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  1. street view
    Cross Your Fingers for the Whitney’s Breuer BuildingThe interior’s not landmarked, and Herzog & de Meuron are going in to renovate.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. openings
    A Museum for Place-Setting ObsessivesThe International Museum of Dinnerware Design opens in Kingston.
    By Anna Hezel
  3. environment
    How a Floating Pool in the East River Would Actually WorkA scientist explains how the Plus Pool would make the East River clean enough to swim in.
    By Clio Chang
  4. chapters
    Shigeru Ban’s Dazzling Architecture of TimeThe architect’s approach (and choice of materials) embraces simplicity and change.
    By Philip Jodidio
    Introduction by Justin Davidson
  5. design
    MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a ContinentAnd ends up not saying much about it at all.
    By Carolina A. Miranda
  6. on set
    The Uncanny New York City of MegalopolisFrancis Ford Coppola’s New Rome is an anarchic stream of 40 years’ thinking about the city.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. brick and mortar
    Atelier Jolie Was Just the BeginningThe city is swimming in ateliers right now.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  8. encounter
    Eva Alt, Day in a Life
    Eva Alt Is Selling DowntownThe dancer turned broker has managed the impossible: making it cool to be a real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  9. street view
    JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CULTURE-LIFESTYLE-TOILETS
    Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers SobbingWith civic envy and political fury.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. street view
    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Was More Than Her Hyperorganized KitchenA new show devoted to the Austrian architect reveals her idealism and ambition.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. a truly terrific new york listing
    The Lenox Hill Townhouse Designed Around an Eccentric RailingIt’s bedecked with stars, clouds, and plants in swirls of iron, and it runs more than three flights.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  12. great rooms
    You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita MergentimeFrom Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. design
    Have You Heard About the Hot-Girl Toilet Seat?Commodes with eggs and old cellphones suspended in resin aren’t for everyone. Maybe they’re for you.
    By Nora Taylor
  14. collecting
    Down the eBay Rabbit Hole to Find a Bitossi ClockThese chunky mid-century ceramics looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. interiors
    A Look Inside New York’s Mountain HousesThe remote beauty and real meaning of the getaway home.
    By Curbed Staff
  16. on set
    Leave the World Behind’s Apocalyptic AirbnbA modern farmhouse in Old Westbury, Long Island, was just what the design team wanted for the collapse of civilization.
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  17. brick and mortar
    A Brooklyn Café That Said No More InfluencersDae, a Carroll Gardens café and home-goods shop, has taken the drastic step of banning photos and videos.
    By Clio Chang
  18. street view
    Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Was in QueensA museum to a cultural legend emphasizes his unpretentious life at home.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. design hunting
    Ten Years Later, Still Coming SoonFabiana Faria and Helena Barquet opened the Lower East Side home-design shop on 11/12/13.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. design hunting
    ‘I Sold My Soul, But Warhol Would Be Proud’Meet the M.F.A. grads pumping out wall art for mid-tier hotel chains and retirement homes.
    By Molly Osberg
  21. books
    New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design ObsessivesFrom critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  22. design
    These Chairs Were Made in 3 Days“Make-do,” curated by the L.A. gallery Marta and auction house Catalog Sale, is an homage to not overthinking things.
    By Diana Budds
  23. openings
    A ‘Greater New York’ for DesignersAt the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.
    By Diana Budds
  24. architecture
    Snøhetta Workers Say They Want a UnionIf they succeed, Snøhetta would become only the second private firm to unionize in almost a century.
    By Clio Chang
  25. design
    Mining the Milton Glaser ArchivesFrom never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.
    By Diana Budds
  26. design
    Shallot Is Le Creuset’s New ColorThe inside of one, specifically.
    By Clio Chang
  27. design
    ‘We ♥ NYC’ Is Here. Why?No one asked for this.
    By Zach Schiffman
  28. design
    How to Sauna, the Ikea and Marimekko WayWith rhubarb-print robes, ripply towels, and birch benches from their new Bastua collection.
    By Diana Budds
  29. 21 questions
    Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets)The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  30. twitter
    I’ll Miss You, Design BotsThe loss of Twitter’s open API will probably finish off the accounts that put random visual delights into my feed.
    By Alexandra Lange
  31. design
    How Did a Plastic Box Come to Symbolize Everything Wrong with Retail?The Keeper’s unlikely journey from record stores to guarding Spam at your pharmacy.
    By Diana Budds
  32. interior design
    Tiwa Select Moves to New YorkWith an exhibition of textile screens and collages by Megumi Arai.
    By Diana Budds
  33. home design
    Jimmy Fallon Found the Perfect Buyer for His Clown HouseAnd that buyer is Cara Delevingne.
    By Zach Schiffman
  34. furniture
    Love Island’s Outdoor Seating Is All Over the Emotional MapA taxonomy.
    By Clio Chang
  35. investigations
    Caroline Calloway’s ‘$3,000’ ‘Murano-Glass’ Chandelier Is Probably Neither“Murano”? Maybe no.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  36. 21 questions
    Ruoyi Jiang Hates the Lower East Side’s Bad Public ArtThe founder of Chop Suey Club answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  37. sports
    A Graphic Designer (and Mets Fan) Is Keeping Shea Stadium’s Neon AliveNext stop: Citi Field?
    By Joe DeLessio
  38. day in the life
    Up on the Rooftop in Gohar WorldSisters Laila and Nadia Gohar launched a line of coolly unusual housewares with a party on a Rockefeller Center rooftop. Cue the doves.
    By Matthew Schneier
  39. astor place
    You Won’t Have the Cube to Push Around AnymoreFor now.
    By Clio Chang
  40. exhibitions
    A Mexican Design Exhibition Has Taken Over a Rockefeller Center Post Office“Intervención/Intersección” celebrates creative kinship.
    By Diana Budds
  41. branding
    Disney Comes for the West Elm ParentsFor the discerning buyer who wants every surface in the house covered in Mickey merch … but in a classy way.
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. 21 questions
    Glenn Adamson Is Still Drinking From the Mug He Got at His First JobThe design historian and curator answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  43. mysteries
    Why Won’t Harry Styles Tell Us Where His Couch Is From?Harry’s House … of secrets.
    By Clio Chang
  44. 21 questions
    Zoe Fisher Loves a Goofy Gallery NameThe director of Salon 94 Design answers Curbed’s 21 Questions.
    By Diana Budds
  45. color theory
    Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022 Is Really More of the SameMeet Very Peri, a “new” shade of blue.
    By Diana Budds
  46. podcasts
    Design, a Love StoryThe finale of Nice Try! Interior explores how objects enchant us.
    By Diana Budds
  47. 7 Incredible Hotels That Are Inspired By Their Locations7 Hotels That Are Inspired By Their Locations
    By Cortne Bonilla
  48. podcasts
    A Good Mattress Matters a Lot — Just Not for the Reasons You ThinkNice Try! shops for a good night’s sleep.
    By Diana Budds
  49. exhibitions
    Lights, Orbs, and Inflatables Animate the Noguchi Museum’s Sculpture GardenThe collaborative exhibition with design studio Objects of Common Interest runs through February 13.
    By Diana Budds
  50. podcasts
    At the Threshold of a Private UtopiaEpisode one of Nice Try! Interior invites you into the home.
    By Diana Budds
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