March 11th, 2008
If you’ve noticed that this issue looks a little different, it is. Please
join me in welcoming our new Creative Director, Richard Zoehrer,
to the team. Richard brings a fresh eye, years of amazing experience and a sophisticated design sensitivity to the pages of the magazine as we take it to the next level and beyond. We are delighted to have him on board.
This month in Fairfield County Home we celebrate three different local homes each with their own distinctive approach to design.
Award-winning builder, E. M. Rose Building Company specializes in the art of fine home building for some of the best architects in the world. Known for creating custom multi-million dollar masterpieces, E.M. Rose Building Company and Moisan Architects of Woodbury CT show what can be achieved with a meticulous attention to detail, exceptional taste, uncompromising standards and superlative products. The result can be described as truly magnificent.
New York City-based designer Robin Baron brings elegance, sophistication and a sense of calm to a Greenwich couple’s home. With a restful color palette, luxurious fabrics plus clever design touches, the upper level of the house reflects the owners’ tasteful formality. But for a complete change of pace, see the English pub, complete with authentic bar, that Robin created for them in the basement—a reflection perhaps of their more lively social side.
Formal meets friendly, too, in the ASID 2007 Design Awards of Excellence winning dining room/family room by Hollie Sutherland, owner of Hollis Interiors. More and more, she sees a trend in home design away from austere formal spaces; her mantras these days are “livability” and comfort. The owners of this house liked traditional design but wanted it re-styled with a contemporary twist and kid friendly feel, so she brought in warm wood tones, combined different textures and fabrics and turned it into a beautiful but highly livable, “approachable” home.
And finally, on another celebratory note, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate local interior designer, Lynne Scalo, recipient of the Best of Year Award from Interior Design Magazine, announced at their annual ceremony last November in New York City. This highly prestigious award is given for design excellence for projects around the world, and in winning it, Lynne joins a very impressive group of past recipients including Victoria Hagan, Gensler, Clive Wilkinson and Tsao and McKown Architects. On behalf of the entire team here at Fairfield County Home, Lynne, we are proud to have worked with you over the past few years—and proud that a Fairfield County based designer has shown the rest of the world what great design looks like!
Susannah Pask
Publisher
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November 26th, 2007
Come away with us for the holidays! We’ll take you to two stunning apartments overlooking the famed opera house in Sydney, Australia, whisk you back to the shores of South Carolina and then on to Taos, New Mexico. The fabulous homes you see in this issue showcase the wide-reaching talents of three well-known Fairfield County architects.
Our New Year is definitely starting out in a big way. As you might imagine, building a magazine is much like raising a baby. It must be nurtured, its potential developed. Our two co-founders Matt Kolk and Shelly McCormick have put countless hours into making this magazine the beautiful, well-respected publication it is today. And thanks to these dedicated parents, this baby is growing in leaps and bounds. We’re happy to announce that starting with our January/February issue the size of the magazine will expand to give all of our advertisers and contributors an even more dramatic showcase. (The new trim size will be 8.375″ x 10.875″. Please contact your advertising sales representative—or me personally—if you would like our new media kit.)
For those of you who made it to our Shop Greenwich event on October 18th, we hope you enjoyed your afternoon of special in-store promotions and shopping. Stay tuned for more events next year. We want you to “shop ’til you drop” in 2008!
On the staffing front, we are delighted to welcome Jill Mulligan Porter to the Fairfield County Home sales team. She is no stranger to this marketplace, having worked both at Moffly Publications and at Wilton Magazine as Associate Publisher. A local resident, Jill previously held New York-based sales positions at Hearst (Country Living and Popular Mechanics), New York Times/Golf Digest/Tennis, Time Warner/Fortune Small Business and Disney Publishing. She began her career as Media Supervisor at Grey Advertising.
Happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous New Year to you all!
Susannah Pask
Publisher, Fairfield County Home
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October 10th, 2007
This issue marks the beginning of our fourth year and we’re celebrating with a mega announcement. Fairfield County Home has grown up. Next year we’re getting married. In fall of 2008 we launch Fairfield County Bride, a twice-a-year look at the ultimate in weddings right here in our own home marketplace.
According to industry sources there are about 2.3 million weddings every year in the U.S. and approximately 16,500 of those will take place in Connecticut. Weddings are a $72 billion marketplace in this country. It’s big, big business-make no mistake. With the average wedding topping $20,000 (and in Fairfield County a $100,000 wedding is not out of the norm), there is enormous opportunity for photographers, videographers, jewelers, gown manufacturers and retailers, bridal registries, florists, reception sites, caterers, and yes, those of you in the home design business. Nowadays, couples are registering for all kinds of things that they really want, like furniture, linens, accessories, kitchen appliances, lighting, interior design help and even a down payment on a mortgage. With the average age of a couple nearing 30, chances are they’re moving into a new home or looking for one in the near future, if not living together already. This means an increased interest in, and emphasis on, home-related products. Also, the traditional honeymoon has gone through some changes. Destination weddings are increasingly popular and that means healthy sales at the cash register for travel, resort wear, beauty and a host of other related items.
Fairfield County Bride will be different in subject but will complement Fairfield County Home’s unique sense of style and elegance. We’ll show you the very best ideas and resources in Fairfield County and help plan every step of the way. We’ll inspire, amaze and delight the most demanding of brides in the most affluent of neighborhoods.
The timing could not be better on many levels. Our two co-founders, Matt and Shelley, are tying the knot themselves next year, so they will be our perfect test market. We aim to produce a magazine that is both beautiful and useful with luxury at its core. So expect the unexpected and prepare to be dazzled. You’ll see nothing else like it.
Join us as we take the plunge.
Susannah Pask
Publisher
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September 11th, 2007
As we celebrate our third anniversary, Fairfield County Home has a number of exciting events and promotions planned for the fall designed to help drive sales at retail for our advertisers. The biggest of these will be “Shop Greenwich” -an open house at the home-related stores on Greenwich Avenue and beyond. We’ll have food, seminars, music, live radio and much more. Stay tuned as we develop more details. We’re also working with the D&D Building in New York to showcase the many exquisite designer resources they house under one roof. We’re proud to announce yet another milestone. Since our inception, Fairfield County Home has shown you the best luxury homes, design and architectural ideas right here in Fairfield County, but our magazine has not been available elsewhere in the country.That all changes with this issue. Because of our unprecedented newsstand sell-through in Fairfield County (twice the national average!) and an ever-increasing demand for the magazine beyond our local borders, Ingram Periodicals, a major distribution company, approached us to expand the magazine’s distribution beyond Connecticut. This means that Fairfield County Home will now be available on newsstands in nine additional states. We’ll be in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland and Delaware. You’ll be able to pick up a copy in Manhattan, Boston, Baltimore and places in-between. This also means that our advertisers’ products will be exposed to an ever-widening market of affluent customers with a taste for the very best. Our editorial theme in this issue is high style-on the runways and in your living room-and how the two are converging. I’d like to thank Mitchell’s of Westport for providing some of their fall designer lines for us to shoot-and to the many retailers whose beautiful products we used. We think you’ll find our fall fashion pages extraordinary-and of a quality only seen in national publications-thanks to our very talented photographer, Chris Kolk, and his amazing crew of stylists, make-up artists and assistants.
We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you.
Cheers!
Susannah Pask
Publisher
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