Photography by Fahnon Bennett Artist Manuel Santelices thought Dutchess County might be a mistake. A big one. “We decided to rent a house there in fall 2012, while in Milan,” recalls his husband, David Ashen, “and Manuel was like, ‘Don’t rent the house. We’re not gonna go up there.’” The problem wasn’t the area, exactly. The pair, who met on America Online in 2000 (ah, the romantic screeching of dial-up modems), had been spending time visiting friends in Gallatin and loved their weekends in the Hudson Valley. The problem was what Ashen calls “the most expensive rental in the world.”…
Photography by Antoine Bootz I turn down a secluded driveway nestled deep in the mountains of Southfield, MA and gradually come upon a picture-book country estate. This is Berkshire House,…
Photography by Natalie Chitwood After designing four stores for a client base that’s both adventurous and stylish, Andrea Westerlind set about transforming her Ashley Falls, NY home to suit her impeccable…
Photographed by Fahnon Bennett On a balmy day in the fall of 1991, I was slumped in my chair behind my desk at The New York Times where I was…
It was no surprise to me, even within the first few minutes of meeting Colu Henry, that I knew for a fact she was born an entertainer—not so much in…
I recently returned to my home in Hudson, NY from a two-month sojourn in London and fell right back into my routine which basically is built upon my heading on…
I met Sarah Gray Miller, owner of Coxsackie’s new creative collective, UnQuiet, years ago at InStyle Home Magazine, where she was my boss, though “boss” hardly seems the right word. Sarah…
As a longtime architect and Founding Principal at New York City residential construction juggernaut AE Greyson, Miami native Joseph Kusnick knows his way around a modern structure. As a designer and…