TROPOLISM

Although your editor prefers to spend his summers on intercoastal sand bars, and so totally not the Hamptons, I applaud the owners of this house for creatively restoring it. It's a pleasure to see a simple cottage grow into a compound without turning into McMansion. And the editor has a prediliction for living in a cabinet. A big, mahogany cabinet.

Tropolism means having integrity. New York Times, the person mentioned in this article as "architect" is not licensed in the state of New York, according to New York State Office of Professions Online Lookup. Try it youself! On me! Perhaps he's registered in another state? But then who is the architect of record for the project?