From the Editor
What Are We Working For?
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uring the final push to get this issue of New England Home off to press, I had the opportunity to be interviewed for designer and author James Swan’s burgeoning series of podcasts, Million Dollar Decorating. The prospect was, frankly, a little bit daunting. Since this past February, Swan has conducted and uploaded more than 230 conversations with erudite and fascinating folk, not a few of them design stars such as Robert Couturier, Alexa Hampton, Miles Redd, and . . . well, you get the picture. The timing, too, seemed less than ideal. Despite the best efforts of our dedicated and capable team, and despite even a final flurry of anxious late-night and over-the-weekend bustle, each magazine somehow manages to reach the printer twelve to eighteen hours
after its nominal deadline. In the event, carving out time for an interview didn’t seriously interfere with progress on the magazine. (Proof? You are reading these words!) And preparing to chat with James gave me a welcome chance to look up from the trenches and reflect more broadly on the past eleven years of learning, thought, and work. Our region’s press landscape looked quite different when we started New England Home in 2005. At the time there was mostly a huge, fuzzy, New England–shaped void in the publishing world, when it came to home design and building. The major national magazines would, occasionally, show a project in Connecticut or on the coast of Maine or on Nantucket, but generally only if there was a celebrity involved or the professionals who had worked on the home were based in Manhattan. Locally, there were a handful of city and regional magazines that fitfully covered parts of the area, but no other publication existed then that focused, across all six states, on New England architecture and design done primarily by New England architects and designers—and certainly no other publications did so while adhering to the highest national standards of look and feel. Over the years since, it has been a huge pleasure for us to track down, photograph, write about, and show you the most beautiful properties in this corner of the U.S. It is our duty and our delight to advocate for design excellence, and to expand the intricate web of relationships among clients, designers, and the makers of fine things. The quality and sophistication of our region’s best homes continue to to rise. That certainly helps make the inevitable late nights worthwhile. —Kyle Hoepner
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132–133 of our September–October issue was actually Lori McGeown of Christopher Peacock’s Boston showroom [(617) 2094500, peacockhome.com] rather than Downsview Kitchens of Boston, which worked on other areas of the house such as the mudroom and master bath. We also learned, post-publication, that the intricate custom metalwork shown on our cover and in the corresponding feature was executed by Bartek Konieczny of Solutions in Metal (bartekkonieczny.com). In Trade Secrets, we incorrectly stated that architect Lisa Reindorf had a hand in designing the set for the film Cortex of Perception. Rather, she worked on a different film called Cortex. In New & Noteworthy we referred to designer Elizabeth Benedict’s new studio and retail space in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, incorrectly. It is Elizabeth Home.
Hornick/Rivlin Studio
Corrections and Amplifications We discovered after publication that the design partner for the kitchen shown on pages
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