Could be our favorite ever. That is a completely personal opinion, but with a visit to Garrison Keillor's home, a good obsessive article on NY closets and a cool Currents, we have been in heaven over the weekend as we caught up with H&H this week. We recommend you dig in.
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- Where All the Rooms Are Above Average: Garrison Keillor opens the doors to his Minnesota digs and also tells us he's buying back his NYC apartment for $2m more than he sold it for in 1993!
- Into the Closet: We blew being interviewed for this article as we hadn't kept up with our email. Crapola. Because we've got a lot to say about closets. However, Stephanie Rosenbloom does a great job of making a case for closets being the "It Room" of 2006.
- A Simple House With a Complicated Past: House Proud goes to Berlin to visit the new home of Eva Wendel and Peter Stenkhoff. Sorta minimal cool.
- Tuscany Distilled in Stone and Slate: Empty nester's Carter and Charles McDowell redo their yard in Virgina, ripping out the basketball court for trees and a reflecting pool. Anne Raver tells us the story.
That Berlin home - former home and guest house for Communist officials - really creeped me out. I don't think I could ever live in such a place.
The reflecting pool/garden is lovely.
I love the reflecting pool garden. I would love to replicate it in my humble back yard, but I think I may have to start saving up!
I've gotten so tired of Garrison Keillor's more folksy-than-you act that I can't even stand the sound of his voice any more. That article confirms my suspicion that he's as fake as any actor. His house/mansion, while gorgeous, is not the home of who he pretends to be (and hiring an interior designer, no less!). I wouldn't hold it against him if he was more honest about it being an act...I mean, he's very successful and he's earned all of the returns. But he is so...self-aware, that it pains me. Maybe he's so wrapped up in the character that he believes his own artifice.
Yikes.. that's a lot of anger aimed at a really benign guy...
OMG, I used to live in a Bettina Equities building and their management staff was SO unbelievably mean, unhelpful, and rude.
Now I am fuming that I helped pay for this woman's closet. Maybe she needs to concentrate more on training management to be at least civil to tenants (and trust me, we were so low maintenance!) :)
You would call with a question (like, my lease expires in a month and I haven't gotten my renewal form yet) and they would yell at you.
And I love Garrison Keillor, btw!
According to the linked page, Thomas Heatherwick' store is not in Paris, but at 132 Spring Street (Greene Street) in SoHo.
It looks fantastic 9not a clishe, in this case). I have to make time to come down and see it.