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BY PAULA M. BODAH
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1 1) An award-winning property by Hoffman Landscapes 2) The Collected Home’s Risa King 3) The Firenze collection from Julia B.’s Quattro Mani line, at Bespoke Designs 4) Catherine Cleare
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The Connecticut design world lost a bright light with the death of interior designer Catherine Cleare last summer. Katy, whose Catherine Cleare Interiors was based in Greenwich, was known not only for her imaginative design work that bridged styles from traditional to contemporary, but also for her artistic talent, her spirited personality, her love of animals, and her efforts to help the homeless. We offer our deepest condolences to her many friends and her large family.
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For Hoffman Landscapes, service goes well beyond designing beautiful yards. As the recipient of a Decade Award from the National Association of Landscape Professionals, the firm proves it offers its clients staying power. Some ten years ago, a landscape the company designed for a Litchfield County home won a Grand Award. This year’s Decade Award was granted for the firm’s sterling maintenance of the thirty-acre-plus property ever since. As the new year begins, company president Mike Hoffman has added four new employees, ensuring the capacity to keep giving its clients top-notch service. I Wilton, Greenwich, Fairfield, Litchfield, and Westchester, N.Y., hoffmanlandscapes.com
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Renovating isn’t for the faint of heart, but the three-year construction project the Ridgefield Supply Company recently completed was well worth the time and effort for CEO and owner Margaret Price and her proud team. Ridgefield Supply, a third-generation family-owned business, began as a lumberyard in 1883. The transformation added a new retail store and product showroom that are open to homeowners as well as design and building professionals and serve up a wide array of windows, architectural hardware, and other home building products. I Ridgefield, ridgefieldsupply.com
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Clarice “Risa” King grew up in, as she calls it, “the dusty Southwest,” but her design sensibility fits right in here in New England. The New York School of Interior Design grad has opened The C ollected Home, a thoroughly charming home boutique and interior design business on Rowayton’s picturesque harbor. The shop holds a broad selection of art, lighting and other accessories, gifts, and one-of-a-kind pieces of vintage furniture. King also offers a range of design services, from hour-long consultations on wall colors, lighting, and furniture arranging to full project design. I Rowayton, thecollectedhome.com
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It’s a family affair for interior designer Heide Hendricks and architectural designer Rafe Churchill. The couple have pooled their talents in Hendricks Churchill, an architecture and interior design firm, and opened Reservoir, a showroom of antique vegetable-dyed rugs, textiles, and furniture along with a collection of contemporary art. The space, located in a building not too far from the couple’s offices on Main Street in Sharon, offers a cache of one-of-a-kind pieces as well as lines such as Marianna Kennedy’s resin lamps. The current art exhibit includes Connecticut artist Brendan O’Connell’s Warhol- and Hopper-inspired images of everyday life and Leora Armstrong’s vivid work that explores light and color. I Sharon, hendrickschurchill. com and hendrickschurchill.com/reservoir
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Greenwich-area homeowners have a new option for fine home goods with the launch of Laura Michaels Design Studio. Michaels offers residential and commercial interior design as well as 1,800 beautifully curated square feet of home accessories, cabinetry, decorative hardware, tile, upholstery, l ighting, and furniture. Among the collection of luxury products are pieces by Tom Dixon, Cleare photo by Phil Nelson
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