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Westchester-Based Company Has Branched Out, Growing National Attention
MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- In 1979, Howard Freilich, a young entrepreneur, started a horticultural business based out of a small camper in Westchester. Today, Freilich has grown his business to a multimillion-dollar enterprise that’s one of the largest interior horticultural companies in the country.
Blondie’s Treehouse, Inc., provides landscape interiors, exterior plantings and floral arrangements for residences, cultural institutions and hotels. While the success of Freilich's company is well known, its organic growth took time and effort. “I started out as an animal husbandry major, to be a vet,…
Influenced By A German Art School, A Dobbs Ferry Home Hits The Market
DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. -- Inspired by a German art school in the early 1900's, Bauhaus homes influenced a movement of expressive architecture, leading to a combination of creativity and manufacturing.
Bauhaus designed homes were inspired by the Bauhaus School, a German school of art, design, and architecture founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius. The aim of the school was to fuse art, design, architecture and crafts into a unified whole. The Bauhaus was the most influential modernist art school in the 20th century, one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art's relationship to soc…