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The TOWNHOUSE at 857 Carroll Street, A Park Slope Masterpiece
The fact that Porter and I get to wake up and peek inside some of New York's most beautiful buildings and homes...and then, in the best cases, fill them with furniture and art we love...requires almost...
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HOVEY DESIGN Giftus Holidaeus Guide 2015
Tunes! Critters! Booze! Coffee! Here are some of our favorite things to give and share this year (and every year). Happy Holidays to all! We hope someone can fly that peace dove kite over Europe, the...
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HOVEY DESIGN Hits the Road | Five Hours in Milan
On the tail end of our Venetian adventures, Porter had to board a plane back to Paris at the crack of dawn, so I got the first train back to Milan and headed straight to the Fondazione Prada (which is...
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HOVEY DESIGN Hits the Road | Five Days in Venice
What a terrible difference five weeks makes. A little over a month ago, Porter and I got on transatlantic planes and didn't think about our safety any more than usual in this post-911 world. She was...
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Our Online Home (Away from the Blog) Gets a Gut Renovation
It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint and a massive reorganization can do. HOVEYDESIGN.com is all spiffed up, our work and (staging, interiors and product design) projects sorted!Many thanks to...
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HOVEY DESIGN DIY | Steps to the Stairs
One day in early August, I looked over the the industrial stairs leading to my bedroom and thought, wow, that white looks a little dingy. So, in typical fashion, instead of settling on a good scrub and...
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Design by the Letter: The ABCs of Our Favorite Things for the Home
| A | ANEMONE: The Anemone, the "daughter of the wind," created by Venus when she sprinkled nectar on the blood of her dead lover, Adonis...and one of our all-time favorite flowers. ABOVE: Detail of...
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The Second Story (A New HOVEY DESIGN Project)
A home up high, soaring into the sky gives you a bird's eye...view...of the world (that was almost a poem!). But when you get to the top, you can do nothing more than look down and that seems...
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Take the Stage | HOVEY DESIGN Takes on NYC Real Estate
Unless you're house hunting with the likes of Donald Judd, it's a big leap to pop into a stark white cube and say, "Yes! This feels like home! My home!" It's equally daunting to roll into a place that...
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Take the Stage Part 2: The Townhouse at 123 Baxter Street
For the other half of our 123 Baxter Street staging gig, we tackled the incredible two floors (and FIVE outdoor spaces) of the townhouse. We added a a copy of Heirloom Modern for flagrant self...
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Moving to Acrylics and the Woman with the World's Smallest Hands
I found a spectacular portrait of two decorators in a fantasy home in one of the European shelter mags (will credit post search, which could take years). I painted half of it...and instead of striving...
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The Hussar, the Crown Jewel of My Watercoloring Attempts So Far
When Porter was in Paris over Christmas, she fell in love with a portrait of an officer from the Esterhazy Hussars regiment at the army museum at Les Invalides by an unknown artist. I loved him too and...
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The Monkey on Pink
I fell far short of my 10 before Christmas goals, but I did keep painting. For this one, I thought I should loosen up, use more water and be a bit more fun with color. (Pardon his unfinished hands!)
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Watercoloring Pt. 2 | The Fencer
...For painting number two, I wanted something where I could really work with contrasts, so I searched out an image of a Victorian fencer and found this gem by Tancrede Bastet below. I've done quite a...
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Watercoloring Pt. 1 | Fusilier Marins
Porter took off for France this Christmas, so I took time off work and poured myself into painting...portraits AND (incredibly high, perilous) walls and got a new bedroom and a little art collection to...
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The Nutcracker Redux
Like it was for hundreds of other families, the Nutcracker was always a holiday fixture for us Hoveys. We went to see it every year when the Kansas City Ballet put on their production. When I hit six,...
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Adventures in Helsinki
Helsinki is only a 45 minute flight - or eight hour booze cruise - away from Stockholm. The city offers such great design options and Scandinavian touches - with a heavy dose of Soviet influence (Saint...
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Destinations: Stockholm and Helsinki
It's been seven long years since Porter and I first visited Stockholm (she was appropriately blonde back then). We're heading back next week with a short sojourn to Helsinki in the middle. Now, after...
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Great Chaste
Pawel Pawlikowski's stunningly austere portrait of a young Polish nun on her path to find her family and self before taking her vows may inspire a whole new generation of filmmakers to shoot in black...
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Travels North (Slightly More West Than Normal), Pawn Shop Miracles and Darwin
For some reason, Porter and her college friends spent four years across the Hudson from Kingston, NY (and even made numerous trips across the Rhinecliff-Kingston Bridge for Target runs and photo...
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