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Sculptor Robert Cole Photo Gallery
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New Fashioned Plants For 2007
My wish list for the future growing season begins every September with the Fashion in Bloom show. This 3-day event, hosted by the Garden Centers of America, is the horticultural equivalent to New York’s Fashion Week.
Over 30 wholesale horticultural companies at six local destinations trot their new plant collections and cultivars out onto the runway [...]
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An Addition For The Family
Nearly two decades of experience have given George Myers, founder and president of GTM Architects in Bethesda, Maryland, the know-how to master home composition for his clients. But when it came to designing his own home, Myers found his decisions to be a bit ambiguous.
“In my business I have the constraints of both the [...]
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Sculptor Robert Cole
Making signs for the Army, building guitars, working at a lamp factory, Dialing-for-Dollars, and appearing variously on several other TV talk shows are only footnotes to the life of Robert Cole whose sculptures depict the human form as seen through the lens of a classic formulist with a sense of humor and of the kinetic.
Robert [...]
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Go Ahead And Stair!
By their very nature, stairs are unlike any other space in your home. Integral physical conduits, they’re not the first or second floor—they’re neither.
Duchamp treated the stair in his Nude Descending a Staircase as a multi-faceted diagonal structure, a “portrait of motion.” Some architects agree that stairs, indeed, are all about motion, designed to pull [...]
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Wired For Fun
The latest digital home entertainment systems can’t beam you up to Mars just yet. However, new technologies are now being leveraged for the home so that you can navigate cyberspace on your flat screen and summon TV, DVD’s, CD’s, digital photos, and video games galore. From your own “command-control” couch, you can create, control, and [...]
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Source For Organic Seeds
Questions frequently asked of me at the Lewes Historical Farmers Market last summer regarded organic seed and potting soil sources. Potting soil opens up a whole other composting bag of worms, so we’ll get to that in a future article.For now, it’s not too early to start thinking about where to get our seeds for [...]
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New Life for an Old Home
When a couple with four young children purchased a circa 1936 home in the Orchards neighborhood of Baltimore, they knew right away it had everything they wanted: a large foyer with a picture window looking into the backyard, a u-shape surrounding a patio with access to the exterior spaces from many rooms, and a beautiful [...]
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The Best Renovations Of The Year
By Kristina Arthur and Kimberly Taylor
Whether you want the winds of change to gust or to blow gently through your home, remodeling can be a great opportunity. The right professional team can help you to realize a cherished vision, to discover your home’s hidden personality, or, better yet, to infuse it’s beloved but drab visage [...] -
2006 Architectural Design Awards
Each year the American Institute of Architects Chesapeake Bay Chapter recognizes the best architectural designs produced by its members with Honor, Merit, and Citation awards. This year the AIA Connecticut Chapter juried the awards—distinguished architects E. Russell Learned, AIA and Margaret Chamber, AIA teamed with jury chairman Robert Orr, AIA to chose a cross-section of [...]
