Fairfield County’s booming residential real estate market is showing few signs of slowing – and may end up being one for the record books. “It’s still hot,” Ryan Raveis, co-president of William Raveis Real Estate and president of William Raveis Mortgage, marvels to WAG. “It’s the first time Fairfield County has been like this for a long time.”
Says Rella Fogliano, founder and CEO of Pelham-based MacQuesten Development LLC and MacQuesten Construction Management LLC: “I’m involved in every detail. I can’t help myself. Sure, I delegate. But I make sure everything goes through me.”
The US Open returns this month with a less restricted format for fans and players alike. But that doesn’t mean it is without its challenges.
Jan Johnsen’s passion for flowers has led to a successful career in landscape design and a new book, “Floratopia.”
Whether you use flowers from your garden, a florist, a farmstand or a supermarket, Wares columnist Cami Weinstein writes, bring them inside and enjoy them in your home.
Poker-loving artist Fay Ku bridges East and West in works that also reclaim art history and the female body from the male gaze.
Need a last-minute hostess gift or just a bit of retail therapy? Pink in Rye is your answer.
Swordfish bones, bloodeye tuna: David Standridge is taking Mystic beyond traditional New England fare.
Bordered by conservation land and handsome stone walls, this pristinely maintained Colonial on Old Mill Road provides much coveted privacy and peaceful green space, albeit a short ride from the Merritt Parkway, Westchester County Airport or New York City.
Pietro Simone’s Essential and Prestige Collections address skin maintenance and anti-aging respectively.
Skincare specialist Vicki Morav takes a philosophical approach to her work and life in the time of the coronavirus.
The complex, controversial Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) – who lived through some of the most troubled moments in Italian and world history – speaks to our own time, in his criticism of both the right and the left and his warnings about the evils of consumerism, the pitfalls of globalism and the manipulation of new media, which in his day was television.
Musician and academic Christopher Brellochs shares the adventures of his “Music of the Gilded Age in the Hudson Valley” sabbatical, when he explored the area’s rich history through the music that might have been played during the period’s glory days.
Two new books take readers into the garden, accompanied by two experts, Australian celebrity florist Fleur McHarg and Hamptons-based landscape designer Frederico Azevedo.
Edmund F. Ward may not have been as famous as his Art Students League of New York classmate Norman Rockwell, but his works depicting White Plains history captured an aspect of the city that is the seat of Westchester County government.
The Brooklyn-based, model-making studio crafts miniatures for personal and commercial projects – including dystopic visions of New York City.
The accessories of OmLuxe, a Miami Beach company, were recently displayed at The Katie Fong Boutique in Greenwich, boasting bold designs that are hand-stitched by a women’s sewing collective in India.
We hear from Linda Ruderman, the veteran Greenwich interior designer, on how to integrate the technology you need while maintaining the sense of your home as sanctuary.
You only see the skyscrapers – and life – from a distance.
When WAG first visited with Samantha Levine back in 2013, the founder and creative director of Auburn Jewelry had put her law career on…