T
he architects Fairfax and Sammons are masters of
historicist style, ���regional classicism,��� creating, often from
inception, houses and interiors that seem to have stood
for at least a century and a half. Farmlands, in upstate
New York is not far from James Fenimore Cooper���s
legendary (no longer extant) house Otsego Hall. �� The
architects, with decorator Sally Dinkle Giordano of Leta
Austin Foster, have created a gorgeous country house
for owners identified with the land and the pleasures of
farming and rural sport. Farmlands is a working sporting
estate, in the tradition of the turn of the twentieth century.
The house is elegant yet rugged, deeply entrenched in
the Mohawk Valley landscape which so inspired Fenimore
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