If you are going to San Francisco next Spring, be sure to pick up a copy of SFC&G—San Francisco Cottages & Gardens.” I made this announcement at the sold-out NYC&G Innovation in Design Awards in New York City in September, to cheers and applause from the captains of the design industry who were in attendance…

We are growing . . . yet again! So much to do, so little space—we are simply running out of room for all our fabulous design projects. In fact, to accommodate them all we are adding another issue to next year’s schedule. Look for NYC&G in March, April, May/ June, September, October, November, and December in…

“Where are you?” wailed my friend, standing in the lobby of the Bow Tie theater in Norwalk, with tickets and popcorn in hand. “The movie has started!” ■ It was last Sunday afternoon, and I was on a conference call that ran late. There was nothing to do but see the next movie, whatever it…

“If you are going to San Francisco next spring, be sure to pick up a copy of SFC&G — San Francisco Cottages & Gardens.” I made this announcement at the sold-out NYC&G Innovation in Design Awards in New York City just a few weeks ago, to cheers and applause from the captains of the design…

“If you are going to San Francisco next spring, be sure to pick up a copy of SFC&G—San Francisco Cottages & Gardens.” I made this announcement at the sold-out NYC&G Innovation in Design Awards in New York City just a few weeks ago, to cheers and applause from the captains of the design industry who…

The latest Cottages & Gardens Interior Designer survey is in! We wanted to conduct a survey to gather information and understand designer’s preferences, priorities, use of resources, social media and their design project activity. However, many of you work with designers, so we thought it was important to let you know what they think about…

The word is out: architects are the new rock stars. Previously it was common to pass the names of our brokers or decorators around the table at dinner parties, and now it seems everyone is dropping the names of their architects. ■ More than 30 of those names were dropped in the most recent issue…

Readers and designers are always telling us how much they love the “sense of place” that emanates from the pages of NYC&G and it’s sister titles CTC&G and HC&G, not to mention opportunities to experience our editorial content in “real life.” This summer’s Holiday House Hamptons designer show house, presented by HC&G, was open to…

Waving to my neighbors as they breakfasted on their Juliet balcony on the edge of the gurgling Silvermine River, wearing comfortable robes and contentedly reading their newspapers at a beautifully set table, I remembered the main reason I love my home: the double balconies that run the length of my house and hang over the…

Waving to my neighbors as they breakfasted on their Juliet balcony on the edge of the gurgling Silvermine River, wearing comfortable robes and contentedly reading their newspapers at a beautifully set table, I remembered the main reason I love my home: the double balconies that run the length of my house and hang over the…

I recently moved a double-sided Vicente Wolf–designed couch from my just-sold Manhattan apartment to the center of the great room that takes up half my house in Wilton, Connecticut. It is sitting there in all it’s glorious whiteness, inviting groups of sparkling conversationalists to perch on either side. I brought in a few other things…

Design is always on our minds at CTC&G but never more than during the summer months after the Innovation in Design Awards gala, when we spend two months putting together this bumper design issue. So it was in this heady atmosphere, and for a change of pace, that I was thrilled to be invited to…

“What is your favorite summer holiday?” Sophie Donelson of EditorTV asked dozens of design industry personalities at the gala opening of the first-ever Holiday House Hamptons, presented by HC&G. Each room in the show house (see page 68) represents a holiday that’s significant to the home’s 24 designers, who arrived festively dressed in white and…

Laughter erupted in the courtyard outside Anthony Baratta’s charming new shop in Westhampton Beach as partygoers compared their red, white, and blue outfits. It was a spontaneous show of sartorial support for Tony’s new venture and it’s predominant color scheme. Even the deejay, decked out in navy and working on a gleaming red surfboard, got…

Holiday House, a Hugely popular Manhattan show house founded six years ago by Iris Dankner, is opening it’s first Hamptons location on June 22 at Fair Hills in Bridgehampton. Called Holiday House Hamptons and presented by HC&G, it kicks off with a gala preview party, with Leonard Lauder as honorary chair and Tony Ingrao, Randy…

In the fall of 2011, CTC&G completed the redecoration of the 100-year-old Connecticut Governor’s Residence in Hartford. Seventeen public spaces were decorated and furnished by the area’s best designers and manufacturers at no cost to the taxpayer (Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, November 2011). We called it The People’s Project. ■ It was a job that…

Like new buildings. In the 1970s, during the economic downturn, I was able to rent a three-bedroom apartment in a just-built tower that couldn’t sell it’s condominiums. It included a dining room, library, and maid’s room and bath along with north, south, and east views. “See the planes taking off at LaGuardia!” I’d exclaim to…

Walking (or should I say hobbling) to dinner on the cobbled streets of the Brera Design District in Milan last month, there was no doubt that the official figure of 324,093 visitors was true! We were all attending the Salone Internazionale del Mobile—the annual furniture fair referred to as the Saloni—which has become the largest…

Spring is such fun in Connecticut if you are interested in great design and good causes. At CTC&G, our sponsorship season kicks off with the Near & Far Aid Designer Power Breakfast. On May 3, head to the Patterson Club in Fairfield to meet Bravo TV’s Million Dollar Decorator Mary McDonald, who is the honored…

C&G editorial director D. J. Carey recently hosted a “Design Salon” at Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, with attendees including designers Thom Filicia, Matthew Patrick Smyth, Anthony Baratta, Philip Gorrivan, Charlotte Barnes, Catherine Cleare, Amanda Nisbet, Patricia Healing, Barbara Hauben-Ross, and Linherr Hollingsworth, as well as home-furnishings manufacturers Crans Baldwin of EF+LM…