House Beautiful articles from May 2002

House Beautiful archives from May 2002

Talent.
May 1, 2002... Kathryn Harris After working in commercials and feature film production in England, London native Harris ("Point, Counterpoint," page 134) moved to Los Angeles 12 years ago to become a production fellow at the American Film Institute. She...

Viva la feedback! Keep those cards, letters, and e-mail coming ... (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... YOUR INPUT CONSTANTLY helps us call the shots on our upcoming editorial coverage. With more than 400 requests for more "small space" and "awkward room" guidance, we have decided not only to continue our January "Tiny Rooms, Huge Solutions"...

China shop. (dear marian).(Alexandra Von Furstenberg's china)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Dear Marian, Where can we find the beautiful Venetian china pictured in "Smart Alex" [January]? If it's not available, can you recommend a similar one? Adriano and Celia Pichardo via e-mail Dear Adriano and Celia, ...

Book proposal. (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... Dear Marian, "Swatch Watch" is more than great--it should be a book. I know how expensive this small feature must be to produce each month, but please don't ever stop. Pamela Colangelo via e-mail

Getting possessive. (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... Dear Marian, I was appalled to see that the possessive form of Rodgers was incorrectly printed in the article title "Mrs. Rodgers's Neighborhood" [February]. Even my fourth-grade daughter knows that the possessive form of Rodgers should be...

Kid's stuff. (style beat).
May 1, 2002... {Bring boyish charm to the fore with grown-up stripes, dots, and checks, and nary a cowboy print in sight} 1. Striped jersey flat twin sheet, $40; from Garnet Hill: 800-622-6216. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2. Dot embroidered bath...

Family size: Bennison's Bollington sofa is big enough for almost any brood. (swatch watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THERE'S NO BETTER LONG-TERM INVESTMENT THAN A WELL-constructed, generously proportioned sofa with a classic shape. Bennison's three-seat, 90-inch-long Bollington sofa has it all: comfy down-filled cushions, a tight back, and a silhouette that...

Healdsburg, California. (instant message).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Northern California's Sonoma County has traditionally played lowkey second fiddle to its more touristed neighbor Napa, but the recent arrival of luxe lodgings may be changing that dynamic. Located amid the historic buildings and shops of...

Designer dossier. (instant message).(decorator Kathryn Ireland's travels)
May 1, 2002... Globe-trotting decorator Kathryn Ireland, who divides her time between Southern California and southern France, says her favorite travel spots revolve around food. "My sons love the Can Rafa in the old port in Cadaques," she reports. "They...

Bookshelf. (instant message).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Oscar de la Renta (Assouline; $50) offers a comprehensive look at the fashion don's oeuvre, including photos of his famed residences, like the Punta Cana estate in his native Dominican Republic. Oscar Niemeyer (Assouline; $19) showcases another...

Beautiful botanicals. (instant message).
May 1, 2002... The rare illustrated manuscripts and books gathered in "Plants and Gardens Portrayed," at the New York Botanical Garden through July 31, span seven centuries, from an 1190 edition of Circa Instans to the circa-1810 Les Liliacees, in which the...

He said, she said: a child's chair can sometimes be much more than child's play. (antiques).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... IMAGINE A CHILD'S DELIGHT IN HAVING A CHAIR JUST HIS size that matches his father's. Whether for practical use or make-believe, children's furniture seems to possess magical qualities. This circa-1765 Chippendale mahogany child s chair is an...

Ciao Bella! In her Chicago office, designer Alessandra Branca does as the Romans do. (9 to 5).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... IN ROME, WHERE ALESSANDRA BRANCA WAS BORN AND BRED, MANY A BUSINESS TRANSACTION is sealed over an espresso. So when Branca moved to Chicago and opened her own interior design firm, she insisted that her clients would have the pleasure of...

Just for kids: the ultimate do-it-yourselfer, Carolyne Roehm shows how to make a children's party memorable. (at home with roehm).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THE DOUBLE-HEIGHT WHITE CLAPBOARD STUDIO WHERE I WRITE BOOKS ABOUT ENTERTAINING, design, and style also functions as a dream laboratory for putting on events, such as, the Halloween party I threw last fall for three of my favorite little...

Parent trap: what makes a great kids' bedroom? Decorators Victoria Hagan and Brian Murphy know their ABCs. (dueling designers).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Parent Trap Designer Brian Murphy Victoria Hagan New York, New York New York, New York Bringing up baby Don't make a baby's A baby is not a doll; room...

Child's play: furnishing a tot's room from the Web is a piece of cake. (charlotte's web).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Sophisticated Toddler If your children exhibit decorative tendencies, indulge them with furniture from www.citycricket.com, such as this sailboat bench and table or a scaled-down toile-covered armchair. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Arriving where we started: no one was more surprised than Lisa Michaels when rural California called her back. (changing places).
May 1, 2002... THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THE PHRASE "You can't go home again," I thought: who would want to? I was in my early 20s then, and whatever fondness I had for Potter Valley, the tiny Northern California hamlet where I grew up, it did not include the...

Artful dodgers: preservationists keep a developer from felling Chicago's Tree Studios. (saving grace).(nearly-century-old art studio complex in Chicago threatened)
May 1, 2002... THE TREE STUDIOS SEEMED DOOMED. IN 1998 A DEVELOPER WITH PLANS FOR a high-rise tower was ready to knock down most of the nearly-century-old art studio complex in downtown Chicago. Threatened with extinction were the gables, stained glass, and...

Family-friendly decorating. (editor's page).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... LOVE SEATS AND TWO-SEATER SOFAS ARE TOO small for family life. Cuddling with a puppy, a spouse, and a four-year-old attached to several armloads of toys demands a long, deep sofa. If you're tight on space, try retiring one of your armchairs or...

Virginia real; their daughter wanted her wedding at the family farm, so Terry and Courtnay Daniels asked Suzanne Rheinstein to give their house a major overhaul.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... WHEN COURTNAY DANIELS LEARNED THAT her daughter, Kaki, wanted to get married in the cow fields of the family farm in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountain country, she responded with the usual mother-of-the-bride lists, plus one: redecorate. "The...

Hudson haven; artist and decorator Frank Faulkner trains his eye on an upstate New York retreat.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THEY BOUGHT THE 1890s VICTORIAN ON A WHIM, BETTING THEY WOULD LIKE SPENDING weekends in New York's Hudson River Valley. "I loved the front porch," says Jerry Swartz, a Manhattan real estate financier. The previous owners had gone through the...

Fashion makeover A clothing executive trades one stylish hat for another, becoming an interior designer.(Sonja Caproni)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... SONJA CAPRONI IS THE STAR OF ONE OF THE STYLE world's greatest second acts. As fashion director of I. Magnin from 1976 to 1987, she decided just which Saint Laurents and de la Rentas some of America's most clothes-conscious women would be...

Northern exposure: in her Stockholm apartment, a maker of Gustavian furniture breaks the rules of required pallor but stays within the lines.(Marianne von Kantzow)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
May 1, 2002... "WELCOME TO MY LATEST LOVE AFFAIR," SAID THE INVITATION TO THE LAUNCHING OF SOLGARDEN'S new management four years ago: Marianne von Kantzow had just abandoned her post as a construction executive to take the helm at one of Sweden's premier...

Island fever: using little more than old family furniture and bright paints, the owners of this 1903 Maine house renewed its vitality.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... FIRST, TAKE A HALF-HOUR FERRY ride across the waves from Portland, Maine. There's a big island out there called Great Diamond, half of it a former army base, the old parade ground ringed with early-1900s brick houses. Next, be prepared to walk:...

A room of their own: designer Katie Ridder takes a hands-on approach to giving children's rooms personality.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A KID'S ROOM DOESN'T HAVE TO BE JUVENILE. ACCORDING TO DESIGNER KATIE RIDDER, A HARDWORKING mother of three kids under ten, a child's room can be just as stylish as an adult's. House Beautiful asked Ridder to prove her point by giving us her...

Point counterpoint: a California couple couldn't always agree on the decoration of their Mediterranean classic, so they turned to designer Brad Blair for some direction.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DECORATING CAN SOMETIMES BE THE PROVING GROUND FOR A RELATIONSHIP. WHEN MITCH Tenzer and Gail Woods were first setting up house together in a 1929 Mediterranean villa in the Hollywood Hills, the outcome was far from certain. He owned just...

August appetite: if you're between po' boys during your next New Orleans restaurant crawl, tuck into some of John Besh's haute Creole cuisine. (hot dish).
May 1, 2002... JOHN BESH IS REALLY COOKing. Literally, he's been a fixture in the kitchen for as long as he can remember, enchanted as a young Louisiana kid by the heady German/ Creole fare simmering on his grandmother's stove. Figuratively, the Culinary...

Conversation piece. (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... Dear Marian: Your article on the apartment of Frette designer Cristina Azario [February] showed a framed photograph above her son's bed. I have the exact same one. Can you help identify what structure is pictured, and if the photograph is...

Armchair traveler. (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... Dear Marian, Several weeks ago I received the January issue of House Beautiful and slipped it under my ever-growing stack of things to read. Recently, time allowed. I methodically turned pages until I came to "Changing Places." With...

Cocktail party. (dear marian).
May 1, 2002... Who made the cocktail table featured in "Team Schrager" [February] ? It is perfect for my new apartment. Sally S. via e-mail Dear Sally, It is the Tokyo table from the Terence Conran Shop (212-755-9079).

Toast at the coast: recipe for a romantic drinks party: champagne caviar, and white curtains blowing in the wind. (cocktails at 6).(Sundowner)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... LAST YEAR, WANDERLUST STRUCK Los Angeles tastemaker Gail Baral, and she temporarily closed her home-style boutique, Algabar. High on her agenda: an African adventure. To get in the mood, she invited friends for a West Coast version of the...

Ray and Charles Eames: a modern marriage in so many ways.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... HEY WERE THE BEST EXAMPLES OF BETTER LIVING through better design that America has ever produced. In fact, the always upbeat, socially responsible, hugely photogenic team of Ray and Charles Eames changed the way the 20th century sat down, and...