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 Joseph Giovannini’s extreme home makeover: “Realism is not my deal.” By Wendy Goodman
  1. This Filipino American Designer Is Reclaiming the Peacock Chair “To me, it’s about more than designing a collection; I’m inventing a style,” says Cheyenne Concepcion.
    By Diana Budds
  2. Rope Masks, Nubby Vases, a Steel Bar Cart, and More Design Finds A special dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 10th anniversary.
    By Diana Budds
  3. Architect Hani Rashid Goes to Bear Mountain, or the Metaverse, to Be Alone The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. A Fidi Loft With Room for the Pokémon: Before and After Photos Architect Shane Neufeld’s streamlined renovation for Yuan Jiang and William Chen.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. A Mexican Design Exhibition Has Taken Over a Rockefeller Center Post Office “Intervención/Intersección” celebrates creative kinship.
    By Diana Budds
  6. Eric Adams Is Design’s New Hype Man And by design, he means fashion.
    By Diana Budds
  7. Mort & Me in Bed-Stuy The artist Simone Bodmer-Turner lives in this apartment of her own devising with her rescue dog, Mort.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
    By Diana Budds
  9. Disney Comes for the West Elm Parents For the discerning buyer who wants every surface in the house covered in Mickey merch … but in a classy way.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. Revisiting Barbra Streisand’s 300-Page Home-Design Manifesto Featuring Martha Stewart’s advice on cow urine.
    By Rachel Handler
  11. The Untold Story of the Met Gala Red Carpet As in the actual carpet.
    By Katie McDonough and Diana Budds
  12. Let’s Make Our New Townhouse Feel Like This Biophilic Hotel The couple who bought this new townhouse loved the natural feel of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, so they hired its architects.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. An Olmsted Index, Archive of Nakagin Capsule Tower Images, and More Finds Plus ideas for a 100 percent affordable-housing skyscraper at the World Trade Center.
    By Diana Budds
  14. Does Seth Rogen’s Weed Palace Smell? He has a lot of ashtrays.
    By Clio Chang
  15. I Bought 6 Things at Martha Stewart’s Tag Sale But I could have stolen any number of them.
    By Choire Sicha
  16. The Couple That Built Very Different, His and Hers Apartments, Side by Side She collects stuff, he likes pared-down traditionalist Japanese rooms. After years of marriage, Dorothy and Stephen Globus grew apart. What to do?
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Joni Mitchell, Meet Edith Wharton Musician Chase Cohl checked into the Lafayette House early in the pandemic — and never left.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. Death Masks, Dopamine Décor, Antiquarian Books, and More Design Finds Plus Julio Torres’s story about a plunger that just wants to be a vase.
    By Diana Budds
  19. Artist Shaina Tabak Likes a Table That Inspires Double Takes “My furniture makes you work to figure out what to do with it,” she says.
    By Diana Budds
  20. Quilts, Nan Goldin, and a Cello-Shaped Dresser Artist Sam Roeck’s Williamsburg apartment is full of art he made, art by his friends and family, and many quilts.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. A Basquiat Family Reunion The artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.
    By Carl Swanson
  22. Saving the Modernist Scull House in the Hamptons Designer Lisa Perry has restored it and is turning it into Onna House, a gallery for women artists.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. The Rainbow Tyranny of Get Organized With the Home Edit We’ve had about enough of you, Roy G. Biv.
    By Hillary Kelly
  24. You Found Harry’s Couch And by “you,” I mean incredibly diligent One Direction fans.
    By Clio Chang
  25. The Nivola Horses Are Finally Getting Their Feet Back Architectural conservationists are restoring the sculptures for an eventual return to public space this fall.
    By Diana Budds
  26. A Neo-Moderne Reinvention of a Derelict Village House, Abandoned for 10 Years Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. Marimekko Wallpaper, a Transit Zine, and More Design Finds Plus an art and design lending library at the Tribeca art gallery 52 Walker.
    By Diana Budds
  28. The Founder of Yuns Wants You to Have a Well-Stocked Toolbox Starting with the “Maybach of hammers.”
    By Diana Budds
  29. When a Gallerist Asks One of Her Artists to Redo Her Farmhouse Upstate Valerie Goodman enlisted Jacques Jarrige to create a new interior — plus all the furniture and the art.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. Designer Sean Kim Sticks Strange Things on Practical Things After 3-D printing 2,000 lamps in his closet, Kim just wants to find his next hit.
    By Diana Budds
  31. A Freaky Lamp Show in Fort Greene Light-up socks, blenders with bulbs, and a banana pendant.
    By Louis Cheslaw
  32. Fashion Designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh Is Raising Two Kids in This All-White Loft “We’re working on becoming more minimal.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  33. Faith Ringgold’s Story Quilts, a Minimalist Vacuum, and Other Design Finds Plus, an exhibition about lower Manhattan’s malls at the Abrons Arts Center.
    By Diana Budds
  34. The Crown Heights Design Shop That Began As a Teenager’s Bud-Vase Collection Of the Cloth’s owner is happy to part with his collection of vintage textiles, ceramics, and furniture.
    By Diana Budds
  35. A Mid-Pandemic Move to a Former YMCA in Hudson “It was the Brooklyn lifestyle we always wanted…without the crowded streets and the inflated prices.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Weird and Wild Florals Are Everywhere You Look From Katie Stout’s bronze chandelier to the cotton petals on Pelle’s light post, furniture is in bloom.
    By Diana Budds
  37. Chris Schanck Goes Cosmic With His Surreal Chairs and Chandeliers And branches out into more personal, story-based work for his show at MAD.
    By Diana Budds
  38. The 17-Year Bed-Stuy Brownstone Renovation Rodney Lawrence and Terry Sonterre took their time.
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. Ebony’s Groovy Test Kitchen, Euphoria’s Bedrooms, and Other Design Finds Plus, a gravity-defying installation by Tomás Saraceno at the Shed.
    By Diana Budds
  40. Just for Men No More: Before and After Photos of a Former Uptown Men’s Club River Terrace has always been a Washington Heights power building. Its renovated men’s club now welcomes all.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. What Went Into Building The Gilded Age’s 19th-Century New York Sometimes it’s CGI. Other times it’s a soundstage. And it can also be another city that stands in for the long-lost Upper East Side.
    By Diana Budds
  42. Artist Andres Serrano’s Medieval-Style Greenwich Village Triplex “I realized that the things that made the most sense here were religious in nature.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. Vintage CorningWare, A Whimsical Windsor Chair, and More Design Picks This Week Plus a new book about women who changed architecture.
    By Diana Budds
  44. Before and After: Revival of an Actress’s Dated Condo Tess Soltau enlisted White Arrow to gut-reno her apartment with showstopping views.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. Madewell Is Selling Paint Now? Yes, and chore jackets in the very same millennial beige.
    By Diana Budds
  46. A Two-Bedroom, With Room for a Scooter Interior designer Kammi Reiss created a serene apartment her husband could navigate with ease.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. A Nightlife Residency, Architecture Posters, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus, an installation that captures the underwater sounds of New York.
    By Diana Budds
  48. The ‘Fantasy Furniture’ of a Feminist Icon Kate Millett at Salon 94 Design shows the subversive power of pleasurable furniture.
    By Diana Budds
  49. Then-and-Now Photos: Staying Put In the Same One-Bedroom for 60 Years Architectural historian Andrew Alpern bought his one-bedroom Chelsea apartment in 1962 with no intention to ever leave. And he hasn’t.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. Meet the Residents of a New Low-Income Building by Robert A.M. Stern Architects In Brownsville, Brooklyn, not on Billionaires’ Row.
    By Wendy Goodman
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