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Two Musicians Renovated Their Home to Fit a Baby Grand Piano

 Singer Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner transformed their Fort Greene three-bedroom into two to accommodate his baby grand piano. By Wendy Goodman
  1. An Upper East Side Apartment Full of Rock-and-Roll Memories Music journalist Lisa Robinson has lived in this rental, where she’s kept an archive of her interview tapes, for 45 years.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. Meet Jim McDowell and His Face Jugs The ceramicist keeps his ancestors’ traditions alive from his home studio in North Carolina.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. Ikea’s New Gaming Chair Is Not Hideous Level up.
    By Diana Budds
  4. Let’s Bring the Design Showroom Home and Live in It Architects Olivier Garce and Clio Dimofski turned their West Village apartment into a cozy, pandemic-friendly stage for new design.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. The Next Generation of Componibili Is Designed to Dissolve The modernist Italian design icon now comes in bioplastic.
    By Diana Budds
  6. What We Know About Joe Biden’s Design Sensibility “Biden blue” comes to the White House
    By Diana Budds
  7. The Vintage Furniture Sellers of Instagram Are Burned Out Behind that Cesca chair: broken fingers, nonstop estate sales, and 100-hour work weeks
    By Daniel Clemens
  8. A Vibrant Reimagining of a Mid-’60s Williamsburg High-Rise Co-op Cassandra Bromfield inherited the apartment from her mother and has made it her own.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. A Box Truck That Carries Our Dreams of Home See Swoon’s fantastical memory box on wheels, “The House Our Families Built.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Artist Daniel Arsham Invites You to His ‘Signature Decay’ A look at his new gallery show of old-looking things.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red Wall Taylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Why Is it So Hard to Design a Good Can Opener? Bean Dad was only part of the problem.
    By Diana Budds
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. These Designers Have an (Emoji-Inspired) Basketmaking Club Last week, they each wove something based off the peach.
    By Diana Budds
  19. During COVID-19, TikTok Made It Cool to Make … Fluffy Rugs Here are six TikTok Tufters you should know.
    By Diana Budds
  20. Meet the Makers at Ostudio, Bed-Stuy’s Beehive of Creativity Fernando Aciar turned a parking garage into a DIY community.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. On Display at Chinatown’s Oldest Shop: Napa-Cabbage Ceramics Plus chile-oil vessels, fungi vases, and yoni-inspired incense holders.
    By Diana Budds
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing Headboard Bailey Li designs by her own rules.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His Furniture The designer makes his mark by letting you make yours.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. 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
  31. Anatomy of a Streetery: Rangoon It’s kinetic and inspired by Burmese design.
    By Diana Budds
  32. Carrie Mae Weems Made a COVID PSA Now at Lincoln Center.
    By Diana Budds
  33. 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
  34. What Caused the Design World Meltdown Over Tiny Wooden Stools? Three days of antiquarian-related hysteria.
    By Diana Budds
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. The Year in Design That Would Have Been As seen in a new exhibition at Friedman Benda.
    By Diana Budds
  38. 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
  39. First Look: Inside Coming Soon’s New Retail Store It is bigger and more Brutalist.
    By Diana Budds
  40. 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
  41. 105-Year-Old Artist Carmen Herrera Has a New Mural in East Harlem And public school students painted it.
    By Diana Budds
  42. See Nick Cave’s New Public Art Project for Election Day “It’s big and in your face,” said Cave.
    By Trupti Rami
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
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