Trade Secrets
Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, Mexico. That epochal reach informs the work of Scully’s eldest son, Daniel Scully, whose architectural firm is based in Keene, New Hampshire. The younger Scully describes a recent renovation and addition in Temple, New Hampshire, as “Frank Lloyd Wright come
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a-courting a pre-revolutionary maiden.” At the Bigelow house, a new, winterized wing painted barn-red twists toward the mountains beyond to frame the view, while breaking the geometry of the historic cape itself. The addition’s Wright-like stripes and kicked-up aluminum flashing above the windows lead the eye horizontally across the land, right to left, left to right, a potent exercise in Architecture, The Natural and the Manmade. /// Setting aside ideologies about modern
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or traditional allows you to cherry-pick the best ideas. Interior designer Nancy Serafini of Wellesley Hills and Nantucket, Massachusetts, offers one that is truly ripe: experiencing the real thing in real time. “Young people especially need guidance, but there are some so afraid of being fleeced, they insist on going to Crate & Barrel or Pottery Barn, rather than the Boston Design Center,” says Serafini. “They don’t Nancy understand that there’s a Serafini big difference in quality between eight-way tied springs made in the U.S. and a sofa made in China, or that there’s a huge difference between digitized color and real color. I remember one of my first clients forty years ago. I told her a fabric was indestructible. She gave it a trial run using a wet diaper.” Let that fabric signal a truce between the modernists and traditionalists—if a new idea holds up to the test, let’s keep it, and leave the rest. September may be looking up after all. •
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