L: Times Possibility; r: South of The Border, Emily Mason
touches lend the space an appealing charm. A colony of
live orchid plants dominates one table top, while neat rows
of brushes in canisters lay siege to another. A teakwood seat
used by a musician in a Balinese gamelan ensemble, which
serves as a low side table near a small antique rocker, was
"the gift of a Bennington classmate who lived in Indonesia
as a child," Mason points out. One wall is dominated by an
attractive group of small paintings by Mary Cassatt, Charles
Demuth, Joan Miró and others, whom Mason refers to as
"friends or those whom I would have liked to befriend," as
well as by her husband, Wolf Kahn, an artist acclaimed for
his wonderfully atmospheric pastel landscapes, who has
a studio a few blocks away.
HYLAND
