November/December 2019

Victoria

Decorating, Traveling, Entertaining

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Editors Letter
It seems that just yesterday we were drawing near to the hearth, watching snowflakes fall outside the window and dreaming of what this year would bring. How quickly the seasons have come and gone, offering a kaleidoscope of delights as winter’s cryst
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Times of Togetherness
Each year before the leaves have fallen from the trees, we invite loved ones to an annual outing in our woods, arriving with baskets and clear glass containers to find partridge berries for making friendship terrariums. Small sprigs of the trailing e
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Ritual and Renewal
The year rushes to a close almost before blessings can be counted, lesser moments placed in perspective, and resolutions drawn up. I remind myself once again that there is time, plenty of it, for favored rituals, if you simply decide there is time. H
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Crescent City Sanctuaries
Though often associated with the magical hullabaloo of Mardi Gras, New Orleans is equally engaging at Yuletide, when beribboned wreaths and lavish garlands adorn front doors and candles blaze in houses of worship during sacred services held in honor
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A Grand Holiday
Upon glimpsing the façade of this impressive manor built for Charles Howard, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, it is astonishing to think it was designed by a man with nary a bit of design experience. Eschewing notable names in favor of one of his political
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A Time to Remember
The classic Queen Anne Victorian façade of Carol Haigler’s residence gives way to interiors that are essentially French country. A rich gold palette runs throughout the rooms, where the antiques she and her husband, Larry, have so lovingly curated th
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A Cozy Christmas
The Tagues’ two-story, redbrick Colonial Revival house is set in the Crown Heights Historic Preservation District on land that was originally the sweeping fairways of a local country club. Typical of many homes built in the 1930s, the rooms have high
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A Renaissance Noel
With noted golf artist Loyal Chapman as her father and a mother who introduced her to the joys of antiquing, Jennifer was destined to be an aesthete. Her family had an in-home studio where they all worked in their commercial-art business, and the pre
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Upon the Bough
Two days before the Christmas of 1848, The Illustrated London News featured an engraving of Queen Victoria, husband Prince Albert, and five of their children standing around a tabletop tree bedecked in sweets, candles, and decorations from the prince
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Recipe Index
Begins on page 37 Makes 14 2¼ cups all-purpose flour¼ cup granulated sugar1 teaspoon orange zest1 tablespoon baking powder½ teaspoon ground ginger¼ teaspoon kosher salt5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cubed½ cup candied orange slices, finely c
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Where to Shop & Buy
Pages 15–16: Carol Rizzoli, an essayist, memoirist, and journalist, is the author of several books. To sample more of Carol’s work, visit her website at carolrizzoli.org. Pages 17–18: To explore artisan Stephanie Monahan’s range of papers, craft supp
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Memories of Connecticut
Having lived in Georgia for twenty-two years, I’m an expat Yankee. I like the South, but from whence I came is in my bones. I had the outrageous good fortune of spending my formative Christmases in a Dutch Colonial house at the bottom of a long, wind
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The Houses That Made The Man
A home undoubtedly reflects the person who resides within it. It is shaped by his hands and influenced by his tastes just as a block of clay is transformed by a potter. But does the shelter shape its owner in return? In his autobiographical explorati

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