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GARDEN VOYEUR: Artist’s Way in Springs
THIS GARDEN BELONGS TO ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS here in Springs. Like so many people around here, Margaret Kerr is an artist. Her medium is brick. The garden surrounding her cedar-shingled 1970s house was inspired, she told me, by a … Continue reading
GARDEN VOYEUR: Meadow with a View
FIVE STORIES above Pacific Street, there’s a colorful meadow designed by Cynthia Gillis for the rooftop of the Boerum Hill townhouse she shares with her husband, architect John Gillis. “A roof deck is a kind of meadow,” she says, “because … Continue reading
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