In Good taste | October 2019 Preserving and Modernizing a McKim, Mead & White Masterpiece. I’m often asked “what makes an ideal project for team taste?” My perhaps long-winded answer always starts by describing the quality of the client/project partner team and usually ends with something sort of emotional along the lines of ‘we’re helping […]
before, during & shortly after: elm’s view
In Good taste | September 2019 As we say goodbye to summer, we also say goodbye to our clients and now dear friends at Elms View — our historic Newport restoration project completed in June. The family returns to their primary home in Chicago, full of short-but-sweet summer memories made in their re-imagined home, […]
before & after: honest + artful bungalow
The design assignment to renovate a bungalow and retains its inherent character sounds straightforward and appealing. The scale is comfortable, architectural details are honest and an open floor plan creates a pleasing flow from room-to-room and from inside-to-out. Built in 1900, this Jamestown charmer had the potential to promise this simplified lifestyle. Thankfully, our client […]
take it outside
tasteful exterior spaces, just in time for summer… Current New England temperatures are far from our idyllic coastal summers, but our clients know warmer weather will be here before we know it. Once here, our summers here are short-lived, for sure. Those precious twelve weeks of summer means outdoor spaces currently in design and […]
cooking with gas
how a taste-created master plan ignites action in the kitchen
concept, restoration & replication
behind the scenes in historic newport
meet team taste member Ashley LeFebvre
When designing a home, there are so many opportunities for a client to breathe their own personality into their space. We encourage it and it’s always been one of our guiding service principles. As a team we work hard to understand our clients’ unique vision and then refine it, synthesize it, and evolve it […]
scheme starters
taste designers share their favorite interior elements
highlights from linger & learn
the first of three evenings in our 2018 summer series
announcing taste’s linger & learn summer series
join us!
keeping craft alive:
spotlight on urban electric
the urban electric co. of charleston, south carolina
susan freda comes to taste
organic sculptures arrive this summer
DUNN with taste
Collaborator Spotlight
wishing you love…peace…joy
Our thanks to clients, associates and friends for another successful year. In keeping with our annual tradition, Providence’s New Urban Arts and the Jamestown Arts Center will receive a donation in support of their 2018 arts programming on behalf of taste clients and friends. Warm wishes from our home to yours, Patti Watson & team […]
taste at work, part 1
busy in the studio, busy in the field