THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

Tales & Opinions From Maine Regarding Architecture, Art, Books, Design, Landscape, & Occasional Whims

7.3.11

THREE MORE DEGREES OF INTERIOR DECORATION.

Okay, I admit it. One needs a GPS to navigate the beginning of this story, but we'll get there. It all began in New York Social Diary w...

4.3.11

TODAY'S QUIZ

How are this unknown lost mid-century building: and Robert Motherwell, and Blueberry Pie, and Quincy Marketpla...

27.2.11

DECORATORS ADVERTISE

These advertisements for interior decorators date from the 1910's, nascent years of the profession as we know it today. Some of the na...

23.2.11

MONEY USED TO GO FURTHER, # 3: Bar Harbor Property Taxes 1903

In the course of researching a story about the Vanderbilts in Gilded Age Bar Harbor for today's New York Social Diary , I came upon thi...

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The Down East Dilettante: is an antiques dealer and part time writer in Down East Maine, a bit ADD, whose amateur enthusiasms dance around architecture, design, landscape, style, history, arts, and more. Occasionally amusing, more often amused. To email the Dilettante, click on the email link in my extended profile

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