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Peaceable Kingdom

With the help of Designer Selina Van Der Geest, a creative Manhattan couple gets a country house that provides calm and inspiration. Some people might argue that for urban dwellers, a country house is more a necessity than a luxury. But just leaving a city’s clamor far behind isn’t always enough. The bucolic destination at […]

A Barn to Call Home

In New York’s Hudson Valley Somewhere there’s a napkin with Eduard Van der Geest’s house plan on it. And if you were to find it, you might be surprised how little those rough ideas sketched at the caf é Flore in Paris vary from the finished home he and wife Selina built outside Millbrook, New […]

Elle Decor, July 2008

“Frédéric Fekkai and Shirin von Wulffen relish their downtime at a country house where big city chic embraces rural comforts.” “Once Frédéric Fekkai discovered the tiny New York Village of Millbrook 12 years ago, there was no way the celebrity hairstylist and creator of a line of eponymous hair products would establish his home anywhere […]

Natural Order

Designer Edwina Hunt’s earthy hideaway brings argentine attitude to the Hudson Valley Text by Ingrid Abramovitch, photography by Simon Upton, produced by Anita Sarsidi A house and its owner are sometimes destined for each other. That was certainly the case for Edwina Hunt, who swore she never wanted a country home. “I’m a nomad,” the […]

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