This week, our tireless design editor Wendy Goodman shows us the unseen secrets of the New York City Ballet’s wardrobe, weighs in on the exceedingly groovy lobby of the Ace Hotel, hangs out with young wallpaper savant Este Lewis of Soy Este and the landscape designer/artist Paula Hayes, and examines the mind-bending designs of semi-Surrealist Sebastian Errazuriz.
Design Hunting: Backstage at the Ballet, Up Front at the Ace Hotel

By
Wendy Goodman,
Curbed and New York Magazine’s design editor
who covers the city’s most spectacular interiors.
Tags:
- tutus
- new york city ballet
- great colors
- ballet
- pink satin
- seamstress
- costumes
- colors
- mysterious chemical processes
- trims
- embroideries
- lost art of needlework
- dyeing
- graffiti
- hotel lobbies
- cool ideas for wall coverings
- smart solutions to landmarked buildings
- columns
- giant comfy sofa
- inviting furniture
- the bar area
- wood paneling
- sex pistols
- cool door guy
- landscape design
- sculpture
- birdhouse
- roof installation
- terrariums
- bubblelike objects
- este lewis
- more handwork
- knitting
- death imagery
- coffin
- disorienting bookshelf
- drawings
- intriguing furniture
- surrealism
- crucial documents
- slideshow
- design hunting
- aluminum tree
- chelsea gallery
- cool wallpaper
- cristina grajales
- freeds of london
- marc happel
- marianne boesky
- paula hayes
- sebastian errazuriz
- sister parish
- teo capmoreale
- toe shoes
- pianos
- rooftops
- soy este
- ace hotel
- metaphors
- great rooms
- More