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Wendy Goodman

  1. great rooms
    From Townhouse to BauhausAfter years in a Greenwich Village brownstone, Alexandra Pappas wanted to live her modernist dream. To a point.
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    His Harlem One-Bedroom Became His Pandemic Artist’s GarretStuck at home during lockdown, Larry Bentley finally had time to paint.
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    A Live-in, Surf-Out Rockaways DIY Design LabDaniel King and Emma Hastil started their company, Locus of Occult, at home by the beach during the pandemic.
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    A Country Home (With a Fireplace and a Mini-Forest) on a Nomad RooftopDavid Nosanchuk designed a penthouse that blots out the city for his client, Tom O’Shea.
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    This Used to Be the “Ugliest House on Mt. Merino”Jeff Hayenga and Michael Belanger’s long-simmering upstate project.
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    A Flatbush Brownstone That Feels Like The CaribbeanShelley Worrell’s friends and family reno project
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    A Maximalist Tries Living Like Donald Judd“More is more” designer Brock Forsblom tries living with less.
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    Halloween Director David Gordon Green’s Kubrick-Inspired NYC LoftA high-tech space odyssey.
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    A Williamsburg Loft Just Waiting on Its 3-D-Printed BirdsSebastian Errazuriz refuses to accept life as it is.
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    A Visit to the Soon-to-Open Museum of American Restaurant ChinaIt’s upstairs at Fishs Eddy on 19th Street and Broadway in the private sanctum of proprietor Julie Gaines.
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    Barbara Jakobson Thinks of Her Art-Filled Townhouse As Her AutobiographyShe’s lived here since 1965 and now gets up and down its five floors on her spiffy new stair-climbing “worm.”
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    A 300-Square-Foot East Village Studio With a Sexy Hotel VibeDarren Jett’s plant-friendly pandemic upgrade.
  13. time and life
    The Mad Men Sets Were an Homage to Gerald Luss. At 94, He’s Still Designing.The man behind the innovative modular 1959 Time & Life building’s offices on the furniture and clocks he makes.
  14. lost new york
    How Netflix’s Halston Re-created the Disco-Era Glamour and Seediness of New YorkMirrors, Mylar, and a harem tent: The production designer on Ryan Murphy’s latest period show tells all.
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    A Modernist Inherits an Old Sag Harbor HouseMaximilian Eicke mixes his designs with his parents’ antiques.
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    Making an 1847 Greenwich Village Brownstone New Again: Before and After PhotosHistoric houses can feel dark. This renovation let in the light.
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    The Maker Couple Whose First Apartment Together Launched a Small BusinessJust out of NYU, David Zhang and Sarah Kim turned their Bushwick rental into a home-furnishings lab.
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    The Stylish Tailor Shops of Christopher StreetAngel Ramos, Jake Mueser, and Frederick Castleberry are bespoke tailors and friends.
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    At Home in an Old Hotel in NomadAfter 15 years, Julie Chartoff and Irene Glezos finally really renovated their apartment inside the historic Gilsey House.
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    Introducing Wyldlands: Surrealist Bunkers to Survive the ApocalypseDoug Meyer’s show imagines a fantastical escape from future pandemics and other threats.
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    A Joyfully Painted Gowanus Walk-Up, Inspired by Bert Stern and a Trip to RomeTara McCauley moved into her own place — no roommates! — and set herself free.
  22. the real estate
    You Can Finally Live Like a WhitneyA villa built as an art studio for the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, is for sale.
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    One Foot in New York for Two L.A. ‘Art Hoarders’Joe Lucas and David Heikka’s cozy West Village rental.
  24. the covid memorial project
    David Rockwell Wants Us to Never Forget Their FacesPart 10 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
  25. the covid memorial project
    Deborah Berke Partners Proposes A Contemplative Urban StreamPart 8 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
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    How This 1856 Chelsea Parlor-Floor Apartment Got Its Glamour BackArchitects Daniel Rauchwerger and Noam Dvir invented a new history for their fixer-upper.
  27. remembrance
    Remembering Richard David Story, the Magazine Editor Who Ate the World WholeHe told me, “I want you to find the person who grows the tiniest, perfect roses that nobody knows about.”
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    How Did They Make Alia Shawkat’s Disturbing All-Felt Apartment on Search Party?Alia Shawkat’s character was kept captive here.
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    Artist Emily Mason’s 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left ItInside the sunny Flatiron District loft where the late artist painted for 40 years.
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    Two Musicians Renovated Their Home to Fit a Baby Grand PianoSinger Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner transformed their Fort Greene three-bedroom into two to accommodate his baby grand piano.
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    An Upper East Side Apartment Full of Rock-and-Roll MemoriesMusic journalist Lisa Robinson has lived in this rental, where she’s kept an archive of her interview tapes, for 45 years.
  32. design hunting
    Meet Jim McDowell and His Face JugsThe ceramicist keeps his ancestors’ traditions alive from his home studio in North Carolina.
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    Let’s Bring the Design Showroom Home and Live in ItArchitects Olivier Garce and Clio Dimofski turned their West Village apartment into a cozy, pandemic-friendly stage for new design.
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    A Vibrant Reimagining of a Mid-’60s Williamsburg High-Rise Co-opCassandra Bromfield inherited the apartment from her mother and has made it her own.
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    A Box Truck That Carries Our Dreams of HomeSee Swoon’s fantastical memory box on wheels, “The House Our Families Built.”
  36. design hunting
    Artist Daniel Arsham Invites You to His ‘Signature Decay’A look at his new gallery show of old-looking things.
  37. great rooms
    An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red WallTaylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.
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    A Winterized Hamptons Carriage House Where the Art World Hung Out in the 1960sJulia Gruen grew up surrounded by artists and writers in her parents’ summer home, which she has kept pretty much as it was.
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    A 1915 Crown Heights House That’s Only On Its Third OwnersAfter living all over the world, Thomas Gensemer and Gabe Brotman settled down in a Brooklyn place with “a bit of an English feel to it.”
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    Visit Pierre Cardin’s South of France ‘Bubble Palace’A 1970s VIP space odyssey on the Mediterranean.
  41. a long talk
    Fran Lebowitz vs. the WorldA long talk (on a landline) with the star of Martin Scorsese’s cranky, necessary love letter to New York, Pretend It’s a City.
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    A Brooklyn Family’s Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort ZoneAda Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.
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    Meet the Makers at Ostudio, Bed-Stuy’s Beehive of CreativityFernando Aciar turned a parking garage into a DIY community.
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    An 1880 Artist’s Cottage in the Rockaways That Feels Like a ShipPatrick Clark has spent the last 22 years bringing the house back to life, preserving it for its next century.
  45. reasons to love new york
    Farewell to My Go-toRuth Reichl, Rumaan Alam, Jiayang Fan, and more on losing the place where they were a regular.
  46. great rooms
    A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing HeadboardBailey Li designs by her own rules.
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    A Lounge in the Sky in the West VillageHow architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home — with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.
  48. design hunting
    Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His FurnitureThe designer makes his mark by letting you make yours.
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    Room Enough to Be HomebodiesHow Designer Courtney Sloane and artist Cheryl R. Riley perfected the live/work scenario in Jersey City’s post-industrial Powerhouse Arts District.
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    Renovating a 1968 Split-Level in Upstate New York“I don’t think we realized how much work we were stepping into.”
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