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Why You Should Make a Weekend Getaway of Connecticut’s Gold Coast

The Stepford Wives and Billions painted Connecticut’s Gold Coast as a sort of hedge-fund paradise, a place of insulated affluence, blue-blood suburbia and sailboats. Combine […]

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Life & Style

The Design Inspiration Behind a Revived 107-Year-Old Hotel Restaurant

When Lance Saunders — the design director for Rittenhouse’s Stokes Architecture & Design — was hired to remake the 107-year-old Hotel Du Pont restaurant into […]

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Life & Style

This Mid-Century Modern Custom-Built House Is the Perfect Lakefront Getaway

This project — a from-the-ground-up house completed in 2019 — was in the works for more than a year before designer Nicole S. O’Dwyer was […]

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Life & Style

Frances Hoover of Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse on All Her Favorite Philly Places and Things

Frances Hoover — now executive director of Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse — has worked for corporations and schools and is as much an artist […]

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Life & Style

5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Sporadic Mid-Pandemic Salon Visits

Philly’s top stylists are working double-time to help you manage your pandemic hair. Here, five ways to make the most of those sporadic salon visits. […]

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Property

We’ve Entered a Historic Seller’s Market. Now Agents Just Need Houses to Sell.

Every spring, the real estate industry gears up for its biggest season of the year. But when Governor Wolf ordered a shutdown in March, all […]

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Life & Style

I Never Knew How Much I’d Miss Shopping in Person

The small front hall of my Queen Village home has morphed into a full-on packing, shipping and receiving facility. (Jeff Bezos would be impressed.) On […]

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Life & Style

Instead of Moving, This Family Turned Their Chestnut Hill House into a Stylish Dream Home

The story of this 2019 Chestnut Hill reno is sort of like an episode of HGTV’s Love It or List It. This was the owners’ […]

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Life & Style

Sabbatical Beauty’s Adeline Koh on How She Develops Her Powerhouse Skin-Care Products

Ingredient obsessive Adeline Koh — founder of Sabbatical Beauty — on the powerhouse potions she mixes in her Bok Building studio What I make: Asian-inspired […]

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Life & Style

This Sleek Wood Speaker Will Make a Statement in Any Room

Serious audiophiles spend megabucks on big speakers. Casual listeners are happy with a small Sonos. The Mac is for the people in between — those […]