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Exploring Wm. K. Vanderbilt’s Firehouse

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Town&Country, long one of my favorite magazines, just gave Living Newport another shout out…so to celebrate I’m featuring a chapter from my book to help kick off summer. Cory and… Read More

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Pardee Planning: Savvy Southern Hospitality

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We’ve all had this experience – you are looking for one thing in an old file or seldom-used drawer and you come upon something quite by surprise — which then… Read More

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Bistronomy: The Best New Paris Bistros

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“Bistronomy” is the latest trend in Parisian cuisine.  I was so pleased to experience it firsthand at a recent talk and tasting celebrating Jane Sigal’s latest book, Bistronomy: Recipes from… Read More

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“Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper,” a Preview Screening at The Breakers

3 / 31 / 167 / 17 / 20

One soon learns, and then takes for granted, that Newport is seemingly at the epicenter, in an understated way, of many newsworthy events. Case in point…Tuesday night, in a filled-to-capacity gilded… Read More

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Palm Beach in 48 Hours

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Can’t you just feel those  tropical Palm Beach breezes?A great migration takes place each winter when seemingly three quarters of my friends head to Florida, most to Palm Beach; I jokingly… Read More

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A Nantucket Thanksgiving, Vintage Bon Appetit

11 / 19 / 157 / 15 / 20
Nantucket, MA

When I joined Bon Appétit many years ago as a contributing editor, my first “Entertaining with Style” Thanksgiving feature was a friend of a friend’s family on Nantucket. It is… Read More

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Thanksgiving Planning from a “Girl of 100 Lists”

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If you’ll be so generous as to allow me a somewhat obscure 80’s reference – I can completely identify with the Go-Go’s song “I am a girl of 100 lists.” I… Read More

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The elegance that is Renishaw Hall and Gardens in Derbyshire, England voted “Garden of the Year” in 2015. Immaculately maintained, with garden rooms that enchant and design details to inspire.

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The elegance that is Renishaw Hall and Gardens in Derbyshire, England voted “Garden of the Year” in 2015. Immaculately maintained, with garden rooms that enchant and design details to inspire. 

#privatenewport #newportri #enchantedgardens #gardenoftheyear #derbyshire #renishawhall

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Look what greeted me when I returned from England? The beyond brilliant purply-blue Japanese iris,  sure to bring a smile to any flower lovers face. Aaaah, the joys of June in Newport…

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Look what greeted me when I returned from England? The beyond brilliant purply-blue Japanese iris,  sure to bring a smile to any flower lovers face. Aaaah, the joys of June in Newport…

#privatenewport #newportri #summeriscoming☀️ #juneflowers

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Aaah, Merry Ole England, specifically Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. Considered the most important English house to survive from the Middle Ages, it laid dormant for 200 years from the 1700 until the 1920s when it was restored.

#privatenewport #newportri #middleages #englisharchitecture

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Aaah, Merry Ole England, specifically Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. Considered the most important English house to survive from the Middle Ages, it laid dormant for 200 years from the 1700 until the 1920s when it was restored. 

#privatenewport #newportri #middleages #englisharchitecture

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Enchanted by my visit to Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, England, where exists one of the most beguiling follies I’ve ever seen…an arbor “birdcage” created in 1711 by Robert Bakewell for the elegant grounds designed in the manner of Le Notre.

#privatenewport #newportri #derbyshire #britishgarden #gardenlove

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Enchanted by my visit to Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, England, where exists one of the most beguiling follies I’ve ever seen…an arbor “birdcage” created in 1711 by Robert Bakewell for the elegant grounds designed in the manner of Le Notre.

#privatenewport #newportri #derbyshire #britishgarden #gardenlove

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Have a sublime Sunday!

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Have a sublime Sunday!

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The Dahlia walk at Biddulph Grange is the area that truly resonated for me; the elegant simplicity of the Yew battlements carried out James Bateman’s thinking that each part of the garden must be its own separate world. At the point of every change in gradient, stepped buttresses of hedging jut out to meet the path and appear to support the hedges and enclose the terrace gardens above…a massive green “construction.”Scoot over to today’s blog to check out this masterful garden in Staffordshire, England.

#privatenewport #newportri #gardeninspo #biddulphgrange #englishgarden

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The Dahlia walk at Biddulph Grange is the area that truly resonated for me; the elegant simplicity of the Yew battlements carried out James Bateman’s thinking that each part of the garden must be its own separate world. At the point of every change in gradient, stepped buttresses of hedging jut out to meet the path and appear to support the hedges and enclose the terrace gardens above…a massive green “construction.”Scoot over to today’s blog to check out this masterful garden in Staffordshire, England.

#privatenewport #newportri #gardeninspo #biddulphgrange #englishgarden
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