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Great Rooms

A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman.

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    The Water-Tower Penthouse in the BronxGigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s rooftop apartment on the Grand Concourse looks out on Yankee Stadium.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Rosario Candela Invented the Upper East Side ApartmentDavid Netto’s new book tells the story of how the architect defined quiet luxury in New York City.
    By David Netto
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    From a Downtown Loft to a Sutton Place Classic SevenAfter 18 years in Noho and three in a Paul Rudolph pleasure palace, Christine and John Gachot decided to try something more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Santa Fe Home That Was Alexander Girard’s Final TriumphA new book by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee surveys everything the designer ever touched.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    They’re Not in Kansas City AnymoreTodd and Emily Voth’s bold pied-à-terre in Herzog & de Meuron’s “Jenga Building” drinks in the city lights.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Making Plant Kween’s Crown Heights Apartment BloomJust add wallpaper and lots of sun.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Ali Richmond’s Crown Heights Loft Has a Higher PurposeThe co-founder of the Fashion for All Foundation has lived in this space almost 20 years with his archive of designer clothing.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    They Wanted a Loft with a Garden in the Sky“One of our inspirations was the High Line.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Gallery Owner and an Artist, Having a Ball Living in a Former BallroomJack Shainman and Carlos Vega’s apartment had to have space for “big art.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Cold Picnic Couple Have a Very Chill Catskills FarmhouseIts four bedrooms, pond, and forest are more than enough space for their daughters and their dogs to roam.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Paris Pied-à-Terre With an Olympic ViewNew Yorkers Sean Cassidy and Gerry Logue will be watching the opening ceremony from their balcony on the Left Bank.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Uncovering Good Modernist Bones at U.N. PlazaJames Spindler and John Vitale bought their apartment from the family of its original owner, who decorated it in a prewar style. They opened it up.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ Feels Just Like Disco-Decadent Paris Did to Me“Cinema can’t be satisfied with historical reality,” says the production designer on the Hulu series.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    An Art-Filled Dutch Colonial Hidden Behind the Hedges in BridgehamptonAll Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, did with their house was paint it — and fill it with art.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Anne Hanavan’s ‘Freedom Pad’ Was Always Going to Be Painted Pink“It was a wreck,” she says of the 350 square foot LES apartment. “But I could see the potential.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Answered PrayersBrooklynites Cristiana Peña and Nick Porter dreamed of living in an old church upstate. They bought one for $99,000. It needed a lot of work.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Nobody Wants to Mow the Lawn at the BeachBreck and Georgia Eisner’s Amagansett retreat gives the children a cottage of their own.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Watching Their Garden GrowIn 1981, Peter Schlesinger and Eric Boman bought this “romantic ruin” on Long Island and put down roots.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Thirty-Year Evolution of Kitty Hawks’s Chappaqua Gardens“Plenty of mistakes have been made and rectified. Doing is the best way of learning.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, BrooklynFrom cookie-cutter to an explosion of color: “The neighborhood was pretty blown away.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Burlesque Family at HomeShowbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at HomeA decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    ‘If I Had to Leave This Place, I Would Probably Leave New York’At home with Brooklyn artists from three generations of loft living — all protected by Loft Law.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty NestersThey were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Tree House for Two Architects in Carroll GardensPhu Hoang and Rachely Rotem built the indoor-outdoor “Mini Tower One” extension to their Brooklyn home.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Audrey Flack Is 92 and Still Painting in Her UWS ApartmentShe’s in her “Post-Pop Baroque Period,” and has a new gallery show, a memoir and lives with a skeleton from her days teaching anatomy at NYU.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    2407 New York Magazine Adam Sachs & Evyn Block
    A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking FireplaceThe kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered“I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    2402 Shunui Spa The Greenwich Hotel
    Fashion Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson’s House in Bed-Stuy“I became obsessed with Live Auctioneers. I didn’t have the time, or the bandwidth, or the driver’s license, for going to estate sales.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Living With His Husband and His Own Furniture Designs in GreenpointEver since Jeremy Silberberg started Studio S II with Erica Sellers, they’d been “digging for reasons to fund our own work!”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Craftsman HomeIn a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing StudioArtist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
    By Wendy Goodman
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    2400 New Vibe Yoga
    The Yoga Teacher Living Over an East Village Karaoke BarAlex Schatzberg also teaches in his apartment, in an 1833 building on St. Marks Place.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Serene Gut-Reno in the East Village, Six Flights UpMagdalena and Jonathan Keck wanted to live on the top floor no matter what.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    2399 NY Magazine Federico De Francesco
    Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One)A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft
    By Wendy Goodman
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    You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita MergentimeFrom Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    2395 NY Magazine Michael Shane Neal
    His Name Was Picked Out of a Hat to Get This Gramercy Park ApartmentMichael Shane Neal is just the third artist in 117 years to occupy this studio at the National Arts Club.
    By Wendy Goodman
  38. year in review
    Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2023Including a mosaic-tiled backyard, a loft with floating bedrooms, and a transformation.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Tribeca Duplex Inspired by Cloud City and the Fortress of SolitudeAfter Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought this apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Place, at Last, for Everything (Including the Teenager and the Shoes)A family thought they’d outgrown their apartment, until they met the architects Ideas of Order. Before and after photos for what they did.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Photographer Who Taught Herself How to Renovate Her Own ApartmentAfter living in this apartment for nearly 18 years, Amanda Weil wanted a change, but first she fired her architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    TM Davy’s Fairy-, Satyr-, and Plant-Filled East Williamsburg Loft“I don’t really know that there are many places left like this.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Student of Corbu’s in NutleyGlenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa’s house was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr., who had worked with Le Corbusier.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A California Artist Lives His Mexico City DreamBrian Thoreen’s studio and home has a tree growing in the middle of it.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    She Finally Got Around to Really Decorating Her Tribeca PenthouseArtist Claudia Doring Baez lived in the former Wool Club space atop American Thread Building for 22 years before enlisting the help of an architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Sarah Nsikak Is So Happy to Be Back in Bed-StuyThe designer of the upcycling fashion line Le Réunion tried living upstate. It wasn’t for her.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    They Still Make Art in SohoReformed “wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Hollywood Regency in Park SlopeWhen Anna Turner bought her first apartment, she wanted “eclectic, maximalist.” But somehow practical, too.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Michael Henry Adams’s Candlelit Harlem ApartmentThe author and architectural preservationist has filled his home with the history of Harlem. He found some of it on the street.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Sisters Sharing a House in Prospect–Lefferts GardensZoë Wendel moved into her sister’s three-story house to help with renovations. She made this floor entirely her own.
    By Wendy Goodman
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