American Idyll

Kreis now serves as the "official dreamer," as she puts it, expanding and refining all that Blackberry offers. So, the luxurious experience of a stay here has as much to do with the featherbed-topped mattresses or the Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame 1996 chilling in the minibar as it does with Kreis's home-based entertaining philosophy. "When I started Blackberry, I entertained guests the only way I knew howthe way I did at home," she says. "Home is a place that should have everything you need: good food in a beautiful setting, family, and friends."