If you’re anywhere near Stamford, Connecticut, today please join me and a whole cast of design-lovers at Wakefield Design Center for an afternoon of design insights and presentations by Oly Studio, Vanguard, Farrow & Ball, and Osborne & Little. At 4:30 Cindy Rinfret will be talking about design and signing copies of her new book Greenwich Style-Inspired Family Homes (I have the cover photo and styled much of the book).

Come for snacks, come for wine, or bring your portfolio for me to see!

For more on this and some examples, please see the post on Artistic Expression I did for New England Home last week.

Photo by Joe Keller

I had my first visit to the offices of Martha Stewart Omnimedia in NYC for Ronda Carman’s book signing of her first (of what I’m sure will be many) book Designers at Home.

Here Ronda visits with Bunny Williams who was having her copy signed.

For more photos of the evening there’s an album on my StacyStyle Facebook page.

Some things are timeless. This photo I took at a track meet in Westport, Connecticut, looks so 1970s or even late 1920s to me. Love the retro uniforms.

Our second book signing was at Rinfret Home in Greenwich to celebrate interior designer Cindy Rinfret’s second book, Greenwich Style—Inspired Family Homes. I styled most of the photos in the book and Michael Partenio photographed it. Here’s Cindy signing, followed by Michel in front of his cover.

Friday brought a talk by interior designer and Million Dollar Decorators television star Mary McDonald at the Near and Far Aid breakfast. She was an inspiration and a riot. I’ve never laughed so hard during a talk about beautiful interiors.

Saturday I did a little tour of a few of my favorite Litchfield County design stores. I got my fashion fix at B. Johnstone in Kent, picked up some jewelry at the Satya trunk show at J. Seitz in New Preston, and got to see the new Privet House store in New Preston (a full post on that later).

Menswear at B. Johnstone

In the homes section of J. Seitz

Here’s the entry way.

And the mudroom. I loved having the round tires of the bike in here to offset all the straight lines

The living room.

The living and dining are open to one another.

There’s a kitchenette on the same level.

On the upper floors are the master bedroom and bath. I loved adding the flokati to the bathroom to add softness and a sense of warmth.

Even though this appeared in the magazine almost four years ago it still has a freshness that holds your interest.

With the exception of a few pages, Michael and I worked on the entire book and have the cover image. Here are a few of the photos you’ll see inside. I really have to say it’s all Cindy though. She creates such elegant, layered and gorgeous homes.

Her interiors are often on an entirely different scale than most have the opportunity to work.

On May 8 at 4:30 at Wakefield Design in Stamford Cindy will be talking about the new book, showing some images of her work and talking about design. Please join Cindy, me, and Michael as we raise a glass to toast Greenwich style. Comment here or tweet me at @stacystyle if you can make it!

I did some scouting with Connecticut-based interior designer Susan Glick. In her master bedroom was this fantastic mirrored chest, which started out as a painted floral bureau she bought a dozen years ago when her style was in a different phase. She had it repainted and added the mirrors—#instaupdate!

Those of you who follow me on Instagram know I love dogs and never pass up the chance to share one. Meet Dolly, the gorgeous standard poodle of interior designer Catherine Cleare.

One night I helped Michael recreate an advertising image from the 1970s for a middle school film class. It was interesting to see how he set it up. Because we don’t own a gun Michael cut one out of cardboard. Because we don’t smoke, we chopped up a white pencil and wrapped the tip with brown paper. Turned out pretty smokin’.

Now to the big stuff. I was asked to help Merida Meridian, an amazing New England-based rug company that makes all of their rugs in Massachusetts, to help with an event honoring interior designer Amanda Nisbet. The beautiful event was held at The Taj, an historic hotel on Newbury Street in Boston.

Here is Amanda at their factory.

Here is a custom tufted rug being made.

That night there was a fantastic party and Amanda signed copies of her book Dazzling Design. (Yes, that’s a Dunes and Duchess Moderne candelabra next to her!)

The Spring issue just came out and I’m so proud to say that I not only styled the cover, but I styled each of the four features and wrote one of them (writing is one of my other full-time passions).

The magazine debuted a redesign earlier in the year and I have to say I love the new layouts possible. Here’s one of the spreads with a couple of highlights from the shoot.

Design by Roch & Chase. Photo by Tria Giovan.

Design by Roch & Chase. Photo by Tria Giovan.

I love this master bedroom. Designer John Roch and Gary Chase upholstered the entire headboard wall.

Design by Roch & Chase. Photo by Tria Giovan.

Here’s another spread and a great guest room detail.

Interiors by Sage Design. Photo by Michael Partenio.

Interiors by Sage Design. Photo by Michael Partenio.

Two other features round out an issue that also includes stories on beautiful gardens and picks by Connecticut interior designers.

Here’s the apartment of Tiffany Eastman.

Design by Tiffany Eastman. Photo by John Bessler.

This is a photo of the kitchen that didn’t make it into the magazine.

Design by Tiffany Eastman. Photo by John Bessler.

The shoot at this house designed by Joyce Clear happened on the day of the major snowstorm back in February. It took us hours to get home from Westport that day as we creeped through the snow in four-wheel drive. It’s amazing you can’t tell!

Design by Joyce Clear. Photo by Michael Partenio.

Last week on the New England Home blog I collected some of my favorites and let out a few secrets too. For the full post click here.

Design by Claire Maestroni. Photo by Bjorn Wallander. Styled by StacyStyle.