Design Brief Follow along for an in depth portrait of a recent project that stirs together a contemporary lifestyle with traditional elements. The clients engaged us after being in their new home for a year. The French Country style home, which was built roughly in 2000, had finishes and fixtures that the clients wanted to […]
Boston artist Meg Weeks’s painting, Hulbert Noon II captures the glory of a picture perfect summer’s day, where the only thing on the agenda is to enjoy it. The mood board for a room we imagine around her painting has lots of beachy, casual indoor/outdoor fabrics, where greens and blues rule, and the only requirement is to relax.
The late expressionist painter Jason Berger, who hailed from the Boston area, celebrates the joy of lovely weather in his painting Swan Boats, Boston Public Garden, and we imagine a room around it in this mood board.
Living in New England is a blessing if you’re a sucker for historic home tours like we are. Plus we have organizations like Historic New England with so many homes to tour.
Our collection is indisputably influenced by the organizations we support and the artists we patronize and root for. When speaking to new collectors, I often recommend joining a philanthropic groups.
Many people ask what we collect. It’s not so simple to answer. Much of it is photography but not necessarily. Much of it is figurative, but not necessarily.
Not for the strict minimalist, unless carefully and obsessively arranged, this approach involves hanging all the pictures closely next to and atop one another in order to fit them all in.
Lighting your walls to highlight artwork or other features may seem easy at first, but there is a right and wrong way to do it. People ask me: “Craig, what is the most important feature upgrades you can make in your home to result in the maximum impact? It’s lighting, hands-down. Somehow we become easily accustomed to […]