The Shop at Old Austerlitz

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It has been a while since I've posted, and it has been a very busy summer so far. One of the projects I have been working on is The Shop at Old Austerlitz for the Austerlitz Historical Society . The Society operates a beautiful property in Columbia County, New York and this is the first actual shop they have opened on the property. So I thought I'd give you a tour, and an example of what can be done with very little money, some good volunteers, and a bit of creativity.
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Design Advice for 2018

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Let's start the New Year off  with some good advice:
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
- Cecil Beaton, photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer, stage and costume designer



"Some people need sequins, others don't."
- Edith Head, costume designer

"Tradition always has to be updated and pushed forward. After all, you wouldn't send a debutante to her 80th birthday party wearing the original dress."
- Thomas Jayne, interior designer
"If you love something, it will work. That's the only real rule."
- Bunny Williams, interior designer

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon, and my ambition has been growing ever since."
- Salvador Dali, artist


"Functionality is so over-valued in design, and we've kept design very small in that way. Functionality is the sheer minimum. If your house burns down, what do you take? The cat in the window that you got from your mother, or the chair you have?"
- Marcel Wanders, designer
"The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults."
- Paloma Picasso, jewelry and fashion accessories designer

"Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating."
- Albert Hadley, interior designer




"If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless."
- Nancy Lancaster, tastemaker


"Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."
- Elsie de Wolfe, actress, interior decorator, aka Lady Mendl




"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
- Charles Eames, designer

"My motto in life is 'Take risks'; you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries, that's what life's all about."
- Kelly Wearstler, interior and product designer

Happy New Year and may this be your best year ever. Jeffrey

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