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I’m working on a piece on the Crescent Hotel, so you may get some tidbits. Today, Mrs. Hunt told me that it took longer to remodel her neighbor’s home than it did to build the Crescent. She also wants it known it was her immediate family, that is, her sons Stephen, David, Bunker and Patrick…
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In case you have not noticed it, interior design seems to be awfully sleepy these days. Robb & Stucky is in Chapter 11. The “biggest recession since the Great Depression” killed off at least a dozen shelter magazines, the survivors suffering along on rations of 30 percent fewer advertising pages these last three years, according…
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The New York Times ran this wonderful interview with former First Lady Laura Bush on April 1, I hope the link to the slide show works — never know with the pay walls these days. In the interview, she says she didn’t know she was stressed until they moved back home, Barney and Miss Beazely…
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The rich are getting richer. The number of Americans with assets of one million or more expanded by 8 percent, this according to Chicago-based luxury trend researcher Spectrem. There are about 8.4 million American households toting this kind of wealth. Now those figures are still lower than the peak of the boom years, back in…
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Barrons is bragging how they called it: the second home market has bottomed, and the rich are out swooping up the bargains. Prices of high-end second homes have sunk, some as low as 40%. And Barrons lists the top second home markets in the US. Sea Island, Georgia was rated number one. Next comes Maui,…
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Eight of the top twenty cities on this “life sucks here” list are in California, which makes me sad because I LOVE Cali. But not sure I’d ever buy a home there, even in Pebble Beach, unless I had oodles of high net worth. (And I LOVE San Diego.) So check out this list. Miami…
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