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Table of Contents: Painterly Landscapes
How do you give a garden good bones? Plant a painterly landscape, and in late autumn and winter it will be as beautiful as at the height of summer. This week we'll show you how: Above: In designer Piet...
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Dune Story: A Beautiful Backdrop for a Postmodern Masterpiece Saved from the Sea
Modernist architect Norman Jaffe transformed the landscape of eastern Long Island, introducing sharp-angled, boxy versions of the classic saltbox house to a land of rolling potato fields and dunes....
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Coming to California in December: The Remodelista Markets, LA and SF Editions
Mark your calendars: the Gardenista and Remodelista editors and their favorite California artisans, craftspeople, and store creators will be at two-day holiday Markets at either end of the state next...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Superstar Dutch Designer Piet Oudolf
If the world of gardening has rock stars, Piet Oudolf qualifies as Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Prince rolled into one. The Dutch landscape designer—whose work is instantly recognizable for its dreamy...
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Dark Shadows: Pros and Cons of Painting a House Black
Black is a color to take seriously. It adds drama and depth, and if you paint a house black you send a message that you're not afraid to be noticed. But it's a high-maintenance color (compared with...
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Gardenista Giveaway: Sourdough, a New Cookbook by Sarah Owens
Not many baking books include a primer on botanical Latin. But in horticulturist-turned-baker Sarah Owens' new Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories and More (published by...
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Expert Advice: 7 Tips to Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter
Every summer Cape Cod landscape designer Tim Callis creates beautiful gardens for the Outer Cape's creative class: the writers, editors, architects, and New York designers (including decoupage artist...
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The Secret Garden: At Home with Artist Claire Basler in France
Claire Basler lives and works in a former schoolhouse in Les Ormes, on the outskirts of Paris, where she creates enormous floral arrangements on a daily basis as the subject of her large-scale...
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DIY: Sage Smudge Sticks
Incense can be cloying and scented candles may cause allergic reactions in dinner guests (this happened!), but an herbal smudge stick? It's just the thing to clear the air. We spotted this DIY sage...
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The Accidental Gardeners: Artists Helen and Brice Marden in the Caribbean
Long-time tourists to St. Bart's who stopped going there because of the tourists, New York-based painters Brice and Helen Marden turned their attention to a quieter island about 55 miles south. On...
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Hardscaping 101: Concrete Pavers
Whether they're the standard-issue variety from a home improvement store or an architect's custom creation, concrete pavers offer instant gratification. A patio? A path? An outdoor entertaining space?...
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Icy Pink Vases from Ceramist Bjarni Sigurdsson
A former banker who took an evening art class on a lark, Iceland-based ceramics designer Bjarni Sigurdsson experiments with unusual materials. A new collection of vases, for instance, is glazed in...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Prairie Loom House for Weaver Elizabeth Eakins
When rug weaver and textile designer Elizabeth Eakins and her lawyer husband, Jerry Wigglesworth, bought a farm on the Kansas prairie, he went back to school to learn to be a sheep farmer and she...
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Small Space DIY: Black Wire Hanging Vase
After hunting in vain for a simple hanging bottle vase that was as affordable as it was delicate, I took things into my own hands. Armed with dark annealed wire and a multipurpose tool with wire snips...
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Trending on Remodelista: The Artist's House
Home is where the art is, say the Remodelista editors. They spent the week proving their theory: Above: When Jessica and her family (including two teenagers) moved last year from Manhattan to San...
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Current Obsessions: Holiday Secrets
Read on to see what we loved this week. Above: For $880,000, you can buy Julia Child's home in Provence, France. Thanksgiving recipes for the vegetarian at your table. Above: Win a copy of Sarah...
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Top 5 in Garden News: GMOs Win Big, a Native Tribe Donates Water, and Roses...
This week in the world of nature and gardening: GMOs score a major US victory, a Native American tribe donates water to the dry Rio Grande, and roses get electronic implants. Study Suggests Foraged...
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Table of Contents: Homegrown Holiday
Every year when we go around the Thanksgiving table, we say the same thing. We're grateful for the bounty from the garden. Make that extremely grateful. This week we make the most of it, with foraged...
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Architect Visit: Into the Woods with Drew Lang in the Hudson Valley
In the Hudson Valley, a two-hours' drive north of New York City, architect Drew Lang of Lang Architecture is building 26 homes designed to embrace the surrounding landscape on a wooded, 131-acre site....
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DIY: Foraged Thanksgiving Tabletop with Berries and Branches
At my house, we always have a foraged floral arrangement for Thanksgiving. Some years, we decorate with persimmons and bay boughs, and others with herbs and berry sprigs in juice glasses. Whatever's...
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