(LENOX, Mass.) – Interior designer Mario Buatta, affectionately known as the “Prince of Chintz” because of his affinity for incorporating the glazed, bold fabric into his work, will deliver a talk on his expansive career decorating the homes of the rich and famous in the drawing room at The Mount on Sunday, October 13, 2013,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Annie Selke, author, designer, and founder of renowned home-furnishings companies Pine Cone Hill, Dash & Albert Rug Company, and Annie Selke Home, has been named to Domino magazine’s Style Council. In the Fall/Winter 2012 issue, on newsstands now, Selke and twelve other home-décor luminaries — from iconic interior designer Bunny Williams to…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The results of a collaboration between a Berkshires-based artist and design firm are displayed at Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield, Mass., a living example of how the creative economy has replaced the manufacturing economy in this once-thriving industrial city. In 2010, Tom Patti, a Berkshires-based artist renowned worldwide for his innovative work in…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Artist and designer Karen Beckwith explains the challenges and triumphs she faced in turning a room in a Gilded Age mansion into “a flexible space for meditation, yoga, journaling and drawing, reading, napping, and occasionally hiding…” Ventfort Hall, the Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, has been transformed room by room by…
