About

Three generations. One love of gathering.

Long Story Short was born from three generations of a family who have always believed the most memorable spaces are the ones that bring people together. From Philadelphia's Artemis, Hot Club, and Bar Noir to Northern California's The Boulder House, each generation has created its own distinctive backdrop for gathering: spaces with soul, stories, and a point of view. Long Story Short is the newest chapter: a storied Hudson space shaped by that same instinct, and by a belief in the rare luxury of having somewhere extraordinary entirely to yourselves.

A little ballet pink. A little rock + roll. A little bohemian. And very relaxed and real.

Nothing here was bought to match. Long Story Short has been collected rather than decorated: layer upon layer of art, objects, furniture, books, and beautiful oddities gathered across decades, cities, travels, and lives curiously lived. It is elegant without being precious, storied without feeling staged, and deeply comfortable in its own skin. Ephemera has history. Rooms have personality. Nothing asks you to behave too carefully.

Soulful art. Objects gathered over decades. Furniture with stories. Books, photographs and ephemera. Corners to disappear into. Rooms made for being together. Things worth looking at twice. Beds you might want to lounge in all day. Room after room made for gathering, and quiet corners for slipping away. A little beauty, a little mischief, and something unexpected around nearly every corner.

Long Story Short is created and continually shaped by the Glorfield family, with its mother-and-daughter duo at the heart. What began as a family instinct for gathering has become something we love sharing with others: a space filled with the things we find beautiful, soulful, funny and worth keeping, with complete hospitality designed around the simple pleasure of having the people you love all to yourself.