Check out the feature NBC’s LX New York did on life in New Canaan, which aired this past Wednesday. They even broadcasted live from Cava Wine Bar & Restaurant on Forest Street.
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Along with being a successful agent here at the Realty Guild, Bob Anderson, in partnership with his wife Nancy, enjoys an avocation of raising breeding dogs. In fact, dogs have been an essential part of their lives for over 50 years.
Nancy came from a family of professional breeders and they displayed many of their dogs at Westminster Kennel Club shows in New York. Bob was introduced to dogs when they met and became interested in obedience training and showing in the AKC obedience show ring. Over the past 8 years they have focused their breeding program on Pomeranians, which are a hardy toy breed. They switched to Pomeranians from larger Golden Retrievers and Australian Shepherds because Nancy’s mother is at the age where she’s more comfortable around smaller dogs and this allows her to continue her love of raising breeding dogs.
Bob and Nancy’s first Pomeranians were a traditional color called a black and tan. Their second were a traditional with a red coat. While living in California many years back, they impressed with the fascinating coloration of Australian Shepherds due to the merle gene. The merle gene is linked to blue eyes. Nancy decided to seek and introduce the merle gene to their Pomeranian blood lines. Since the introduction of Evelyn (Evey, pictured below) they have had some beautiful merle Pomeranian puppies. They are also developing a cross between a Papillon and the merle Pomeranians. The result, according to Bob, is a beautiful dog with large ears (like the Papillon) and blue eyes and merle color from the merle Pomeranian.
Please enjoy the photos of their beautiful Pomeranians, Papillons, and PapiPoms!
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The Smith house, Richard Meier’s world renown waterfront masterpiece in Darien, was featured today as the Wall Street Journal’s House of the Day. The home, a seminal achievement in Meier’s illustrious career in architecture, is on the market for rent at $9,500 and is listed by Brett Ciarlo of Barbara Cleary’s Realty Guild.
The 9 photos and captions tell the story of how the home, built in 1968 and known as the Smith house for the family that commissioned it, ended up on the market. For the full photo slide show and captions, click here.
The Journal interviewed Chuck Smith, who spent much of his childhood in the home.
‘The views are great,’ Mr. Smith said in the slide-show article. ‘You feel like you are outside when you are inside.’ A big fear while growing up in the house, Mr. Smith says, was ‘causing the glass to come shattering down.’
The home, which is located on one a half acres along the Long Island Sound, with 2,874 sq. ft. and four bedrooms and three baths, has been owned by the Smith family for over 40 years. The article pointed out:
‘Neither Mr. Smith nor his older brother are ready to part with the home, but neither is able to live in it either. Moving into the home full-time is not conducive to the lifestyle of Mr. Smith, a New York-based filmmaker and TV producer, or to his brother, who prefers more traditional homes, Mr. Smith says.
Mr. Smith says that fears of someone tearing down and replacing the home also prevent him from selling it.’
Click here for a link for more background information and photos on the creation of the mural (below) that hangs on the New Canaan High School cafeteria wall, which we highlighted in our November Market Report. The Mural, the work of over 160 students, was created in 2007.
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Ingmar Bergman’s family compound on the picturesque island of Faro, Sweden, which was on the market with our Christie’s Great Estates affiliate in Stockholm, sold to a Norwegian inventor and archaeologist who plans on turning it in to an artists’ retreat.
Hans Gude Gudesen purchased the property, which had only been on the market since May of 2009. for an undisclosed sum, and his decision to maintain the creative spirit of the island—the property was used by Bergman to create and shoot many of his movies—thrilled many, including Linn Ullmann, the daughter of Bergman and Liv Ullmann.
‘Fårö was a working place and now it will continue to be. There new books will be written, new films will be developed and new projects will be made,’ Ullmann told the Norwegian daily Dagens Næringsliv.
Read the full story here from The Guardian.
Bergman lived for four decades on the island, situated about 87 miles off Sweden’s south-east coast. It was the backdrop of at least seven of his movies, including Through a Glass Darkly and Scenes from a Marriage.
In New Canaan and surrounding towns, many of us take the bucolic beauty of the Merritt Parkway for granted. Not so Rick Moody, the esteemed novelist best known for his book ‘The Ice Storm,’ who grew up in New Canaan. Prompted by recent conservation efforts, Moody, 48, wrote an ode to the Merritt in a recent New York Magazine, which he feels represents “the ideal of a Sunday drive through the country.” He begins:
‘The World Monuments Fund’s Watch List, a compilation of some of the most precious and endangered man-made structures in the world, this year included Connecticut’s own Merritt Parkway. While it might seem obvious why we need to preserve and protect the Taos Pueblo, or a cave that served as a prehistoric settlement in South Africa, why a highway? Because like the Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm in Uzbekistan, or the Petroglyphs of the Diamer-Basha Dam basin in Pakistan, its beguiling design could very easily be effaced in a blunder of progress, the rush to accommodate the crowding and sprawl of contemporary suburbs.’
To read the full story, click here. Also, for photos of the Parkway 30 years ago, and an in-depth look at its history and grandeur, visit themerrittparkway.com.
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