open house: a gentleman’s farm in tennessee
This is another entry in a series of posts titled “open house” in which we offer photographic tours of selected projects. There seems to be an innate relationship between man and earth. Observe any...
View Articlecottage industry
I was recently invited to speak to the IGrace Company, a high end construction firm with offices in Manhattan, Connecticut and Los Angeles. I’d love to share a portion of what I presented. When...
View Articlefour by four
Next week, the planets must surely be in alignment. Why am I convinced of this? It’s due to the fact that the four namesake partners of McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth &...
View Articlewe’re bringing sexy back
Three of my partners and I spoke at a panel at the Holly Hunt showroom in New York this week. When the question was posed “What do you try to include in every one of your rooms?,” Susan Ferrier and...
View Articledramatic pause
A number of years ago, I was presenting what I thought was a cool idea for a particular interiors device. My client said she didn’t quite understand why we should consider doing this. I...
View Articlehouse haunters
On this blog, I’ve chronicled before how we find great inspiration from the talented scenic designers practicing in the cinematic arts. I think some of the most provocative architectural and interior...
View Articlethe printed works: veranda june/july 2015
The following article, A Gulf front home in the elegant Florida development Alys Beach, appeared in the June/July issue of Veranda magazine. We are reprinting it with their kind permission. The article...
View Articlean architect’s playground
Last week, my NYC office staff and I were in New Canaan, Connecticut checking on a project we have under construction. After completing our work, we decided to enjoy the unseasonably temperate weather...
View Articleone in a hundred
We are pleased to announce McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth and Ferrier Interiors have been selected for Architectural Digest’s prestigious AD100 list. According to the magazine –...
View Articlegathering evidence
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. Alice Waters In the midst of this, the holiday season, my...
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