Stories

A Garden Aspiring to be Art

By Robert Haywood  |  Photography courtesy of The Getty Center   When I was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Center in 2004–5, I looked out every day at the spectacular garden designed by artist Robert Irwin and even had

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Robert’s Picks: November/December 2016

  1.  Get your family involved in creating your own wreath and holiday decorations. You can start by enrolling in a wreath workshop at Historic London Town and Gardens on December 3, 2016. For details, visit historiclondontown.org. 2.  You can also sign

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La Cuchara | Chic Basque Dining

By Christine Fillat  |  Photography by Janet Kahoe and John Mount   The quest for great food takes us to unexpected places, down less traveled roads, across bridges, over quick rivers. Nestled between the Light Rail and the Jones Falls

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Robert’s Picks: September/October 2016

  1.  The reward of living in the Annapolis area is that we have so many extraordinary cultural opportunities available to us. At the National Gallery of Art, you have a chance to see the work of Barbara Kruger, a

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Shore Dining at The Narrows

By Christine Fillat  |  Photography Courtesy of The Narrows Restaurant   If you want to give your houseguests a taste of the Eastern Shore consider The Narrows in Grasonville. This waterfront restaurant is pretty and open with a relaxing vibe.

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Love Travels to a Nantucket-Style Home on the Severn

By Carol Sorgen  |  Photography by David Burroughs When a couple from Ohio realized that their two grown sons, who now have families of their own, were making their permanent homes in Maryland, they followed, too. Certainly, they could fly

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Rare St. Helena Island Historic Home

By Kymberly Taylor  |  Photography courtesy of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage (Select photography courtesy of Geoffrey Hodgdon) One of the region’s rarest estates is on the market: a Palladian-style Federal-period mansion situated on St. Helena Island overlooking Little Round Bay

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Architectural Treasure on Holly Beach Farm

By Kymberly Taylor  |  Photography courtesy of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Historic Annapolis is full of significant architecture. However, there are many once-famous properties privately owned and virtually forgotten. One of these is Holly Beach Farm, a “Chesapeake treasure” and

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Guest Barn on the Bay

By Tom Levine  |  Photography by Pete Albert If there is an iconic rural American building, it is surely the barn. Barns speak to us on an emotional level. They evoke a feeling for our agrarian past with a simplicity

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The Art of Home Staging

By Deborah Goode, CID   You ask, “What’s the difference between interior design and home staging?” Although these two professions seem to have similarities, they are, in reality, worlds apart. An interior designer’s role is to create a home that

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