A "Super Fans" Road Trip

June 11, 2025

The trip did not end at Cantitoe Corners...

After my "Super Fans" luncheon and garden tour last week, members of the group traveled together to visit some familiar shops, studios, and eateries in the area - the Orangerie Garden + Home, a charming shop and nursery owned by my friend Anthony Bellomo in Millbrook, New York, the pottery shop of master potter, Guy Wolff, the home and garden store and café, Terrain, in Westport, Connecticut, and my former home Turkey Hill.

Enjoy these photos.

: Guy’s shop is located in the small borough of picturesque Litchfield County – originally in Woodville and now in Bantam. The front is a restored 1740 post and beam structure, which houses his showroom. An addition on the back is his work space.

: At the entrance, Guy still has the old Woodville sign hung up by the front door and window.

: Guy displays some of his red terra cotta pots. These pots were made by Guy or his wife, Erica.

: Guy also displays some of his pots in use. These are terra cotta pots in the back of the shop. Terra cotta comes from the Italian term for “baked-earth,” ceramic pottery. It is made out of a coarse, porous type of clay that is high in iron oxides.

: The showroom and studio is a charming space filled with redware and stoneware in the front. Redware is an unglazed or dry-bodied stoneware.

: On another side – dozens of beautiful white clay vessels with decorative edges.

: Here’s devotee Bernie Wong looking at some of the lighter clay pots. On the side of his pots, Guy also stamps his name and the wet weight of the clay used. This standardized system for horticultural pots was adopted by Victorian potters.

: Through a small doorway is the additional room where all the pots are created. Look closely – the corner wall behind the potter’s wheel is filled with small tools called coggles, roulettes, or rolling stamps, which are used to decorate the pottery.

: Here’s a pot Guy is working on now. Every pot is handmade right here in his shop.

: All of Guy’s pots are hand thrown, so no two are exactly alike.

: Here is Guy with devotee, Nathan Schmidt with his purchase.

: The next stop was at the charming shop and nursery, Orangerie Garden + Home, where owner Anthony Bellomo sells many home items as well as gardening supplies and seasonal plants. Here’s the group pictured with Anthony in front of the shop.

: The group admired these giant ostrich eggs…

: … and the hand carved moose antlers.

: Andrew Ritchie took many photos of the displays around the shop. Everything was so beautifully presented including these scented candles.

: The nursery was filled with lots of greenery.

: Then it was a drive to Connecticut’s Terrain, another quaint store filled with home and garden products.

: The group stopped for a late afternoon meal at the Terrain Café, which focuses on seasonally inspired lunches and dinners.

: Here’s a photo of the breads – cooked in terra cotta pots to give them a crusty, brown outside and a soft, chewy inside.

: Terrain sells a variety of plants, including potted houseplants, shrubs, fruiting trees, and fresh flowers. They also carry gardening supplies and other interesting gifts.

: Here is the group in front of the old Adams House in Westport. I helped to renovate this home with my late brother, George. You may have seen it in my 1992 book, “Martha Stewart’s New Old House: Restoration, Renovation, Decoration, Landscaping.”