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Tag Archives: Town & Country


Edith Wharton’s Summer Home in Newport

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Festivities and fireworks started early this year at Private Newport when Town & Country kicked off the long weekend with our story on entertaining Newport style at “Land’s End.” How… Read More

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Exploring Wm. K. Vanderbilt’s Firehouse

5 / 23 / 177 / 27 / 20

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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Newport Society: Moments in Time

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Nick Mele

The summer “season” has started in Newport. Its progress is gracefully slow, presenting a good occasion to capture its players early, at home, at play, enjoying their leisure… Nick Mele’s… 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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The Art of Style: the Jacqueline de Ribes Costume Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Dresses - Design

The Costume exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum in New York are world-renowned–and justifiably so–for presenting designs of those who adhere to their own principles of individuality and style. Fortuitously, the… Read More

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Chic it Up! The Whimsical Artwork of Patricia van Essche

10 / 13 / 157 / 15 / 20
Rosecliff - Newport RI

There’s nothing more enchanting to me  than refined and well-placed pen strokes on Strathmore paper…finished off with a luxurious watercolor wash in yummy colors. When Patricia van Essche’s work was brought… Read More

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8 Sophisticated, Cool Cocktails

9 / 2 / 157 / 15 / 20

Just in time for the final fling of summer – Labor Day Weekend – a collection of 8 intriguing and sophisticated cocktails. Dare I say inspiration first came from the … Read More

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“Iris in Wonderland” Newport Picnic

7 / 22 / 157 / 15 / 20

In an earlier journal post, I presented the irrepressible fashion maven Iris Apfel,  who is the subject of a well deserved documentary.  But the night of her exclusive Newport showing also… Read More

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Garden Week may belong to Virginia… but certain gardens never quite leave you.

Bunny Mellon Oak Spring remains one of those rare places - where restraint feels intentional, and every path seems to lead you somewhere quieter than before.

A return visit, in memory at least, felt only appropriate.

For a closer look, today’s blog awaits

Follow along for more places that linger long after you’ve left them🌷🌼💐
#virginiagardens #springinrichmond #privatenewport #virginiarealestate #richmondvirginiarealtor

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Garden Week may belong to Virginia… but certain gardens never quite leave you.

Bunny Mellon Oak Spring remains one of those rare places - where restraint feels intentional, and every path seems to lead you somewhere quieter than before.

A return visit, in memory at least, felt only appropriate.

For a closer look, today’s blog awaits 

Follow along for more places that linger long after you’ve left them🌷🌼💐
#virginiagardens #springinrichmond #privatenewport #virginiarealestate #richmondvirginiarealtor

privatenewport

Aaah, the homes and gardens of Richmond, on a picture-perfect day.

Garden Week in Virginia is a much-anticipated annual event, when a curated collection of private homes and gardens open their gates, offering a rare glimpse into spaces usually kept just beyond view🌳

The kind of beauty you don’t rush through… you linger in

Save this for your next spring escape🌿
#privatenewport #richmondvirginia #gardenweekvirginia #gardensofrichmond #privategardens

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Aaah, the homes and gardens of Richmond, on a picture-perfect day.

Garden Week in Virginia is a much-anticipated annual event, when a curated collection of private homes and gardens open their gates, offering a rare glimpse into spaces usually kept just beyond view🌳

The kind of beauty you don’t rush through… you linger in

Save this for your next spring escape🌿
#privatenewport #richmondvirginia #gardenweekvirginia #gardensofrichmond #privategardens

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Even here…
Subtle was never part of the design✨

In an age where presence was everything,
rooms like this were created not simply to entertain,
but to be remembered☁️

Every detail, a declaration.
Every gathering, a performance🪞
@newport.mansions
#privatenewport #marblehouse #gildedage #fyp #historicnewport

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Apr 20

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Even here…
Subtle was never part of the design✨

In an age where presence was everything,
rooms like this were created not simply to entertain,
but to be remembered☁️

Every detail, a declaration.
Every gathering, a performance🪞
@newport.mansions 
#privatenewport #marblehouse #gildedage #fyp #historicnewport

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an impossible choice…
but that’s part of the charm✨🕯️
@newport.mansions
#newportmansions #thebreakers #marblehouse #privatenewport #fyp

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an impossible choice…
but that’s part of the charm✨🕯️
@newport.mansions 
#newportmansions #thebreakers #marblehouse #privatenewport #fyp

privatenewport

Along with the daffodils and the tulips, the other gift I anticipate the most about spring is my trip to England. But this year, “circumstances” superseded that annual/semi-annual trip...though New Zealand provided an undeniably very special “change of scenery” 💜🌷
#privatenewport #gardensofengland #englandtravel #englandtravels #englandtrip

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Apr 16

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Along with the daffodils and the tulips, the other gift I anticipate the most about spring is my trip to England. But this year, “circumstances” superseded that annual/semi-annual trip...though New Zealand provided an undeniably very special “change of scenery” 💜🌷
#privatenewport #gardensofengland #englandtravel #englandtravels #englandtrip

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Details reveal themselves in the quiet of early dawn…
the soft petal-pink of the cherries playing against the warmth of the stucco, defining this French Normandy house. The start of early spring at Parterre - fleeting, familiar, and no less captivating each time💕🌸
#privatenewport #springinnewport #privatehomes #privateliving #springcherryblossom

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Details reveal themselves in the quiet of early dawn…
the soft petal-pink of the cherries playing against the warmth of the stucco, defining this French Normandy house. The start of early spring at Parterre - fleeting, familiar, and no less captivating each time💕🌸
#privatenewport #springinnewport #privatehomes #privateliving #springcherryblossom
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