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Design Hunting

  1. at home
    Good Luck Trying to Resell This West Elm Coffee TableNew Yorkers love to buy the company’s industrial storage table, but that love doesn’t last.
  2. design books
    The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy MeyersRose Tarlow on her reissued book, her tiny client list, and her obsessive standards.
  3. great rooms
    The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at HomeA decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
  4. design edit
    Spiky Trinkets, Cloud Lamps, and Hundreds of Max Lamb ChairsPlus a new metallic-furniture collection at Nomia.
  5. great rooms
    ‘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.
  6. small spaces
    Making Space Where There Isn’t AnyNew York architects on creating extra rooms and better storage in the smallest duplexes and studios.
  7. small spaces
    My Tiny New York Bathroom Fits 400 ProductsHow a beauty editor organizes the chaos of four shipments a week.
  8. small spaces
    The New York Apartments That Pay for ThemselvesHow three small-space influencers live, work, and cover the rent.
  9. great rooms
    A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty NestersThey were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
  10. great rooms
    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.
  11. auctions
    The Newest Louis Poulsen Lamps Are Glowing GlassA one-of-a-kind collaboration with Home in Heven is up for auction at 1stDibs.
  12. great rooms
    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.
  13. great rooms
    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.
  14. great rooms
    Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered“I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
  15. design edit
    A David Lynch–Inspired Nightclub, Fantasy Coffins, and More Design FindsPlus a new salon-style gallery in Soho.
  16. great rooms
    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.”
  17. interiors
    The Immediately Outdated Renovation“It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life. Now you look and say, ‘How can this look dated already?’”
  18. on set
    Maestro
    How to Build a House for Leonard BernsteinMaestro production designer Kevin Thompson on filming in the conductor’s actual Connecticut home (and going through his junk drawers).
  19. great rooms
    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!”
  20. great rooms
    Craftsman HomeIn a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
  21. great rooms
    The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing StudioArtist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
  22. great rooms
    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.
  23. great rooms
    A Serene Gut-Reno in the East Village, Six Flights UpMagdalena and Jonathan Keck wanted to live on the top floor no matter what.
  24. great rooms
    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
  25. preservation watch
    How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves BackAll 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
  26. on set
    How Do You Rebuild a Nazi’s House?For The Zone of Interest, a crew meticulously studied Rudolf Höss’s actual house, then created a replica down the street.
  27. great rooms
    You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita MergentimeFrom Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
  28. 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.
  29. great rooms
    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.
  30. 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.
  31. interiors
    A Look Inside New York’s Mountain HousesThe remote beauty and real meaning of the getaway home.
  32. year in review
    Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2023Including a mosaic-tiled backyard, a loft with floating bedrooms, and a transformation.
  33. great rooms
    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.
  34. great rooms
    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.
  35. design edit
    McDonald’s Lamps, Rubber Tables, and Anthony Haden-Guest at Design MiamiPlus a literal trophy bookcase.
  36. great rooms
    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.
  37. great rooms
    TM Davy’s Fairy-, Satyr-, and Plant-Filled East Williamsburg Loft“I don’t really know that there are many places left like this.”
  38. great rooms
    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.
  39. 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.
  40. great rooms
    A California Artist Lives His Mexico City DreamBrian Thoreen’s studio and home has a tree growing in the middle of it.
  41. great rooms
    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.
  42. design hunting
    From the Floral, Red Rooms of Barbara WaltersThe broadcaster liked monograms, astrology, and her red Eames chair.
  43. great rooms
    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.
  44. great rooms
    They Still Make Art in SohoReformed “wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.
  45. great rooms
    Hollywood Regency in Park SlopeWhen Anna Turner bought her first apartment, she wanted “eclectic, maximalist.” But somehow practical, too.
  46. brick and mortar
    Customers queue up outside the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in New York on Sunday June 19, 2022, decorated with a faux floral display. (© Richard B. Levine)
    Floral Storefront CityWhen did fake wisteria take over every retail façade in Manhattan?
  47. great rooms
    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.
  48. chapters
    Sofia Coppola’s BedroomsThe director’s new book, Archive, is a showcase for the little temples, or little cells, she creates for her characters.
  49. great rooms
    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.
  50. great rooms
    It’s Giving HalstonEvoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.
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