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Simon Doonan New York’s Classy Iconoclast Gilded New York • Unique Toy Stores in NYC • The Nutcracker—New and Old • B ooks as Gifts • The Explorers Club • Destinations: Mont Tremblant

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Simon Doonan, the Classy Iconoclast New York Needs

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The Nutcracker—New and Old

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BY ANNE LEVI N

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Toy Story: The Little Shops that Could

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BY JAMI E SAXON

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Bling-Bling: Gilded New York

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B ooks to Hold in B oth Hands

BY STUART MI TCHNER

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The Explorers Club

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Destinations: Mont Tremblant

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“Warhol-idays!,” 2006

Simon Doonan,

the Classy Iconoclast New York Needs

By Jessica Gross

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Simon Doonan, photographed by Albert Sanchez

all Simon Doonan’s style unconventional, punky, iconoclastic, irreverent, humorous, startling—but don’t call it campy.

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love camp, but try to avoid anything that is ‘campy,’” says Doonan. “It might sound like splitting hairs, but there is a huge difference between real camp—a la Susan Sontag—and ‘campy,’ which tends to mean predictably tacky. High camp—like Liberace, Carmen Miranda and La Lupe and Oscar Wilde—is the lie that tells the truth. It’s a beautiful thing.”

Doonan, who currently serves as Barneys’ creative ambassador-at-large and is married to the designer Jonathan Adler, spent years creating famously wacky and wonderful window displays for the store. A tour through the sample of windows pictured on Doonan’s website, from 1998’s “Christmas Cabaret” to 2006’s “Warholiday” to 2010’s “Food Fight,” gives a sense of the boisterous extravagance that marks his style. One of the very simplest displays, “Mr. Potato Head,” features three clothed mannequins whose heads are replaced with a shoe apiece; across the floor, lined up in neat rows, are—you guessed it—standing, smiling Mr. Potato Head dolls. And then, there’s a more startling display: “Dominatrix Margaret Thatcher.”

Doonan’s relentless explosion of norms and boundaries has much to do with his personal history. In The Asylum, his most recent book, Doonan explains that he comes from “a long line of lunatics—my genes are liberally accessorized with manic depression and schizophrenia.” His grandmother was treated with a lobotomy, and he was terrified of following her path, or in that of his suicidal Uncle Dave…or his Weltschmerzafflicted grandfather…or his Uncle Ken, treated with electroshock therapy. In spite of the seriousness of his subject, Doonan addresses this topic with characteristic humor—“These nagging dreads have produced in me an abiding interest in psychiatric disorders, which itself borders on psychiatric disorder,” he writes in the book—but also notes that it partially motivated his pursuit of freedom via geography and career. “It added

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to my feeling that I needed to escape,” he said.

The other part of this feeling stems from Doonan’s childhood in Reading, England, which he describes in The Asylum as a “crap town.” “If you become glamour-struck, but you are stuck in the boonies, then you become obsessed with escaping,” he says. “This makes you determined and passionate. The world of fashion shimmered on the horizon and I was determined to reach out and touch it.” In the book, Doonan points out that this origin story isn’t unique among fashionistas, many of whom seek out “the accepting arms of mother fashion” as a contrast to their dislocating, gritty pasts.

“There is a kind of reverse chic about crap towns, which is hard to understand unless you were born in one,” Doonan writes. “We escapees have enormous affection for our birthplaces. Whether we hail from Fresno or Scranton, Ickenham or Twickenham, we celebrate our gritty roots while simultaneously rejoicing in the fact that we escaped.”

And by “we,” Doonan means a tremendous list of fashionable creatives, including Cristobal Balenciaga, Michael Kors, Mario Testino, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Kate Moss—people who “have that creative self-assurance which comes from being born on the naff side of the tracks but knowing that your innate sense of style and your outlier creativity were sufficiently major to propel you out of obscurity.”

Doonan’s own propulsion came about after college, when he’d returned to Reading to take a job at John Lewis, a local branch of the department store, where he kept clocks feather-dusted and fully wound. At the same time, he lived a secret double life in the underground gay scene. When Doonan was transferred to John Lewis’s luggage department, he met a coworker’s friend, Eric, who worked as a dress designer in London. Eric’s story fueled Doonan’s own fantasy of a life beyond, offering “a potential escape route,” he writes.

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“Barneys Food Fight,” 2010

“Mr. Potato Heads,” 2009

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“Dominatrix Margaret Thatcher”

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“Green is the New Black,” 2007; detail below

Doonan insists that his incredible career isn’t the result of a long-term goal.

“Lots of great opportunities fell in my lap and I grabbed them,” he says. But his contact with Eric did spawn that first specific fantasy—one might even say goal—of a glamorous life in fashion. “I had stared at the distant glittering mirage of fashion, smoldering seductively on the horizon, for most of my short life,” Doonan writes. “I was yearning to reach out and touch it. Eric the missy separates designer had brought me one step closer.”

Doonan began to dress windows for John Lewis, then moved to London to do so for Aquascutum, followed by Nutters of Savile Row. There, he mounted a display of taxidermy rats wearing diamond chokers. (Remember: iconoclastic, irreverent, humorous, and startling. High camp.)

The Los Angeles department store Maxfield took notice, and hired 25-year-old Doonan to dress windows there, where he stayed for eight years. In 1985, Doonan worked under Diana Vreeland for a few months designing the displays for the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute’s Costumes of Royal India exhibit, through which he met the owner of Barneys New York, who hired him. He’s worked there ever since.

At Barneys, Doonan’s unmatched style has flourished, and—especially during the holidays—provides a welcome counterpoint to traditional displays. In fact, Doonan’s work, despite its subversion, became so well regarded that in 2009, Desiree Rogers asked him to do the White House’s holiday display. “Decorating the White House for the first Obama Christmas was the high point of my display career and it was a huge honor,” Doonan says. As the “First Elf,” as Doonan puts it, he decided to reuse many old ornaments from the White House warehouse on the Christmas tree. (There was a bit of a kerfuffle from the press about certain

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iconoclastic decorations, including ornaments featuring drag queen Hedda Lettuce and Mao Tse-Tung.) Now, as creative ambassador at Barneys, Doonan hosts events and communicates with the press, and is no longer directly involved in window decoration.

Though Doonan’s look is obviously cultivated, and his success is born of tremendous skill and hard work, it does seem to have emerged from a continued commitment to the job at hand rather than the pursuit of a particular lofty endpoint. Take his writing career, which came about when his publisher asked him to write the introduction to Confessions of a Window Dresser, a photo book of Doonan’s creations.

He was 46 years old and had never written before, but the introduction was so delightful that his publisher suggested he keep going. He’s now written thousands of columns, for both the New York Observer and Slate, and a half dozen books. “My writing career was an accident,” Doonan admits. “I always tell young kids to chill out about their career. Let it unfold. As Tyra says, ‘Don’t get it twisted.’”

Limitations can breed creativity, and Doonan’s career is a testament to that fact. Not only did he relish working up window designs at times when Barneys was struggling financially—“I do well with a small budget. I love papier mache.

Who doesn’t?” he says—but his outlandish style is a reaction to the poverty, mental illness, and geographical constriction of his past. Having jumped off that springboard, lurching from limits to the unknown, why not go the full distance? Fashion offered Doonan a lifeline; in turn, he transformed fashion.

“Breaking rules and being unconventional is the key to creativity,” he said. “It also makes me happy. I started doing messy windows simply because I got tired of looking at prissy tidy ones.”

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The Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall (through December 30). www.radiocitychristmas.com.

Chanukah Festival and Mitzvah Day at the 92Y Tribeca. www.92y.org.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth starring Ethan Hawke opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (through January 12).

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A Toast to Wishes: Fourth Annual MakeA-Wish Benefit. The Foundation’s goal is to raise money to grant children with life-threatening illnesses, one dream come true. www.toasttowishes.com.

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Third Annual Christmas in New York with the American Festival Choir at Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall. www. carnegiehall.org.

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Brooklyn Nets vs. Los Angeles Lakers at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. www. barclayscenter.com.

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“The Elf on the Shelf” Storytime and Christmas Activity Workshop at Barnes & Noble in Union Square. 212.253.0810 American Repertory Ballet performs The Nutcracker at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, NJ. www.arballet. org/nutcracker.

Pier Antique Show at Pier 94 (also, on November 24). www.pierantiqueshow.com.

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Water Collective’s 3rd Annual Winter Gala to celebrate the organization’s work of securing clean water for rural communities in West Africa. The gala will include a seated dinner and inspiring speakers. http://wintergala. splashthat.com.

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi will narrate Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic Peter and the Wolf as George Manahan conducts the Julliard Ensemble. The 30-minute production will take place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (repeats through the end of December). www. guggenheim.org.

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Ninth Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball.

This year’s ball will honor Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover and CEO of Barneys New York, Mark Lee. The menu will be created by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson. www.unicef.org/ snowflakeball.

December

The Little Orchestra Society performs Stravinky’s Firebird at New York City Center (also, on November 24). www. littleorchestra.org.

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from Central Park West & W. 77th St. to Seventh Avenue. www.macys.com/ parade.

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The Winter Ball for Autism, a collaboration between two organizations dedicated to funding autism research. This year’s ball will be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.autismspeaks.org/events.

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New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker opens at the David H. Koch Theater (through January 4, 2014). www. nycballet.com.

All Star Tribute to George Harrison: The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited at the Highline Ballroom. www. highlineballroom.com.

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The Harlem Gospel Walking Tour meets every Sunday and will lead guests through all of Harlem’s historic sites. The tour departs from the Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center. www. harlemheritage.com.

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Julliard Orchestra performs Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung, Opus 24 at The Julliard School. www.julliard.edu.

American Museum of Natural History Junior Council. The Council welcomes panel experts to discuss the world of plant poison. These botanists will discuss the way plant poisons have woven their way into our popular history, legends, myth, and fables. www. amnh.org.

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The Initiatives in Art and Cultures’s 2013 Extraordinary Timepieces Panel with guest panelists Max Busser of MB&F and Ulrich Wohn of TAG Heuer. www. artinitiatives.com.

New York’s Art Market Preview Party at the National Museum of the American Indian. Guests have the opportunity to view and purchase the finest in Native American artwork. www.nmai.si.edu.

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New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden. www. thegarden.com.

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Big Band Holidays at the Rose Theater presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center (through December 14). www.jalc.org.

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Screening of The Met Live in HD’ s Falstaff at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). www.bam.org.

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Annual holiday performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos

by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall (also, on December 17). www. chambermusicsociety.org.

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New York Theatre Ballet’s Once Upon a Ballet series, a string of hour-long family ballets beginning with Keith Michael’s The Nutcracker at New York City’s Florence Gould Hall. Dancers will be outfitted by the Resident Costume Designer of the Metropolitan Opera, Sylvia Nolan. www.nytb.org.

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Hot Cider Walking Tour sponsored by the Museum at Eldridge Street.

Sip some hot cider and sample authentic rugelach before touring local synagogues and businesses built and used by the area’s historic Eastern European immigrants (repeats through the end of December). www. eldridgestreet.org.

Christmas at Carnegie Hall featuring the New York Choral Society, conductor David Hayes, and mezzo soprano Heather Johnson. www.carnegiehall.org.

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The Brooklyn Chamber Music Society performs sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn. www. brooklynchambermusicsociety.org.

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The National Audubon Society Second Annual Gala Dinner. Dan W. Lufkin will receive the Audubon Medal and Patrick F. Noonan will receive the Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership. The Gala will take place at The Plaza Hotel. 212.

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Pianist Simone Dinnerstein performs at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University. www.millertheatre.com.

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The New York Philharmonic performs Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall (through December 21). www.nyphil.org.

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(MoMA) The Honeycomb Vase “Made

by Bees” by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny, 2006

Theatre Performances:

“New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia;” The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Annie; Palace Theatre

“T.J. Wilcox: In the Air;” Whitney Museum of American Art

Cinderella; Broadway Theatre

“A Beautiful Way to Go: New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery;” The Museum of the City of New York “Applied Design;” The Museum of Modern Art “Treasures from the Vault;” The Morgan Library & Museum “Clarice Smith: Recollections of a Life in Art;” New York Historical Society

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The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour starring Beyoncé arrives at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn (also, on December 22). www.barclayscenter.com.

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A Christmas Carol comes to the Bergen Performing Arts center in Englewood, NJ. www.bergenpac.org.

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New York Rangers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs at Madison Square Garden. www. thegarden.com

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“Trend-ology;” Fashion Institute of Technology Museum

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Watch the shimmering “ball drop” on New Year’s Eve at Times Square. The main area (from 42nd Street to 47th Street) is usually filled with revelers by 3 p.m. and the rest pack themselves in before midnight.

Emerald Nuts Midnight Run through Central Park. Thousands race along this 4 mile route at the stroke of midnight. A fireworks display greets runners at the starting line. www.nyrr.org.

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Opening night of Puccini’s La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera. La Bohème is set against the backdrop of a snowy, 1830s Paris. www.metoperafamily.org.

“Chagall: Love, War, and Exile;” The Jewish Museum “Presencia;” El Museo del Barrio “Chinese Ceramics for the Islamic World;” Asia Society and Museum “Gateway to Himalayan Art;” Rubin Museum of Art “Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet;” The Cloisters “Take Me to the Water: Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography, 18901950;” Museum of Biblical Art “Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress;” Brooklyn Historical Society “Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at the Frick Collection;” The Frick Collection

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Big Fish; Neil Simon Theatre Blue Man Group; Astor Place Theatre First Date; Longacre Theatre The Glass Menagerie; Booth Theatre Jersey Boys; August Wilson Theatre Macbeth; Vivian Beaumont Theater Matilda the Musical; Shubert Theatre Pippin; Music Box Theatre Motown: The Musical; Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Rock of Ages; Helen Hayes Theatre Romeo and Juliet; Richard Rodgers Theatre Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark; Foxwoods Theatre Stomp; Orpheum Theater The Trip to Bountiful; Stephen Sondheim Theatre Chicago; Ambassador Theatre

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When George Balanchine decided to choreograph a version of “The Nutcracker” for his New York City Ballet nearly 60 years ago, it’s doubtful he imagined the two-act production would become a tradition—and a cash cow—not only for his own company, but for ballet troupes all over the world.

The New York City Ballet presents "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker " at the Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

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he famed choreographer’s “Nutcracker” was based on the ballet he had danced as a child in Russia. He had never forgotten playing the role of the Prince when he was a 15-year-old student at the Imperial Theater Ballet School in St. Petersburg, and he thought New York audiences might take to its magical story and Tchaikovsky’s score. He was right.

The full-length ballet quickly became a mainstay of the company’s repertory. In fact, when the New York City Ballet moved from City Center on West 55th Street to the New York State Theatre (now the Koch Theatre) at Lincoln Center in 1964, the stage floor was specially designed with a pit to accommodate the ballet’s one-ton Christmas tree, which grows to a staggering 40 feet during the first act.

“George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” as it is now officially known, is unquestionably the granddaddy of them all. But numerous other productions, by other choreographers, are also performed today. New York dance audiences are fortunate to have their pick of four distinctly different versions.

In addition to New York City Ballet at the Koch Theatre November 29 to January 4, there is American Ballet Theatre’s “Nutcracker” by Alexei Ratmansky, performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music December 13 to 22. New York Theatre Ballet has a one-act, one-hour “Nutcracker” for young children by Keith Michael, performed at Florence Gould Hall December 14, 15 and 22. And a small company called Dances Patrelle does “The Yorkville Nutcracker,” by

choreographer Francis Patrelle, at the Kaye Playhouse December 5 to 8.

Ratmansky, among the most prolific and highly regarded ballet choreographers on today’s dance scene, debuted his “Nutcracker” to much fanfare three years ago. Joan Acocella, the dance critic of The New Yorker, noted that the ballet had “a warm, uncorny sweetness.” Others have commented that the production is more intimate and less dramatic than Balanchine’s. While not as big on special effects as New York City Ballet’s, this production has vivid costumes and scenery and has gained a following for its focus on relationships and the transformation from childhood to adulthood.

Just because “The Nutcracker” is a family-friendly ballet popular with children doesn’t mean there is skimping when it comes to sophisticated choreography. Balanchine’s “Waltz of the Flowers” is considered by some to be among his most inventive creations. The “Snowflakes” dance and central pas de deux in Ratmansky’s version of the ballet have also received wide acclaim.

For the past 27 years, children have been getting acquainted with the arts at New York Theatre Ballet’s performances of “The Nutcracker” at Florence Gould Hall. Geared to those ages three to six, this streamlined, one-hour version of the story leaves lots of room for youthful comment, should kids care to express themselves. “It’s a completely different experience from Lincoln Center or Brooklyn Academy of Music,” says Diana Byer, the company’s founder and director. “The kids feel they’re part of the story. It’s not just something they’re watching.”

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(TOP) Jenifer Ringer and Jared Angle of the New York City Ballet are guest artists in Dances Patrelle's "Nutcracker." Photo by Eduardo Patino. (BOTTOM LEFT) American Ballet Theatre's production by Alexei Ratmansky is a favorite at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Photo by Gene Schiavone. (BOTTOM RIGHT) The New York Theatre Ballet's "Nutcracker" is specially geared

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The one-act production, which is said to have attracted such celebrity moms as Sarah Jessica Parker and Marcia Gay Harden, was designed as a kind of introduction to the ballet and to theater. “It was an idea of [puppeteers] Jim Henson and Kermit Love. Kermit was a very good friend of mine,” Byer said.

“He thought it would be a great idea to do a one-hour ‘Nutcracker’ to introduce city kids who had never been to the ballet.”

The action is abbreviated but the costumes and sets are sophisticated.

“The goal is for them to have a fabulous theatrical experience where they will want more, and become real theatergoers as they grow up,” Byer said. “We want to get them hungry to go to the theater. Maybe then, they’ll come to our repertory shows and to major ballet companies, and to theater and concerts.

It’s a great first experience. It’s positive. And it’s short enough that they’re not going to fall asleep or get cranky.”

When Francis Patrelle began considering a production of "The Nutcracker" for dancers from the popular Ballet Academy East, the former dancer thought back to the college degree he earned while studying ballet during his youth in Pennsylvania. “I was a history major,” Patrelle said. “I guess that’s why I started thinking about setting the ballet in a specific place during an important part of New York’s history.”

A famous photograph of skaters on the pond in Central Park around the turn of the century was the inspiration for Patrelle’s idea for “The Yorkville Nutcracker.” Ballet Academy East, where he teaches, in the middle of the Upper East Side Yorkville neighborhood.

“I decided to place the party scene at Gracie Mansion, right down the street,” he said. “And to make it more universal, the Kingdom of Sweets scene is set in the Bronx Botanical Garden. So it’s very site specific, and everybody on that stage is a real character from the history of that area.”

The ballet is now in its eighteenth year. Students from Ballet Academy East and other schools take most of the roles, but each year guest artists from major companies dance the leads. New York City Ballet’s Jenifer Ringer and Jared Angle will play the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier this year, while Matthew Dibble, who dances for choreographer Twyla Tharp and is a former member of England’s Royal Ballet, will take the role of “snow boy.” Dancers from the Boston Ballet and Ohio Ballet also take part.

“It is beautifully produced, very colorful, and a lot of fun,” said Patrelle. “It is beautifully danced, and highly accessible. The theater is fully equipped but small enough for you to feel that you are a part of the action.” U

The grand finale of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker " sends Marie and Fritz off in a magical flying sleigh. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

IF YOU GO: New York City Ballet’s “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” is November 29 through January 4 at the David Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. Tickets are $67-$254. Visit www.nycballet.com or call 212.496.0600.

American Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” is December 13 through 22 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Tickets are $15-135.

Visit www.bam.org or call 718.636.4100.

New York Theatre Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” is December 14, 15 and 22 at Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59thh Street. Tickets are $41.95 and $47.10.

Visit www.nytb.org or call 212.355.6160.

Dances Patrelle’s “The Yorkville Nutcracker” is December 5 through 8 at The Kaye Playhouse, Park Avenue at 68th Street. Tickets are $45-$85.

Visit www.dancespatrelle.org or call 212.772.4448.

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Holiday POPS!

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Tickets: $40 Adults, $25 students General Admission Group discounts available This concert is generously sponsored by:

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Fantasia on “Greensleeves�

My Heart is Inditing On the Beautiful Blue Danube Sleigh Ride

Plus, the annual carol sing-along and more!

Broadway POPS! 10th Anniversary Concert Presents

Michael Feinstein Saturday, February 8, 2014 8 pm, Richardson Auditorium Tickets: $90, 70, 55, 35 Call: (609) 497-0020 Visit: www.princetonsymphony.org Email: info@princetonsymphony.org

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THE LITTLE SHOPS THAT COULD

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The first time my parents took my sister and me—dressed in our best Sunday dresses, white tights, black patent leather Mary Janes and “good” winter coats—to F.A.O. Schwarz on Fifth Avenue, the store loomed above us like a fairy tale castle, where we were greeted by real-life toy soldiers in bright red uniforms and black fur hats.

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y parents said, "You may pick one toy." We let go of their hands and ran around like pinballs, hopping on the foot piano (made famous many years later by Tom Hanks in Big), hugging giant teddy bears, and peering into the cellophane windows of boxes with exquisitely dressed Madame Alexander dolls. Finally we came back, breathless and starry-eyed, each of us clutching one toy—my sister a nurse's kit, me a set of pastels with 64 colors. And then, my father said very quietly, "You know, girls, there are two more floors. This is only the first floor." Our mouths formed astonished little "O's."

Since 1862, F.A.O. Schwarz continues to enchant New Yorkers and tourists alike. Today you can decorate your own cupcakes on the second floor, get a glitter tattoo by an in-house artist or have a private tour and breakfast with a toy soldier before the store opens—dozens of independent toy stores all over the city are also capturing hearts and the inner child in everyone. And if you need it, they are the perfect escape from this holiday season's hottest toy, the Rainbow Loom, which makes rubber band friendship bracelets. Ask any grade schooler you know about little Ashley Steph's Rainbow Loom YouTube video tutorials: one of her latest, How to Make a Starburst Bracelet, which she cranked out right before her family's Florida vacation, has surpassed three million views. Some independent toy stores, including Boomerang Toys and Mary Arnold Toys, carry Rainbow Loom.

At Kidding Around in Chelsea (60 W. 15th St.), you might feel as if you've stepped into an old-fashioned nursery, with hardwood floors, oriental rugs and tall antique glass-paned wooden cabinets with shelves filled to the brim with stuffed mice tucked into painted wooden beds and a Princess and the Pea doll perched upon a bed piled high with tiny calico mattresses.

"What keeps this store special is that it's still a mom and pop shop," says manager Alexis Smith about husband-and-wife owners Christina Clark and Paul Nippes. "Their motto is 'classic with a twist.'"

She likes MasterKitz, which lets you paint your own version of Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" or Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and secretly doubles as an art history lesson. For infants, she suggests Djeco's Topanimo set of six stack

and nest blocks, with shapes pictured on the top and numbers on the side.

Each block is a little "house" for a color-coordinated plastic animal you can also take in the tub. "Little ones can stack the blocks, but as they get older, they can play house," Smith says.

For little hands she recommends Plan Toys' Gears and Puzzles, which encourage creative play and problem solving. The company, known for its wooden toys, wanted to repurpose the sawdust it generated. It developed a way to recycle the sawdust, packing it into a solid material as smooth as plastic, painting it with organic natural dyes and fashioning it into giant puzzle pieces that each have a notch in the center for a gear.

The store's "classic with a twist" philosophy also plays out in games like Dr. Seuss' Super Stretchy ABC. A modern take on the old Twister floor game, players are directed to place their hands and feet on letters of the alphabet, each with a corresponding illustration of an object that begins with that letter.

Dinosaur Hill in the East Village (306 E. 9th St.) really belongs on a country lane. Its weather-worn, hand-painted wooden sign reads "Handmade Wonderments."

Inside, as chamber music plays quietly, I find owner Pam Pier in her lovingly messy loft office that overlooks the store, her Lhassa Tibetan spaniel, Pip, at her feet. A former freelance artist (she made the giant dryad-faced papier maché tree in the window) and preschool teacher, Pier says the store, which just celebrated its 30th birthday, combines her three passions: art, kids and education.

"Play is the work of early childhood," Pier says. "I want kids to become effortlessly involved on an intellectual and aesthetic plane and to learn general concepts while working with toys. I also select toys that have enough interesting aspects that adults will not hesitate to jump in and play with children."

Some of the most well-loved toys in the store, as well as toys she's excited about for the upcoming holiday season, include alphabet blocks in 17 languages; hand and finger puppets made by a woman from the neighborhood; animal marionettes made in the Czech Republic; sophisticated kits about physics, circuitry and solar energy; classic children's books; and hand-knit sweaters.

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At Boomerang in Tribeca (119 West Broadway), I fall for the Jellycat stuffed animals from London—sleep-tight soft and small enough to carry to a restaurant to keep you occupied while the grownups talk, with names like Bashful Toffee Puppy and New Woodland Baby Fox. Best sellers include Munipals, toy subway trains made of solid wood, developed with the New York City Transit Museum and compatible with all standard wooden railway systems; Micro Scooters by Kickboard USA, and Valtech's Magna-tiles, which are popular in area preschools so parents want them too.

"Depending on the child's age, the kind of play they are doing is really teaching them," says owner Karen Berwick. "To that end we carefully pick each and every toy we carry so that it offers the most play value, while offering a learning experience."

For the coming holiday season, Berwick is excited about Haba's teepee play tent and wooden Moover Doll Pram, Mirare's Pop! Pop! Piano and Quercetti's Marble Runs.

A few blocks away is Playing Mantis (32 North Moore St.), its bright red storefront so distinctive that Travel & Leisure magazine shot its cover model in front of the store for its September issue.

In this wonderland of wooden toys made by artisans around the world—dollhouses, castles, fairy tale cottages, Noah's arks, chess sets and pirate ships—I find salesperson Joe Pulido wrapping a giant box in the store's signature ivy-stamped brown recycled paper and burlap "ribbon." A neighborhood boy peeks his head in the store. Pulido greets the boy by name.

"Mom says, no go in there," the boy stage whispers. "OK, see you tomorrow," Pulido calls out. "Say hello to mom and dad!"

He tells me the boy lives upstairs, and all the neighborhood kids come in to play. He points out some of the most popular items, including a painted wood stacking "sandwich" with a lettuce layer, tomato, meat, Swiss cheese and pickles; stuffed animals made from recycled sweaters; and colorful felt zippered toy bags to cart your toys to your friend's house.

"The store exists to inspire children, to show them what our hands can do in collaboration with nature," says owner Imelda McCain.

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Little Things Toy Store in Park Slope is designed for kids to play in, says owner Mitch Szpicek, starting with a Brio wooden train set up on a low table on the sidewalk out front.

"We cherry pick the best items and try not to be so 'special' that kids won't want to have fun in the store," says Szpicek, who wanders around with me, all the while holding onto a big bunch of balloons for a customer until she's through shopping. "You'll see kids filling up the doll strollers with dolls and the toy shopping carts with toys. This is a space to play, not just to buy a toy." Kids flock to the multi-shelf display of plastic animals, plopping themselves down on the floor, each happily assembling their own menagerie or jungle herd.

Just a block down from Little Things is Norman & Jules (158 Seventh Ave., which made it into New York magazine's Best of New York issue in March.

With its visually peaceful palette of grey carpet, an exposed brick wall and plenty of low shelves placed at the eye level of your average four-year-old, Norman & Jules will appeal to anyone who's had it with the glitz and commercialism, noise and garishness of the big box stores.

The store was founded a year ago by former corporate crunchers turned entrepreneurs Avi Kravitz and Courtney Ebner—who live with their three-year-old daughter just a couple of blocks away. "We strongly believe in open-ended play—toys that don't come with instructions," says Kravitz. "This allows children to use their imaginations."

A block set in the shape of bands of the rainbow can be taken apart and turned upside down to make bridges, arches or a mountain range and then more complicated structures as the child grows. "Children do not need all the bells and whistles to learn," says Kravitz.

They choose products made from materials that are environmentally sustainable, crafted by artisans who are paid fairly, as well as toys by Kickstarter-funded companies like Kinetic Creators and Toobalink.

In the back of the store I find a little boy who captures the essence of what a good toy does. Engaged in conversation with a simple felt shark puppet on one arm, he rebuffs his mother's efforts to leave the store. "I just want to be like making it up with this," he says. U

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Now Playing: Gifts Outside the Box Stretch a child's imagination—and your own— at one of these independent toy stores.

Brooklyn

Chelsea

Acorn Toys 323 Atlantic Ave. 718.522.3760 www.acorntoyshop.com

Kidding Around 60 W 15th St. 212.645.6337 www.kiddingaroundtoys.com

Area Kids 218 Bedford Ave. 718.218.8647 196 Court St. 718.222.0869 www.areakids.com Flying Squirrel 96 N. 6th St. Williamsburg 718.218.7775 www.flyingsquirrelbaby.com Heights Kids 85 Pineapple Walk Brooklyn Heights 718.222.4271 www.heightskids.com Little Things Toy Store 145 Seventh Ave. Little Things Toy Store Too 139 Seventh Ave. Park Slope 718.783.4733 Mini Jake 178 N. 9th St. Williamsburg 718.782.2005 www.minijake.com Norman and Jules 158 Seventh Ave. Park Slope 347.987.3323 www.normanandjules.com Toy Space 426 Seventh Ave. South Slope 718.369.9096 toyspaceny.com

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Lower East Side My Plastic Heart NYC 210 Forsyth St. 646.290.6866 www.myplasticheartnyc.com Soho Giggle, 120 Wooster St. 212.334.5817 www.giggle.com

Tribeca Babesta 56 Warren St. 646.290.5508 66 West Broadway 212.608.4522 www.babesta.com Boomerang Toys 119 West Broadway 212.226.7650 www.boomerangtoys.com Playing Mantis 32 North Moore St. 646.484.6845 www.friendlymantis.com

Upper East Side Mary Arnold Toys 1010 Lexington Ave. 212.744.8510 www.maryarnoldtoys.com The Children's General Store 168 E. 91st St. 212.426.4479

Greenwich Village

Upper West Side

Dinosaur Hill 306 E. 9th St. 212.473.5850 www.dinosaurhill.com

A Time for Children 506 Amsterdam Ave. 212.580.8202 www.atimeforchildren.org

Ibiza Kids 830 Broadway 212.228.7990 ibizakidz.com

Area Kids 451 Amsterdam Ave. 212.595.3282 www.areakids.com

Piccolini 230 Mulberry St. 212.775.1118 www.lovepiccolini.com

West Side Kids 498 Amsterdam Ave. 212.496.7282 www.westsidekidsnyc.com

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BLING-BLING Tiffany & Co. Brooch, ca. 1900. Gold, sapphires, zircons, enamel.

Two Exhibits Recall New York’s Gilded Age

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Michele Gordigiani, “Cornelia Ward Hall and Her Children,” 1880, Oil on canvas.

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he sorry spectacle that played out over the last several years as the late Brooke Astor’s 89-year-old son, Anthony Marshall, was tried, convicted, and led to jail for stealing from his mother is unlikely to be remembered as a high point in the annals of New York’s beautiful people. (Citing ill health, Marshall was recently sprung.) Two current exhibits, though, remind of us of the sheer gorgeousness of the lives of Gilded Age New Yorkers.

AN ELECTRIC LIGHT DRESS

At the Museum of the City of the New York (1220 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street), Gilded New York offers over 100 items culled from the extravagant houses, furnishings, jewelry, clothing, portraits and decorative objects amassed by business titans like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Rockefellers and Astor heirs from the mid-1870s through the early twentieth century.

On view is a silver-gilt place setting, an “Electric Light” dress worn by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, II to a ball in 1883, and John D. Rockefeller's luxe toiletry set. Offsetting Mrs. Vanderbilt’s silvery gown is a golden satin damask wedding gown by Maison Worth in 1878 that was worn by Annie Schermerhorn, descendant of a prominent Dutch family in New York.

Visitors are encouraged to view the exhibit as an exploration in “visual culture” during this era, rather than as a paean to beautiful objects and their owners.

The exhibition marks the inauguration of the Museum’s new Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery, and the firm is well-represented by several dazzling pieces, including a brooch of gold, sapphires, zircons and enamel (c. 1900), and a necklace, made in 1904 of gold, diamond, pearls, turquoise and enamel. Other jewelry in the exhibit includes a 1900 Marcus & Co. necklace, comprised of gold, natural pearls, demantoid garnet and enamel.

A folding fan made at about the same time by the Parisian haute couture house of Jean-Pierre Duvelleroy is made of painted silk, feathers and mother-of-pearl.

Gilded New York: Design, Fashion and Society is a new monograph prepared in conjunction with the exhibit by Donald Albrecht, Jeannine Falino and Phyllis Magidson. It focuses on interior design and decorative arts, fashion and jewelry, as well as publications that may be seen as having anticipated some “shelter magazines” of today, like Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, and Country Living.

PICTURE PERFECT

The New York Historical Society’s (170 Central Park West, at 77th Street) exhibit, Beauty’s Legacy, Gilded Age Portraits includes over 60 paintings of personalities of the day. Curators note that this was the era in which New York became the nation’s corporate headquarters and the “Ladies’ Mile” of luxury retail establishments and cultural institutions brought the city global prominence.

To their credit, a number of these people became New York’s first cultural philanthropists, supporting fledgling institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera.

Like the City of New York Museum’s stated intention to examine the visual culture of the gilded era, this exhibit is meant to be more than a mere rogue’s gallery. It is framed, to use an apt word, as a study in the art of portraiture, and the “remarkable critical and popular resurgence” of the genre during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, and the “impetus to document the appearance of those who propelled and benefited from burgeoning wealth.” This “cultural pattern,” we are told, resembled earlier colonial era practices.

The works of art are all from the New York Historical Society’s collections and include portraits of “prominent New York sitters”

Fancy dress costume by Maison Worth representing “Electric Light,” 1883, worn by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II to the Vanderbilt Ball.

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Tiffany & Co. brooch, 1900. Platinum, gold, diamond, pearls, ruby, garnet, sapphire.

EDGIER ALTERNATIVES

If all the razzle-dazzle gets too blinding, it is good to know that a current Museum of the City of New York project offers something more, shall we say, politically correct in Activist New York, an ongoing exhibit and blog that look at “the passions and conflicts that underlie the city's history of agitation.”

Coming up (February 5) is City as Canvas a first-time exhibition of works selected from the expansive street art collection of Martin Wong.

At the New York Historical Society, the current Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Evolution is not a mere reprieve from gilded age materialism; it’s reason enough to visit the Historical Society.

A spokesperson for the Museum of the City of New York said that Gilded New York is intended as an ongoing exhibit that will be regularly replenished with new material drawn from the Museum’s collections. Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America runs through March 9, 2014 at the New York Historical Society. U

Satin damask wedding gown by Maison Worth, 1878, worn by Annie Schermerhorn.

including Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter and Mary Gardiner Thompson. The American artists who painted them include John Singer Sargent, James Carroll Beckwith, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Eastman Johnson and Benjamin Curtis Porter.

The demand for portraits done by European artists was “vigorous” as well, and there are paintings of James Hazen Hyde, Georgina Schuyler, Samuel Ward McAllister, Cortlandt Field Bishop, Leonard and Rosalie Lewisohn, and Samuel Untermyer by Léon Bonnat, Bouguereau, Carolus-Duran, Alexandre Cabanel, Anders Zorn and Théobald Chartran. Photographs and graphic materials are used to provide background for some of the images painted by both American and European artists, and advertising graphics show popular fashions and cosmetics of the day.

A selection of twenty-five miniature portraits of reigning social celebrities from Peter Marié’s Beauties of The Gilded Age is also on display. Until his death in 1903, Marié liked to have miniature portraits painted of “the beautiful debutantes whom he had introduced to New York City.” An article in the magazine Public Opinion from that year described the collection as “the result of [a] peculiar whim” that had not yet found a home.

A catalogue, published by the New York Historical Society in association with D. Giles Limited of London accompanies Beauty’s Legacy: Portraits of the Gilded Age and includes essays by guest curator Barbara D. Gallati, and by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Books to Hold in Both Hands

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ow is the time of year when an allegedly endangered species called The Book comes enormously into its own, making those handy, battery-dependent little doodads called Nooks and Kindles look like sophisticated playthings. What a difference, to unwrap and open and hold in your hands the weighty reality of a big, handsomely/beautifully/lavishly illustrated volume you can feel the substance and texture of, something, say it again, to be held in both hands. It lends the gift a kind of majesty, like an offering placed on the altar of the occasion.

This year’s offerings cover a sweeping range of art forms and include handsome works by home-grown artists, as well as ones accompanying major exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim.

and indigo-dyed furnishing fabric” begins by admitting that it has “frustrated several generations of American textile historians” and “has been the subject of conferences, book chapters, and numerous articles.” Somehow the mystery fabric found its way from “probably India” to the American market in the mid18th century.

PAINTING: THE MYSTERY OF MAGRITTE Speaking of mystery, another no less stunning work of publishing art accompanying a major new exhibit is Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 (Museum of Modern Art $65). After alluding to the ubiquity of René Magritte (“an artist we practically can’t avoid. The pipe; the giant eye; the choochoo in the fireplace”), The New York Times’ Holland Cotter admits the survey is “good solid fun, because Magritte is solid and fun.” One of the favored artists for designers of rock album covers, Magritte was born in Belgium and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. When he was in his early 20s he married his model Georgette Berger, whom he had known since he was 13.

They were together until his death in 1967. Of his habit of juxtaposing unrelated objects, he said, “It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world.

Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery.” On view at MoMA through January, the exhibit will move to Houston’s Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, both of which collaborated with MoMA in producing the exhibition and catalogue, which is co-authored by Stephanie D’Alessandro and Michel Draguet and edited by MoMA’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, Anne Umland. The painting on the book’s front cover, shown below, is The Secret Double, from 1927.

TEXTILES: VISUAL THRILLS “Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800,” the Met’s new show, has been getting raves, notably from Roberta Smith at The New York Times, who eschews the integrity of artspeak, claiming there are “enough visual thrills and historical insights to knock your socks off.” This year’s “staggering overview of more than three centuries of art, commerce, craft and crosscultural fertilization” may be “even more outstanding than usual.” The exhibit runs through January 5, while the book published by the Met and distributed

by Yale University Press ($65) under the same title puts “one of the great art experiences of the season” between covers forever. Edited by Amelia Peck, who offers a history of trade textiles at the Met and an essay on The East India Company textiles for the North American market, the 350-page volume includes a multi-author assortment of introductory essays on Indian textiles; textile traditions and trade in Latin America; Chinese textiles in Portugal; Japan and the textile trade; “Silks along the seas” in Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran; the European response to textiles from the East; and dyes and the dye trade.

“Blue-Resist Panel,” the cover illustration for Interwoven Globe shown above with its title removed, is an example of the “every picture tells a story” aspect of the volume. The editor’s intriguing account of this “resist-painted and printed

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Sacred Spaces—Turkish Mosques and Tombs (Quantuck Lane Press $54.92) is the work of photographer Mary Cross. Introduced by Peter Brown, the “beautifully produced” book that Dorothea von Moltke, co-owner of Labyrinth Books, Princeton, New Jersey, calls a “labor of love.” The book visually celebrates over twenty mosques and tombs built from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Istanbul, Bursa and Edirne. Among the photographer’s other books are Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth, in which her images were accompanied by Frances Fitzgerald’s text, and Morocco: Sahara to the Sea, with an introduction by Paul Bowles.

INTERIOR DESIGN Terry Wood’s Farmhouse Modern (Stewart, Tabori and Chang $45) is the third installment of the farmhouse-style series created by designer Woods and photographer Kindra Clineff. The book profiles farmhouses in the Northeast that blend traditional and modern elements. Fans of Woods’s previous books will recognize the breadth of farmhouses profiled and the locales, from Vermont to Maine to New Hampshire. Known for celebrating imperfections, Woods designs homes filled with warmth, texture, and light, pairing the clean lines and industrial feel of modern design with the rustic, hand-forged, and natural elements of more traditional design, or, as a notice in atHome magazine puts it, “The gorgeous Northeast farmhouses ... blend a traditional, cozy feel with modern elements.”

THE LIBRARY AS ARCHITECTURE What better way to conclude a column celebrating beautiful books than with a volume devoted to the buildings that house them? The Library: A World History (University of Chicago Press $75) by James W.P. Campbell with photographs by Will Pryce, contains spectacular images of the architecture of libraries around the world, from the dome of the Library of Congress to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, and back to the future for libraries in the Electronic Age.

MOTHERWELL’S COLLAGES Robert Motherwell: Early Collages (Guggenheim $45), text by curator Susan Davidson, with Megan Fontanella, Brandon Taylor, and Jeffrey Warda accompanies the exhibit at the Guggenheim scheduled to run through January 5, 2014. Devoted to Motherwell’s works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s, the book reexamines the origins of the artist’s style and his encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as “the greatest of our discoveries.” It was at Peggy Guggenheim’s early urging, and under the tutelage of émigré Surrealist artist Matta, that Motherwell first experimented with the technique. He recalled years later: “I might never have done it otherwise, and it was here that I found . . . my ‘identity.’” In addition to focusing on Motherwell’s early career with Peggy Guggenheim, the book features approximately 60 works and four essays that delve into other artists’ engagements with collage in the first half of the twentieth century; Motherwell’s underlying humanitarian themes during World War II; his materials; and a reassessment of his work in the collage medium.

PHOTOGRAPHY Emmet Gowin, who taught photography at Princeton University from 1973 to 2009, is the subject of a self-titled collection (Aperture $65), with text by Keith F. Davis, Carlos Gollonet, and Gowin. Those familiar with Gowin’s work will find images of the subjects he’s best known for, his wife and family, landscape and aerial photography of Mount St. Helens, the American West, the Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, Japan and the U.S. As the cover portrait of his wife suggests, Detail of Edith, Danville (Virginia) 1963, he’s chosen to highlight the human side of his work. In a hand-written letter from May 1967, when he was 25, Gowin wrote, “From the beginning, I wanted to make pictures so potent that I would not need to say anything about them.” His choice of this beautiful image of his wife at the dawn of their relationship suggests that of all the portraits of her, some of which are rigorous, stark, and sometimes unflattering in their intimacy, the face on the cover comes closest to the essence of the woman he fell in love with. Gowin has described his portraits of Edith as “agreements” they made with each other: “My attention was a natural duty that could honour that love.”

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Books of “Derring Do” for the Armchair Adventurer and an Expedition to

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“As human beings, exploration is in our DNA,” says Alan Nichols an expert on Genghis Khan who has spent much time in search of the Mongol leader’s undiscovered tomb. Nichols is president of the Explorers Club which has its world headquarters on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a six floor brick and limestone town house filled with curiosities from far-flung places.

Founded in 1904, the Explorers Club is dedicated to scientific exploration of the Earth, its oceans and outer space. Its members have been to the top of Mount Everest, examined the depths of the ocean, and walked on the moon. The most famous include Adm. Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson, first to the North Pole in 1909; Roald Amundsen, first to the South Pole in 1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, first to summit Mt. Everest in 1953; Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, who went to the ocean’s greatest depth in 1960; astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, first to the moon in 1969. Its famous women members (the Club didn’t admit women until 1981, now they make up a fifth of the membership) include oceanographer Sylvia Earle (named Time Magazine’s first Hero for the Planet in 1998) and primatologists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.

To step inside number 46 East 70th Street is to be transported to an era when the world seemed vast and maps still had regions of blank space marked “unexplored.” One can’t help but think of larger than life characters Lara Croft and Indiana Jones. Indeed some film industry location scouts have the club on their radar. It was used for scenes in The Verdict and Boardwalk Empire. And the imagined exploits the “most interesting man in the world” in the Dos Equis beer commercial owe much to the Explorers Club. But the advert’s montage of bravery—releasing an angry bear from a trap, catching a marlin Hemingway style, arm-wrestling or surfing a massive wave—pale in comparison to the real life exploits of the Club’s intrepid members. Stay curious, my friends.

I’m not entirely sure that all of the current members would approve this focus on adventure and “derring do.”

Today’s scientific expedition organizers often regard “adventure,” as a byword for lack of planning and try to preempt the sorts of mishap that befall our on-screen heroes. Nonetheless it is hard not to make comparisons, especially since many of the fictions were inspired by the Club’s members.

Roy Chapman Andrews, for example, is Indiana Jones to a T. In the 1920s, the famed paleontologist braved sandstorms, civil wars and armed bandits, while leading expeditions to Central Asia for the Museum of Natural History. He was the one who discovered the first dinosaur egg in the Gobi desert.

And who would not romanticize stories like that of Peter Freuchen who, when stranded in a Baffin Island avalanche, was forced to knock off the toes of his frost-bitten left foot with a hammer so that he could make it out alive.

Doctors later amputated his gangrenous leg. Freuchen went on to further explorations in Greenland and the Arctic.

“Stories abound here,” says Will Roseman, the Club’s executive director, as he leads me on a tour of the house that is part museum and part English Country Manor.

Here’s a portrait of former Club President Carl Akeley (1864-1926). Notice his scarred visage? Akeley is one of the few people to have survived a leopard attack. How so? He thrust his arm down the animal’s throat, balled his hand into a fist until the animal suffocated. “All the while the cat was tearing at his flesh,” Roseman tells me. If given the choice, it is apparently preferable to be attacked by a lion than by the much more aggressive leopard. Who knew?

This is just one of the snippets of information I pick up on my visit. If I could be a member of any club, this is the one I’d choose. But here’s the rub. To join, one must actually be an explorer, and not of the armchair variety. One must have taken part in some form of scientific exploration or field research and must be sponsored by two current members.

So as intrepid as I might feel (and I do) about my own independent travels, across Pakistan from Rawalpindi to Kashgar in Xingiang and on to Urumchi and Dunhuang on the edge of China’s Desert of Lop, none of it counts. No advancement of science, no membership.

In spite of my lack of credentials, however, Roseman continues to point out items such as the towering polar bear from the Chuckchi Sea between Alaska and Siberia (it roars at the touch of a hidden button).

The building alone is worth a visit for its history and architecture, its exquisite “linen fold” carved wood paneling from the 15th and 16th centuries. Built in 1912 by Stephen C. Clark, grandson of the co-founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, it was acquired by the Explorers Club in 1965.

The Members Lounge was once the Clark family drawing room. The coffee table was once a hatch cover on board the survey ship Explorer that survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 because it was out at sea. Here is a chair that once belonged to the Empress Dowager of Japan. There is another dating to 1574. Above the fireplace is a painting of extinct “Wooly Rhinoceros” by paleo-artist Charles R. Knight (almost blind when he painted it, he knew the animals from their bones). At the turn of the last century, Knight specialized in dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and his murals are in the world’s great natural history museums. The Club also has the original paintings by William R. Leigh that were made for dioramas in the Museum of Natural History’s Hall of African Mammals.

Roseman shows me the globe used

by Thor Heyerdahl when planning his KonTiki expedition across the Atlantic. In 1947, Heyerdahl and his 5-man crew sailed Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft, 4300 miles from Peru to Polynesia, suggesting that prehistoric South Americans could have originally settled the islands of the South Pacific.

Upstairs in the Clark Room where regular Monday night public lectures take place— George Clooney and Sandra Bullock showed up recently—are expedition flags that have been retired from the field after being carried across the globe and even into outer space.

The crew of Apollo 15 took one to the moon in 1971.

The trademark Explorers Club flag is red, white and blue, with a diagonal stripe, the letters E and C, and a compass rose. It’s a sort of seal of approval and the same flag would often be carried on multiple journeys, until it had become too fragile, or too precious, because of where it had been, to be risked on further travels.

The first flag went to the Gobi Desert in 1925 with Roy Chapman Andrews. More recently, filmmaker James Cameron took the same flag that had been to the top of Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, so that it would have been to both the highest and lowest points on Earth.

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“At a recent talk the speaker asked the audience how many had climbed Everest and 16 people raised their hands. At most cocktail parties, there is usually one person who stands out, the one interesting individual everyone wants to talk to. But here, everyone is interesting,” Roseman laughs. A member since 2007 and the current mayor of Carlstadt in New Jersey, Roseman was once a bush pilot in the Congo.

We pass the sledge used in 1909 by Matthew Henson and Robert Peary on their expedition to the North Pole. Sunlight streams through the antique stained glass mullions of a large bay window that opens onto an outdoor terrace with a 15th century French cloister. The room’s magnificent stone fireplace with carved merman was originally in the British Museum. Above it there’s a statue of Joan of Arc on horseback and in full armor.

Over the fireplace in the Library is a painting by Albert Operti. Its title records with scientific precision: “Camp Clay Rescue of Lieut. A. W. Greely and Party, Sunday Night, June 22, 1884 at 11 o’clock.” Adolphus Greely, who would later become the Club’s first president, led an expedition to establish an American outpost at the edge of the Arctic Sea in 1881. His party was stranded on the ice for two years before they could be reached.

He and six others survived. They had resorted to cannibalism.

Stanley and Roosevelt About 100 researchers a year consult the Club’s 15,000 volume library and archival treasures such as Stanley’s letters from Africa to the New York Herald, including one dispatch that was recovered from inside the boot of a man killed in a tribal war. The Club draws documentary and feature filmmakers, journalists, scholars, historians, and travelers. Its explorers number 3,000 in 30 chapters across the globe. “Meeting fascinating people is the best part of my job,” says archivist Mary French, as she selects a lantern slide of Teddy Roosevelt with the slain elephant that he brought back for the Natural History Museum. The image is hand-tinted, as fresh as the day it was made, incredibly detailed.

A frequent guest of the Clark family, Roosevelt led expeditions to East Africa in 1908 and to the interior of Brazil in 1913. His bedroom now serves as the office of the Club’s president. Roosevelt’s spirit permeates the building, especially in the Trophy Room that once served as a playroom for the Clark children and later a gallery for the family’s world class collection of modern art. Now, there are more pith helmets and African drums than Matisses and Renoirs. You’ll also find the skins of a lion and a leopard that Roosevelt shot. In the center of the room, is the long table on which his plans for the Panama Canal were laid out.

Here too is a stuffed Emperor penguin. In the corner are four contorted tusks from a single elephant; poor thing. There are a lot of elephant tusks here, as well as one from an adult male narwhal, an aquatic mammal from the Arctic. There’s even the tusk of a giant Wooly Mammoth of unknown provenance—the club isn’t a museum, so not every item is labeled and the origins of some artifacts are shrouded in mystery.

“Nowadays the club is devoted to conservation, it’s no longer the done thing to bring back trophy specimens,” says Roseman. I admire the circa 1900 cape made of cedar bark and wool by the Chilkats of Alaska. But what is this strange three-foot long object? Oh, silly me, I should have guessed. It’s the penis of a sperm whale, lovingly stuffed by some unnamed taxidermist.

The Club’s greatest treasure is not among its many curiosities however, but in a book, a treasure trove of knowledge and a very rare 23-volume first edition of Description de L’Egypte, chronicling the discoveries made during Napoleon Bonaparte’s scientific and military expedition to that country in 1798. This is the book that brought ancient Egypt to the attention of the world and led to the modern study of Egyptology.

The Explorers Club has weekly lectures and other events open to the public including a famously exotic annual banquet featuring dishes such as hog mask galantine, roast goat, pork chitterlings, sweet-and-sour bovine penis and mealwork maki. Fancy a bug covered strawberry? Anyone for scorpions on toast? Now that’s adventure for the strong of heart.

For more on the Explorers Club at 46 East 70th Street, visit www. explorers.org

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Twelve Books for the Armchair Adventurer: An Idiosyncratic Selection As Told at the Explorers Club: More than 50 Gripping Tales of Adventure, edited by George Plimpton as the first in the Explorers Club Classic Series, is an eclectic selection that includes incidents from the life of Roy Chapman Andrews, a visit to Fletcher Christian’s descendents on Pitcairn Island, the discovery of the coelacanth (once thought to be extinct), cheetah hunting in South India, and cannibalism in the Arctic.

The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud by Nicholas Fox Weber relates the story of feuding brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, two of America’s greatest art collectors, whose grandfather amassed a fortune as the business partner of the wild inventor and genius Isaac Merritt Singer.

When Men and Mountains Meet: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820 to 1875 by John Keay Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

by Eric Newby My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, The Pamirs and Chitral 18841894 by Francis Younghusband Travels in the Interior of Africa

by Mungo Park Water Music, a novel inspired

by Mungo Park’s travels, by T. C. Boyle Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy The Travels of Marco Polo as told to and written down by Rustichello da Pisa a 13thcentury travelogue describes Polo’s travels through Asia, Persia, China and Indonesia between 1276 and 1291.

The Travels of Ibn Battutah by the Moroccan explorer who was one of greatest travelers of all time.

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A Winter Escapade at Mont Tremblant

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onsistently ranked the number one ski resort on the East Coast, Mont Tremblant easily combines many a New Yorker’s twin passions of winter and everything French. Located in rural Quebec, Tremblant is nestled neatly inside of the Laurentian Mountains. Here, caribou and moose roam freely and yak jerky is the snack of choice. Known as “trembling mountain,” Tremblant is now easily accessible via shuttle from Montreal-Trudeau International Airport.

Notably, Tremblant and Mont Blanc represent the two highest peaks in the Laurentian range.

Today, the term “Mont Tremblant” refers to both the Mountain and the Village that make up this ski resort. During the winter resort season of November through April, the resort shuttle will transport visitors from the airport

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runway to the slopes of the mountain.

Although Mont Tremblant is active yearround, the Alpine-like Village really comes alive during the winter months when snow is proliferous and winter activities range from downhill skiing to ice climbing to sled dog racing. Just remember to pack the right winter gear. The average high temperature during the month of January is only 19°F, with evening temperatures regularly dipping to negative 10°F. Skiers should also take into consideration that Tremblant is a large mountain with a high degree of wind chill. At any given time during the day, the sun will shine on only one face of the mountain, making the opposite face sometimes 10 to 15 degrees cooler. It is recommended that winter visitors invest in a jacket that is appropriate for temperatures as low as negative 25°F. Waterproof gloves, boots, hats, face masks, eyewear and scarfs are also a necessity. Ideally, no skin should be exposed when enjoying the outdoors in Northern Quebec, as frostbite can develop in as little as 30 minutes.

If you easily tire of being outside in such biting temperatures, fear not—there are plenty of rewarding indoor activities, as well.

Tremblant’s most recent addition is a worldclass casino, accessible by gondola and located only 10 minutes from the Village center. Casino de Mont-Tremblant is nestled within a rustic setting, but the interior environment is anything but Spartan. Akin to the best casinos found in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, Casino de MontTremblant is equipped with hundreds of gaming tables, including a well-frequented “high rollers”

section. The Casino is worthy of a day-trip even if you aren’t a roulette player. Come for the live polka music and shots of Caribou, a French Canadian cocktail of wine and booze spiked with maple syrup. In such a cozy setting, skiing becomes almost secondary.

Another luxurious Tremblant option is to partake in the spa culture that abounds at places like Scandinave Spa or Spa sur le Lac. Scandinave Spa is owned by two former NHL hockey players who promise to revive your sports weary muscles with their Swedish massage. The age-old Finnish tradition of heating up the body in a steam bath followed by a dip in an icy river is the preferred treatment at Scandinave. Said to promote circulation and to help rid the body of toxins, this Northern European treatment will leave you with a cherubic glow. A second option, Spa sur le Lac, is located inside of Hotel du Lac, where treatments range from Swedish Therapeutic Massage to Seaweed Body Wraps to Raindrop Massage.

If you grow restless of the pampered life, pay a visit to The Activity Centre du Mont Tremblant. The Mountain Sport School readily guides groups through the favored Canadian pastime of ice fishing on a frozen lake located only a few minutes from the Village. Certified Quebec Mountain Guides will teach guests an array of ice climbing techniques along the foot of the slopes at Mont Tremblant and guided snowmobile trips will get your adrenaline racing as you drive through boreal forest trails that wind through the Upper Laurentians. A perfect option for families

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with young children is the horse drawn sleigh ride. These storybook sleigh rides are led by a driver who promises to serenade you with Quebecois folk songs. Mug after mug of hot chocolate and wool blankets are also provided.

If you’ve fantasized about living in a Jack London novel, don’t miss your chance to partake in a Mont Tremblant dog sledding excursion. Arranged through the Activity Centre located in the Village, the physically challenging dog sledding event will have guests direct their own sleds along a two hour ride over varied, forest terrain. Professional mushers will teach everyone important commands, beyond the well-known “mush!” so that they can skillfully handle turns, dips, and rises along the wooded passageways.

The frenetic barks emitted by the husky dogs combined with the lonely landscape makes for an extremely memorable experience and will have you singing Mon Pays (“My Country”) by Quebec poet and nationalist, Gilles Vigneault. “My country is not a country, it is winter/ In the white ceremony/Where the snow marries the wind…”

After a busy day in the Great White North, food will surely be on your mind.

One of the dishes most associated with Quebec is poutine, which is, simply put, a bed of hot French fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. Poutine is available at almost any casual establishment in the Village and will satisfy you after a full day of skiing. An essential Quebec breakfast consists of crepes and most are on the sweet side. Creperie

Catherine is one of the most frequented breakfast spots in the Village. Their house specialty is crepe with sucre a la crème. The crepe with maple butter is also a sure bet, since the maple syrup is guaranteed to be local and supremely fresh. In terms of dinner options, regional Quebec cuisine tops the list. Some of the best options include C’est la Vie, Restaurant La Savoie, Gibiers de la Diable, and Restaurant le Windigo at the Tremblant Resort. Expect hearty dishes with a focus on local products and produce like French cheeses, cured meats, and all things maple related. Tourtiere, a traditional Quebecois meat pie, is very popular. The filling varies, but usually includes minced pork, beef or wild game. Other foods associated with old Quebec include pea soup, baked beans, lamb, and maple syrup pie.

Before leaving Tremblant, be sure to try tire sur la neige, a sweet treat that is available at most sugar shacks. These well touristed maple sugar outfits are found in high concentration throughout the Laurentians. Tire sur la neige is a taffy formed by pouring piping hot maple sap directly onto fresh snow. The end-result is a chewy taffy that is fun and delicious to eat.

In the spirit of indulgence, why not stay at one of Tremblant’s well-known luxury hotels?

Elysium at Legendes, Hotel Quintessence, Le Westin Resort & Spa, Fairmont Tremblant, Escale du Nord, and Elysium at Panache are all centrally located and will provide a comfortable place to rest your head after a fun-filled day at Mont Tremblant.

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Travel Details: To get there, fly directly into Montreal-Trudeau International Airport from Newark International or JFK Airports. A 40-minute charter bus ride will take you from the Airport to the Resort. You can reserve a seat on the shuttle by emailing transfer@mtia.ca or calling 819.275.9099.

Tourisme Mont Tremblant, www.tourismemonttremblant.com Tremblant Ski Resort Official Site (including lodging and dining recommendations), www.tremblant.ca Casino de Mont Tremblant, www.casinoduquebec.com/mont-tremblant/en

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This property is located on Tower Hill overlooking Edgartown Harbor. The main residence, built in 1910, features an eat-in-kitchen, multiple fireplaces, and a large corner sunroom. There is a wrap-a-round porch with waterfront views. The carriage house is outfitted with a full bedroom, bathroom, fireplace, and artist studio.

Complementing the property is a swimming pool, pool house, and boathouse with a significant deep water pier. This home is perfect for boating enthusiasts and family gatherings. Taxes: $40,587. Listing Price: $17,000,000.

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French Normandy inspired residence within walking distance to downtown Princeton. The home features wood floors, a large center stairway, wood burning fireplace, custom built-ins, and manicured gardens. There is also an attached garage. Taxes: $26,920. Listing Price: $2,200,000.

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Stockton, NJ $1,650,000

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Exquisite fieldstone and clapboard house overlooking a stream with beautiful covered bridge. Living room and dining room with fireplaces. Carriage house, guest house, pool, tennis court and small barn. Used by fashion magazines for photo shoots.

Exquisite antique fieldstone farmhouse with elegant addition on 5.34 acres. Living room and main bedroom with cathedral ceilings and fireplaces. Dining room with fireplace. Lovely rolling lawns edged by a stream. 3-car garage. Carriage house. Restored barn.

Beautifully renovated 3 bedroom antique home with covered porch and river views. Spacious family room addition with wide plank floors, fireplace and a secret door to a 1,000 bottle wine cellar. Open kitchen with breakfast area. Patio and terraced gardens.

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Vibrant country kitchen. Main suite with fireplace, luxurious bath and library. Tiered terrace, pool, hot tub and tennis courts.

Charming circa 1725 stone colonial on 12 lush acres bordered by a spring fed pond. Authentically restored with period details.

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Circa 1855 Bucks County antique stone farmhouse. 3,000+ square feet of old world charm. Magnificent great room addition with fireplace and vaulted ceiling. New country kitchen.

Spring fed pond. Barn with 2-bay garage and workshop.

Titusville, NJ $995,000

New Hope, PA $729,000

New Hope, PA $1,275,000

Contemporary masterpiece designed by renowned architect Charles Renfro. Dramatic entrance with sweeping staircase. Vast great room with center fireplace and a stunning wall of windows. Expansive eat-in kitchen. Private 9 acre country setting.

Beautiful country house with seasonal river views. Lovely dining room and living room with fireplace. Sweet kitchen and breakfast area. Exquisite main suite with library with cathedral ceiling, fireplace and built-in media center. Oudoor terrace. 2-car barn.

Gorgeous Waterview Place townhome with 4 levels of refined luxury and Delaware River views. Gourmet chef’s kitchen with cozy breakfast area. Open dining room and formal living room with gas fireplace. Brazillian cherry flooring. 2-car garage.

Jamison, PA $2,995,000

Lambertville, NJ $999,000

Yardley, PA $940,000

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Gorgeous 118.89 acres. Circa 1794 stone house full of old world character. Charming guest cottage. Spring house. 3-car garage.

Mid-century modern masterpiece set on 10 acres with sweeping roofline designed by architect, Jules Gregory. A footbridge over a seasonal stream leads to a guest house/sanctuary. Voted one of the 10 Best Houses in America by Architectural Record.

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