Charlie Dumais Gives the Magazine the Scoop
Condé Nast Traveler named Litchfield and Litchfield County to its list of The Best Places to Go in the US in 2025!
Bantam Arts Factory design haven @dumais_made is among the local spots singled out and Charlie Dumais, shown here at the recent holiday studio sale, is credited by the influential travel and lifestyle magazine as a “local guide extraordinaire.”
Here’s the section of the story about Litchfield:
In Litchfield town the old courthouse on the Green (that’s brimming with shops and cafés) has been refashioned into contemporary-art-filled boutique hotel The Abner. Earlier this summer the rustic-modern Lost Fox Inn opened in a 1740s tavern from the folks behind Mt. Temper’s Foxfire Mountain House, and come March, Hudson Valley favorite Troutbeck will unveil sibling property Belden House & Mews in a Colonial Revival estate reimagined by local-owned Champalimaud Design.
And while you could make a weekend of wandering through Litchfield town—pop into Milton Market, a chic home goods and gifts store (think vintage transferware and block-printed linens)—you’ll do well to venture out. In nearby Bantam, tucked into a factory warehouse packed with artist studios, is Dumais Made, a ceramics and lighting studio founded by Charles Dumais (spot his lamps at the Abner hotel) with his husband Kevin—Charles also doubles as local guide extraordinaire. Grab an ice cream from nearby Arethusa Creamery or coffee and salted chocolate chip cookie from Krafted Brew Lab.