Inspiring Garden Design: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is unique to me among house museums today…
Inspiring Garden Design: Spring at Hidcote
Looking back on these images has me thinking “how lucky was I?!” Early last May,…
Inspiring Garden Design: 12 Tropical Details to Borrow
Every trip, every new destination offers a welcome opportunity to look at design from another…
Bahamian Moments
The Lyford Cay Design weekend was an elegant, inspiring and festive few days in an…
Inspiring Garden Design: The Talented Mr. Brown
This annual “Inspiring Garden Design” series is going to have an international flavor in 2020,…
Inspiring Garden Design: Revealed in Stages
Photo Credit: David Schilling Photography We’ve all experienced that wonderful sensation of having seen a…
Inspiring Garden Design: 7 Key Points for Creating Winter Interest
One of my most anticipated seasonal occurrences in Newport (and another reason not to flee…
2019’s Top 22 Photographs
After what seemed like the longest of lead-ins to the New Year (having holidays mid-week…
London’s Singular Architecture
Given the comments and emails I’ve been receiving, even in the very middle of this…
A Taste of London at Christmas
Of course I know Newport at Christmas, and New York, for sure, but I’m not…
Blenheim Palace: Dressed for the Holidays
It has been almost thirty years since I last visited Blenheim Palace, and it brought…
A Downton Abbey-Inspired Christmas
Photo Credit: Michelle Pugliese for Private Newport Can you think of anything more glorious than…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Photo Credit: Maaike Bernstrom Photography From our table to yours, the very happiest of Thanksgivings!
Creating a Thanksgiving Centerpiece
It’s the tail end of the growing season; time for cutting back, pulling out, bedding…