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 Zoë Wendel moved into her sister’s three-story house to help with renovations. She made this floor is entirely her own. By Wendy Goodman
  1. It’s Giving Halston Evoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. Beverly’s Is Making It Permanent Beverly Nguyen’s roaming homewares pop-up signed a lease at 27 Orchard.
    By Clio Chang
  3. Donald Judd’s Soho In His Own Words The story behind 101 Spring Street.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Bye, Bouclé Resale sites are flooded with bubbly, fuzzy couches and chairs. Are we experiencing textural fatigue?
    By Mia Mercado
  5. Ten Years Later, Still Coming Soon Fabiana Faria and Helena Barquet opened the Lower East Side home-design shop on 11/12/13.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. A Decamping to a Broad Channel Swim Club Coming Soon co-founders Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria left the Upper East Side for the Rockaways.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. Who Knew So Many Celebrities Wanted to Design Wallpaper Sarah Jessica Parker, Drew Barrymore, and Gwyneth Paltrow found a lucrative side hustle.
    By Clio Chang
  8. A Fairy-Tale Beach Cottage in Cherry Grove Allison Michael Orenstein and Simone Saint Laurent have a motto: “When in doubt, paint it white.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. Charles Renfro’s Fire Island Beach House Feels Like a Stage The architect bought the simple 1961 bungalow designed by Horace Gifford, and only added outdoor rooms.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  11. An Edible Garden in Bed-Stuy That Feels like a Living Room JC Garcia-Lavin and George Fesser had a barren backyard when they bought their house in 2019. Then things went wild.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. 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
  13. Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo Sculpture After a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
    By Clio Chang
  14. A Writer’s Shed in the Springs Glyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. 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
  16. Artists in the Potato Barn Designer Aelfie Oudghiri is opening a residency in her family’s place in Sagaponack.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. 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
  18. The Spon-Con Nursery Synchronicity Lindsay Lohan wanted soft neutrals. So did Naomi Osaka. And Mandy Moore. And …
    By Clio Chang
  19. How to Collect Furniture Like Dennis Freedman “Function is not necessarily the point.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. How Barbiecore Ate Pink A trend dreamed up by publicists and forced into our homes.
    By Mia Mercado
  21. ‘I Sold My Soul, But Warhol Would Be Proud’ Meet the M.F.A. grads pumping out wall art for mid-tier hotel chains and retirement homes.
    By Molly Osberg
  22. The 11,000-Square-Foot Soho Loft ‘Bad Paintings’ Bought When artist Neil Jenney paid just $36,000 for this full-floor space 1973, it was “completely unlivable.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. House of Julio Artist and fashion designer Julio Espada’s floor-through apartment in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens reflects his former shop’s aesthetic.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-up Alex 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
  25. Why Young Collectors Are Buying Fussy Antiques Talking with Michael Diaz-Griffith, author of The New Antiquarians, about the renewed interest in very old things.
    By Diana Budds
  26. Just Follow the Red Door Through the Trees An excerpt from Country Life, by William Abranowicz.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. The 8 Best New Design, Architecture, and Urbanism Books Out This Summer Including a look at Isamu Noguchi’s affinity for Greece and David Adjaye’s tactile architecture.
    By Curbed Staff
  28. A Jubliantly Traditional Carnegie Hill Classic Six Elizabeth Pyne Singer allows that parts of her home “could be construed as totally kooky-looking.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. The Artist Making Furniture Out of Real Flowers and Toy Ants Chris Wolston’s “Flower Power” is on view at the Future Perfect through June.
    By Diana Budds
  30. New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design Obsessives From critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  31. Object & Thing Goes to the Beach A selection of 100 objects by 34 artists will spend the summer at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. A New Antiques Gallery, Utopian Furniture, Bubble Glass and More Finds A special dispatch from the 2023 edition of NYCxDesign.
    By Diana Budds
  33. These Chairs Were Made in 3 Days “Make-do,” curated by the L.A. gallery Marta and auction house Catalog Sale, is an homage to not overthinking things.
    By Diana Budds
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. A New Infinity Room, Architecture for Ants, I ♥ NY Knockoffs, and More Finds Plus a COVID memorial at Greenwood Cemetery.
    By Diana Budds
  37. Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting Here She 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
  38. Have You Seen the Courthouse Where George Santos Surrendered? Richard Meier’s behemoth is the Death Star of the Southern State Parkway.
    By Clio Chang
  39. A ‘Greater New York’ for Designers At the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.
    By Diana Budds
  40. Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in One The sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. 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
  42. Mining the Milton Glaser Archives From never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.
    By Diana Budds
  43. Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit Warehouse Zebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. How to Design a King Charles III’s coronation is ultimately a performance of majesty. The props matter.
    By Kelly Faircloth
  45. Ikea’s Answer to Inflation? Make Things Flimsier. With hollow table legs, paper veneers, and more plastic.
    By Diana Budds
  46. The Interior World of Photographer Richard Avedon On the occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday, a look back at the photographer’s Upper East Side apartment on the year of his death.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. Jake Gyllenhall Is a Teacup Guy Now Luxury porcelain company Ginori 1735 has picked the actor to star in its latest campaign.
    By Clio Chang
  48. A Museum’s Pollinator Garden, Rare Pierre Paulin Furniture, and More Finds Plus a design scandal at the Milan Furniture Fair.
    By Diana Budds
  49. The Collectors Offering Thousands for Vintage Pyrex Raiding Grandma’s cupboards is no longer enough.
    By Angela Serratore
  50. The Zaha Hadid AI Feedback Loop Patrik Schumacher is one architect eager to hand over design work to Midjourney.
    By Diana Budds
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