Hudson BOOM
Bulk of this last weekend spent with upstate uncles Bill and George, and their family of vizslas.
R and I rented an over-priced Grand Am (fruit of R's vigilant 2 hours in line at Budget. New Yorkers flee city, further evidence) and met Bill, George and the power gay mafia of the Hudson Valley at a historic home on the Hudson. It - a towering, high-Gothic victorian owned by the Sucky family (unfortunate) now in the hands of a master-restorers and a lot of well-dressed men with very good taste. (The fund-raising auction manned by a dapper curator from the Met.)
Painted in, presumably, era-authentic colors, the house is perched high over the Hudson. Not especially pretty, more Gothic-Hopper-esque - but fun inside with densely paneled oak rooms and Tiffany stained glass. Gloomy in a comforting way.
Sunday a fast whirl up the Hudson to give R a drive-by of my house on 9G (we had a truck bearing down on our little rental car's ass so no lingering) then on up to Hudson.
Which is, as rumored, BOOMING. I'll be substituting the tasteful mid-century modern store-fronts of Chelsea for their brethren store-fronts up state. Almost all shops along town's very long main drag of Warren Street so an efficiently linear browse. Also stopped by real estate flyers - three story + rental apartments + store fronts going for $200,000 up. Amazing. Prices drop by tens of thousands as you go north. Once you're outside the 2 hour circle north, they plummet.
Also stopped by Malabar Antiques where the remainders of the Circa Trade inventory reside. Had a good talk with proprietor Sam. They'll be closing shop and dispersing inventory early this fall so looks like I might re-inherit what's left of my inventory (a lot: planters chairs, Lao baskets and Jaipur pottery and naga blankets), as well as some portion of their inventory (including good Tibetan rug fragments) and try my hand, once more, at selling the stuff. This time, a very long way from Circa Trade in Pune but possibly with more growth potential.
Exciting things afoot upstate and can't wait to move.
R also excited I think. Like the 'cut of Hudson's jib', impressed that so much was so good so far from what we know, ate lunch in cute Red Dot cafe.
Now to buy a Subaru....
C
R and I rented an over-priced Grand Am (fruit of R's vigilant 2 hours in line at Budget. New Yorkers flee city, further evidence) and met Bill, George and the power gay mafia of the Hudson Valley at a historic home on the Hudson. It - a towering, high-Gothic victorian owned by the Sucky family (unfortunate) now in the hands of a master-restorers and a lot of well-dressed men with very good taste. (The fund-raising auction manned by a dapper curator from the Met.)
Painted in, presumably, era-authentic colors, the house is perched high over the Hudson. Not especially pretty, more Gothic-Hopper-esque - but fun inside with densely paneled oak rooms and Tiffany stained glass. Gloomy in a comforting way.
Sunday a fast whirl up the Hudson to give R a drive-by of my house on 9G (we had a truck bearing down on our little rental car's ass so no lingering) then on up to Hudson.
Which is, as rumored, BOOMING. I'll be substituting the tasteful mid-century modern store-fronts of Chelsea for their brethren store-fronts up state. Almost all shops along town's very long main drag of Warren Street so an efficiently linear browse. Also stopped by real estate flyers - three story + rental apartments + store fronts going for $200,000 up. Amazing. Prices drop by tens of thousands as you go north. Once you're outside the 2 hour circle north, they plummet.
Also stopped by Malabar Antiques where the remainders of the Circa Trade inventory reside. Had a good talk with proprietor Sam. They'll be closing shop and dispersing inventory early this fall so looks like I might re-inherit what's left of my inventory (a lot: planters chairs, Lao baskets and Jaipur pottery and naga blankets), as well as some portion of their inventory (including good Tibetan rug fragments) and try my hand, once more, at selling the stuff. This time, a very long way from Circa Trade in Pune but possibly with more growth potential.
Exciting things afoot upstate and can't wait to move.
R also excited I think. Like the 'cut of Hudson's jib', impressed that so much was so good so far from what we know, ate lunch in cute Red Dot cafe.
Now to buy a Subaru....
C
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