The Lotus Room: Eastern Light, Gifts and Adventures Morning enters exuberantly in the Lotus Room. Northeast light pours through the windows, framed by deep red drapes, and moves quickly across the floor, up the walls, into the corners. This room, like much of Spillian, is furnished the way our lives are furnished. Through travel and [...]
The Scheherazade Room holds layers: carpets hung above the bed, elephant lamps standing sentinel, antique wardrobes and dressers, old artwork, and a brass genie lamp. A room drawn from The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, and watching over it all, golden and serene, with false eyelashes, is Celeste the Camel. Celeste came to us [...]
“The Whole World is a Garden” At the top of the grand staircase—with its glorious, over-the-top frescoes stretching floor to ceiling—you turn right into the first bedroom. The walls are original pine ship-lap, and across them, painted directly on the shellacked wood—blooms a quiet riot of daisies and dragonflies. They're some of several remarkable frescos [...]
A Summer Kingdom in the Mountains Built in the early 1880s by the Fleischmanns Yeast family, Spillian was part of a sprawling, audacious Catskills estate: eight summer “cottages” on 160 acres, each one built for a member of the Fleischmanns’ first American generation. Today, only Spillian still stands—on 33 acres of mountain forest. The Fleischmanns [...]
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