopus Spit-
zenburg, and Nodhead found resurrection
when back-to-the-landers moved into the
countryside in the 1970s, finding and reviv-
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A Toast to Good Health
The next time you’re belting out “Here We creating
Come A-Wassailing” during the holidays, HEIRLOOMS ...
think apples, not eggnog. Wassailing,
from the Middle English waes hael (be of
good health), has its roots in the cider
country of southwestern England, where
every winter bands of merrymakers, led by
a wassail king and queen, would enter
orchards to bless the trees and scare off
evil spirits. Sometimes armed with pots
and pans to clang, they would carry a large
bowl of spiced cider, with pieces of toast
floating in it, and make their way to the
most fruitful tree in the orchard.
Gathering around it and filling their cups
from the bowl, they would make noise,
drink, sing, hang pieces of toast in the
tree’s limbs, and sprinkle the roots with
cider. Finally, they would toast (the verb
stems from the practice of flavoring drinks
with spiced toast) the tree with some
variation of this verse, as quoted by Henry
David Thoreau in “Wild Apples”:
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In some parts of the countryside,

boys would rap the apple trees with
sticks to banish the evil spirits, which
was called “wassailing” the trees —
Thoreau reports that some scholars
connect the tradition with “the heathen
sacrifice to Pomona,” she being the
Roman goddess of orchard fruit.
Wassailing continues in England and
America today. To experience the
homegrown version, go no further than
Champlain Orchards, where each January
the public is invited to head into the
orchards, toast and cider in hand.
—bruce irving
ice stays late, postponing spring in the

orchards until the threat of frost is mostly
past. In the fall, the lake acts like a heat
sink, prolonging autumn and allowing the
apples to ripen longer toward a later har-
vest. And, says Suhr, a little subfreezing
snap in the fall is no bad thing, as it allows
the sugars in the apples to develop further,
deepening taste and sweetness. “A lot of
our pick-your-own customers wait until
after the first frost to show up,” he says.
They may not know it, but they’re following
in the footsteps of a great apple connois-
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on the virtues of the fruit he found dur-
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the frost come to freeze them first, solid as
stones, and then the rain or a warm win-
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to have borrowed a flavor from heaven
through the medium of the air in which they
hang.” He adds, “All apples are good in this
state and your jaws are the cider-press.”
Thoreau wouldn’t recognize Suhr’s
orchard, nor do many of today’s passersby.
“They think we’re a vineyard,” he says,
describing the latest method of apple-tree
horticulture. Known as tall spindle plant-
ing and pioneered at Cornell University, it
involves planting upward of 1,500 dwarf
trees per acre (old-school orchards with full-
size trees have about 50), supporting them
on trellises in rows 12 feet apart, pruning any
limbs “thicker than your finger,” keeping the
trees shorter for easy picking — and watch-
ing the fruit thrive. “Each apple sits on its
own 1-foot branch in full sunlight,” says
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Dwayne Brees, but it’s no mom-and-pop
affair. They grow disease-resistant vari-
eties such as Liberty, Freedom, and Jona-
free on 720 small trees planted across three
acres. “It’s more work than we realized,”
says Ginny. Late winter means pruning
every tree and removing all the resulting
debris. Early spring brings spraying with
anti-mite oil and fertilizing. If it looks to
be a strong year for blossoms, they’ll spray
with a substance meant to stress the trees
toward a partial blossom drop — each blos-
som can produce six apples, too many for
a healthy crop. When about 10 percent of
the blossoms are open, preferably when the
weather is sunny and dry, and ideally before
the dandelions bloom, they’ll call in a local
beekeeper, who brings two or three hives
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which is, of course, what all the hard work
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Mark Christofi’s Evolution
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A
lot has changed in the world of interior
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got his first “industry” job as a stock boy for
the trailblazing Billie Brenner at her Bath
& Closet Boutique on Boston’s Newbury
Street. And Christofi couldn’t be happier.
“It has been great,” he says. “With the Internet and

stores like RH and Room & Board and designers like
Jonathan Adler, a bigger net has been cast. Every-
thing is much more accessible. Before, it was more
about decoration, not design. The era of that sur-
rounded the ego of decorating. It’s passed. I want
people to be happy and comfortable in their
houses. Nothing feels more successful than
when a family with kids and dogs are up on
the furniture and using it — wearing it out!”
when brenner hired christofi, he was a

student studying printmaking at Massa-
chusetts College of Art and Design, but, he
says, “I always knew I wanted to be an inte-
rior designer.” He shifted his focus and
signed up for drafting classes in Cham-
berlayne Junior College’s design program.
But it was working for legendary Boston
interior designers like Richard FitzGerald
where he truly honed his craft.
christofi interiors
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House Beautiful. It was a great moment in
interior design, though at the time, I didn’t
appreciate it for what it was. People like Mark
Hampton were making their mark. I remember
going with Dick to the Karl Springer studio in
New York. It was exciting. There was so much to
take in. I gained enormous experience.”
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he did a stint in retail, selling furniture at Roche Bobois, then went

on to work for Tradewinds, one of Boston’s oldest and most venerable
design firms, and another acclaimed Boston interior designer, the late
Judith C. Ross.
“It was a great experience working with her. She was so architectur-
ally minded. I did everything, including door schedules and plumb-
ing schedules. Things that would really help me when I started my
own business [in the late 1980s]. Dick [FitzGerald] actually passed
my first client on to me. I got lots of referrals. Then my own house got
published in Traditional Home and House & Garden named me
one of its ‘new tastemakers.’ ”
over the years, Christofi has given back to the community, working
with organizations such as the AIDS Action Committee of Massachu-
setts and the Grass Roots Gay Rights Fund in the early 1990s. Later,
he worked with the Community Research Initiative of New England
and others to help bring the Design Industries Foundation Fighting
AIDS “Dining by Design” fundraiser to the Boston Design Center in
2007 and 2008. His dynamic table ensembles were among the most
memorable in the shows and reflected his evolving design style.
mark christofi in the backyard of the Reading, Massachusetts, home he
shares with Fred, his black Labrador retriever, and where he runs his interior
design firm, Christofi Interiors.
house guest
“I have different expectations for what I do. Things

don’t need to be that complicated. Everything is more
practical. I have become more innovative.”
—mark christofi
“I like creating backgrounds and interiors based on one color and “I loved the light in the living room, but found I didn’t use the room
three or four fabrics. It becomes so textural. It becomes about light, much, so I moved my bedroom there and turned the bedroom into
and the furniture comes forward as the background fades away, and my home office — though I still mostly work at the kitchen table! I
you see more of the room. It creates a calmer, long-lasting interior. sold the dining room furniture and made that space, which also has
Make it as simple as possible, which is often harder and more great light, my living room, where I now spend more time. After 30
expensive to execute.” years, I have different expectations for what I do. Things don’t need
to be that complicated. Everything is more practical. I have become
when christofi, a native of stoneham, Massachusetts, moved from more innovative.
his longtime home in North Reading to the renovated Greek Revival
house near the center of nearby Reading where he still lives today, “What hasn’t changed is the time commitment with the client.
The Boston Globe Magazine profiled the home with its newly deco- I almost always have weekly meetings with them, and we shop
rated living room featuring a graphic black-and-white wall mural together. It still matters for someone to come and sit in a piece of
by Maine artist Matt Cote and its serene, sparsely furnished dining furniture before bringing it home. To create an interior that is
room. Like his clients, however, Christofi found that as his priorities practical and comfortable, I need to get inside their heads a little
and interests changed, so did how he used his space. bit. It is an intimate, personal process.”
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design new england september/october 2013 time travel
116
the tranquil
setting of a 1900s
fishing cabin
turned family
vacation house in
Vermont.
Photo by
Susan Teare
102 built 1670 | 108 built 1870 | 116 built 1900 s | 124 built 2002
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013 DESIGN NEW ENGLAND 1 01
HERITAGE
RESTORED a deft renovation of a 1670 house highlights its history
and extends its legacy as a gathering place for generations
Written by Loren Savini • Photographed by Michael J. Lee
10 2 DESIGN NEW ENGLAND SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013

BUILT 1670
the colonial farmhouse’s ON CHRISTMAS EVE, the owners of a 343-year-old farmhouse — tucked away by salt marshes along
property boasts a large stable with the North Shore of Massachusetts — will gather with their large family for an annual holiday dinner.
tack room and a paddock for
horses. The front porch (right), Appropriate, considering members of the family have occupied the house since an ancestor built it
added by builder Bob Weatherall, in 1670.
creates a welcoming entrance for This year, however, much will be different. Thanks to a recent renovation, the home’s once awk-
guests and a comfortable spot for ward layout has been altered to create a house ideal for casual living and entertaining, where one room
one of the family’s Welsh Corgis to flows easily into the next. The clan will come together around an heirloom table in the dining room,
admire the sprawling marshland.
where the original timber framing, long hidden behind plaster walls and ceiling, is now exposed in a
celebration of the home’s history. The rich olive and terra-cotta palette, chosen specifically with fam-
ily Christmas feasts in mind, will set a warm, welcoming tone as a Colonial-era portrait of a predeces-
sor casts an approving eye over the occasion.
The house, located on 135 acres of marsh and farmland, wasn’t always conducive to hosting guests
and large family gatherings — which the homeowners, a husband and wife with two grown sons, large
respective families, and a variety of pets, wanted to remedy. They reached out to Bob Weatherall of
Weatherall Design in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a close friend and godfather to one of their sons, who has
interior design wilson kelsey design
design/build weatherall design known the family since he was 15. Weatherall fondly remembers the time he spent visiting the house.

“It was sort of locked in time in the sense that it was obviously in need out.” The homeowners requested a new design that would revitalize the
of serious attention in some areas, but the family made it welcoming,” space and, expains Weatherall, “breathe some new life into it,” while
he says. “Its charm is really in the way that the family lived and how also bringing back some of its old character and, of course, making
welcoming they were of friends.” entertaining family and friends a priority.
The original structure — at its core a simple Colonial hall-and- “It’s a family house,” says the wife, a Boston-area attorney, “a
parlor configuration — was expanded to include a second story in the farmhouse with a lot of visitors and pets coming in and out. It needed
early 18th century, plus a family room and new kitchen in the early 20th to be more comfortable, livable, and durable for traffic.” With the help
century. But the layout was choppy and the traffic flow did not favor of interior designer Sally Wilson of Wilson Kelsey Design in Boston
social interaction. “Seventeenth-century houses get added onto and and Salem, Massachusetts, and Weatherall, they got to work.
lived in in such a way that the kitchen is an accessory structure — out Homeowners and designers agreed that the original timber fram-
of the way,” Weatherall says. “Their kitchen was distant from the living, which had been covered up in a previous renovation, should be
ing room. When people came into the house socially, they were spread showcased. Weatherall especially admired where the old timbers
“leaned and twisted.” Where repairs had to be made, he did so with
a rustic heirloom table is the centerpiece of the dining room (above). carefully selected matching species of wood. Now the exposed beams
Mortise cavities in the timber framing (facing page, top left) and the original
front door (facing page, top right) with outer “storm” door, speak to the stand as beacons from the past, a tribute to the house’s history and its
house’s 1670’s roots. A new hallway (facing page, bottom) makes for easy solid construction.
access to the living room from the family and dining rooms. The new design also boasts a large porch and entryway across the

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3 5 6
12 11 9
7
1 garage 10
2 back entry
3 laundry
4 kitchen
5 family room
6 dining room 8
7 front hall
8 living room
9 powder room
10 new hall
11 new entry
12 new porch

yard from the barn and horse paddock. It opens to a new mudroom where built-in cabine-
try provides ample storage for rain gear and riding boots. An awkwardly placed bathroom
that cut the kitchen and dining area off from the living room was replaced with a whim-
sical English country-style half bath and a new hallway that allows guests to move freely
about the house.
With the task of giving the renovated spaces a fresh look, Wilson respected the home’s
history, scouring the family’s existing collection of furniture and decor to see what could be
refurbished and updated for this century. For the parlor, she salvaged an antique sofa with
a solid wood frame and claw feet, added a camel back, and reupholstered it all in Cowtan &
Tout’s Palmilla. Wilson placed several comfortable arm chairs around a new wood stove,
which serves as a focal point in the space, and hung simple curtain panels on iron rods at
the windows and doors. At her suggestion, French doors were added to the
for more
details, back wall, where they open to a view of the rolling acres of meadows and
see marsh and welcome light and air to the low-ceilinged room.
resources
While Wilson took great care to pay homage to the Colonial architec-
ture in her design, she wanted to introduce more modern aspects to the home, as well. “You
don’t want to take a museum approach,” Wilson says. “You want to feel free to live in the
house while still honoring its past.”
The old farmhouse is now much more livable and functional, but its evocative history
is still ever present. “This is the oldest house I’ve ever worked on — and one of the oldest
in the country,” says Wilson. Adds Weatherall: “I loved exploring the structure and feel-
ing the history. It’s unique to the area. I haven’t seen anything like it before.”

antique copper ceremonial fox hunting horns
are displayed by the wood stove in the living
room, which was redesigned with French doors
(facing page, top) that bring fresh air and light
into the room. A mix of old furniture and new
seating creates a cozy space for conversation. The
new entry (facing page, bottom) is a place to kick
off riding boots or stow an umbrella before
entering the family room off the kitchen.

Vive
Le Chalet
A couple looking for a small
vacation house in Newport,
Rhode Island, are happily
sidetracked by a classic
Richard Morris Hunt manse
in need of restoration
WRITTEN BY JILL CONNORS

PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIC ROTH
PRODUCED BY LYNDA SUTTON
On her first visit to Le Chalet, a cottage

on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island,
Linda Sawyer was taken with the beauty and
scale of the 10-foot-deep front porch. Her hus-
band, John D. Harris II, was intrigued by the
opportunity to bring back an architectural trea-
sure. Then living in Newton, Massachusetts, the
couple were looking for a “nice, small place in
Newport” to enjoy summer and friends — but this
great old home stole their hearts.
Call it seduction by architecture. Noted
architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the cot-
tage in 1870 in Stick Style, a precursor to Shingle
Style, and he embellished it with cross-timbered
facades, gracious porches, and multiple gables
architecture northeast collaborative architects
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BUILT 1870
framed vintage audubon prints adorn

a wall covered in shimmering paper in the
living room of the restored 1870 house.
Interior designer Duncan Hughes and
homeowner Linda Sawyer sit on the pale
blue sofa, a soft complement to the
serene cream color scheme.

and dormers. He also gave it scale: At 9,700 square feet, Le Chalet rivaled the
“cottages” of the wealthy, social summer colonists of late 19th-century Newport.
One family, the Gilberts, owned the house for more than 100 years, but by
the time Sawyer and Harris saw it in 2009, its best days were long past. There
was water damage in the basement, rot in the foyer’s floorboards, a chopped-
up floor plan from years of renting a room here or there to local college stu-
dents, laminate bathroom vanities, and kitchen cabinets that weren’t even
bolted to the wall. “It was definitely a diamond in the rough when we first saw
it,” says Harris, an executive at a technology company, “and that appealed to
both of us. We were excited about the potential to bring its legacy back.” The
couple assembled a design team led by architect John Grosvenor and Boston
interior designer Duncan Hughes. Behan Bros. Inc. of neighboring Middle-
town, Rhode Island, became the project’s renovation contractor.
“The concept was to restore the house so it felt like an original Richard
Morris Hunt house, but adapt it for a modern, environmentally conscious
lifestyle,” says Grosvenor, principal at Northeast Collaborative Architects in
behind original pocket doors, the front parlor (facing page) is given new life as a
library. The custom leather chaise longue has cast aluminum turned legs. In renovating
the exterior (above), architect John Grosvenor added parade decks to the second and
third floors, a detail found in the 1870 Richard Morris Hunt drawings but, he believes,
never built. The 19th-century front doors, now painted vibrant red (right), open to a
foyer where vintage accessories accent a curved side table.

Newport. Indeed, Harris and Sawyer were interested in innovations such as geo-
thermal technology and smart-house automation. Mostly, though, they loved Le back porch 5
Chalet’s original architectural detail. 8
Fortunately, the house still had many elements in place. “In many grand old
houses, pieces of the architectural trim, the fireplace mantels, and other bits
4 7
begin to be sold off or disappear over the years,” says Hughes, whose firm, Dun- 6
can Hughes Interiors, is in Boston’s South End. “But that wasn’t the case at Le 9
Chalet.” The banister of the main stairway, for example, required only refinish-
ing; interior door casings and several sets of pocket doors were intact; the paneled 3 10
front doors were original; and the second floor’s maple and fir floors could be sal-
vaged. The entry’s stunning walnut and oak flooring, however, couldn’t be saved.
“It had been sanded so many times, and the boards were thin to begin with, that 1
2
we couldn’t keep it,” says Grosvenor. Instead, replica floorboards were milled and
11
installed in the same pattern.
The public areas at the front of the house — foyer, dining room, library, and liv- front porch
ing room — retain much of their original layout and detail, but the rear of the first
floor was heavily reconfigured. Among the changes, Grosvenor designed a kitchen
addition at the southwest corner of the house to give the homeowners the living/ first floor
entertaining space they craved. Open to the family room, the new kitchen is the 1 foyer 7 powder room
2 library 8 office
core of the house for the couple, who share a passion for cooking, a pursuit Sawyer 3 living room 9 guest bath
4 kitchen 10 guest bedroom
the dining room (above) makes a bold statement with saturated green walls and dark blue 5 family room 11 dining room
velvet dining chairs. Capiz shell chandeliers illuminate the 12-foot-long shagreen-topped 6 pantry
table. The original crown moulding in the 16-by-28-foot room was replicated in wood. BUILDER Behan Bros. Inc.

is taking to a higher level as she nears completion of a master’s degree in culinary
arts. A 7-foot-square island, crowned by industrial light fixtures that dangle from
a tin-accented coffered ceiling, gives the kitchen magnetic powers of attraction.
“They have incredible parties, 150-people-in-the-kitchen kind of parties,”
says Hughes. For dinner parties, a butler’s pantry, where counters are lined with
gleaming copper, was tucked into a corridor between kitchen and dining room,
adding dazzle to a narrow, utilitarian space.
Throughout the house, designer Hughes infused the rooms with unusual tex-
tures and materials: buffalo-horn-top cocktail tables in the living room; a white
leather chaise in the parlor; a 12-foot-long shagreen-topped table in the dining
room; grass-cloth wallcovering in the master bedroom. “They wanted casual, func-
tional, elegant, but not over the top,” says Hughes, who designed numerous pieces,
including the tuxedo-back velvet sofa in the foyer and the window seats in the mas-
ter bedroom. A unifying soft-white trim color is used consistently throughout the
house with a palette of muted grays, creams, light blues, and light greens. “It’s a
beautiful park-like piece of property, and we wanted to bring the colors from out-
side in,” says Hughes.
Greens and creams give the second-floor master bedroom, its sense of seren-
the dual-height kitchen island (above) is finished with Carrara marble. Black granite
countertops contrast with the white base and wall cabinets and the wood-paneled hood
above the Wolf range. The pressed-tin ceiling panels add a vintage touch to the state-of-
the-art space. In the family room (left), designer Hughes arranges items in the distressed
birch hutch, which reaches floor-to-ceiling.

design decision
9
The House of Many Vanities 5
At Le Chalet, owners Linda Sawyer and
John D. Harris II incorporated a delightful 4
motif in the four guest bathrooms on the 6 second floor
second floor: They all have the same vanity, 1 hall
3 2 master bedroom
but in different colors — light blue (not 8 3 master closet
pictured), red, light green, and medium 7 9 4 master bath
blue. “Old houses would have had the 5 media room
same uniformity,” says interior designer 2 6 front stair
9 7 third-floor stair
Duncan Hughes. “You would have the 8 guest bedroom
house sink, faucet, vanity, and use it all the 9 3 1 9 guest bath
way through. Adding the different colors 8
just makes it fun. I think Linda and John
were even considering buying Vespas in
matching colors to the vanities so the 8
guests would have an ensemble for their
stay in Newport.”
a pale green grass-cloth

wallcovering and Roman shades
set a soothing tone in the
master bedroom (above), where
a glass door leads to a new
balcony. The master bath (left)
was completely redesigned and
rebuilt with Calcutta marble
countertops, mosaic floor tiles,
and a frosted-glass toilet
enclosure next to the tub.

ity. The renovated space has a new bath and private terrace off the bed- that includes a pool, outdoor kitchen, and dining area accented by a
room. Also on this level are three guest bedrooms, each with an en suite pergola that connects carriage house to main house.
bath, and a media room. The third floor, once a warren of odd spaces For homeowners who happened upon the renovation of an archi-
perhaps originally for servants, now provides three additional guest tectural classic rather than seeking one out, the result just keeps get-
bedrooms with a shared bath. ting better. In 2012, they received a Doris Duke Historic Preservation
A new color scheme and some strong design elements transformed Award from the Newport Restoration Foundation and the City of New-
the exterior as well. Inspired by Richard Morris Hunt’s original draw- port for their thoughtful restoration. Best of all, they now
for more
ings, architect Grosvenor suggested adding the second- and third-floor details, live in Le Chalet year-round. “We originally bought the
parade decks and cast-iron roof cresting detailed in the 1870 plans see house to be a vacation place, but once it was done, we
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but most likely never built. “We rebuilt all the deck railings, and we wanted to be here all the time,” says Harris. “It’s a won-
changed the proportion of the distinctive X pattern a little for the new derful home, and it’s a privilege to be its caretakers.” Sawyer couldn’t
parade decks to meet today’s code,” says Grosvenor. The new carriage agree more, especially when she is on the restored and extended front
house stands as another example of reinstating an original element that porch, which now wraps around the house’s southwest corner. “It felt
is thought to have been destroyed early on by fire. Containing garage like the house should have had it all along,” says Sawyer. More porch,
and storage space, the carriage house anchors an outdoor play zone more space to relax: Vive Le Chalet.

family sequel
Past and future memories of childhood summers by a Vermont lake prompt a
sensitive renovation of a 1900s fishing cabin into a fun and functional retreat
WRITTEN BY NANCY HUMPHREY CASE | PHOTOGRAPHED BY SUSAN TEARE

BUILT 1900s
architectural designer
Milford Cushman and his
associate, Kelley Osgood,
transformed an early 1900s
fishing cabin into a spacious,
serene setting for family fun.
DESIGN NEW ENGLAND 1 17

Her grandfather’s 1850s lakeside farmhouse in northern cousins, she and her husband set out on a years-long quest for prop-
Vermont was more than a fun place to visit in the 1970s and ’80s. As erty on the lake where they could escape with their three boys, now ages
a child, this now mother of three spent entire summers, swimming, 12, 9, and 7, from their home base in a suburb outside New York City.
exploring the nooks and crannies of the house and its hay barn full of Finally, in 2011, they found a fishing cabin built in the early 1900s
“cool old boats,” and just having “good clean fun” with friends also about 25 feet from the shoreline. The interior was dark, the windows
summering in the area. That social acceptance and outdoor adven- small, and two wings added on in the 1970s were poorly built. But the
ture so grounded her with a deep sense of peace and security that she site — a point of land with water and hillside views on three sides — was
wanted to give her children the same experience.
So, with her grandfather’s place now owned by an uncle and some architectural design cushman design group

the rough-textured finish on the
granite fireplace was created by
simultaneously applying a high-
temperature flame, which fractures the
crystals, and cool water, which prevents
the stone from splitting. All interior
wood, including floors, walls, ceilings,
and trim in the dining area (facing
page), came from a local lumber mill.

perfect. “We took one look and could instantly picture ourselves here,” says her husband.
First, however, a renovation was needed. The couple turned to Milford Cushman of
Cushman Design Group in Stowe, Vermont, partly because the spirit of the place reso-
design decision Suite Success
nated with him. “The idea was to hit the refresh button and transform the building for The master suite presented a design challenge, as
the client had her heart set on a private upstairs
a new generation in a way that was respectful of the original structure,” Cushman says. porch off the bedroom as well as a full master bath
“My client wanted the new camp to include elements she’d loved about her grandfa- with separate tub and shower. Space was tight, and
ther’s house.” Concepts such as secret spaces, discovery, togetherness, and life on the Milford Cushman, working with Kelley Osgood, the
water informed its reshaping. Working with builders Travis Cutler and Donald P. Blake Cushman Design Group designer he assigned to the
Jr. of Donald P. Blake Jr. Inc. in Morrisville, Vermont, Cushman kept the essential foot- project, tried several layouts. In the end, the problem
was solved by creating a long (14 feet, 6 inches) and
print of the 1,556-square-foot structure as required by building codes but rebuilt the two relatively narrow (4 feet, 4 inches) space. They
wings from the ground up, adding a full second story for an additional 1,246 square feet. placed the tub, which has windows on two sides, and
This allowed for four bedrooms, but rather than give each of the boys his own room, the double vanity along the long wall. Then, in a
their mother suggested two guest rooms and a bunk room under the eaves, reminiscent separate alcove, Cushman and Osgood extended the
of the “dormitory” above what had been a woodshed in her grandfather’s house, where 4-foot-4-inch wall to 6 feet, 6 inches to create space
for a shower and toilet. An 8-foot-long custom-
she and her three brothers slept. “Our kids prefer sleeping in the same room,” she says, designed built-in armoire for clothes storage takes
“and if they want to, they can pull up the ladder and no one would know they’re up there.” the place of traditional, less-efficient closets and
The feeling of having escaped to a hide-out is not unlike what the wife, a writer and bureaus in the bedroom. The master suite is
former marketing consultant, wanted for herself in the main living area. The vaulted harmonious and handsome, and the client is
space was dramatically enhanced by knocking out the walls of the fishing cabin’s small, delighted with the porch off the bedroom, where an
outdoor bed, elegantly draped with mosquito
dark living room, relocating the fireplace, and adding windows to open the house to its netting, awaits a summer dreamer.
expansive water views. Instead of having an open-concept layout, she wanted to keep
this space separate from the working part of the house and requested a pocket door

the master bedroom, with its quiet location and expansive views of the lake (above), is a favorite place to read. The private balcony was one of the owners’ must-haves.
The staircase and catwalk (below right) have a cable railing. The new wood walls and ceiling are whitewashed, giving them a soft, glowing finish. The master bathroom
(below left) is long and narrow, with the tub tucked into a corner with windows on two sides and a double vanity along one wall. The couple’s three sons, ages 12, 9,
and 7, share the bunk room (facing page), which features a cozy loft under the eaves, accessed by a ladder.

between the kitchen and the combined living-dining area. “Everything for the summer a week later. “Large numbers of my extended family
that represents work” such as pots and pans, the vacuum cleaner, and still summer here,” says the wife. “There were 55 people — first, sec-
various to-do lists, is, she says, on one side of the door, and everything ond, third cousins — at our last family picnic.” Snug with good insula-
that represents fun and relaxation, such as the lake, the outdoor sunset tion and heating, the house also gets used for fall and spring getaways
platform, the porch, and the uncluttered living room, is on the other and holiday gatherings.
side. “When I walk into this room and close the door behind me,” she Tied to the white pine trees that tower over the camp, multicolored
says, “I’m on vacation.” silk prayer flags, which the family brought home from a trip to Tibet
for more Standing between the U-shaped couch and a wall just weeks before purchasing this property, flutter in the breeze. “The
details,
see of glass overlooking the water, the sound of tiny waves idea is, the wind carries our prayers up to heaven,” says the wife. But
resources
lapping the shore in the background, her husband, a it looks as if heaven is right here.
financial executive, sweeps an arm across the scene and says with a
smile, “Check out our flat-screen TV. … The lake is always in your within earshot of small waves lapping against the lakeshore, a wrap-
field of vision.” around porch extends the dining area (above) with decking of local tamarack,
a fast-growing softwood once used in shipbuilding because of its natural
“He has a high-stress job, and we live hectic lives at home,” says
resistance to rot. The columns are whole trunks of local white cedar trees. The
his wife, “so coming up here is a lifeline. It’s a place to center yourself renovation added second-story spaces (facing page, top) while maintaining
as a person and as a family.” the cabin-in-the-woods essence of the original structure. A typical summer
The project was completed in June 2012 and the family moved in scene is captured on the front porch (facing page, bottom).

2
3
1
5
main level
1 living area
2 powder room/laundry
3 mudroom
4 kitchen
5 dining area
6 porch
BUILDER Donald P. Blake Jr. Inc.

anovel
move
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BUILT 2002
IN THE DINING AREA of her condominium in Boston’s South End, novel-

ist Sue Miller points out the crumbling cliff in the foreground of an allegorical
landscape of children at play. “That’s just wonderful,” she says, delighted with
the painting by Cambridge, Massachusetts, artist Gail Boyajian. Danger may
be the constant companion of domestic bliss in her novels, which include The
Good Mother and While I Was Gone (the first made into a movie, the second into
a TV miniseries), but in the new home she shares with writer Douglas Bauer —
who, over the last 30 years, she has been married to, divorced from, and now
lives with — the drama is all in the views.
“I knew what I wanted,” she says. “Big space, all windows.” Looking out
in three directions, the panorama from the airy great room captures the city’s
financial district, the John Hancock and Prudential towers, and personable
row-house rooflines.
When the newly constructed building opened in 2002, the 2,400-square-
foot apartment was a clean page for the buyer to customize, with just a par-
ticleboard kitchen and bathroom at the core. When Miller and Bauer bought
it from the original owners in early 2012, nothing had been updated or a sin-
gle wall erected, leaving the space open for the imagination. “You could ride a
the living and dining areas (left) of the South End loft have an open floor plan. Seated
at the Saarinen table, novelist Sue Miller chats with her granddaughter, Zoe, while Joe,
her Cairn terrier, observes and Lulu, her 13-year-old Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen, scouts
for crumbs. On the terrace (above), Miller and Joe watch as Zoe is momentarily
design/build s+h construction captivated by the city skyline.

bicycle around it,” says Walter Mayne, project manager for S+H Con- the virtues of underground parking, concierge service, and elevators.
struction of Cambridge, who has worked with Miller on four previous When Miller and Bauer bade farewell to crown mouldings and
residences. After he showed her where plumbing could be snaked in, period furniture, they said hello to minimal trim, polished concrete
Miller plotted out her design scheme on the drawing of the floor plan floors, and built-in sofas. “You have to honor the Modernism,” says
that came with the deed. Miller. Yet, as William Faulkner wrote, the past is never dead. It is very
“I’ve always been ripping walls out,” says Miller, renovation being much alive in the living area, where a bust of Homer that had belonged
a potential hazard of the writing life, which creates new worlds with to Miller’s grandfather rests on streamlined cabinetry, and her moth-
every word. And this is a very new world for the couple and their three er’s chair, reupholstered in a contemporary take on the old-fashioned
dogs, Lulu, Joe, and Burt. “It’s a simplified life,” says Miller, who pre- cabbage rose pattern, poses by the modern gas fireplace. Favorite art-
viously favored Victorian homes or urban brownstones but now extols work remains a fixture, as does the sea-green wall paint that has bright-

the sleek kitchen (above) is very lulu stretches out on the
much a part of the open plan, with polished concrete floor (above
cabinetry that continues along one right), protecting the steps to the
wall to become part of the living terrace. Miller had the built-in
area tableau. The fanciful pyramid seating installed under the windows
painting is by John Gibson of in the living area (right), a modern
Northampton, Massachusetts. juxtaposition with her mother’s
Papery Frank Gehry Cloud lights Victorian chair that sits by the gas
hang over the marble-topped fireplace. A Wade Hoefer landscape,
dining table and a dish garden by its wide frame part of the painting,
Artefact Home|Garden. hangs in the corner.

the restful sea-green walls
in the bedroom (right) have
become a tradition with Miller,
who has used the color in
previous bedrooms. A winding
corridor (below) that serves as
an art gallery leads from the
front entrance to the living area.
Built-in storage (below left)
lines the wall opposite the
library. The library itself (left),
with its floor-to-ceiling
bookshelves and red,
soundproofed door, buffers
Douglas Bauer’s office from
human or canine distractions in
the hallway.

ened every one of the adult Miller’s previous
bedrooms. Even the terrace evokes memo-
ries of gardens past, where the climbing rose
‘Madame Alfred Carrière’ is planted wherever
Miller sets down roots. The previous owners
left potted trees, but she and Bauer added new
containers, filled with a variety of flowering
vines they have used before to great success.
The couple also work together in the
kitchen, fitted with his-and-her Gaggenau
ovens. This is where, after a long day writing in
their respective home offices, they catch up on
the day. The white Caesarstone countertops
and thermofoil cabinets from Metropolitan
Cabinets & Countertops in Norwood, Massa-
chusetts, morph into a low unit of drawers in
the living area, including two where Miller’s
granddaughter, Zoe, 5, can keep her books and
toys. A crooked corridor, like a path in a fairy
tale but with built-in storage, twists through
the rest of the apartment, entwining the per-
sonal with the professional as it leads back
to the condo’s entrance. A shelf-lined library
buffers the access to Bauer’s office, which has
a beguiling view to entice the muse.
Although both offices have soundproof
steel doors, Miller is less worried about audi-
ble distraction. Her office opens directly onto
the corridor, and her desk overlooks a cacoph- she is almost finished with a new novel, The a painting of two industrious
onous dog park. She writes her Arson Summer, which will be published in the workers by the late German artist
for more Friedrich Einhoff hangs above
details, novels in longhand first, so she fall of 2014. In the spring, Miller looks forward
bookshelves in Miller’s office.
see also has a seating area for curling to being the Lucille Geier Lakes Writer in Res-
resources A manuscript sits on the vintage
up with her notebook. Nearby, idence at Smith College in Northampton, Mas- painted turquoise bench Miller
an ambiguous Friedrich Einhoff painting sachusetts. Bauer, author of The Book of Famous uses as a table.
depicts two figures toiling together, yet apart, Iowans: A Novel, teaches in the fall at Benning-
not unlike Miller and Bauer. It is the first time, ton College in Vermont and awaits a publica-
Miller notes, that they have had their pri- tion of an essay collection, appropriately titled
mary creative spaces under the same roof, an What Happens Next? For Miller’s part, she
“adjustment for the both of us,” she says. believes this to be the final move. Then again,
online
The arrangement must be working, because she notes, “I always believe it’s the last time.” see more photos of sue miller’s home

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tasting with wine from all over the world on the lawn of the Marble House.
The exclusive “Wine & Rosecliff” opening gala, a refined evening of music,
food, and, naturally, wine, is at the Rosecliff mansion Friday at 7 p.m.

et al. resources
32–39 • Visit/Rethinking the Ranch

Architecture: Anna Gitelman, Marblehead, MA;
The Concord Museum’s Guild of Volunteers presents agitelman@suffolk.edu; 617-872-1621.
56–61 • Bath/Blue Grotto
A Holiday
Architecture: David Mehlin, Ipswich, MA; 978-356-
0467. Interior design: A CASA Design, Wenham, MA;
acasadesign.com. Vanity: Custom by Slim Larsen
Design, Rockport, MA; slimlarsendesign.com. Tile
House Tour
installation: Chris Waelter Mason & Concrete, Salis-
bury, MA; 978-479-1968. Bathtub: Osaka, Produits
Neptune; produitsneptune.com. Trough sink: Cube,
Wet Style; wetstyle.ca. Shower wall: Aura in deep
blue sea, Ann Sacks, Boston Design Center; ann
Saturday, December 7
sacks.com. Wall: Custom mosaic in non-iridescent
Rain, iridescent Clay, and iridescent Pacific, Ann
Sacks. Floor: Nocchio in golden oak, Ann Sacks.
in historic Concord, Massachusetts Shower floor: Bali Pebbles, Ann Sacks. Wall color:
Chopin Etude, Benjamin Moore; benjaminmoore.
com. Trim color: White Chocolate (cut 50 percent),
Benjamin Moore. Ceiling color: Decorators White,
Benjamin Moore. Hardware: Tara, Dornbracht;
For more information dornbracht.com.
www.concordmuseum.org • 978.369.9763 76–85 • Design Focus/More than a Barn
Architecture: Estes/Twombly Architects, Newport, RI;
estestwombly.com. Jamestown Community Farm:
231 East Shore Road, Jamestown, RI; jamestown
communityfarm.com. Farm Stand: Eldred Avenue
and East Shore Road, Jamestown, RI.
102–107 • Built 1670/Heritage Restored

Builder: Weatherall Design, Ipswich, MA; weatherall
design.com. Interior design: Wilson Kelsey Design,
Boston and Salem, MA; wilsonkelseydesign.com.
Exterior: Windows: Pella Architect Series; pella.
magazine or touchscreen com. Body color: Majolica Green, Sherwin-Williams;
sherwin-williams.com. Trim color: Dover White, Sher-
win-Williams. Front door color: Heritage Red, Benja-
Greatt design
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ith t min Moore. Dining room: Rug: Brooklake in olivio,
New England’s splendid homes and gardens Landry & Arcari, Boston and Salem, MA; landryand
arcari.com. Chandelier: Scofield Historic Lighting;
scofieldlighting.com. Chair fabric: Palatina, Osborne
& Little, Boston Design Center; osborneandlittle.com.
Host chair: Hickory Chair Co.; hickorychair.com. Host
chair fabric: Gainsborough Velvet, F. Schumacher &
Co., Boston Design Center; fschumacher.com. Drap-
ery fabric: Bandhura Indienne in fawn, F. Schumacher
& Co. Wall color: Oat Straw, Benjamin Moore. Living
room: Rug: Karastan in buff, Landry & Arcari. Sofa
fabric: Palmilla in sand, Cowtan & Tout; cowtan.
com, through The Martin Group, Boston Design
Center; martingroupinc.com. Drapery fabric: Hamp-
ton Court, F. Schumacher & Co. Wall color: Putnam
Ivory, Benjamin Moore. Hall: Sconces: Scofield His-
toric Lighting. Wall color: Oat Straw, Benjamin Moore.
Entry:Floor:HighlandRidge,AmericanOlean;american
olean.com. Bench fabric: Braulen, Osborne & Little.
Wall color: Healing Aloe, Benjamin Moore.
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108–115 • Built 1870/Vive Le Chalet
Architecture: Northeast Collaborative Architects,
Newport, RI; ncarchitects.com. Interior design: Dun-
can Hughes Interiors, Boston; duncanhughes.com.
designnewengland.com Builder: Behan Bros. Inc., Middletown, RI; behanbros.
photo/eric roth com. Landscape: TJ Brown Landscaping, Newport,
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DESIGN
new england
JIM DUGAN
omission Captains Barry King and
Jennifer Martin welcome passengers
fall 2013 salon series
aboard schooner Mary Day, featured
in “Graceful Mary Day” in the July/
August 2013 issue, for three-, four-, Industry Pulse
and six-day cruises between Camden HOW TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES DESIGN
and Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Mary Day, P.O. Box 798, Camden, Wednesday, September 18 • 5:30–8 p.m.
ME 04843; 800-992-2218; Masterpiece Woodworks Inc. • 65 Bodwell Street, Avon, MA 02322,
schoonermaryday.com. 508.580.0021
For the Love of Old

RI; 401-847-2081. Living room: White lacquer side PRESERVING, RESTORING, AND CREATING HEIRLOOMS
tables: Tonic Home; tonichome.com. Sofa: The Fur- Wednesday, September 25 • 5:30–8 p.m.
niture Guild, Boston Design Center; thefurniture
Trefler’s • 29 Tower Road, Newton, MA 02464, 617.965.3388
guild.com. Tufted bench: Custom design by Duncan
Hughes. Draperies: Thread Workroom, Holliston,
MA; threadworkroom.com. Rug: Steven King, Boston
Design Center; stevenkinginc.com. Library: Chaise Kitchens First
longue: custom design by Duncan Hughes. Dining DESIGNS FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT ROOM
room: Table: Black walnut base with shagreen top,
custom design by Duncan Hughes. Dining chairs: Thursday, October 3 • 5:30–8 p.m.
Hickory Chair Co., through Ailanthus, Boston De- SieMatic • 1 Charles Street South, Boston 02116, 617.585.9960
sign Center; ailanthusltd.com. Wall color: Richmond
Green, Benjamin Moore. Kitchen: Cabinetry: Dutch
Made Custom Cabinetry; dutchmade.com. Refrig-
erator: Sub-Zero; subzero-wolf.com. Range: Wolf.
Planning Ahead
Vent hood: Best Range Hoods; bestrangehoods.com. UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR ALL AGES
Faucets: KWC Faucets; kwc.com. Master bedroom: Thursday, October 10 • 5:30–8 p.m.
Bed: Horchow; horchow.com. Rug: Landry & Arcari.
Master bath: Tub: Victoria + Albert Baths; vanda Designer Bath • 97 River Street, Beverly, MA 01915, 978.921.1226
baths.com. Vanity: custom design by Duncan Hughes.
Guest bath vanities: Waterfall Bathroom Furniture;
waterfallbath.com, through Discover Tile, Boston Cutting Edge
Design Center; discovertile.com.
TRENDS AND MATERIALS FOR TOMORROW
116–123 • Built 1900s/Family Sequel Thursday, October 17 • 5:30–8 p.m.
Architecture: Cushman Design Group, Stowe, VT; Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams • 142 Berkeley Street, Boston 02116,
cushmandesign.com. Builder: Donald P. Blake Jr. 617.266.0075
Inc., Morrisville, VT; stowebuilder.com.
124–129 • Built 2002/A Novel Move

Design and build: S+H Construction, Cambridge,
Savor the Process
MA; shconstruction.com. Kitchen: Cabinetry: Met- FROM DESIGN IDEA TO REALITY
ropolitan Cabinets & Countertops, Norwood, MA; Wednesday, October 23 • 5:30–8 p.m.
metcabinet.com. Countertops: Caesarstone; caesar
stoneus.com. Art: Gail Boyajian, Cambridge, MA; Roomscapes Luxury Design Center • 40 Reservoir Park Drive, Rockland, MA
gailboyajian.net, and John Gibson, Northampton, 02370, 781.616.6400
MA; jgibsonart.com. Accessories: Patio planters, win-
dow seat pillows, vases and arrangements: Artefact R S V P: DesignNewEngland.eventbrite.com
Home|Garden, Belmont, MA; artefacthome.com.
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A Holiday House Tour, concordmuseum.org 136

Adams + Beasley Associates, adamsbeasley.com 4
American Society of Landscape Architects,
asla.org/2013meeting 134
Architecture Boston Expo, abexpo.com 133
Bay Point Builders, baypointbuilderscorp.com 38
Bensonwood Homes, bensonwood.com 98
Bilowz Associates, bilowzassociates.com 36
Blu Homes, bluhomes.com/newengland 8
Boston Design Center, bostondesign.com Cover 4
Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens,
brownjordanoutdoorkitchens.com 74
Bulthaup, bulthaup.com 25
C.H. Newton Builders Inc., chnewton.com 15
California Closets, californiaclosets.com 97
Chip Webster Architecture, chipwebster.com 60
Circle Furniture, circlefurniture.com 53
Clarke Distribution, clarkecorp.com 6
Coldwell Banker, coldwellbankerpreviews.com 5
Crown Point Cabinetry, crown-point.com 77
Cushman Design Group, cushmandesign.com 72
Custom Floors Design Inc.,
customfloorsdesign.com 37
Cutting Edge Homes Inc., thinkcuttingedge.com 44
a
D. Michael Collins Architects, dmcarch.com 75
Dale Broholm Custom Furniture and Cabinetry,
dalebroholm.com 21
Dan K. Gordon Associates,
dangordonasociates.com 81
Danish Country Antiques,
europeanstyleantiques.com 88
David Mullen AIA, davidmullenarchitect.com 52
Design New England,
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designnewengland.com 136, 137, 138
Designer Bath, designerbath.com 59
Didriks, didriks.com 60
Divine Kitchens, divinekitchens.com 21
Dover Rug & Home, doverrug.com 2
Dream Kitchens, adreamkitchen.com 54
Eck|MacNeely Architects Inc., eckmacneely.com 51
ECO Structures Inc., ecostructures.com 100
Ellis Boston Antiques Show, ellisboston.com 130
it is easy to nominate a mentor! European Country Antiques,
ecountryantiques.com 90
1 visit designnewengland.com/middies 2 fill out the entry form 3 submit by October 15
Fallon Custom Homes & Renovations,
falloncustomhomes.com 1
Feinmann Inc., feinmann.com 93
Ferguson, ferguson.com 57
F.H. Perry Builder, fhperry.com 23
Fifthroom.com, fifthroom.com 24
Gateway Arts, gatewayarts.org 138
Gregorian Rugs, gregorianrugs.com 43
Herrick & White Architectural Woodworkers,
herrick-white.com 80
Hilary Bovey, 617-966-8882 52
The Holland Companies,
thehollandcompanies.com 26
Hutker Architects, hutkerarchitects.com 89
2013 ICAA-Bulfinch, classicist-ne.org

Inspired Stones, inspiredstones.com
139
21
Italian Design, italian-design.net 9
Now in their third year, the MIDDIES were created by Design New England to promote, cultivate, J. Schwartz Design, jschwartzdesign.net 22
and recognize mentors in the fields of architecture, interior design, building, landscape design, or J. Todd Gallery, jtodd.com 75
any related discipline who share their time, wisdom, and expertise with the next generation.
Jan Gleysteen Architects Inc., jangleysteeninc.com 85
K. Powers & Company, kpowers.com 39
need more info? Contact Gail Ravgiala, 617.929.3002, ravgiala@globe.com Kitchen Views/National Lumber, kitchenviews.com 95
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LaFauci Tile and Marble, lafaucitileandmarble.com 91
A DOWNTON ABBEY-
Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and Carpeting,
landryandarcari.com 47
Leicht, leicht.com 16
Light Positive, lightpositive.com
Ligne Roset, lignerosetboston.com
The Look at Boston Design Center,
84
49 INSPIRED GARDEN PARTY
bostondesign.com 28–29 A FESTIVE EVENT TO SUPPORT THE MASSACHUSETTS
Lucía Lighting, lucialighting.com 88 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GARDEN TO TABLE
M. Steinert & Sons, msteinert.com 69
Marcus Gleysteen Architects, mgaarchitects.com 67 PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES ORGANIC PRODUCE
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, TO FAMILIES IN NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY.
masshort.org/events 139
Masterpiece Woodworks Inc.,
masterpiecewoodworks.com
McDougal Architects, mcdougalarchitects.com
66
64
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Millennium Place, mplaceboston.com 17–20
Mitchell Construction Group Inc.,
mitchcogroup.com 58 The Gardens of Elm Bank, Wellesley
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, mgbwhome.com 40–41
The Morson Collection, themorsoncollection.com 7
New England Architectural Finishing, Tickets: $125
nearchitecturalfinishing.com 79
Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival,
Visit Masshort.org and click on the
newportmansions.org/events/
wine-and-food-festival 131
Events tab to buy tickets.
Northeast Masonry Distributors,
northeast-masonry.com 89
Otis & Ahearn Real Estate, otisahearn.com Cover 2
Payne|Bouchier, paynebouchier.com 27
Peabody Supply, peabodysupply.com 82
Pella, pella.com 73
Pioneer Millworks, pioneermillworks.com 21
Poggenpohl, poggenpohl.com 3
Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders,
psdab.com 94
Pompanoosuc Mills, pompy.com 74
PRISM Awards, bragb.org 132
R. Cantwell Woodworking Inc.,
rcantwellwoodworking.com 99
Renjeau Galleries, renjeau.com 67
Roche Bobois, roche-bobois.com 10–11
Roomscapes Luxury Design Center,
roomscapesinc.com 63
Runtal Radiators, runtalnorthamerica.com 55
S+H Construction, shconstruction.com Cover 3
Sandwich Lantern, sandwichlantern.com 21
Sean Papich Landscape Architecture,
seanpapich.com 85
Shafer O’Neil Interior Design, shaferoneil.com 90
SieMatic, siematic.us 30–31
Splash Spritzo, splashspritzo.com 53
Stone Projects, stoneprojectsnewengland.com 61
Sudbury Design Group,
landscapearchitectureboston.com 71
Thomas J. O’Neill Inc., thomasjoneill.com 65
Thoughtforms Custom Builders,
thoughtforms-corp.com 79
Timeless Interiors, timelessinteriorsandgifts.com 21
Trefler’s, trefler.com 84
Triad Associates Inc., triadassociatesinc.com 83
United Marble Fabricators, unitedmarble.com 35
Van Dam Architecture and Design,
vandamdesign.com 91
WaterSpot, water-spot.com 42
Wellen Construction, wellenconstruction.com 13
Wolfers, wolfers.com 87
take note
gateway
to success
our society tends to
undervalue two things: art and the
contributions of people with
disabilities. Not so at Gateway Arts.
Now celebrating its 40th anniver-
sary, this little-engine-that-could
has grown from a fledgling crafts
program for 10 people with
intellectual disabilities to a bustling
studio in Brookline, Massachu-
setts, where more than 100 artists
with diverse challenges ranging
from psychiatric illness and head
injuries to spectrum disorders work
in paint, clay, jewelry, and textiles.
The work is sold, mostly through
Gateway’s gallery, retail store, and
website, with the artists netting
50 percent of the sale’s price.
Gateway has been part of
Vinfen Corporation, a nonprofit
human service agency, since 1978,
and has met the ups and downs of
public funding for its programs and
artists with dogged determination,
redoubling its efforts in the wake
of the 2008 recession by finding
private donations and grants to
support its mission. The
anniversary spurred a major
fundraising campaign that will
culminate with a gala night of art,
music, and food on October 19 at
the Waterworks Museum in
Boston. “We celebrate our artists’
abilities,” says Rae Edelson,
Gateway’s director. “Making art
professionally can create a life that
is of value — and gives value back
to society. It enables these artists
to tell the story of their lives in
formerly unimagined ways.”
— gail ravgiala
gateway arts, 60-62 Harvard
Avenue, Brookline, MA; 617-734-
1577; gatewayarts.org.
an acrylic-on-panel rendering of a vase
of flowers painted by Gateway Arts artist
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