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 A brownstone that’s pink inside. By Wendy Goodman
  1. A Dutch Designer’s Grand Return to New York Hella Jongerius’s first collaboration with Salon 94 features experimental textiles and a full cast of clay animals.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. Ferrari Rocking Chairs, Giant Claes Oldenburg Sculptures, and More Design Finds Plus the openings of an LES homewares shop and a gallery in Seaport.
    By Morgan Meier
  3. Ryan Lawson Lives Above His Favorite Italian Restaurant He designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. I Am Already in Couch Hell Amazon’s $20 sofa will make it worse.
    By Bridget Read
  5. A Museum for Place-Setting Obsessives The International Museum of Dinnerware Design opens in Kingston.
    By Anna Hezel
  6. The Death Mask Unearthed at the Players Club A renovation of Edwin Booth’s room revealed the contents of a cabinet that had been locked for nearly 100 years
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. The Water-Tower Penthouse in the Bronx Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s rooftop apartment on the Grand Concourse looks out on Yankee Stadium.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. Megalopolis Is Yet Another Neri Oxman Fantasy Mystery substances that can grow buildings, heal wounds, and stop time? Why not.
    By Kate Wagner
  9. Rosario Candela Invented the Upper East Side Apartment David Netto’s new book tells the story of how the architect defined quiet luxury in New York City.
    By David Netto
  10. From a Downtown Loft to a Sutton Place Classic Seven After 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
  11. The Santa Fe Home That Was Alexander Girard’s Final Triumph A new book by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee surveys everything the designer ever touched.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future A debate about gentrification is set against a backdrop of monochrome and tasteful decor in ‘Good Bones’ at the Public.
    By Terry Nguyen
  13. They’re Not in Kansas City Anymore Todd and Emily Voth’s bold pied-à-terre in Herzog & de Meuron’s “Jenga Building” drinks in the city lights.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.
    By Ian Volner
  15. Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace A closer look at the company’s new “Preowned” concept.
    By Lindy Segal
  16. Making Plant Kween’s Crown Heights Apartment Bloom Just add wallpaper and lots of sun.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Ali Richmond’s Crown Heights Loft Has a Higher Purpose The 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
  18. Frothy Gazebos, Beehive Lamps, and More Design Finds From a Brussels Fair For its New York debut, the Brussels-based Collectible design fair took over two office floors in Fidi.
    By Morgan Meier
  19. Ruffled Vases, Chaises Longues Made of Pipes, and More Design Finds Plus, a new wedding-veil-inspired collection at Design Within Reach.
    By Morgan Meier
  20. They Wanted a Loft with a Garden in the Sky “One of our inspirations was the High Line.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. A Gallery Owner and an Artist, Having a Ball Living in a Former Ballroom Jack Shainman and Carlos Vega’s apartment had to have space for “big art.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. The Cold Picnic Couple Have a Very Chill Catskills Farmhouse Its four bedrooms, pond, and forest are more than enough space for their daughters and their dogs to roam.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo.
    By Morgan Meier
  24. Pottery Barn Made Some Remarkably Nice Furniture For Seniors A new Michael Graves design collaboration is unusually subtle about accessibility.
    By Natalia Torija
  25. Printemps Is Coming to One Wall Street The Parisian luxury department store has a long history of operating in landmarks.
    By Ian Volner
  26. A Paris Pied-à-Terre With an Olympic View New Yorkers Sean Cassidy and Gerry Logue will be watching the opening ceremony from their balcony on the Left Bank.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. Uncovering Good Modernist Bones at U.N. Plaza James 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
  28. Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
    By Zach Schiffman
  29. Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
    By Morgan Meier
  30. An Art-Filled Dutch Colonial Hidden Behind the Hedges in Bridgehampton All Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, did with their house was paint it — and fill it with art.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent And ends up not saying much about it at all.
    By Carolina A. Miranda
  32. Apothecary Lamps, Shaker-Inspired Wall Hooks, and More Debut Design Collections New work from a design residency at Colony in Tribeca.
    By Natalia Torija
  33. 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
  34. Answered Prayers Brooklynites 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
  35. Wendy Goodman’s Top-Ten Finds From WantedDesign Futuristic desks, snaky tube lights, and a turntable lamp by emerging designers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. How to Build a Kitchen for Miranda July Talking to artist and contractor Nico B. Young about making July’s butter-yellow cabinetry.
    By Clio Chang
  37. Fiberglass Chairs, Rodeo-Inspired Lamps, and More From Jonalddudd’s 2024 Show The independent design show included robotic lamps and a chair composed of interlocking apple-shaped slices.
    By Morgan Meier
  38. Nobody Wants to Mow the Lawn at the Beach Breck and Georgia Eisner’s Amagansett retreat gives the children a cottage of their own.
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. One-of-a-Kind Pots and Lamps Among the Shirtdresses A craft show of AAPI designers at 3.1 Phillip Lim.
    By Angela Serratore
  40. Watching Their Garden Grow In 1981, Peter Schlesinger and Eric Boman bought this “romantic ruin” on Long Island and put down roots.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. 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
  42. A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, Brooklyn From cookie-cutter to an explosion of color: “The neighborhood was pretty blown away.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. Wendy Goodman’s Picks From Milan Design Week Never before seen Eames lamps, modern craft collections, and new furniture made from scraps.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. A Burlesque Family at Home Showbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. Good Luck Trying to Resell This West Elm Coffee Table New Yorkers love to buy the company’s industrial storage table, but that love doesn’t last.
    By Lindy Segal
  46. The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy Meyers Rose Tarlow on her reissued book, her tiny client list, and her obsessive standards.
    By Catherine Hong
  47. The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. Spiky Trinkets, Cloud Lamps, and Hundreds of Max Lamb Chairs Plus a new metallic-furniture collection at Nomia.
    By Terry Nguyen
  49. ‘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
  50. Making Space Where There Isn’t Any New York architects on creating extra rooms and better storage in the smallest duplexes and studios.
    By Ian Volner
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