Christopher Spitzmiller – ceramicist, lamp mogul, and all around purveyor of good taste – usually spends Christmas upstate with his family at Clove Brook Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. Last year Veranda featured his 1840s Greek Revival home and farm decked for the holidays, and I just simply could not get enough. The overall effect is an elegant tribute to tradition, however, Spitzmiller loves to decorate with jewel tones, demonstrating “that you don’t have to have red-and-green everything just because it’s Christmas.” Spitzmiller, whose mentor was the late great Albert Hadley, decorated Clove Brook Farm with interior designer Harry Heissmann, and today we will take a Christmas tour with images from Veranda and Spitzmiller’s Instagram account. For comparison, we will also tour Clove Brook Farm sans holiday spirit as featured in Architectural Digest. And as an added bonus… sneak a peek of Spitzmiller’s holiday mantel in his New York City apartment.

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Instagram (the angel is from Mario Buatta and is from the 1930s)
“I always buy the scraggliest tree, because that way, you can really see the ornaments,” Spitzmiller told Veranda.


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Spitzmiller’s traditional Bûche de Noël via Instagram

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Clove Brook Farm, as featured in Architectural Digest
July 2015

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Christmas in New York City

As an added bonus… Here is Christopher’s New York apartment ready for the holidays! Instagram

Such a beautiful home at Christmastime and year round! For more, please follow @christopherspitzmiller and @clovebrookfarm on Instagram. To shop Christopher Spitzmiller lamps, please click here. And if you still need ideas for holiday gifts, please visit the Glam Pad’s annual Holiday Gift Guide, curated by over 20 of the nation’s top interior designers and tastemakers… It contains every idea you could possibly need for hostess gifts, stocking stuffers, children, pets, him, her, and yourself!

One of my favorite houses … especially at Christmas… thanks for posting and a chance to revisit it again… Teresa
Christopher Spitzmiller and I first met at Stair Galleries auction house in Hudson. He was gentlemanly and charming and I liked him immediately. And what an eye! Great taste level and knows how to put a room together. I remember standing at the door of that beautifully papered Chinoiserie room and thinking, “wow, this is wonderful.” The whole farm is storybook beautiful. Thanks for sharing this compilation.
Oh would I love to spend Christmas there! So homey and happy. I miss my beautiful Christmas tree because I have a 6-month-old kitten who loves to explore and climb everything, therefore, no tree this year.