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  1. Artist Daniel Arsham Invites You to His ‘Signature Decay’ A look at his new gallery show of old-looking things.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red Wall Taylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. 5 Things to Buy from Crosby Studios’ New Home-Goods Line Designer Harry Nuriev wants to make it easier for people to reinvent their homes in his image.
    By Diana Budds
  4. A Winterized Hamptons Carriage House Where the Art World Hung Out in the 1960s Julia Gruen grew up surrounded by artists and writers in her parents’ summer home, which she has kept pretty much as it was.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. Why Is it So Hard to Design a Good Can Opener? Bean Dad was only part of the problem.
    By Diana Budds
  6. A 1915 Crown Heights House That’s Only On Its Third Owners After 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.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. A Brooklyn Family’s Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort Zone Ada Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. 5 Things to Buy From Yinka Ilori’s New Home Goods Line The British-Nigerian designer’s color-obsessed work is about joy, hope, and optimism. And now you can bring it to your table.
    By Diana Budds
  9. These Designers Have an (Emoji-Inspired) Basketmaking Club Last week, they each wove something based off the peach.
    By Diana Budds
  10. During COVID-19, TikTok Made It Cool to Make … Fluffy Rugs Here are six TikTok Tufters you should know.
    By Diana Budds
  11. Meet the Makers at Ostudio, Bed-Stuy’s Beehive of Creativity Fernando Aciar turned a parking garage into a DIY community.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. On Display at Chinatown’s Oldest Shop: Napa-Cabbage Ceramics Plus chile-oil vessels, fungi vases, and yoni-inspired incense holders.
    By Diana Budds
  13. An 1880 Artist’s Cottage in the Rockaways That Feels Like a Ship Patrick Clark has spent the last 22 years bringing the house back to life, preserving it for its next century.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Artists to MoMA: Take Down Philip Johnson’s Name The founding director of the museum’s Architecture and Design department was a known white supremacist.
    By Diana Budds
  15. 5 Things to Buy From Nest’s New Capsule Collection The interiors magazine with a cult following is back with home goods and apparel.
    By Diana Budds
  16. A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard Bailey Li designs by her own rules.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Inspecting 11 Rooms From The Queen’s Gambit Designer Uli Hanisch on painting wallpaper, leaving taste behind, and building a “temple to chess.”
    By Megan Barber
  18. A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village How architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home — with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. Artist Shaun Leonardo Is the New Co-Director of Recess “For change to happen, folks have to move aside and actually allocate power to the people.”
    By Diana Budds
  20. Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His Furniture The designer makes his mark by letting you make yours.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair. “To invest in what you are actually doing — where you are actually sitting — might seem like capitulation but is also self-care.”
    By Alexandra Lange
  22. Anatomy of a Streetery: Rangoon It’s kinetic and inspired by Burmese design.
    By Diana Budds
  23. Carrie Mae Weems Made a COVID PSA Now at Lincoln Center.
    By Diana Budds
  24. Nick DeMarco Imagines a Future in Which Plastic Comes Alive “It’s kind of like making the best of a bad situation.”
    By Diana Budds
  25. What Caused the Design World Meltdown Over Tiny Wooden Stools? Three days of antiquarian-related hysteria.
    By Diana Budds
  26. Room Enough to Be Homebodies How Designer Courtney Sloane and artist Cheryl R. Riley perfected the live/work scenario in Jersey City’s post-industrial Powerhouse Arts District.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. Buy One of These Artist-Designed Plates and Help Feed the Unhoused Tauba Auerbach, Glenn Ligon, Kenny Scharf, and more made them for the Coalition for the Homeless.
    By Diana Budds
  28. The Year in Design That Would Have Been As seen in a new exhibition at Friedman Benda.
    By Diana Budds
  29. The Mary Wollstonecraft Statue in London Is Bad Kitsch Feminism The shambolic mess looks a Rolls-Royce hood ornament by way of a sketchy Disney Fantasia figure.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. First Look: Inside Coming Soon’s New Retail Store It is bigger and more Brutalist.
    By Diana Budds
  31. Renovating a 1968 Split-Level in Upstate New York “I don’t think we realized how much work we were stepping into.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. 105-Year-Old Artist Carmen Herrera Has a New Mural in East Harlem And public school students painted it.
    By Diana Budds
  33. See Nick Cave’s New Public Art Project for Election Day “It’s big and in your face,” said Cave.
    By Trupti Rami
  34. There Will Never Be Another David Easton “He was the most outrageous person I have ever met, and always had me on the floor in hysterics,” says Bunny Williams.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. Andrew LaMar Hopkins Paints Creole History From His 1815 Home in Savannah “My main focus is the free people of color because their voice has been forgotten.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. See This Art Basel Online Show Looking at the ‘Dream House’ While you’re stuck inside your maybe-not-so-dreamy home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. This Floating Tiny House in East Hampton Is Inspired by a Duck Blind Artist Scott Bluedorn made it out of found materials: local kelp, a kid’s jungle gym.
    By Wendy Goodman
  38. Afrofuturist Ari Melenciano Doesn’t Mind Never Leaving Her Loft in Quarantine “All of my gadgets — they’re basically my toys — are everywhere.” And they inspire her.
    By Diana Budds
  39. Remembering Fort Thunder: 11 Dudes, Two Bands, One Working Toilet Jim Drain looks back at life in the Providence punk art commune.
    By Mercedes Kraus
  40. Office Life, Inside and Out Paper co-founder Kim Hastreiter renovated a studio in her building to be her new office. But for now, meet her in Washington Square Park.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Norwood Young Got Tired of Being More Famous for His L.A. House Than His Singing He’s moved to Bangkok, where he is treated like a king.
    By Mercedes Kraus
  42. Andy Coolquitt’s Austin Art Commune Was Inspired by Duchamp “It’s really an experiment in … learning how to live a sane existence.”
    By Mercedes Kraus
  43. Artist Stephanie H. Shih Happily Gave Up On Minimalism “I realized that will never be me. It can’t be me.” A visit to her Carroll Gardens apartment.
    By Diana Budds
  44. London Artist Julie Verhoeven’s Favorite Spot in Her House Is Her Toilet “The flat has become a giant collage of precarious layers of stuff.”
    By Mercedes Kraus
  45. Who Lived in That Farrah Fawcett Place, and What’s Happened to Him Since? Catching up with Raymond Donahue, whose home was on the cover of Nest’s first issue.
    By Mercedes Kraus
  46. Musician Henry Hall’s Childhood Bedroom: Ocean Views, Beanie Babies, and Ghosts The 28-year-old son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall remembers the room he grew up in.
    By Henry Hall and Anthony Rotunno
  47. See Shantell Martin’s New Playground Mural In the Rockaways.
    By Trupti Rami
  48. Your Quarantine Clutter Has a Long and Distinguished History Embrace the mess.
    By Alexandra Lange
  49. A Floating Home-Away-From-Home Lyndsay Caleo Karol and Fitzhugh Karol’s getaway boat, Lucy, sleeps eight and is moored at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. A Studio Visit With Nest Founder Turned Painter Joseph Holtzman He paints on marble, and the sofa is from 1918.
    By Wendy Goodman
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