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Show Stopper: Italian Columns
Show Stopper: These eighteenth-century Italian columns were six feet high and carved all over with climbing vines and bunches of grapes. The old surface with traces of gilding on the grapes and th...
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Show Stopper: Newfoundland Retriever
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Barbara Israel told me that she'd been searching for 20 years for a full, long-bodied Newfoundland retriever like this one that she had brought to the Winter Show. It had been made in cast iron by ...
A Handy Guide to Mantels
by Ann M. Fiore
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We all share memories and visions of a cold evening with a roaring fire in the perfect fireplace. Hot cocoa, a good book, and a comfortable chair are the easy parts of the picture, but it is the ma...