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The Newport Diary


It’s a Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood

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This perfect early fall weather (and a calmer pace after the freneticism of summer) has prompted many walks around my favorite neighborhoods, each route including one architectural treasure after another.… Read More

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Coaching Weekend, Starring Rosecliff

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And just like “that”, Coaching took over the island the weekend of August 15-17. With 2 separate “drives” on Friday and Saturday and one Sunday morn, the number of people enjoying… Read More

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Reliving the Gilded Age: Coaching comes to Newport

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Living in Newport, with its many exceptional homes, gate houses, stables and carriage houses, complemented by grand specimen trees on manicured landscapes, gives one the sense of existing in another… Read More

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Newport’s Vistas and Viewscapes

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This is a follow-on to last week’s post on “Evening at Home,” with its views and landscapes that are at the heart of the success of the Aquidneck Island Land… Read More

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“Flora,” a New Culinary Destination for Newport

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There’s always a good story in Newport! And our town’s new boutique waterfront hotel, Gardiner House, is handsomely wrapped in its homage to noted Newport painter Howard Gardiner Cushing and… Read More

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Summer ’24 Happenings

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The “Newport Season” officially starts with the Newport Flower Show the third week in June…but really picks up momentum in July! So much so, that August, which used to be… Read More

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Convivial Oakwood: Gathering in the Garden

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This summer of ’24 is dedicated to Newport in all its many manifestations from entertaining to interiors to gardens to “happenings.” All coming under the nostalgic name, My Newport Diary…bringing… Read More

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A Mid Summer Night’s Party

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A “mid-summer’s night” has such a ring for what Newport is all about! And for July 17th my inspiration was to “bring on the color” as I planned last week’s… Read More

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Show-Stopping Hydrangeas at Marble House

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After a few years of disappointing blooms, this summer of ’24 is a show stopper of what can rightfully be described as a hydrangea heaven, contributing muchly to the pleasures… Read More

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Introducing Newport’s Gardiner House Hotel

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As one would expect of a destination as high profile as Newport… from yachting regattas to extravagant weddings…our “City by the Sea” boasts many hotels and inns, most of them… Read More

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As snow settles softly over the grounds at Parterre, the garden takes on a quieter grandeur - clipped hedges, stone balustrades, and winter light revealing a beauty meant to be admired slowly❄️🤍
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As snow falls outside, winter white settles within at Parterre - classical proportions, antique mirrors, and an elegance that belongs to another era ❄️☁️
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The northern lakes of Italy have always lingered with me. What draws me now is not only the formal gardens along the water, but the way the hills beyond are treated with equal reverence - shaped, framed, and left to speak for themselves. A reminder that the most enduring beauty is often found just beyond the shoreline 🌊🌳
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At Villa Erba, grandeur is practiced with restraint. Every surface carries intention, every detail composed to endure rather than impress. It is a language of elegance spoken fluently, never loudly - where history lingers in the air and beauty exists without explanation ☁️✨
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Beneath crystal light and gilded ceilings, where every dinner once felt like a performance. The dining hall chandelier at The Breakers with @newport.mansions still knows how to steal the scene📽️💫
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Gilded walls, polished parquet, and portraits that once watched America’s most powerful families pass beneath crystal light. Inside Marble House, at @newport.mansions where opulence wasn’t decoration - it was a declaration 💫🕯️🗝️

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