Ten issues in, and we’re still just as excited to send this issue into the world: Valley MMag Issue 10 is here for Fall 2026!
When we printed our first issue in Summer 2023, the idea was simple. We wanted a regularly issued magazine, produced, edited and designed in-house at Studio MM, that celebrated the people who make the Hudson Valley what it is: designers, makers, farmers, chefs, artists and small business owners. Three years and ten issues later, it’s still a love letter to this place and the community we’re lucky to be part of. You can browse every past issue on our Valley MMag page.
This issue is all about texture, craft and taking your time. Here’s what’s inside.
In Conversation with Catherine Carnevale of Eleven Six
Our cover story belongs to Eleven Six, the Kingston knitwear label that’s been a friend of the magazine since our earliest issues. We sat down with designer and co-founder Catherine Carnevale to hear the whole story.
It starts on a hike. In 2014, Catherine and her husband Nick were in Peru’s Sacred Valley, looking out over the Andes, when she pictured a knitwear brand of her own. She wanted one where she could work directly with skilled artisans, know exactly where every piece was going, and source beautiful materials at the origin. They registered Eleven Six when they got home and launched the first collection during Fall 2015 Fashion Week. Twelve years later, the brand still runs on that same idea.
Catherine trained in knitwear at Central Saint Martins and Brighton University, then spent fifteen years designing in New York for labels like Calvin Klein, Anne Klein and Club Monaco. Today she works with three Peruvian partners who in turn work with roughly thirty artisan groups around Lima and Puno. Each group has its own specialty, from hand knitting to hand crochet. The yarns are alpaca and Peruvian cotton, and every collection starts with color and a texture she can’t stop thinking about.
The feature includes photos by Maria Karas, Ellie Connell and Valerie Shaff, and it’s definitely worth seeing all of Catherine’s gorgeous work in print! Catch Catherine and Eleven Six at pop-up trunk shows and at the Fuller Holiday Market on December 12th and 13th.
Featured Studio MM Project: Fermata
We’re proud to share Fermata in this issue. It’s a single-story home in Saugerties, and its name comes from music notation. A fermata tells a musician to hold a note for as long as feels right, and that became the guiding idea for the whole house: a home built around pause.
Our client moved to the Hudson Valley to be near her two sons, and her home started with three works from her art collection rather than a program. Those pieces shaped everything from the single corridor running through the plan to the palette of black, white and warm wood. Charred Shou Sugi Ban Kebony outside, radiata pine ceilings and walls of glass inside, and a central courtyard visible from nearly every room keep the forest close throughout.
The result is a house that balances gathering and solitude, openness and privacy, and asks everyone who walks in to slow down. See the full photo story in the issue.
The Makers Who Fill These Pages
Valley MMag only works because of the people who share their work with us. A huge thank you to this issue’s contributors:
- Mill & Main, located in Kerhonkson. Seasonal American cooking with Latin, Caribbean and Italian influences, plus a café, grocery and bar under one roof.
- Braxton Alexander & Co. Fine furniture makers who bring that same precision to full kitchens. Their walnut record console in this issue is a stunner.
- Olga Joan, storefront in Uptown Kingston. Screen-printed home goods inspired by Scandinavian design and wabi-sabi, with printing workshops at the atelier.
- The Catskills Cocktail Club. Find them Fridays at the Starlite in Kerhonkson, and try their Carrot Sour recipe at home this fall.
- Westwind Orchard, located in Accord. String lights, fire pits and long fall evenings. Open Thursday through Sunday this season.
- Army of Frogs Studio, found in High Falls. Last Rose of Summer, curated by Amelia Biewald, runs through November 5.
- Ritika Wahal of Whimsy Flowers and The Hudson Hangar, who’s adding ceramics to her floral practice this fall, with a capsule clothing collection with Petra Valentova on the way in spring 2027.
Pick Up a Copy
We always recommend getting your hands on a printed copy, but you can also read Issue 10 online here. Then get out and enjoy the rest of the fall season and support your favorite Hudson Valley small business.
Thank you for reading, for supporting the people who make the Hudson Valley what it is, and for ten issues of this community. Here’s to the next ten.