Thanksgiving table ideas from five designers, from pheasant feathers and antique Imari to Mexican wedding plates.
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“We may move somewhere beautiful and discover that we are still inhabiting the same inner landscape,” says Ash Compton, a Kent psychotherapist who works with creatives, highly sensitive people, and those navigating trauma and the uncertainties of contemporary life.
By Clementina Verge
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Nouveau Ranch, from Fray Ardens’ first collection, Mythopoesis, was created while Compton was living in Marfa, Texas. Blue grama grass, her favorite, barely has a scent, so she asked a more imaginative question: What would this grass smell like?
A cultural ecologist as well as a psychotherapist, Compton moves among Jungian psychology, environmental grief, systems thinking, communications design, and personal history.
As a child, Compton had color-grapheme synesthesia. In creating fragrance, she began asking not simply what something smelled like but what it might look, sound, or feel like.
Her psychotherapy, environmental work, and perfume-making ultimately circle the same territory: the invisible patterns, associations, and atmospheres that shape experience before language arrives.
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Nov 10
@kentwoolsupplyco in Kent, CT
Nov 10
For decades, R. Derwin Clothiers has been where Litchfield goes to get dressed. Andrea Derwin talks Hollywood roots, Scottish cashmere, and why she can still remember what you bought 20 years ago.
By @troy.j.mcmullen
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When Andrea first walked into the shop, she saw nothing she’d want to wear herself. So she built a women’s collection around better quality, better fashion, and knowing every client.
Her late husband, Richard, opened the shop in the ’70s inside a converted 19th-century house, after a career dressing Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and bringing Ralph Lauren’s Polo line to Bloomingdale’s.
Today the shelves are stocked with Scottish and Italian cashmere, suede and leather, and American-made pieces for men and women. “I can remember what somebody bought in our store 20 years ago,” says Andrea.
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Nov 5
Voting has now opened for Reader’s Choice 2027! The top three winners in each category will be featured in our Best of Litchfield County 2027 issue—an essential resource locals save and refer to all year long.
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Nov 4
The NovDec issue is here! Our annual design issue cover features Ash Compton of @moodpsychotherapy based in Kent. Ash also happens to be the creator of @frayardens , a perfume line exploring memory, imagination, and relationships to place. We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we had fun creating it.
Oct 31
@jenniferabastiaanse , featured in the Sept/Oct issue of Litchfield Magazine, shares her and her husband’s Halloween decorated antique home in Litchfield, complete with resident friendly spirits. 👻
Oct 29
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