Posts Tagged: Architecture

kitchen vignette at Patina Farm More Patina Farm Style

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Stacey Bewkes   •   11 Comments
Thank you to so many of you who stopped by and left such lovely comments about Susanna’s and my video visit to Brooke and Steve Giannetti’s beautiful Ojai farm. With such an idyllic setting and photogenic home, it was hard to stop snapping shots.…
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At Home with the Giannettis on Patina Farm At Home with Susanna Salk and Brooke & Steve Giannetti on Patina Farm

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Stacey Bewkes   •   27 Comments
Patina Farm is the realization of a dream that many only fantasize about. Living on a small lot in suburban Santa Monica, California, Brooke and Steve Giannetti had already recognized their love of land, natural materials and fine old world craftsmanship.…
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Inside Venice residence in the Dorsoduro Inside Venice

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Stacey Bewkes   •   10 Comments
Celebrating the best of Venetian decorative arts, Inside Venice offers us a private view of the city’s most beautiful and rarely seen architectural and interior design jewels. Written by Toto Bergamo Rossi, the director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, the book transports us to seventy-two mostly private apartments and palazzos, beautifully photographed by Jean-François Jaussaud.…
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McAlpine Tankersley Welcoming McAlpine Home

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Stacey Bewkes   •   10 Comments
Thirty years ago, McAlpine Tankersley Architecture was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Since then, the firm has grown into a national powerhouse, encompassing both architecture and interiors, with four offices including a recently updated outpost in New York. I had the pleasure of visiting with four of the seven partners there before the holidays to see their elegant new Flatiron digs and discuss the evolving nature of this talented multi-faceted firm.…
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Paul Goldberger and Frank Gehry at Design Leadership Summit Design Leadership Summit in Los Angeles

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Stacey Bewkes   •   4 Comments
Last week the Design Leadership Summit marked its tenth anniversary with an impressive line up of events in Los Angeles. Now over 300 strong, the Design Leadership Network‘s growing group of top design professionals traveled from across the country to learn, (re)think, connect and share.…
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Oval salon at Vaux le Vicomte A Day at Château de Vaux le Vicomte

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Stacey Bewkes   •   6 Comments
While no doubt familiar with the palatial splendor of Louis XIV’s Versailles, what you may not know is that the inspiration, and indeed the architect, decorator and garden designer, were taken (rather literally) from Nicolas Fouquet’s masterpiece, the Château de Vaux le Vicomte.…
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Gil Schafer Garden at Middlefield A New Look for Gil Schafer

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Stacey Bewkes   •   12 Comments
For so many of us in the world of design, any new project emanating from the office of architect Gil Schafer elicits a sense of excitement. His classic American style is the perfect bridge between past and present – rooted in history, with a timeless sense of scale and proportion, yet effortlessly translated for comfortable modern living.…
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Mark Maresca in Charleston

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Stacey Bewkes   •   7 Comments
Much of the appeal of Charleston is the living history of its architecture and how its occupants give the art and tradition of the past a relevance in the present and hopefully for the future. Architect Mark Maresca and his beautiful Battery house are a perfect example.…
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John Murray Classical Invention | The Architecture of John B. Murray

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Stacey Bewkes   •   12 Comments
We really have the author’s mother to thank for John Murray‘s elegant new volume Classical Invention | The Architecture of John B. Murray. If she had not suggested he take a summer design program at Carnegie Mellon, he might have finished his pre-med studies instead of continuing on to architecture school.…
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Celebrate Archtober in New Canaan, CT

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Stacey Bewkes   •   5 Comments
Did you know that October is also Archtober, the third annual month-long festival of architecture, activities, programs and exhibitions in New York City? This year, it unofficially extends to New Canaan, CT where the New Canaan Historical Society will be hosting its biennial Modern House Day Tour + Symposium.…
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