Ellen McGauley

This might be the ultimate woodland fairy tale.

All good things are born in a barn, aren’t they? When interior designer Brad Ford founded Field Supply in 2014—in, yes, a renovated barn at a four-corner intersection in the Hudson Valley—it was a humble little pop-up for friends, family, and lovers of well-made craft, cars parked fruit-stand style on the side of the road. Having long outgrown the charming agrarian outpost, it’s returning October 6-8 for its ninth year, drawing design enthusiasts from all corners of the northeast for a now-ep…

Any interior designer worth his or her salt has likely had to politely decline projects for any number of reasons, from full client rosters to travel hardships or even mismatched architectural or building teams. But what happens when things go off the rails after the contract is signed? We’re talking somewhere between gleeful presentations and install day, that moment when suddenly, you (dear, excited client) find yourself on the George Costanza end of the ‘It’s-not-you, it’s-me’ line. In the d…

True, dyed-in-the-wool design romantics have something to tuck into this winter (with eggnog, hot toddy, your pick), and it lands December 1 with a grounding perspective on what makes a great house. When we gape at the way a stone Palladian-style residence settles deep into a rolling hillside, marvel at a white clapboard house rising from a stand of trees, or a vaulted agrarian outbuilding rises subtly behind a shoreline, we are witnessing the land as a mighty protagonist in a story of a house t…

Welcome to Day 10 of VERANDA’s 12 Days of Chicmas. In this series, our editors offer a dozen elegant, uncomplicated upgrades for all your favorite spaces, from front door to master bath (and nope, we didn’t forget the bar). Call it the happier hosting, sleep-like-you’re-on-holiday, serenity-first guide for the year ahead. And did we mention these projects are easy? Give the designer the day off—you’ve got this.Light. Air. Water. Wi-Fi.Wait, strike that last one. Today’s conservatory might be the…

Fogo Island is a windy place. There’s muscle to the gusts that sweep across the island in Newfoundland along the easternmost coast of Canada and in fact North America. So to build furniture in a 100-year-old wood building set on piers requires some concessions. “On especially windy days the building shifts, and so we have to adjust lathes and other machines more regularly,” explains Michael Murphy, who leads Fogo Island Workshops, the contemporary craft studio born of the now-famed Fogo Island I…

“Traditional, but not too stuffy or dull.” Such was the mandate given to architect Stan Dixon by his clients, a young couple who’d purchased a 27-acre parcel of land on John’s Island, 15 minutes south of Charleston, South Carolina. They wanted something with a strong sense of history, yes, but their request related as much to what would happen outside their intended home—in the land, the trees, the waterways—as inside.“This is a family who really needed to be in nature, who craved a deeper conne…

Everyone is talking about Hell’s Gate. Skimming the western side of Fraser Canyon, roughly 140 miles east of Vancouver, I stand and lean across the aisle of the coach to get a clearer view down into the ravine.There, upriver, the rock faces suddenly choke inward, squeezing the mint green water like a craggy corset. The river spits and churns in the narrow passage; above, a fire red footbridge stretches across the rocks. Against the enormous canyon walls, the bridge appears almost dainty, as if I…

There is such a thing as the art of doing nothing—and it is both elegant and enlightening. Such was the ruling sentiment of the 10 designers, shop owners, and bona fide bons vivants we asked to show us the best of Paris today. Almost all endorsed Parisians’ mastery of just being: losing yourself in literature, conversation, architecture, even a game of pétanque in front of a park bench. It’s a spirit as essential to the city as the Seine. Here, how to embrace the riches of Paris, joyfullyWhere t…

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