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Year of the Horse

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Horse</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Birth year: 1918, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Popular and attractive to the opposite sex. You are often ostentatious and impatient. You need people. Marry a Tiger or a Dog early, but never a Rat.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the Chinese Zodiac - as printed on a Chinese restaurant menu</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese New Year begins on Friday, January 31. In honor of the Year of the Horse - specifically, the Year of the Wooden Horse - I share photos of spaces celebrating the beauty and spirit of the horse . . .   </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAGaaKUjTEBuv3wAZs0PsyCzIXzXCWA9zSY3TdxGDvXVcfD7IoWTIEDWbeDInJnb37cERp0vSKZ7LBFKwrD3QhLDTwgxUmiN0DhGfuOMQXsKMEjKxOc3d0XBzIpqfpPMUjcNUtSxZIlThv/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl03_butler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAGaaKUjTEBuv3wAZs0PsyCzIXzXCWA9zSY3TdxGDvXVcfD7IoWTIEDWbeDInJnb37cERp0vSKZ7LBFKwrD3QhLDTwgxUmiN0DhGfuOMQXsKMEjKxOc3d0XBzIpqfpPMUjcNUtSxZIlThv/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.hosl03_butler.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two mares and a foal, part of Ryan's stock of Thoroughbreds, exercise in a field near a stone tower that Ryan had built to conceal a disused water tank. 'It's the first round tower built in 1,200 years,' he claims. 'There are 100 of them in Ireland. Now there are 101.' "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Castleton Lyons, the Lexington, Kentucky, horse farm of airline mogul Tony Ryan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Tiggy Butler.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Scott Frances.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kentucky Blue Blood" text by Susan Sheehan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2006).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk_BMbI7bm1FSa0Gh9gK015zzw4uW_xCg4cG9AZsptqK8aMebyeHD1hnf0mwXrJgxZB2EYu8P_xIzHh4MHEkHqhi72TM-5PemTRaDEW41XrCW3rw6IVTEgliOtriAZ1xXTBnQhcLub1aIa/s1600/RMalibu_Entry02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk_BMbI7bm1FSa0Gh9gK015zzw4uW_xCg4cG9AZsptqK8aMebyeHD1hnf0mwXrJgxZB2EYu8P_xIzHh4MHEkHqhi72TM-5PemTRaDEW41XrCW3rw6IVTEgliOtriAZ1xXTBnQhcLub1aIa/s1600/RMalibu_Entry02.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Triptych by <a href="http://www.graciestudio.com/" target="_blank">Gracie</a>; third panel conceals door to downstairs bowling alley. Kangxi-era chairs. Antique candlestick as lamp. French table, c. 1800, and sconce. Oushak rug."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan and Luana Romanelli's home on the Malibu coast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/" target="_blank">Madeline Stuart</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.giannettiarchitects.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Giannetti</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/interiors.php?project=Malibu_-_Equestrian&photo=2" target="_blank">Photo by Dominique Vorillon</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Degen Pener.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leading With Style" produced by Mary Jane Ryburn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (July -August 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_z2W47VGxov0bCqrIPk718bRmi4S5K8GnyY-KD445E3rIx_KBZenxfBQIZktRTyJtfg7gnKKvaxmyiU_8ZZ-kSiGqf2B03SJM8QSrEzuOSX56SFqy3Jr5hEEWKURwQd1fNNiSXqHgZEgv/s1600/RMalibu_Living03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_z2W47VGxov0bCqrIPk718bRmi4S5K8GnyY-KD445E3rIx_KBZenxfBQIZktRTyJtfg7gnKKvaxmyiU_8ZZ-kSiGqf2B03SJM8QSrEzuOSX56SFqy3Jr5hEEWKURwQd1fNNiSXqHgZEgv/s1600/RMalibu_Living03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the living room, Chinese coffee table, c. 1820. Custom chairs in Scalamandre linen-velvet with backs in Castel silk. Art by Ashley Collins over antique limestone mantel. Custom nickel fire screen by Reborn Antiques. Spanish silverplate lamp and Italian bed-crown chandelier, both antiques. Italian 18th-c. sconces. Draperies in hemp by Hemp Basics. Bokid woven rug."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan and Luana Romanelli's home on the Malibu coast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/" target="_blank">Madeline Stuart</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.giannettiarchitects.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Giannetti</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/interiors.php?project=Malibu_-_Equestrian&photo=3" target="_blank">Photo by Dominique Vorillon</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Degen Pener.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leading With Style" produced by Mary Jane Ryburn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (July - August 2008).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOG5Cta1IS95Ik9au8KriC-CtXXSy5q9hWGKR9-RGXhJfFC4JDKzb7dWlmWjPTEo-Ppqkux-zThbi0MaCVZrhEw4bM2TnCtkR0sbI4RzilYauJYPJOlO8EXqghbfnuk7AsktY3yYz-JtP/s1600/BlogHorsesVeranda3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOG5Cta1IS95Ik9au8KriC-CtXXSy5q9hWGKR9-RGXhJfFC4JDKzb7dWlmWjPTEo-Ppqkux-zThbi0MaCVZrhEw4bM2TnCtkR0sbI4RzilYauJYPJOlO8EXqghbfnuk7AsktY3yYz-JtP/s1600/BlogHorsesVeranda3.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'"Iron lamp, giltwood and stone table and Italian sconces, all antiques. French 19-c. ottoman. Art by Ashley Collins. Custom mantel by Exquisite Surfaces. Sam Kasten rug."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan and Luana Romanelli's home on the Malibu coast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/" target="_blank">Madeline Stuart</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.giannettiarchitects.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Giannetti</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo by Dominique Vorillon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Degen Pener.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leading With Style" produced by Mary Jane Ryburn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (July - August 2008).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS4IHoDh3WCnsdt7kue1uENifaigXxjdguIBgy93F6NvxCpBsSs54AmcSvvQOEi539zeF2omJ3hitfjR6x0-DDgKfYCOtdqyW_gU7gjsXZNiIFLl1q_4G3Km6sdQMB9CS9LkcvFu48vSr/s1600/BlogHorsesVeranda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS4IHoDh3WCnsdt7kue1uENifaigXxjdguIBgy93F6NvxCpBsSs54AmcSvvQOEi539zeF2omJ3hitfjR6x0-DDgKfYCOtdqyW_gU7gjsXZNiIFLl1q_4G3Km6sdQMB9CS9LkcvFu48vSr/s1600/BlogHorsesVeranda.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Chinese console, c. 1780. Bowl by Formations. Plaster lamp, 1940s, and early 20th-c. ebonized wood and cowhide chair, both French."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan and Luana Romanelli's home on the Malibu coast.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.madelinestuart.com/" target="_blank">Madeline Stuart</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.giannettiarchitects.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Giannetti</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo by Dominique Vorillon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Degen Pener.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leading With Style" produced by Mary Jane Ryburn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (July - August 2008).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvky4tNWLSwS_7KI2UwpyyVN_LpPKMIwpBJU10oV4SdcsjknRiCNFa79ybRE8vb5DB1K6Xv5Fmskf5FgOR6Z6OFsgx9Or_52kMsqnDNfSuvEwyTYMgUViFji5zeAPDyxlmzNTzbPnpl7hyphenhyphen/s1600/KR217659.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvky4tNWLSwS_7KI2UwpyyVN_LpPKMIwpBJU10oV4SdcsjknRiCNFa79ybRE8vb5DB1K6Xv5Fmskf5FgOR6Z6OFsgx9Or_52kMsqnDNfSuvEwyTYMgUViFji5zeAPDyxlmzNTzbPnpl7hyphenhyphen/s1600/KR217659.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.krsaddleshop.com/equestrian-horsehead-salt%2fpepper-shakers/p/217659/" target="_blank">Equestrian Horsehead Salt/Pepper Shakers</a>. Polished pewter finish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Offered by King Ranch Saddle Shop.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.krsaddleshop.com/" target="_blank">King Ranch Saddle Shop website</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimp4QitzP0jc5aZQcpK2w-si7_V3vFKeG55ZCNMFp9TcUMbGUqgDtLkR8ORJ8hFghnLdah0xzZaJ363fHEjElNX6d1n8SqrA64ZWC_0nZpL_2Ad4Vzj5374UtqLYd5NwnacYj-LaF63nrT/s1600/August+September+2010+Issue+white+horse+head+m_UmqyC9GaFl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimp4QitzP0jc5aZQcpK2w-si7_V3vFKeG55ZCNMFp9TcUMbGUqgDtLkR8ORJ8hFghnLdah0xzZaJ363fHEjElNX6d1n8SqrA64ZWC_0nZpL_2Ad4Vzj5374UtqLYd5NwnacYj-LaF63nrT/s1600/August+September+2010+Issue+white+horse+head+m_UmqyC9GaFl.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'Black walls create an intimate environment while retaining a crispness and elegance, while the white trim references classical architecture and acts as a dramatic contrast,' says [Jon] Maroto [of Flair New York]. 'Combined, they are a timeless and versatile backdrop for mixing furnishings of any era.' "</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flair New York, the SoHo, Manhattan, branch of the interiors store founded by Alessandra and Franco Mariotti in Florence in 1998.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/August+September+2010/lmUn_vCxddC/1#28" target="_blank">A Flair for Design</a>" written by Shawn Gauthier.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (August - September 2010).</span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-Jmkg9l4OkK17Rb-KeHUmb7oiMRBomY2fBRkWSURVLlwO1z0eeubTlsj5s2N4xc6o21ygii6Q6R-HMaQ6PB1lpS6Ih6tX2jelcqZ7RvxVHGEIe4XZg-Muum9vJ60JS-h_j5VPWbgIa9c/s1600/s7-316067_lifestyle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-Jmkg9l4OkK17Rb-KeHUmb7oiMRBomY2fBRkWSURVLlwO1z0eeubTlsj5s2N4xc6o21ygii6Q6R-HMaQ6PB1lpS6Ih6tX2jelcqZ7RvxVHGEIe4XZg-Muum9vJ60JS-h_j5VPWbgIa9c/s1600/s7-316067_lifestyle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Handcrafted in Italy, this luxurious velvet slipper is accented with a stylish embroidered horse-and-jockey motif."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10802717&ppp=99&origkw=horse&kw=horse&parentPage=search" target="_blank">Ralph Lauren Collis Velvet Horse Slipper</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.polo.com/" target="_blank">Ralph Lauren website</a>.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheONjqoO_WL59Z3d9pnPnRk6yaZfkgug6FZhrxcTUowCbStzQpU_VR3tjMIAvI6KAZ-kaE99ou2b41qypN-I3B94oSnp-P_s5nRMeKhwaxrD6Zl_3PEAeturfKruHTCKW641uC7QDZG7fz/s1600/XXX_272911_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheONjqoO_WL59Z3d9pnPnRk6yaZfkgug6FZhrxcTUowCbStzQpU_VR3tjMIAvI6KAZ-kaE99ou2b41qypN-I3B94oSnp-P_s5nRMeKhwaxrD6Zl_3PEAeturfKruHTCKW641uC7QDZG7fz/s1600/XXX_272911_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;">Rare Jean Zuber et Cie Wallpaper Mural of New York Bay 19th C. Jacqueline Kennedy installed this same scene in the White House. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;">Photo via <a href="http://tracemayerantiques.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_item_print.php?id=790662" target="_blank">Trace Mayer Antiques/1st Dibs</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BgKtiyiIL0U9f2HmWXV7UJ5suRALAGhh4cfQCuGakQk52c06-9SrJO-IHsWUz64qle_cwTQkx0OVEoYbI0V6_lDJK3Owmt1MOIm9h_yeQszg4RELwOkjysLOBTMh2vbgM7lLiHqDRiXo/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl04_buatta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BgKtiyiIL0U9f2HmWXV7UJ5suRALAGhh4cfQCuGakQk52c06-9SrJO-IHsWUz64qle_cwTQkx0OVEoYbI0V6_lDJK3Owmt1MOIm9h_yeQszg4RELwOkjysLOBTMh2vbgM7lLiHqDRiXo/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl04_buatta.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A 19th-century sunburst clock hangs over a demilune sideboard. The antique wallpaper, by the French company Zuber, illustrates Revolutionary War scenes, including the defeat of General Cornwallis, a battle in which the client’s ancestors fought." </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Mario Buatta. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Gordon Beall.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Aileen Mehle.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"East Coast English" </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (2010). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXsi9MBd1pF5pavYUhyFVN__vtFl1hKvQHjfCh8_udcLoLj1ZVJv5Nwzyy8SUVfEbQvWejOrbX4P_06rcHkJR5gLZiv4G_VmgmByTEgmiCR0VZy8j2Rlk82zpvmgHS6ZbhrLh6f8jG1ux/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0103-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXsi9MBd1pF5pavYUhyFVN__vtFl1hKvQHjfCh8_udcLoLj1ZVJv5Nwzyy8SUVfEbQvWejOrbX4P_06rcHkJR5gLZiv4G_VmgmByTEgmiCR0VZy8j2Rlk82zpvmgHS6ZbhrLh6f8jG1ux/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0103-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A print of a painting by Sir Alfred Munnings is displayed above a tray-top table in the library; the crystal decanters were flea-market finds."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kentucky home of Mark Badgley and James Mischka.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/at-home-badgley-mischka-58958#slide-7" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">At Home With Badgley Mischka</a>" by Julia Reed.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">Elle Decor</a> (September 2009).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbBZdqcj8nHBo5248_8w4DUe_FQYxvNYdjDpyyFJkmbvu3E2ByS0zTevL4uGyW-8AhCOQjVz0RH_1FesDYhow8QfWwXZB0NFTvDF7gtBx_g1Rro1Ay-Lss96Wo0pxAeysiHs2d8E_G0at/s1600/yhst-75748725275044_2268_23132506.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbBZdqcj8nHBo5248_8w4DUe_FQYxvNYdjDpyyFJkmbvu3E2ByS0zTevL4uGyW-8AhCOQjVz0RH_1FesDYhow8QfWwXZB0NFTvDF7gtBx_g1Rro1Ay-Lss96Wo0pxAeysiHs2d8E_G0at/s1600/yhst-75748725275044_2268_23132506.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Be crowned the winning host with this majestic cocktail shaker. Made of stainless steel, the shaker boasts a reflective nickel-plated finish and detailed horse head design."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.plantationdesign.com/0017755.html" target="_blank">Triple Crown Cocktail Shaker</a> offered by Plantation Design.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.plantationdesign.com/" target="_blank">Plantation Design website</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20zR4d6SR9y0pRw1tVhpoK15_5caeOknyCtE4B7wWZLOTXpZwQ2Xs5AY2w1fDvqQtzoX-CdKzKFZv7m4yCOAdnw8S_uhZ1SLxbIT2BbBmJZAsIjlZqP6vWdyKfX0u23t8eZJw5UtukiGr/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0104-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20zR4d6SR9y0pRw1tVhpoK15_5caeOknyCtE4B7wWZLOTXpZwQ2Xs5AY2w1fDvqQtzoX-CdKzKFZv7m4yCOAdnw8S_uhZ1SLxbIT2BbBmJZAsIjlZqP6vWdyKfX0u23t8eZJw5UtukiGr/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0104-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hermes and Frederic Butet saddles and bridles and mahogany show trunks in the stable's tack room."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kentucky home of Mark Badgley and James Mischka.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/at-home-badgley-mischka-58958#slide-17" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">At Home With Badgley Mischka</a>" by Julia Reed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.81818199157715px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">Elle Decor</a> (September 2009).</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzY5-eDkjd3lsO4ftoE9fRhJ0Hkv2TUi2PECQnstNhrEL9qli3IqAf9HWAMb3guhXT0aZbS_NYMe1i778wXMJpFYqbI29BX5HSbEXkHqOBr7nx_mhOVpXUQI8q3wCfiqrW8eGt0ysYZOV/s1600/SPC_Horse_2_large.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzY5-eDkjd3lsO4ftoE9fRhJ0Hkv2TUi2PECQnstNhrEL9qli3IqAf9HWAMb3guhXT0aZbS_NYMe1i778wXMJpFYqbI29BX5HSbEXkHqOBr7nx_mhOVpXUQI8q3wCfiqrW8eGt0ysYZOV/s1600/SPC_Horse_2_large.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.johnderian.com/products/spc_horse-png" target="_blank">Horse Switch Plate Cover</a> by John Derian.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.johnderian.com/" target="_blank">John Derian Company Inc. website</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6rfvBlypRQvPWjOnQ7ggg34MbnletY6BJP6KSX5QgrwBmcox177l9IQQLFNBb6tyCIGYtyIyxTf8RT0fIZBDfjWTLxLI22PwBveOgZ9dtgOlC_PFCPTvquzCxVkBc92pb4elCY2P3Bvs6/s1600/VER-Richard-Hallberg-Newport-Beach-stairwell-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6rfvBlypRQvPWjOnQ7ggg34MbnletY6BJP6KSX5QgrwBmcox177l9IQQLFNBb6tyCIGYtyIyxTf8RT0fIZBDfjWTLxLI22PwBveOgZ9dtgOlC_PFCPTvquzCxVkBc92pb4elCY2P3Bvs6/s1600/VER-Richard-Hallberg-Newport-Beach-stairwell-de.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Custom banister. Italian 18th-c. torchere, Gustavian settee in Clarence House taffeta. Antique oil. Dennis and Leen lantern."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home in Newport Beach, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Richard Hallberg and Barbara Wiseley.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/designers-ideas/richard-hallberg-design-easy-living#slide-8" target="_blank">The Art of Fuss-Free Style</a>" by Lindsey Campbell.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdM2TplZrv5j0UlbpM-gLPElVw2W3LvIKa3cYUd3AdIYvqkHVQorad6Cje6Yvw-fKPJfCMKUNkzs97StnhbO5zomy2jUzyw4fzPjW4rDD1uuYtSYIQC_zO5OQBQCgNCr94zjQQ8rJB5Yz/s1600/BlogYearOfThe+Horse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdM2TplZrv5j0UlbpM-gLPElVw2W3LvIKa3cYUd3AdIYvqkHVQorad6Cje6Yvw-fKPJfCMKUNkzs97StnhbO5zomy2jUzyw4fzPjW4rDD1uuYtSYIQC_zO5OQBQCgNCr94zjQQ8rJB5Yz/s1600/BlogYearOfThe+Horse.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A landscape recalls an antique wallpaper panel. Console, William Word Antiques. Stool in Rose Tarlow Melrose House velour and lamps, Circa. Lampshades, Lux. Art, Terry Reitzel."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historic house in Charlotte.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Jane Schwab, Circa Interiors and Antiques.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architectural renovation by Meyer Greeson Paullin Benson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Laura Resen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Sallie Brady.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Light Grace" produced by John Bossard.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (March - April 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglR2Xn3ew_8Lql8Jluefcf_aYT4GOLS4692ezGmNFZmtbMybju147WFQkqLUAp0AjozCciuD1GquESGJOAo6K98GDkERzFcrc6aQ_rX_jAmFsjvNckt0gVJzpPdKc-I1_Vms2TbsZJmls9/s1600/August%252BSeptember%252B2010%252BIssue%252BMirrored%252Bwalls%252BhbQhameKJVWl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglR2Xn3ew_8Lql8Jluefcf_aYT4GOLS4692ezGmNFZmtbMybju147WFQkqLUAp0AjozCciuD1GquESGJOAo6K98GDkERzFcrc6aQ_rX_jAmFsjvNckt0gVJzpPdKc-I1_Vms2TbsZJmls9/s1600/August%252BSeptember%252B2010%252BIssue%252BMirrored%252Bwalls%252BhbQhameKJVWl.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mirrored walls behind a black-and-white gold console covered with a lamp and boxwood balls."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tablescape in Flair New York, the SoHo, Manhattan, branch of the interiors store founded by Alessandra and Franco Mariotti in Florence in 1998.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/photos/August+September+2010+Issue/hbQhameKJVW" target="_blank">A Flair for Design</a>" written by Shawn Gauthier.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (August - September 2010).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzUX17c_Obo8isxXM1t4m28myYCjJmiT-uOc2fndAeMncZICkXPIRGDDGr9Oiunk0xqcAzWEpzICapJEueQ59NF1gQZqe8Hjvmo3_3hTiPQkVwop5-4_B7oJOEPbJkNtXIfwTpsZKMxEn/s1600/Horse%252BFigurine%252Bhorse%252Bfigurine%252Bbeside%252Bbrass%252B4YkS-r1nQBXl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzUX17c_Obo8isxXM1t4m28myYCjJmiT-uOc2fndAeMncZICkXPIRGDDGr9Oiunk0xqcAzWEpzICapJEueQ59NF1gQZqe8Hjvmo3_3hTiPQkVwop5-4_B7oJOEPbJkNtXIfwTpsZKMxEn/s1600/Horse%252BFigurine%252Bhorse%252Bfigurine%252Bbeside%252Bbrass%252B4YkS-r1nQBXl.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A horse figurine beside a brass tray."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hamptons weekend house of writers Tom Dolby and Drew Frist.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by David Cafiero.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/June+July+2010/jqndkz9VHWH/1#96" target="_blank">A Storied Locale</a>" written by Rumaan Alam.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1338016797"></span><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a><span id="goog_1338016798"></span> (June - July 2010).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaInvqYHymBkd5qTXeok0Xw0weoNphRfrbIZaU_xxJL-lTVQTyyIIEmj-jms3T21GTXJqNYef_kpOT0UeYXW5Mo7da82T0QZXZ2g_RhGZ39kP2DmHa4xzV9jwaiyx-NkyKMMEO_groW8V/s1600/bowers-swedish-0908-10_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaInvqYHymBkd5qTXeok0Xw0weoNphRfrbIZaU_xxJL-lTVQTyyIIEmj-jms3T21GTXJqNYef_kpOT0UeYXW5Mo7da82T0QZXZ2g_RhGZ39kP2DmHa4xzV9jwaiyx-NkyKMMEO_groW8V/s1600/bowers-swedish-0908-10_md.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Custom chair and crib bumper in Jane Shelton ticking. Other bedding in linen by Ralph Lauren. Mirror, French horse tricycle and Orkney child's chair, all antiques. Vintage French hot-air balloon light fixture. Custom cotton dhurrie."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home of Dallas designer Shannon Bowers and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Shannon Bowers, <a href="http://www.shannonbowersdesigns.com/" target="_blank">Shannon Bowers Designs</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Peter Vitale.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/swedish-design-inspiration?click=img_sr#slide-10" target="_blank">Well-Lived: Texas Home with Swedish Appeal</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VcV9fnQLAPXqDulWfedJwpuemi0hY9voe9TOKbI6Z0EaEGB6Y4ekd6baXR9LJpQZiIRyJ6g_wKEfmndhydaadS-VVK4Bet5AcngMwtcsiOTw2AoHG59MSo2eZy2a5gxvZtRj9o89alic/s1600/HBX0407_072-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VcV9fnQLAPXqDulWfedJwpuemi0hY9voe9TOKbI6Z0EaEGB6Y4ekd6baXR9LJpQZiIRyJ6g_wKEfmndhydaadS-VVK4Bet5AcngMwtcsiOTw2AoHG59MSo2eZy2a5gxvZtRj9o89alic/s1600/HBX0407_072-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Atlanta-based architect Keith Summerour designed this South Carolina lake cottage to capture maximum natural light. He used wooden ceilings throughout and also designed the living room fireplace, made from local granite. At the back of the sofa, an 1890s Italian console serves as a dais for an antique sculptural horse, probably a French toy. Reproduction bobbin turned-leg chairs are from Jerry Pair. The custom reproduction hooked rug, designed to resemble older rugs throughout the house, is by Laura Fisher."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South Carolina lake cottage.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Barbara Westbrook.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Keith Summerour.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/furniture-american-casual-0407?click=img_sr#slide-1" target="_blank">An American Casual Lake Cottage</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (April 2007). </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvnLIdep4hKe-egBvXtD6rQ44haTkglPO8HFvpWKGJkxN4zehQQ-4LVlTUhAR6D1DAGnkzgSIbnPnGa_k_PlBmhfek9BY_kVFn49z5fH-KwVSsCtnuMcir9z_g6qhtojKutK_-OzXoFiN/s1600/rhbc_prod261225_B12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvnLIdep4hKe-egBvXtD6rQ44haTkglPO8HFvpWKGJkxN4zehQQ-4LVlTUhAR6D1DAGnkzgSIbnPnGa_k_PlBmhfek9BY_kVFn49z5fH-KwVSsCtnuMcir9z_g6qhtojKutK_-OzXoFiN/s1600/rhbc_prod261225_B12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Taking its cue from a vintage carousel figure, our carved wood rocking toy makes an ideal first horse for novice riders."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rhbabyandchild.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=rhbc_prod261225&categoryId=search" target="_blank">Vintage wood carousel horse</a> offered by RH Baby and Child.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.rhbabyandchild.com/" target="_blank">RH Baby and Child website</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwFYUNVYMiPtPXk_8W4v5Fn_Q7a-qij64_XHz04HLDyfI4hqac0f3vW3EJ7AjnRxdz37_LtKvSuaPex_hHkERAC8R-gSzO3W3snZ3GYbBKwe_9aERVL0R7X64HqMOJd6ZznaQtxP5fKuB/s1600/IMG_7020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwFYUNVYMiPtPXk_8W4v5Fn_Q7a-qij64_XHz04HLDyfI4hqac0f3vW3EJ7AjnRxdz37_LtKvSuaPex_hHkERAC8R-gSzO3W3snZ3GYbBKwe_9aERVL0R7X64HqMOJd6ZznaQtxP5fKuB/s1600/IMG_7020.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Miller's grandmother's custom sterling silver saddle takes center stage."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tack room: Paris, Kentucky, home of equestrian Misdee Wrigley Miller and her husband James.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Caroline Allison.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://gardenandgun.com/gallery/inside-southern-spaces" target="_blank">Inside Southern Spaces</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gardenandgun.com/" target="_blank">Garden and Gun</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJMVR__h_MpORpoZHPsVkvoXR9EYaUkYl3C9Z8p0a0zDy-Ftxr-CutfI5HB0o5t3c4gBGlMkRO61D7BVIKz5u0vejbE6KBwxcV1LV3DGRCUs1PBCtJEadiVZyMcme_QHme9qL7BLS3l2sQ/s1600/27246_LG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJMVR__h_MpORpoZHPsVkvoXR9EYaUkYl3C9Z8p0a0zDy-Ftxr-CutfI5HB0o5t3c4gBGlMkRO61D7BVIKz5u0vejbE6KBwxcV1LV3DGRCUs1PBCtJEadiVZyMcme_QHme9qL7BLS3l2sQ/s1600/27246_LG.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scullyandscully.com/FURNITURE/Seating/Leather+Footstools/Horse+Footstool.axd?keywords=horse&results=61&index=2#.UuSrSdIo7De" target="_blank">Horse Footstool</a> offered by Scully and Scully.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Made in England of full grain leather with an antique finish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.scullyandscully.com/" target="_blank">Scully and Scully website</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkc4smbsRHNx5IaH-YwPCFKksu8CPPNx0WGoSko0m3VKjV0cR8o_1QD31RX29aYAsO3ifavwBwvvXOw70WF-Mq_skRnZhxCWMQr6_9rJjZFBwsCtGqaDg34_79e0MznbbyVgljUuxCQNXh/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.02_making_the_cut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkc4smbsRHNx5IaH-YwPCFKksu8CPPNx0WGoSko0m3VKjV0cR8o_1QD31RX29aYAsO3ifavwBwvvXOw70WF-Mq_skRnZhxCWMQr6_9rJjZFBwsCtGqaDg34_79e0MznbbyVgljUuxCQNXh/s1600/item1.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.02_making_the_cut.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Horses and riders can rest by a watering pond."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Santa Ynez Horse Ranch, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture: David L. Leavengood, AIA.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design: Amy Weaver.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Landscape architecture: Carol Puck Erickson, ASLA, and Brian Brodersen, ASLA, of Arcadia Studio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography: Laurie Black.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2009-10/making_the_cut_slideshow_slideshow_item1_2" target="_blank">Making the Cut</a>" text by Patricia Leigh Brown.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (October 2009).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGm1kSeA5izhH-biP3CjUuchgAPYvJT3FjpRzryP5x4kl2m4BlQF-seXc_rZMQ-zGq5SLVQ1C7EyHDpB00cExCCc52Ml68i1vi5nFTZxp6YPG7KyXN3SCLh9G_2sLdm4MqKKe_gNxzy1KX/s1600/item13.rendition.slideshowVertical.14_american_stables.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGm1kSeA5izhH-biP3CjUuchgAPYvJT3FjpRzryP5x4kl2m4BlQF-seXc_rZMQ-zGq5SLVQ1C7EyHDpB00cExCCc52Ml68i1vi5nFTZxp6YPG7KyXN3SCLh9G_2sLdm4MqKKe_gNxzy1KX/s1600/item13.rendition.slideshowVertical.14_american_stables.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'Frank Lloyd Wright couldn't design an ordinary-looking building,' says producer Joel Silver, who restored the little-known Auldbrass, Wright's 1939 plantation in Yemassee, South Carolina. A crushed-brick walkway leads to the barn. 'By folding the roof down and the corners of the doors back, Wright created something origami-like,' Silver notes."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Vaughan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (December 1993).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVO5D4aOwZRaA7bwx20GLtlaik5acRidlxlvI81P-hU8151GX8DO4J_8T_DDTNIz98sZ40Vv9itY8l8-oPLkT1FeuOa9jPpLD8iJA5H2dV9O80JhnaexhTofkNJ4dr0YIWeVyHp-GT8BDd/s1600/il_570xN.543206282_4jha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVO5D4aOwZRaA7bwx20GLtlaik5acRidlxlvI81P-hU8151GX8DO4J_8T_DDTNIz98sZ40Vv9itY8l8-oPLkT1FeuOa9jPpLD8iJA5H2dV9O80JhnaexhTofkNJ4dr0YIWeVyHp-GT8BDd/s1600/il_570xN.543206282_4jha.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/173754608/monogrammed-horse-shoe-stationery-set-of?ref=market" target="_blank">Monogrammed Horse Shoe Stationery</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/VeronicaFoleyDesign?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">VeronicaFoleyDesign</a> via Etsy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.etsy.com/" target="_blank">Etsy</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_L81b32OzJfMCXG1LvjBNzLPpdcQ1jSccG1jmKlMqKNZ7Cpmq16fZG_BaikxrrnbNOXBBx9WQMnpd8tr3Swc32nNysKn1yn0mGiGqrwcvlo8X36xAl_3kRWLW6yayjOpTEDdpqdFuqMG/s1600/hbx-decorating-barber-9-0709-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_L81b32OzJfMCXG1LvjBNzLPpdcQ1jSccG1jmKlMqKNZ7Cpmq16fZG_BaikxrrnbNOXBBx9WQMnpd8tr3Swc32nNysKn1yn0mGiGqrwcvlo8X36xAl_3kRWLW6yayjOpTEDdpqdFuqMG/s1600/hbx-decorating-barber-9-0709-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A fence post anchored in a sandpit awaits a game of horseshoes."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1850s guesthouse in Texas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Ginger Barber, <a href="http://www.gingerbarber.com/" target="_blank">Ginger Barber Inc. Interior Design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/rugged-texas-home?click=img_sr#slide-8" target="_blank">A Small and Rugged Home in Texas</a>" by Lisa Cregan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyDKi_XC-bFwaQedoZLMKDFF4PtF3zf0zHc-gywbcREsNWHPFpCL5wzVlmi7AYHwntd9KdQed0PVzMWy-njPvsyARXscBMHfFnC_5tG4i-Nf_Q8qqeZyn5odsJzISV-6v9c3qe9p6cms0/s1600/616RjBOzYsL._SL1500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyDKi_XC-bFwaQedoZLMKDFF4PtF3zf0zHc-gywbcREsNWHPFpCL5wzVlmi7AYHwntd9KdQed0PVzMWy-njPvsyARXscBMHfFnC_5tG4i-Nf_Q8qqeZyn5odsJzISV-6v9c3qe9p6cms0/s1600/616RjBOzYsL._SL1500_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Pierre Presidential Edition Horseshoe Set.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/St-Pierre-Presidential-Edition-Horseshoe/dp/B0000ASN01/ref=sr_1_10?s=leisure-sports-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1390713519&sr=1-10" target="_blank">Photo via Amazon</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Q71qQqnLFkgtIJj00AHSXgaiN1iXysVN5znzUqCZTUtNvnzlo6w7p81BMNF8xT8Jd_aDwfnCHsH_1IxZSUgrjf6nWu78pLKxp_WjfZeYmXnIkt7wAExrYshNiqUL63ArfVN6AA59Zx2V/s1600/L6iNrx9RseqlLonnyRameyCaulkinsJanFeb2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Q71qQqnLFkgtIJj00AHSXgaiN1iXysVN5znzUqCZTUtNvnzlo6w7p81BMNF8xT8Jd_aDwfnCHsH_1IxZSUgrjf6nWu78pLKxp_WjfZeYmXnIkt7wAExrYshNiqUL63ArfVN6AA59Zx2V/s1600/L6iNrx9RseqlLonnyRameyCaulkinsJanFeb2013.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The claw-foot tubs in the bathrooms were plain white and looked a bit tired,' explains Caulkins. 'Painting stripes on them transformed them into decorative elements rather than mere utility pieces.' "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ramey Caulkins's home on Maine's West Penobscot Bay.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Ramey Caulkins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/January+February+2013/n0gZ2qHN5cu/1#84" target="_blank">Maine Stay</a>" written by Caroline Biggs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (January - February 2013).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDRzpVUam8M5x7F_rNAd3b_QtibrqQ6VyXMdKfFasKcPgyylPW97xnnX5PBTW5ZUiGM9pN6U4DmfII2xPtMiKdAS4DD1oqNq4rAXDDVBeAkcIDDOl0ebnexocj1G-zv5urGee8kAvbv1d/s1600/1028698_l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDRzpVUam8M5x7F_rNAd3b_QtibrqQ6VyXMdKfFasKcPgyylPW97xnnX5PBTW5ZUiGM9pN6U4DmfII2xPtMiKdAS4DD1oqNq4rAXDDVBeAkcIDDOl0ebnexocj1G-zv5urGee8kAvbv1d/s1600/1028698_l.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/folk-art/sculptures-carvings/french-folk-art-horse/id-f_1028698/" target="_blank">French Folk Art Horse</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">France, 1840.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Offered by <a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/dealers/randall-tysinger-antiques/" target="_blank">Randall Tysinger Antiques</a> via 1stDibs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo via <a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/" target="_blank">1stDibs</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For additional photos of equine-inspired spaces, please see my February 21, 2013, post <a href="http://aflippenlife.blogspot.com/2013/02/horse-sense.html" target="_blank">Horse Sense</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

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Horse Sense

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many ways to celebrate the beauty of horses in a home's decor. One of the simplest, of course, is to hang a painting or photo of a horse on the wall, as designer Stephen Shubel did below:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtMcWxyR17RAIyugkBnWaA49xMFyFgJmd9u3HtCToYk4bCJgmMZVEo6BfcOf7lz-CdI0FJbzo8nTZZLlvIP5zH-meuJkGmgoWRZLp_CMOXx41FR0Z3jlWNNJnJh3S5I8ChkvssPymGQjb/s1600/12-feature-shubel-0109-xlg-63905188-42113731.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtMcWxyR17RAIyugkBnWaA49xMFyFgJmd9u3HtCToYk4bCJgmMZVEo6BfcOf7lz-CdI0FJbzo8nTZZLlvIP5zH-meuJkGmgoWRZLp_CMOXx41FR0Z3jlWNNJnJh3S5I8ChkvssPymGQjb/s640/12-feature-shubel-0109-xlg-63905188-42113731.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"France meets California in this foyer designed by Stephen Shubel: A Louis XVI-style chair sits next to a petrified tree trunk. Horse photo by Susan Friedman."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jeremy Samuelson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/power-of-color?click=main_sr#slide-11">A California Home Shows Off the Power of Color</a>" produced by Doretta Sperduto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (January 2009).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">There are more literal means of adding an equine spirit to a space, especially if one's home actually housed horses in the past. Judith Nadler Ellerman and John Ellerman created their spacious residence in an Illinois building that served as a storage stable more than 100 years ago:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqby3X7BEpBQmiRzDoLPGAKYuA7BH67Xa3J6d4668_ZNuyot5C4CrKVfEJwhadyw71FuRg4GV48842xkrNBcM03fPPnb2uSwg-m_8fZPV-4-t4pFLjPNYL-t8s9SZyDiQQVuP-zu3JsYq/s1600/img_stunningremodel_ss1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqby3X7BEpBQmiRzDoLPGAKYuA7BH67Xa3J6d4668_ZNuyot5C4CrKVfEJwhadyw71FuRg4GV48842xkrNBcM03fPPnb2uSwg-m_8fZPV-4-t4pFLjPNYL-t8s9SZyDiQQVuP-zu3JsYq/s640/img_stunningremodel_ss1.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Gardens are linked by winding paths made with bricks salvaged from one of the fort's old horse stable floors."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home of Judith Nadler Ellerman and her husband John Ellerman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "brick residence was built in 1892 as a storage stable at Fort Sheridan, a United States military installation north of Chicago."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Judith Nadler Ellerman, Judith Nadler Interiors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Landscape design by Bernard Jacobs, <a href="http://jacobsryan.com/">Jacobs/Ryan Associates</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Werner Straube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Amy Elbert.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/chicago-home-conversion_ss1.html">Stunning Remodel</a>" produced by Hilary Rose.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another family, also in Illinois, turned a barn into a kitchen and guesthouse. "The owners wanted to keep the integrity of the barn, right down to the horse stalls and feeder bins," but the goal was a "sophisticated" space, not "a cute, kitschy barn look." Here is the kitchen designer Mick De Guilio created:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5KfXISZC81-tkRdXSjGDhRHmbQ_4d7LwPHACpIRgIfpnHrpMiZTAYfGYpSn_LhA5BDeHuySffpwbrILb2DybsDzwc9CDfqK8p-ODy7zV_oVlRWg6Ktso5MorBDqrOh09S1pafKzALZ4S/s1600/1-hbx-barn-kitchen-pie-1211-kitchen01-mdn-53606767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5KfXISZC81-tkRdXSjGDhRHmbQ_4d7LwPHACpIRgIfpnHrpMiZTAYfGYpSn_LhA5BDeHuySffpwbrILb2DybsDzwc9CDfqK8p-ODy7zV_oVlRWg6Ktso5MorBDqrOh09S1pafKzALZ4S/s640/1-hbx-barn-kitchen-pie-1211-kitchen01-mdn-53606767.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designer Mick De Giulio repurposed the three horse stalls in this old Illinois barn by giving each a function: one for storage, with a tall, free-standing pantry; one for cooking, with a Wolf wall oven; and one for cleanup, with a dishwasher, a sink, and cupboards for the dishes. 'We just worked with what was there and had fun with it,' he says. Antique Holophane pendants restored by <a href="http://www.remains.com/">Remains Lighting</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A barn in Lake Forest, Illinois was turned into a kitchen and guesthouse."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Mick De Giulio, <a href="http://degiuliokitchens.com/">de Giulio kitchen design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/dream/before-after-kitchen-makeover-photos-1211#slide-2">Kitchen of the Month</a>" interview by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (December 2011 - January 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Horse troughs and barn doors can add history and beauty to living spaces as the following two photos attest:</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXTSss8HoO29eNYqSQKPMPLtOZgNBYvD-pE5S7ObUw2lP-tffQajeYYhGnAbo7Kg9VGcUnuoysM_hrzIAc_M488hFRU88vOIVzf0HJPtK4Ayvq4KGvsxZILDnX5hucsdQWueQC3qQV21V/s1600/6-kitchen-otm-fountain-0808-xlg-61229412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXTSss8HoO29eNYqSQKPMPLtOZgNBYvD-pE5S7ObUw2lP-tffQajeYYhGnAbo7Kg9VGcUnuoysM_hrzIAc_M488hFRU88vOIVzf0HJPtK4Ayvq4KGvsxZILDnX5hucsdQWueQC3qQV21V/s640/6-kitchen-otm-fountain-0808-xlg-61229412.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A fountain was made from a lavabo and a horse trough."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Reed Davis.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/dream/kitchen-otm-california-0808?click=img_sr#slide-6">Kitchen of the Month: A Relaxing Outdoor Kitchen in California</a>" by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (August 2008).</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-6UfWXWAqjhYzkYGOiRosJCyH6isql_IVmIPq9GtPRv511aLhYOwHEkDv4O8JubnPm-iUnSWg8zWzSQjYt0LNPMdGYkP6MENISHIRV-omUNiG7A4OIvSUQQh9U15KjvUG5JrZMc1SyD9/s1600/BlogBarnRaisingFeb2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-6UfWXWAqjhYzkYGOiRosJCyH6isql_IVmIPq9GtPRv511aLhYOwHEkDv4O8JubnPm-iUnSWg8zWzSQjYt0LNPMdGYkP6MENISHIRV-omUNiG7A4OIvSUQQh9U15KjvUG5JrZMc1SyD9/s640/BlogBarnRaisingFeb2011.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A folk art painting of a horse, once part of a barn, was mounted on a track in the owner's home office. She is a marriage counselor, and the sliding door hides a desk and files during sessions. Cameroon chief stools from Martin Showroom."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">House in Santa Barbara, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://erinmartindesign.com/">Erin Martin</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Grand Gestures" interview by Lisa Cregan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (February 2011). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If a homeowner owns Thoroughbreds or is a competitive rider, trophies and ribbons add color and shine:</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsoNJ9AGLRO9A9a17qrQDTqbz2dfOjkig8uU_DEDk3v15wQFiHCPc2u_D9cLKrT2w6_d68a3c-SqAfM83UVwkwgC-pGRUnwT2nA2awEYdY_x-XefegS60c85KaRX28xRFrp9TnufyO6Ah/s1600/img_americanbeauty_ss7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsoNJ9AGLRO9A9a17qrQDTqbz2dfOjkig8uU_DEDk3v15wQFiHCPc2u_D9cLKrT2w6_d68a3c-SqAfM83UVwkwgC-pGRUnwT2nA2awEYdY_x-XefegS60c85KaRX28xRFrp9TnufyO6Ah/s640/img_americanbeauty_ss7.jpg" width="566" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Next to the living room, the bar and game room was refreshed with whitewashed walls. A new banquette runs the width of the sweeping lunette window on one wall. Silver commemorations testify that trophies have come like clockwork to family equestrian champions over many years."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Janice and Cortright Wetherill's home in Pennsylvania horse country.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Bill Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman, <a href="http://www.brockschmidtandcoleman.com/">Brockschmidt and Coleman LLC</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: John D. Milner, FAIA, <a href="http://www.johnmilnerarchitects.com/">John Milner Architects Inc</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/weekendlivingsecondhome/americanbeauty_ss7.html">American Beauty</a>" written and produced by John Francisco Andreu.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvJUa66gCO8rAW7D5F5B5Td36NUqwlzmkork5udmxsIm1q8eLiamNyU93tPIQ9W1tAwq6rjN6Q1qKW1GuH2RJYGsLQZIWb9YEXzNJZicwm1RozP_m7-ijAQ8Tr37aKrkpcf963IYiJLFX/s1600/img_americanbeauty_ss8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvJUa66gCO8rAW7D5F5B5Td36NUqwlzmkork5udmxsIm1q8eLiamNyU93tPIQ9W1tAwq6rjN6Q1qKW1GuH2RJYGsLQZIWb9YEXzNJZicwm1RozP_m7-ijAQ8Tr37aKrkpcf963IYiJLFX/s640/img_americanbeauty_ss8.jpg" width="474" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of the most prized of the Wetherills' many horse-racing trophies is the Preakness won in 1945 by Polynesian, a thoroughbred owned by Cortright's grandmother Gertrude T. Widener."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Janice and Cortright Wetherill's home in Pennsylvania horse country.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Bill Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman, <a href="http://www.brockschmidtandcoleman.com/">Brockschmidt and Coleman LLC</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: John D. Milner, FAIA, <a href="http://www.johnmilnerarchitects.com/">John Milner Architects Inc</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/weekendlivingsecondhome/americanbeauty_ss8.html">American Beauty</a>" written and produced by John Francisco Andreu.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyAjZ2IT8aBswykx68ZRBv9C0mDlIHrsjPXdG2EMPVk4V2obUM9_KcIEmU4oyeVHP2IqBs4wHUD-mqHNUTdTyK67CBPeaJ6G79-z3bBhtb4qx7LfnHhnaCB7CCLomPbr84igkTXygoLzsp/s1600/14-hoefer-0109-xlg-2007417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyAjZ2IT8aBswykx68ZRBv9C0mDlIHrsjPXdG2EMPVk4V2obUM9_KcIEmU4oyeVHP2IqBs4wHUD-mqHNUTdTyK67CBPeaJ6G79-z3bBhtb4qx7LfnHhnaCB7CCLomPbr84igkTXygoLzsp/s640/14-hoefer-0109-xlg-2007417.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A wall of horse-show awards in the library . . . is evidence of the owner's skills at hunt and jump."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1880s house in Healdsburg (Sonoma County), California.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Myra Hoefer, <a href="http://www.myrahoeferdesign.com/">Myra Hoefer Design</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/power-of-white#slide-15">A California Home is Powerful in White</a>" by Amanda Lovell.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Americana horses appear in the next two homes:</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4736PL2I1LiIDwN6CaMviMmWsqQidwLGKmrqSpzfFvYIBWB8WZAb23ednKRU1lI1xdhZ0tKWA-7l036cWwsmjmfKs-eVfB-xzA-Asuz9BpTy0xCIU9MXuKQJt2iQD1C99NzgHzs0CKZ9-/s1600/img_Bremner_ss5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4736PL2I1LiIDwN6CaMviMmWsqQidwLGKmrqSpzfFvYIBWB8WZAb23ednKRU1lI1xdhZ0tKWA-7l036cWwsmjmfKs-eVfB-xzA-Asuz9BpTy0xCIU9MXuKQJt2iQD1C99NzgHzs0CKZ9-/s640/img_Bremner_ss5.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"An island sink from Waterworks with a vintage-style Rohl faucet faces the living areas. Wm Ohs cabinets and marble countertops and backsplashes contrast with walnut Olde Savannah Flooring."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Maxinkuckee home of Gina and Jim Bremner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kitchen design: Rob Klein, Conceptual Kitchens and Millwork.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Amy Elbert.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/weekendlivingsecondhome/salute-to-summer_ss5.html">Salute to Summer</a>" produced by Betsy Harris.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKYz87MhwOtsgz-S1rnAsc3Vn_VUTt5ZxyQkB2Im6FeDxqtyA_ouhrm7BUoQA1QdU8EswAQTJLNvGEhw0yXrqO9z-AgJE-Eku27rUgpcz4pfi3Q4a3Im3frB-JV2efQnbnfvGZ59Jyg8u/s1600/sun-valley-1-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKYz87MhwOtsgz-S1rnAsc3Vn_VUTt5ZxyQkB2Im6FeDxqtyA_ouhrm7BUoQA1QdU8EswAQTJLNvGEhw0yXrqO9z-AgJE-Eku27rUgpcz4pfi3Q4a3Im3frB-JV2efQnbnfvGZ59Jyg8u/s640/sun-valley-1-de.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The barn-style house, by architects Sandra Vlock and Glenn Arbonies, has a 28-foot-high gambrel-shaped ceiling made of alder wood. A 'hayloft' runs the length of the main room."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designer Chipper Joseph's family home in Idaho, which was inspired by a 19th-century barn in Vermont."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Chipper Joseph.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Sandra Vlock and Glenn Arbonies, <a href="http://akvpc.com/">Arbonies King Vlock Architects</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Maura McEvoy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/sun-valley-barn-style-house#slide-1">A Barn-Style House in Sun Valley</a>" by Frances Schultz.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The remaining photos feature horse paintings of different styles and varied horse figures. Sculpted horse heads add drama to some of the spaces featured below. Take a look . . . </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCaMqnxBGwsimnVkSWhFKcD4dAuFa9TNigDhZIiOx5qLj4DiYW-1JLeMThqZxcZUvbLFl0quVCJq508hyphenhyphenj8hzdWlX-rBuCp8EDDRswRQ7ZyLGpYSeesiFmdquVJBi2hS_VEFfdQKznajR/s1600/ver-netto-library-0311-mdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCaMqnxBGwsimnVkSWhFKcD4dAuFa9TNigDhZIiOx5qLj4DiYW-1JLeMThqZxcZUvbLFl0quVCJq508hyphenhyphenj8hzdWlX-rBuCp8EDDRswRQ7ZyLGpYSeesiFmdquVJBi2hS_VEFfdQKznajR/s640/ver-netto-library-0311-mdn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Said David Netto of the house he designed with Gil Schafer: "I haven't met the room yet that doesn't do better with an African stool or headrest. If you don't want to dress up an English room, put something Russian in it. That desk changes everything for me, just closes the deal. The horse sculpture was the first thing we bought for <i>Boxwood</i>. You have to start somewhere - funny."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Boxwood</i>, the Nashville residence of Gil Schafer, author of <i>The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://davidnettodesign.com/">David Netto</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.gpschafer.com/#/home">Gil Schafer</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography  by Max Kim-Bee.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/designers-ideas/david-netto-gil-schafer-0311?click=main_sr#slide-9">Behind the Scenes</a>" by David Netto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (March 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjOtcyqqhrFZUFFbWChaxXtrFFwnbpMpAMJ7ybZXsDvmtlHd4wDXfFN6Hv1js5wT8fYB_1M2ahfWm533iC-bysMEV4sStq_Ws6JxqEMkq8CAbDoT02OmiaA03D_PQswplGicXqZWRVp2N/s1600/2-showhouse-0109-xlg-13366409.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEjOtcyqqhrFZUFFbWChaxXtrFFwnbpMpAMJ7ybZXsDvmtlHd4wDXfFN6Hv1js5wT8fYB_1M2ahfWm533iC-bysMEV4sStq_Ws6JxqEMkq8CAbDoT02OmiaA03D_PQswplGicXqZWRVp2N/s640/2-showhouse-0109-xlg-13366409.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Susan Ferrier took her color palette from this painting by James McLaughlin Way, through Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery. Faux horse-leg benches from John Rosselli are a whimsical touch."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Showhouse apartment in New York City created by Susan Ferrier and <i>House Beautiful</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Interior design by Susan Ferrier, </span><a href="http://www.mcalpineboothferrier.com/index.cfm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">McAlpine Booth and Ferrier Interiors</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thomas Loof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/power-of-neutrals?click=main_sr#slide-1">The Power of Neutrals</a>" produced by Ellen O'Neill and Whitney Robinson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (January 2009).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO6zWhyqpw7-MOBRfR8SFp9hv9sSY6ITiAScWYNfrtWQC6pECpThyphenhyphenODsLqdO7CiRL8fL3wUf2ZF32FKfBC2tiAmF7d-cJNkkRx1VIvsgSQu2qiTThQwfhThEj0ZNEKFmrcBptSttzzaT4/s1600/21-showhouse-0109-xlg-11453904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO6zWhyqpw7-MOBRfR8SFp9hv9sSY6ITiAScWYNfrtWQC6pECpThyphenhyphenODsLqdO7CiRL8fL3wUf2ZF32FKfBC2tiAmF7d-cJNkkRx1VIvsgSQu2qiTThQwfhThEj0ZNEKFmrcBptSttzzaT4/s640/21-showhouse-0109-xlg-11453904.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A sculpted horse's head silhouetted against the bathroom window. Anastasia benches from Bungalow Classic."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Showhouse apartment in New York City created by Susan Ferrier and <i>House Beautiful</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Susan Ferrier, <a href="http://www.mcalpineboothferrier.com/index.cfm">McAlpine Booth and Ferrier Interiors</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thomas Loof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/power-of-neutrals?click=main_sr#slide-18">The Power of Neutrals</a>" produced by Ellen O'Neill and Whitney Robinson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (January 2009).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHxSAE4PBrX9QSyzAtF8FLqzC06B2Mf0Rmw57vAT4iFNrFb2FS3YPLYeYn3Yt3PY2SrkfImmitC_wZsADYta6ISBA10qVDa5gTf91EukCGFeGq_0zCLgU_rPxaSONfw4Bb70hUYHRqsWq/s1600/101570217_ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHxSAE4PBrX9QSyzAtF8FLqzC06B2Mf0Rmw57vAT4iFNrFb2FS3YPLYeYn3Yt3PY2SrkfImmitC_wZsADYta6ISBA10qVDa5gTf91EukCGFeGq_0zCLgU_rPxaSONfw4Bb70hUYHRqsWq/s640/101570217_ss.jpg" width="568" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The ceiling, often ignored in design, provides more dazzle to the elegant room. Silver-leaf squares, applied in a block pattern, were glazed to give the surface an aged appearance. Window panels of luscious silk taffeta in a silvery celadon enhance the complexity of the room's pastel-and-metallic palette. A stately horse-head sculpture rendered in 1920s Aptware reigns from atop a high pedestal in front of one of the windows."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver-leaf on ceiling: <a href="http://valleycraftsmen.com/">The Valley Craftsmen Ltd</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D.C. Design House in Washington, D.C.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dining room design: Basha White, <a href="http://www.bashawhiteinteriors.com/Basha_White_Interiors.html">Basha White Interiors</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/showhouses/pastel-colors-showhouse-rooms_ss6.html">Showhouse Color: Pastels</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>. </span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJrtlv1yeMIoR9hR3E2MKoVYqGChcRKkHsPYVOil6w8WRL_8Dz3QkYXysU45k4TksbUQ5IQ3kA1QZ1KuWQaU5nfr14gAYTsRnT3WRmphZo5fyKU_x7qmHmdG0cr2wT4JdgLLWKjWzqu0BB/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.01_grass_is_greener.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJrtlv1yeMIoR9hR3E2MKoVYqGChcRKkHsPYVOil6w8WRL_8Dz3QkYXysU45k4TksbUQ5IQ3kA1QZ1KuWQaU5nfr14gAYTsRnT3WRmphZo5fyKU_x7qmHmdG0cr2wT4JdgLLWKjWzqu0BB/s640/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.01_grass_is_greener.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"On historic Mount Brilliant Farm in Kentucky, architect Elby S. Martin and designer Mona Hajj renovated an 8,600-square-foot fire-damaged carriage house for the owners' residence. Above: The enclosed north terrace."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Mona Hajj.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Elby S. Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Billy Cunningham.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2010-06/grass_is_greener_slideshow#/slide=1">The Grass is Greener</a>" text by Michael Frank.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2010).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxm4A3VYxKfnyAB2-teAy8CoF9lMMIZ8HzTDXMoAClQzYa1hdJCB3OHH-Y6c0k6fh939JOnSED2f-mBbNYuxzTxXKgDYFprb_4yTgkuVqXGFHexz4dxiFvCXQYUGm-NxRiWrjU9C9YGAo/s1600/cn_image.size.elby-s-martin-lexington-h670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxm4A3VYxKfnyAB2-teAy8CoF9lMMIZ8HzTDXMoAClQzYa1hdJCB3OHH-Y6c0k6fh939JOnSED2f-mBbNYuxzTxXKgDYFprb_4yTgkuVqXGFHexz4dxiFvCXQYUGm-NxRiWrjU9C9YGAo/s640/cn_image.size.elby-s-martin-lexington-h670.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">  <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hajj set her clients' furniture in the family room on a vintage Persian kilim. On the walls she paired antique Turkish textiles with paintings such as an oil by Roberto Marquez."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.monahajj.com/">Mona Hajj</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Elby S. Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Billy Cunningham.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2010-06/grass_is_greener_slideshow#/slide=3">The Grass is Greener</a>" text by Michael Frank.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2010).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmGTboj_X6Uvz2b484e9ozreiMAkNj-P3f7fjp1LgAP3LD6JpLt60TW6D3fMzzIEqyNwRiZ4FVEZXQFv-ABNWWoxiK6_vrLQ4-V64BcK1XmHLQOTVZuKBd5QiEV9lUzbM9wk4Jp6ozD6S/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.05_grass_is_greener.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmGTboj_X6Uvz2b484e9ozreiMAkNj-P3f7fjp1LgAP3LD6JpLt60TW6D3fMzzIEqyNwRiZ4FVEZXQFv-ABNWWoxiK6_vrLQ4-V64BcK1XmHLQOTVZuKBd5QiEV9lUzbM9wk4Jp6ozD6S/s640/item4.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.05_grass_is_greener.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the master bedroom, Martin refurbished an existing heavy-beamed ceiling. Over the mantel, Hajj placed a Milton Avery painting she found in her clients' storage. 'The chandelier and tapestry are mine,' she says,  'the refined waking up the rustic, so to speak.' "</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.monahajj.com/">Mona Hajj</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Elby S. Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Billy Cunningham.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2010-06/grass_is_greener_slideshow#/slide=5">The Grass is Greener</a>" text by Michael Frank.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2010).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs6HKhO2Qp5FakaZukCb1i0ccyg9tZG2kz2HXR86QwfTjaS6bQ_CU_W-ABgLdMmwFqIEazU8bdWQ5ayrA9dHZoFeSP6EjKJ7SrGINGa5KEvr4do0k6VHhxBzvB2Md4gi61L4clllu8lqR/s1600/hbx-dining-room-horse-painting-antique-13-1010-de-82082110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs6HKhO2Qp5FakaZukCb1i0ccyg9tZG2kz2HXR86QwfTjaS6bQ_CU_W-ABgLdMmwFqIEazU8bdWQ5ayrA9dHZoFeSP6EjKJ7SrGINGa5KEvr4do0k6VHhxBzvB2Md4gi61L4clllu8lqR/s640/hbx-dining-room-horse-painting-antique-13-1010-de-82082110.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Francesco Clemente's dramatic watercolors dominate the dining room, and <a href="http://www.johnrobshaw.com/">John Robshaw</a>'s silver Indian chairs encircling the antique French lacquer table increase the theatrical quotient. Seat cushions are in Vaison linen by Nicole Fabre, trimmed in a Jim Thompson silk. Andrew Lord's sculpted bronze floor lamp is topped with a handmade paper shade. The iron-base lamp is a 17th-century candlestick with a shade in Robert Kime's India Pear."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apartment of Nancy Tilghman, former CNN producer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Daniel Sachs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/global-antique-decor-1010?click=main_sr#slide-13">Classic and Worldly: A Park Avenue Apartment Takes a Global Point of View</a>" produced by Senga Mortimer and Whitney Robinson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (October 2010).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNoIyA9ExTPkr4yPVrCeJj0Ehh71VWi9Obbh2yRlI0KhmJA_dU708B6kk6TlRfIpH1JlCePZiQzyNv8zRXWp8fExgQH-3EQ9anQAGNclrM_xGS1OU7WrhAbuLNlGnEBg4fVM3HPocqRsY/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl03_hoppen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNoIyA9ExTPkr4yPVrCeJj0Ehh71VWi9Obbh2yRlI0KhmJA_dU708B6kk6TlRfIpH1JlCePZiQzyNv8zRXWp8fExgQH-3EQ9anQAGNclrM_xGS1OU7WrhAbuLNlGnEBg4fVM3HPocqRsY/s640/item2.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl03_hoppen.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[Kelly] Hoppen, who is based in London, collaborated with Tim Gosling, of David Linley, on the dining table, which was fashioned from mahogany inlaid with mother-of-pearl. They designed the cabinet - displaying Tang horses and old vellum books - to complement it."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stonewall Farm in Westchester County, New York.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owners Barry K. Schwartz, cofounder and chairman of Calvin Klein Inc., and his wife Sheryl breed and race Thoroughbreds.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.kellyhoppenretail.com/">Kelly Hoppen</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Rebecca Rasmussen Grunwald, <a href="http://www.rasmusarch.com/">Rebecca Rasmussen Architects</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Durston Saylor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/AD100/2010/kelly_hoppen/hoppen_slideshow_062005#/slide=3">New York Thoroughbred</a>" t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ext by Steven M.L. Aronson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2005).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUoSIRtT4zJ61_pwRnGaF9bZOJrbB_074iXn7kiZhRknXoc9D589FPkm3fGwjMOleTcjHeo3LzoTMcg83c4KFCAiaRW8vnNCZ99FXvbz6TuQLW05zrm2LbxbVJ1OivLCggs0Rl8AX1WjS/s1600/img_wrigleyhouse_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUoSIRtT4zJ61_pwRnGaF9bZOJrbB_074iXn7kiZhRknXoc9D589FPkm3fGwjMOleTcjHeo3LzoTMcg83c4KFCAiaRW8vnNCZ99FXvbz6TuQLW05zrm2LbxbVJ1OivLCggs0Rl8AX1WjS/s640/img_wrigleyhouse_8.jpg" width="608" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The design scheme for the master bedroom was defined by the 6-foot-tall oil painting of a horse, which Kandis found during an art-shopping escapade. Creams, tans, and whites swathe the room in serenity."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kandis Wright's 1920s Mediterranean-style home in the Chicago suburbs. Kandis co-founded <a href="http://www.sanjuanventures.com/">San Juan Ventures</a>, "an import company that designs, makes and sells reclaimed wood products created in Indonesia." Many of her home's furnishings are from San Juan Ventures.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Gail Plechaty, <a href="http://www.gailplechaty.com/">Real Simple Design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Edmund Barr.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Saxon Henry.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/wrigleyhouse_8.html">Natural Wonder</a>" produced by Hilary Rose.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3KpEHzKBU19FRnVEeJiSgNzPgh61jgXiwyU1eI4L9dP_ffhU0-HRh2frl5KEOvDkJsQLX6831z3TDc_XAFGSMORq7B8B-7VPeMfgfJmwnotgIwvcqhy0-YqfXkftYXalMaHBRX3kTw7K3/s1600/19-chintz-mirror-1007_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3KpEHzKBU19FRnVEeJiSgNzPgh61jgXiwyU1eI4L9dP_ffhU0-HRh2frl5KEOvDkJsQLX6831z3TDc_XAFGSMORq7B8B-7VPeMfgfJmwnotgIwvcqhy0-YqfXkftYXalMaHBRX3kTw7K3/s640/19-chintz-mirror-1007_xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A vintage horseshoe-shaped mirror."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saratoga Springs home built in 1905.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Nancy Boszhardt, </span><a href="http://www.nancyboszhardt.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nancy Boszhardt Inc</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Kernick.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Carol Prisant.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/where-is-chintz-1007?click=main_sr#slide-19">Where's the Chintz</a>?" produced by Senga Mortimer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (October 2007).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7At6fI6pMX5c2F8gKTOw2fFTqMVAbOE5h9ksA9s-iFagXdlGBBRiCG0pcOFwe37A4h2dFOpUEmU4S241w8Z4qdu7qcOfwqN5n5ResPLfR7j-XDk0s9FZ-vupH91dTM0WwJMw_BQ3A6Ry/s1600/hbx-decorating-redd-7-0709-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7At6fI6pMX5c2F8gKTOw2fFTqMVAbOE5h9ksA9s-iFagXdlGBBRiCG0pcOFwe37A4h2dFOpUEmU4S241w8Z4qdu7qcOfwqN5n5ResPLfR7j-XDk0s9FZ-vupH91dTM0WwJMw_BQ3A6Ry/s640/hbx-decorating-redd-7-0709-xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Striped faux-marble specimen lamps from John Rosselli and a nineteenth-century Italian wooden saddle form add height to a tablescape."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.milesredd.com/">Miles Redd</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thomas Loof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colorful-manhattan-apartment?click=main_sr#slide-5">A Small and Colorful Manhattan Apartment</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (July 2009).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwELrggLLXZ-phqKgB9NEY0vIBuquaxmn6JPls0EiaT_sW0kCIt6pr9TX9lmAz2Dse95qtrHb3rV3ImMUAYjsrlfWZZ-RVkfWDijALvvDR6T3mSl1th5qD-Ntq8hPAIWuu04adDIwSTsKe/s1600/13-chintz-lantern-1007_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwELrggLLXZ-phqKgB9NEY0vIBuquaxmn6JPls0EiaT_sW0kCIt6pr9TX9lmAz2Dse95qtrHb3rV3ImMUAYjsrlfWZZ-RVkfWDijALvvDR6T3mSl1th5qD-Ntq8hPAIWuu04adDIwSTsKe/s640/13-chintz-lantern-1007_xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The main stair hall features a delicate lantern from Amy Perlin [Antiques]."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saratoga Springs home built in 1905.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Nancy Boszhardt, <a href="http://www.nancyboszhardt.com/">Nancy Boszhardt Inc</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Kernick.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Carol Prisant.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/where-is-chintz-1007?click=main_sr#slide-13">Where's the Chintz</a>?" produced by Senga Mortimer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (October 2007).</span></div>

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