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Great Rooms

A visual diary by Design Editor 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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    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
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    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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    It’s Giving HalstonEvoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Donald Judd’s Soho In His Own WordsThe story behind 101 Spring Street.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Decamping to a Broad Channel Swim ClubComing Soon co-founders Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria left the Upper East Side for the Rockaways.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Fairy-Tale Beach Cottage in Cherry GroveAllison Michael Orenstein and Simone Saint Laurent have a motto: “When in doubt, paint it white.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Charles Renfro’s Fire Island Beach House Feels Like a StageThe architect bought the simple 1961 bungalow designed by Horace Gifford, and only added outdoor rooms.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    An Edible Garden in Bed-Stuy That Feels like a Living RoomJC Garcia-Lavin and George Fesser had a barren backyard when they bought their house in 2019. Then things went wild.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Tribeca Townhouse of an Art Collector Who ‘Doesn’t Like Boring’After Page West had the six-story building to herself, it was time for a bold redesign.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Writer’s Shed in the SpringsGlyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Let’s Tile the Yard!Thirty friends pitched in on Ellen Van Dusen’s Bed-Stuy mosaic. “It felt like a quilting group.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Artists in the Potato BarnDesigner Aelfie Oudghiri is opening a residency in her family’s place in Sagaponack.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    54 Years on Washington Square North“Well, I married the apartment,” says John Githens of the floor of the 19th century townhouse he shared with artist Ingeborg ten Haeff.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    How to Collect Furniture Like Dennis Freedman“Function is not necessarily the point.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The 11,000-Square-Foot Soho Loft ‘Bad Paintings’ BoughtWhen artist Neil Jenney paid just $36,000 for this full-floor space 1973, it was “completely unlivable.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    House of JulioArtist and fashion designer Julio Espada’s floor-through apartment in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens reflects his former shop’s aesthetic.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-upAlex Tieghi-Walker, founder of the gallery Tiwa Select, had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it. Then his lease ended.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Just Follow the Red Door Through the TreesAn excerpt from Country Life, by William Abranowicz.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Jubliantly Traditional Carnegie Hill Classic SixElizabeth Pyne Singer allows that parts of her home “could be construed as totally kooky-looking.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Object & Thing Goes to the BeachA selection of 100 objects by 34 artists will spend the summer at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    You Could Make a Movie in This 1885 Park Slope ‘McMansion’In filmmakers Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi’s brownstone, “there are all these stories within the walls.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    An ‘Old School’ ’80s Soho Loft Gets a Family-Friendly Makeover“You want a place where the kids can run around or knock something over,” says father of four Greg Griffith.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting HereShe found the Bushwick building after walking by one day and admiring the windows; she imagined that it would be a great place to work.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in OneThe sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Artist Firelei Báez Has Always Kept It Moving“I think growing up in precarity prepared me for the life of an artist because I knew that poverty wasn’t the end of things.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit WarehouseZebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
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