House Beautiful articles from June 2006

House Beautiful archives from June 2006

The Best! give them water and 25 years ...(Buyers guide)
June 1, 2006... For the true romantic, a sapling from history: sweet gum from Graceland, ginkgo from Frank Lloyd Wright's garden, Thoreau, Poe, and many more. Can you imagine a lovelier housewarming gift? Famous and Historic Trees, $3% AMERICAN FORESTS:...

Color which red is the best red? What other color wakes up a room so brilliantly? But it can be tricky choosing a red that's just right. Let these designers help guide you.
June 1, 2006... DIANA VREELAND There's no red room as famous as Diana Vreeland's "garden in hell," above, by Billy Baldwin. The Bracquenie chintz, Le Grand Arbre, is still available to the trade from Pierre Frey. Nobody knows exactly what red her room...

Instant room: Chinoiserie: very likely you're thinking toile--but here are on the traditional, and some unexpected ways to use them.(Buyers guide)
June 1, 2006... HOW WE'D DO IT Here's HB editor Eddie Ross's ideal living room: for sofas, DODDINGTON ill Coral (1) by Scalamandre, piped with 14225-313 velvet (4) from Duralee; pillows and Roman shades in PARADISE BACKGROUND ill Turquoise on Tinted Linen (2)...

I want to buy candlesticks: eagle-eyed Carol Prisant shows us the best in brass.
June 1, 2006... A LITTLE BACKSTORY Well, yes, you could say that brass candlesticks are kind of useless, since with the exception of several million romantics, who really needs candlelight today? But in spite of their obsolescence... and Edison... they're...

Q A: I own a lot of antiques and good upholstered furniture. Which breeds are the least destructive?
June 1, 2006... STEREOTYPING A BREED is akin to stereotyping people: "Which type of child is least fussy at bedtime?" Puppies are naturally curious and have boundless amounts of energy. You say destruction, they say entertainment. They need supervision,...

Maintenance rugs: oriental rugs last for centuries, but they need a little help from people like Phillip Costikyan. Here's how to get more years out of them.
June 1, 2006... Is your job like being a doctor--everybody wants to tell you their rug stories? Because I have an 1820s Chinese rug. It's so beautiful but the fringe is gone on one end. Fringe always wears out first. Vacuums do a lot of damage to it. ...

Weekend shopper: where: Scott Antique Market in Atlanta ... what Eddie found: porcelain cockatoos ... what he did with them: made lamps.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Why did you go to Atlanta? I'd always heard through antiques dealers, you have to go to Atlanta, yon have to go to Atlanta. So I went down to Scott Antique Market with my friend Deborah Buck, who owns Buck House, an antiques store in New...

Technophobia coffeemakers: cappuccino, decaf, tea? Just pop in a pod. Terry Trucco talks to Bed Bath & Beyond's Sharon Silver about this new generation of machines.
June 1, 2006... What's the difference between a classic drip coffeemaker and the new single-serve machines? They're actually very similar. With both you have ground coffee, and water brews through a filter. That's it? What's the big deal? It's so...

Q&A: what's the worst thing that ever happened at one of your parties, and what did you do?
June 1, 2006... IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER SUNDAY in East Hampton, and I'd invited six friends for lunch. Sounds easy, right? Well, everyone in East Hampton has houseguests in the summer, and an hour before the lunch, all the guests called to ask if they could...

Cookbook: sunrise breakfasts, moonlight suppers: our reviewer is enchanted with the down-to-earth recipes in Big Sky Cooking.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... AS A BIG APPLE GIRL who does not look particularly good in jeans and cowboy boots, I had never heard the siren call of cowboy country until I opened Big Sky Cooking (Artisan, $35), Meredith Brokaw's love letter to her family's second home--a...

House Beautiful has a new message these days.(Editorial)
June 1, 2006... HOUSE BEAUTIFUL has a new message these days: American homes, American life. As much as I am charmed by a London drawing room or a garden in Provence, I really believe that Americans need a magazine all our own, about our houses, about the way...

American style is color.(Mary MacDonald)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... [MIMI READ] This is the perfect American family home. It's optimistic, comfortable, and colorful. What would you call the style of the interior in general? [DESIGNER MARY MACDONALD] Let me think... How about Los Angeles-English Could you...

American style is romance.(Myra Hoefer, Gina Gattuso)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... ALEXANDRIA ABRAMIAN-MOTT: From the outside, this house looks like a classic American cottage. There's the front porch, the swing, the old lampposts. Then you walk through the door and--Bam!--you're no longer just in a small town in Sonoma...

American style is relaxed.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... PENELOPE GREEN: Your palette is delicious. The colors are so subtle and soft, like sand, sunshine, and the sea. It really looks like a beach house. INTERIOR DE SIGNER MONA HAJJ: Originally, it was a developer's idea of a beach house, dark...

American style is outdoor life.
June 1, 2006... [ALEXANDRIA ABRAMIAN-MOTT] The indoor/outdoor life is practically synonymous with Southern California. But this takes outdoor rooms to a whole new level. This is an outdoor house. There's a kitchen, a dining room, a sunken living room, and that...

American style is timeless.(architect J.P. Morganesque views on designing of buildings)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Aging stone? That's interesting. How do you do that? You just play around. I always say it's easy to do anything three feet square, I'll use black waxes or water stains to get the look I want--a sort of softness, sort of dirt. And then I...

House Beautiful 2006 Giants of American Design.(interior design)(Discussion)
June 1, 2006... Bunny Williams interior designer "I want to home more than anyplace else. I feel sorry for people who are always trying to run away." PHOTOGRAPHS BY HENRY LEUTWYLER Many a designer can pick a pretty chintz. Many a designer believes in...

Kitchen of the month/Pennsylvania: you're obsessed with sweets, so why hold back? A kitchen can be as imaginative as it is efficient. Have your cake and eat it, too.(Jamie Gottschall)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... PENELOPE GREEN: Your kitchen looks like a chocolate box, or an old-fashioned patisserie. What was your inspiration? JAMIE GOTTSCHALL: I wanted to make this heavenly Candy Land. I wanted people to walk in and feel like they could lick the...

The look kitchen of the month: we picked out a few of our favorite details and went in search of the closest matches. Here's how to get your own little piece of the look.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... 1. You'll want to whip up something delectable right away with this KitchenAid ARTISAN STAND MIXER, $270, and silicone SPATULA AND SPOONULA, $9 each. WILLIAMS-SONOMA: 800-541-2233; www.williams-sonoma.com. 2. Every room needs some icing....

Correction.(Correction notice)
June 1, 2006... April 2006: In the resources for the "Kitchen of the Month," p. 116, the phone number for Last Chance-Woodworking was incorrectly listed. The correct number is 207-749-9998.

The last words: the Museum of the City of New York has a new show celebrating Dorothy Draper, the original Giant of Design. Here, Draperisms from her classics Decorating Is Fun! (DOUBLEDAY, 1939) and Entertaining Is Fun! (1941; RIZZOLI 2004).(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... "Don't pay too much money for your rugs or carpets unless you really have money to burn..." Personally, I belong to the group of people who like to look up rather than down...." "An antique may be as old as the hills and still ugly....