From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Dining Room
DINING ROOM | Frederick Duckloe English Windsor-style chairs surround a restored American-style dining room table that can be expanded to seat 18 people. Linen drapes hang from forged-iron rods and […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Kitchen 2
Designed to emulate an English country house kitchen, the central focus is a 7-foot-long copper pot rack that hangs over the center island. Glazed ceramic tiles in varying pastel tones […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony
Famed sculptor Seward Johnson and his wife, Cecelia, fashion a rustic retreat in Hopewell Township, New Jersey “When we saw the property and the old house for the first time, […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Kitchen – Guesthouse
DINING ROOM | A reclaimed and repainted corner cupboard, a braided rug and a pierced-tin suspended light define a cozy corner for relaxed dining in this guest house.
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Porch
Retractable Isinglass remote-controlled shades surround the Johnsons’ favorite gathering place: the wrap-around porch of the main house. Infrared heating, lighting and fans embedded in the ceiling provide climate comfort while […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Living Room
LIVING ROOM | An Orkney Island cane chair joins a round table always laden with stacks of books to be read and discussed with family and friends. Skip trowel plaster, […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Kitchen 1
Designed to emulate an English country house kitchen, the central focus is a 7-foot-long copper pot rack that hangs over the center island. Glazed ceramic tiles in varying pastel tones […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Exterior
EXTERIOR | Shed dormers suggest the house is Neocolonial, the wrap porch speaks of Transitional Colonial Plantation and the intentionally unbalanced roof gives it a New England Saltbox pitch. The […]
From the October/November 2018 Issue
A Place of Harmony – Barn
BARN EXTERIOR | Built in the past 20 years using materials and methods of barns built 200 years before, the three-story, 64-by-47-foot spa barn overlooks pasture where herds of prized […]