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 [...]
Happy Thanksgiving. And Holding the Day After. On making room for blessing and ache. Today is a day braided from many strands. For some, it’s a day of thanks, a moment to gather around a table, to remember abundance, to feel the weight of our own good fortune. For others, especially those whose ancestors lived [...]
We're psyched to share that Spillian Co-Founder Leigh Melander, PhD was recently a guest on Josh Mortensen's podcast, The Explorer Poet in an episode entitled Understanding Frivolity as a Tool for Understanding the Self and Fostering Creativity . Here's how Josh describes the conversation: In this engaging conversation with Leigh Melander, we explore the profound impact [...]
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 [...]
Meghan and Chris got married at Spillian in November of 2024. They are both über creative, utterly delightful, and came to us with a wonderful dream of a wedding that was both goth and unexpected and totally warm. It was a blast creating with them, and we're thrilled to see that Rock N Roll Bride [...]
Join us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas! On Saturday, January 4, revel your way into 2025 at our Spillian Imaginarium extravaganza: Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools. Long before New Year’s Eve became a thing, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down [...]
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