United by Design, a new book, features Katie Hutchison Studio

Yesterday, I was pleased to find United by Design: Homes of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket from Schiffer books on my doorstep. It features coffee-table worthy work representing a wide range of design by twelve teams of architects and designers.

The West Tisbury House, which Geoffrey Koper Architect and I designed, has a nice six-page spread, and the Edgartown Dormer Renovation I designed got some welcome coverage, too.

I understand that United by Design will soon be on shelves in a bookstore near you. Perhaps your coffee table is calling out for it.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Photo Salem group show

Sponsored by Salem Arts Association (SAA) & Shetland Park: March 16 - June 30, 2012

Hope you can join me at the Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 4-6 pm at the Building One Atrium and Small Business Center (27 Congress St., Salem, MA).

Each featured SAA photographer (including myself) will be exhibiting up to six photos representative of the artist's body of work.

Visiting hours: 9 a.m.–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday

Come take a look, if you can.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Season's greetings 2011

This House Enthusiast wishes you fellow house enthusiasts a delightful holiday season and brilliant 2012.

Cheers from Edgartown!

Read a bit about the Edgartown Light in this archived "Design snapshot", and find less bleary photos of it (than this one I took in yesterday's drizzle) on KHS note cards here.

Edgartown Light is a frequent and favorite subject.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Exhibit: Unbound: Highlights from the Phillips Library at the PEM

The Phillips Library, where the collection currently on exhibit at the PEM usually residesOf the 30+ objects on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in this exhibit, one display, in particular, piqued my curiosity. It contains a Japanese teahouse pop-up c.1820 from a collection of 90 such pop-ups. 

Each scaled-model teahouse is hand-drawn, hand-cut, and affixed to a base layer of paper into which it folds for storage. Neat packets of other folded teahouses rest nearby in the original wooden box made to house them. The pop-ups represent historic Japanese teahouses spanning from the 13th-19th centuries.

Unfortunately, only one of the pop-ups is currently unfolded and fully presented in the exhibit. It would have been great to have seen several of them unfolded together, forming a miniature Japanese teahouse village, of sorts. Since the exhibit continues for another year (through November 26, 2012), it's likely that the display will rotate through a few of the pop-ups at an interval the curators deem reasonable. Wish I knew the interval, so I wouldn't miss anything. Visit the PEM soon to see the first in the teahouse rotation.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast