The Marblehead Bracelet, inspired by the cotton Turk’s-head bracelet, is made of thousands of tiny pearls, tightly woven together, and clasped with a fourteen karat gold safety clasp. It took nearly two years to develop and perfect the construction technique for the Marblehead Bracelet.

Few places in the world have more sailing tradition than does Marblehead, Massachusetts, the Yachting Capital of America and the birthplace of the American Navy.

The Marblehead Bracelet reflects those traditions in its twelve strands of pearls and Turk’s-head knotting and, it is a tribute to the wonderful people of Marblehead, who were so kind and supportive of the designer, during her many years there.

Andréa Witherwax is the creator of the Marblehead Bracelet.

Kathy Landman
fine art photography

About the Collection

The Millbrook Hunt is one of the most attractive hunts in the United States, and their hunt country is perhaps the most beautiful open land anywhere in the world. Knowing this, and wanting to continue in the manner of artists who have used the Hunt as their subject matter, Kathy Landman spent a year on foot following the hunt. Beginning in the early fall with roading the young hounds, through late winter, when the pack working in concert like a finely tuned orchestra, would raise their voices in full cry, Landman witnessed many moments of beauty and inspiration for this, her first series of prints on the Millbrook Hunt.

Landman’s  artistic process is both photographic and painterly. Kathy combines pictures and drawings into seamless photo realistic images which she prints on her press using archival pigments and Hanemuhle German Etching Paper. Each of the large prints in this series is signed, numbered and embossed and limited to an edition of ten. The complete set of 12 prints is available as a boxed set, or can be ordered individually. Additional images from A Season with the  Millbrook Hunt and A Visit to Millbrook Kennels can be viewed at The Chisholm Gallery in Pine Plains and custom ordered. For pricing and availability, please request a price list via email.

Dear Friends: I am excited to let you know that our inventory of rare, unusual and delightful books continues to grow. In addition to our well-known collection of sporting-related titles we have acquired many books about style, décor, great houses and grand people. A few titles are shown below. We will be adding titles to this section of the website continuously so do check back frequently. I invite you to visit my Pine Plains gallery to view the complete inventory of books as well as my collections of sporting art, Indian colonial and Tibetan furniture. I look forward to receiving you at the gallery, -Jeanne Chisholm, the Chisholm Gallery

Horst (photographs), Valentine Lawford (text), Diana Vreeland (foreword)
Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People
New York: the Viking Press, 1968

Sacheverell Sitwell. 
Great Palaces.
London: Spring Books/Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1969.
Beautifully designed, authoritative survey.

FREUDY PHOTOS ARCHIVES, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, CLASSIC COLLECTOR’S ITEMS

For over 60 years, Freudy Photos, the East Coast’s premier society photographers, captured the beauty and split-second action of equestrian sports, and photographed America’s aristocratic, dynastic families from New York to Palm Beach. In the 1920s, Austrian-born Harry Freudy, a society photographer for the “New York Journal-American” newspaper, opened Freudy Photos studios in Aiken, S.C., and New York City.

Ted Freudy joined his father’s business in 1937, after graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In W.W.II, he served in a U.S. Army Photographer’s Unit, fought in the Philippines as a four-time decorated officer, and returned to Freudy Photos in 1946.

Following his father’s death in 1957, Ted became New York’s top society photographer for the next 30 years, covering Polo Matches, Steeplechase Races, Pony Races, Fox Hunting, Horse Shows, Hound Shows, and private social events.

Ted covered events at the Maryland Hunt Cup, Rosetree, Greentree, Litchfield, Newport Carriage Festival, Rolling Rock Hunt, Bryn Mawr Hound Show, Meadowbrook Polo Club, Fair Hill Races, Tuxedo Park, Rombout, Cheshire Hunt, Smithtown Hunt, Goldens Bridge Hunter Pace, Radnor Hunt, North Shore Carriage Meet, Monmouth Hunter Pace, Old Westbury, Millbrook, Essex, Far Hills, Piping Rock, Aiken, Devon, Southampton, the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, and the annual Masters of the Foxhunt Dinner … and more.

His Golf Tournament photos feature A.C. and Pete Bostwick, Claude Harmon, Buzzy Sheftel, Justine Cushing, and sugar king Pepe Fanjul, among many others.

Ted photographed Debutante Parties, Cotillions, Assemblies, Bridal Dinners, Weddings, Christenings, Birthday Parties, and other private events of Social Register families at their homes and at excusive clubs. His portraits of society’s brides and brides-to-be were published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times for over 30 years.

Ted Freudy’s outstanding photographs, easy manner, and strict professionalism earned him the respect and trust of generations of the privileged.

He photographed the families of Ford, DuPont, Rockefeller, Harrington, Fisk, Paley, Phipps, Whitney, Bostwick, Hitchcock, Jackie Kennedy, Joseph Widener, Stewart & Phillip Iglehart, Gimbel, Burden, Hutton, Mortimer, Duke, Oxenburg, Roosevelt, Biddle, Strawbridge, Winston Guest, Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Hannum, Goodyear, von Stade, Lilly Pulitzer, McKim, Arthur Godfrey, Stoddard, Leslie Combs, F. Ambrose Clark, John Schiff, Fern Tailer, Clarence Pell, Eve Ledyard, Eve Pell, L.C. Ledyard, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, Bouvier, Auchinchloss, Caroline Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr., Chauncey Stillman, Merck, Doubleday, Farnham Collins, Danforth, Frank Shields, Ordway, Bancroft, Carroll Bassett, Alan Corey, Kendrick Gillespie, and hundreds more.

Ted’s remarkable photo of a Lippanzer horse was chosen for exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photos of Jackie Kennedy appeared in The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, by Vicky Moon (ReganBooks 2005). Two additional books and a documentary film containing Ted’s photos are scheduled for publication and release in 2008.

Ted Freudy died in 2005. He had been too ill to properly preserve his work, and sadly, the bulk of it was destroyed through neglect. Shortly after his death, his stepdaughter, Lorna Drake, discovered more than 1,500 society and equestrian-related negatives, a small number of original prints, and perhaps 500 negatives of weddings from the 1970s and ‘80s.

Much of the work left behind contains little or no identifying information; Ted had filed the names, years, and events of these photos in his head. But loyal customers have been most helpful in filling in the blanks, and the search continues.

It’s unknown why Ted saved some pictures and not others. But these grand images of America’s aristocracy at play over the last century are all that remain of Freudy Photos. We offer a small number here, and hope to add others, in time.

To view more images from Freudy Photos Archives, please click here to visit our Artists Pages: http://chisholmgallery.com/new/freudy-photos-archives/

To order prints or for other inquiries contact Chisholm Gallery by e-mail: info@chisholmgallery.com or telephone: 518.398.1246.

All rights to these materials are reserved. Images and materials, including those found on our website, in our print catalogs , CDs, and email presentations are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other International laws (Berne Convention). None of these images may be reproduced or transmitted in whole or in part in any form, without prior written permission of Freudy Photos Archives, LLC, Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Lorna Drake Giles or its authorized agents. No rights for reproduction or commercial use in any form whatsoever are given or implied. Any sale of these photographs does not constitute an implied sale of the copyright, or rights to reproduce the photograph in any way. Any infringement will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant By Vicky Moon

To be published by Clarkson Potter, July 2008

In this luxurious tour through stylish equestrian-themed interiors, Vicky Moon captures the rich details—from the coveted to the quirky—of the art, architecture, clothing, and people the classic horse motif inspires.

Elegant equestrians in impeccable attire; glorious hunt balls held in museums; a procession of regal foxhunting paintings in a home fit for a polo king and his brood: the world of horses is full of imagery. Extending far beyond the stable, the race track, and the polo field, our love of all things equine appears everywhere from our closets to our dining rooms.

Now, journalist and horse-world fixture Vicky Moon captures the equestrian way of life with an unprecedented peek into several dozen stunning residences. You’ll visit a French-accented mansion decorated with contemporary horse art; an equestrian resort on 395 acres—complete with cottages for owners to rent and a large private collection of carriages; a spa with a swimming pool for horses; and a working barn that Kathryn Ireland decorated to do double duty as a home for a professional horseman, riding instructor, and model whose students included Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Horse enthusiasts will be delighted to find that familiar names and faces of the horse world grace these luxurious pages, from equestrian art masters of the past such as painter George Stubbs and sculptor Herbert Haseltine to today’s most popular sculptors such as Liza Todd Tivey and Beverly Zimmer. Horse devotees, such as the up-and-coming star Mayan Lopez, show jumper Georgina Bloomberg, and the late Allaire duPont, are profiled with their beloved horses and the collections and fashions that follow their passions. With beautiful photographs, richly detailed stories, and practical advice, Equestrian Style is certain to inspire horse lovers everywhere to bring a stylish bit of the stable into their homes.

A journalist for over twenty years, VICKY MOON has written about Middleburg’s hunt balls, steeplechase races, and parties for Town & Country, Millionaire, Veranda, and Southern Accents, House & Garden. She writes a monthly column for Washington Life magazine and is the author of five books, including The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider and A Sunday Horse: A Year on the Grand Prix Jumping Circuit. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Middleburg, Virginia, with her husband, sportswriter Leonard Shapiro, and their son. Her Web site is www.VickyMoon.com.

Dog Houses to Make Your Dolls Envious

Does your Berner need a Swiss Chalet? The Chisholm Gallery is thrilled to bring you custom dog houses, sized to fit your dog and your personality…

Clients can replicate their own home or build a Swiss chalet for a Bernese Mountain Dog. The sky is the limit for details….bay windows, hardwood or marble floors,

real shingles, brick, wallpaper or air conditioning…..

SWISS CHALET $5600

Dimensions: 6’ w x 5’ h x 4’ d

Starting at $3000.

Plus Shipping

Please allow 6 - 8 weeks for fabrication

For chilly nights, interior designer Geri Roper has introduced a luxury line of dog and horse blankets. As a horse lover, Geri has spent many hours at the horse shows watching her daughter, Whitney, competed nationally in the equitation, hunter and jumper divisions.

Each year, when Geri was in Wellington for the Winter Equestrian Festival, she would treat herself to an exquisite horse blanket and either her horses or she would use them. Her horses (which include the champion Sister Parrish) were beautifully turned out and well dressed. One day, someone approached Geri and asked if she would design custom horse clothing for their barn. She thought about it and decided since she had previously designed children’s clothing, was currently a successful interior designer, and loved horses and beautiful fabrics, why not?

Geri has a farm named Hedge Row and has married all of her interests under that name. Her elegant line, which is also available at Chisholm Gallery LLC & Emporium, incorporates a stunning trove of resources for fine fabrics and trims. They range from utilitarian burlap to luxurious cashmere (never mind the horses, how about curling up in front of the fire with a good book or a handsome man with this blanket?).

Geri has embellished each blanket with exquisite details for closures, gorgeous leather straps to antique Louis Vuitton luggage tags which are embossed with either the horse’s name, barn name or customer name.Hedge Row is currently taking custom orders through Chisholm Gallery, LLC.