OFFERING Title bstracting er ices omplete ocument Preparation losing er ices Title nsurance Jan Guimont & Kris Conant wners 76 tlantic Place outh Portland, 0 106 Phone 207 77 00 ax 207 77 5 35 www.atlancoast.com W W W. MAI N EGAR DE NS.ORG ù BOOTH BAY, MAI N E 218 P r t L a n d montHL maga ine reaL eState a serendi itous encounter: wild o es come ace to ace ith a scul ture by wendy Klem erer in cutler s garden. II.” Yup, we’re talking with Eliot Cutler. “All the Robert McCloskey Books.” One Morn- ing in Maine meets One Morning in Beijing. “My favorite part of the library is the fireplace. Growing up on Grove Street in Bangor, I loved the fireplace and the large mantel around it in our house. At first, I wanted to take the mantel and fireplace and put it here.” Then he reconsidered. “I asked Bob Knight if he could duplicate it, and he did. He took extremely careful measure- ments.” To complete the illusion of stopped time, “I brought two lamps from the man- tel” in Bangor. They’d always hovered over the fireplace. “Now it really feels like the fireplace where I grew up, but it’s here. “A nother strong echo in the house comes from the three years when I lived in Beijing, when we acquired a lot of Chinese vernacular furni- ture, including two wedding beds.” Which may be the answer to: What do you give a man who has two pianos? “All our furniture from China is here,” including large artworks such as Chinese Zodiac stoneware. “We brought it back in 2009 by container.” But what to bring? “We had some very heavy Chinese outside lan- terns, tables, and stools, all made of stone and cement. We thought that shipping them back would be prohibitively expen- sive. But when you’re shipping a container, you’re shipping by volume, not by weight.” Only a third of the container was full. “So we went to the Dirt Market in Beijing, and we bought an enormous amount of stone and cement” sculpture. “It’s all here and gives character to the house and the land.” Of course, in Maine, you don’t need to travel to China to purchase China Trade antiques. Maine sailing ships brought such courtes eLiot cutLer