Entrepreneur and beekeeper Claire Marin opens the door to her home near New York?s Catskill Mountains Claire Marin and Cathy Leidersdorff?s home straddles New York State?s Delaware and Sullivan Counties, on a sprawling, wooded 32-acre lot in the Catskill mountains, not far from the Delaware River.
The site is idyllic, with a lilypad-dotted pond, natural springs, a barn-turned-distillery, and an Argentine quincho (a covered outdoor grill and dining area), the sort of place that seems like it has existed in its current bucolic state forever.
After a life spent in Madrid and New York City, Marin, a magazine publisher-turned-beekeeper and the purveyor of Catskill Provisions, was introduced to the property in 2003 by Leidersdorff. ?I fell in love with it?the space, the summer sky. It?s just a pure place,? Marin enthuses. She and Leidersdorff, both entrepreneurs, are often overloaded with work, and the house offered respite from the fast pace of their lives. ?You need a lot of space to be able to recharge your batteries, and the Catskills are very much perfect for that.?
In the living room, Restoration Hardware club chairs sit opposite a sofa from Article. The coffee table is from One Kings Lane and the rug is from North & Found in Peconic, New York.

According to Marin, the home was built in the early 1900s by one of the founding families of Long Eddy, a town four miles west. It had originally operated as a carriage house and, later, as a cauliflow...