T
he architect Mark Finlay, author of the book,
The Vintage House, has, in the Mount Fair project in
Charlottesville, Virginia, masterminded the building and
landscape restoration of a 200-acre equestrian estate
at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This has
been a labor, not only of restoration and conservation,
but of erecting certain new buildings whose very fabric
and bones are matched imperceptibly with those of
the originals. As for the interiors, Finlay's colleague and
collaborator, Manhattan interior designer Brian McCarthy,
has interpreted American colonial style in a manner that
is nothing less than lyrical.
Finlay, based in Southport, Connecticut, specializes in
the sensitive adaptation of old buildings to new uses,
the conservation of old houses with an eye to modern
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