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Heirloom Modern - The Cover Revealed!
Over the past few months, Porter and I have seen some truly amazing homes - and heard even more incredible stories behind the things inside them for our book for Rizzoli. We've been all over Manhattan,...
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American Independence Appreciated Via Six Great Days in French Canada in 1989
Back in 1989, a few kids from my 5th grade French class and I headed to Montreal and Quebec City for six big days of immersion. I was 5'9", eleven years old and ready to take on the world (if not just...
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4th of July on Pier 59
Back in the Spring, Porter and I got a call from a couple in Westhampton with a request we never expected: to help them pick out furniture for their new...River Boat. They'd just purchased the old...
View ArticleFinger Pickin' - (Sooooo) Good
I saw Richard Thompson play a few years ago and as he stood on stage with his fingers flying over that neck, I kept waiting for all the mandolin players to pop out. Nope. It was all Richard's ten...
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A Parent of Heirloom Modern
From the point of view of a single person who's years away from sprouting offspring who will inherit her purses and taxidermy, it's safe to say that finishing the photography (more Porter's effort than...
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Out of Dodge (Just Barely): City Island + Lambertville, NJ
The freedom of going through one weekend without a humongus, imminent deadline looming felt so good that you'd imagine Porter and I had lost our noses to the past six months of grindstone action. Don't...
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Tick Tock!
I may procrastinate with nearly all important things in my life, but when it comes to Christmas shopping (or birthday shopping or just day-to-day pick-me-ups for those I love) I'm more eager to get the...
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Well Hung | MoMA's Century of the Child
Well Hung | a sporadically updated look at my favorite artistic spectacles on the walls of (and inside glass boxes within) galleries and museums around the world. The Museum of Modern Art has tracked...
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On Track
When it comes to running, my life goal (which I'm not working very hard towards at all) is to out sprint an attacker or to just run freely through a meadow without panting or getting terribly sweaty...
View ArticleWell Hung | Ori Gersht, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
For nearly quarter century now, I've had an ongoing wish (and diatribe that I've gone on and on about on the blog before) that schools would offer chronological curriculums where children could learn...
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The $500 Kitchen Overhaul | Part I, the Walton Fordification
Our loft is essentially one big room, so having a very oak colored Ikea kitchen hanging out in the back right corner has always been problematic for the eyes. Earlier in the week last week, I'd planned...
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It's all Relative
One of the subjects in our book - who has the most spectacular home I've ever seen in real life or other books - sees and arranges things in a way that - frankly - everyone should: in contrasts. Dark...
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Well Hung | Richter Goes to the Pompidou
He's a photo realist, he's an abstractionist, he's completely wonderful. Gerhard Richter's Panorama at the Centre Pompidou in Paris only runs through September 24. Even paintings make fun wallpaper...
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Back to the Daily Grind Shopping
Since we no longer get three MONTHS off (clearly bemoaning the end of the absolutely lovely three DAY one we just had), it only seems fair that we adults treat ourselves to a few new things to start...
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Hoveys + Anthropologie + Wallpaper!!!!
It's nearly killed us to keep this a secret, but this fall, everyone will be able to put our favorite objects - on their own walls! Porter photographed our collection and Anthropologie made it into...
View ArticleInto the Wild | The Doe Bay Sessions
My passive appreciation for Sex and the City ended full stop when Carrie pulled all those tantrums at Aiden's place in Suffern. Girls shouldn't yell at men who build cabins. They should marry them - or...
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Into the Wild No. 2 | My Weekend in Chatham
Instead of dealing with big birthday bashes these days, I really prefer to treat myself to a little dose of time well the hell outta Dodge. Last year was Montauk, but for the big (boring as birthdays...
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Hoveys + Ralph Lauren + Japanese Characters = Barely Breathing
From about the moment we left our cribs, mom had us swaddled in Ralph Lauren. And as we and the brand got a little bit older, she had spectacular luck finding incredible pieces at thrift stores, which...
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Damn You, Sandy
Porter and I were almost embarrassingly unscathed by Sandy's terrible wrath (thank goodness). It's utterly heartbreaking to see the destruction and how powerless we are - literally and figuratively -...
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Anthropologie + Hovey Design Pt. 2 | Our House in Your House
We're so excited to unveil our second Hovey Design collaboration with Anthropologie: a mural of our living room for other people's living rooms! It's got my 1940s portrait of a British man and his...
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