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The ‘Fantasy Furniture’ of a Feminist Icon

 Kate Millett at Salon 94 Design shows the subversive power of pleasurable furniture. By Diana Budds
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Lunar New Year Ceramics, ’80s Hip-Hop Flyers, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus reissued postmodern Bodum glassware from MoMA Design Store
    By Diana Budds
  4. Murray Moss Wants to Live in the Harvard Club The director of Moss Bureau answers Curbed’s 21 Questions.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. Curbed’s 10 Most-Read Great Rooms Stories in 2021 They include stories about a storefront church, a rock-star journalist, and a 300-square-foot East Village studio.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. Wait, You Bought a Used Lighthouse on Long Island? Randy Polumbo won the 1899 Orient Point landmark in a government auction and turned it into an artists’ retreat.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. bell hooks on Design, a Tentacled Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus ‘Filipinx’ graphic design.
    By Diana Budds
  8. Making an 1840s Cobble Hill Townhouse Whole Again: Before and After Photos A project by Peter Guthrie and Susanne Schaal’s Yellowtrees studio.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022 Is Really More of the Same Meet Very Peri, a “new” shade of blue.
    By Diana Budds
  10. A Very Modern Life in a Very Old Stone House Peter Speliopoulos and Robert Turner bought the 1720s Hudson Valley house and took their time with it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. It Looks Like the Millennial Aesthetic Is Finally, Officially Over According to 1stDibs’s trend survey.
    By Diana Budds
  12. J. Morgan Puett’s 94-Acre Industrial-Chic Country Compound It’s featured in photographer Simon Upton’s book, New York Interiors.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. Design’s Unruly, Organic, and Wild Year A dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 2021 edition.
    By Diana Budds
  14. A Blue-Floored Loft That ‘Looks Like a Hardware Store Exploded’ An impromptu visit with artist and How to Make Mistakes on Purpose author Laurie Rosenwald.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. A Modular Furniture Kit That’s the Anti-Ikea Loose Parts riffs on an Erector set to solve furniture’s enormous waste problem.
    By Diana Budds
  16. What Wendy Goodman Loved the Most During Design Week So many wonderful things! But a few of the absolute standouts …
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. A Dated Fifth Avenue Penthouse Sees the Light WORKac architects let the views in.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. I Fell In Love With Stackabl’s Colorful, Sustainable Furniture At the Salon of Art + Design.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. Baseera Khan’s Fever-Induced Works About Home and Pandemic Life The artist, who has a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum, re-created her domestic life in backdrops and light fixtures.
    By Drew Zeiba
  20. Liam Lee Doesn’t Mind If His Work Unsettles You The fiber artist reveals a new furniture line inspired by microbes and enoki mushrooms.
    By Diana Budds
  21. How Peter Lane Created His 32-Foot Wall of Clay for the Salon of Art and Design In the studio with the ceramicist and his team as they prepare an immersive installation for the Park Avenue Armory.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. A Surreal Woven Chandelier, Archival Posters, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus a blood-red-furniture installation by Dozie Kanu at Performance Space.
    By Diana Budds
  23. Turns Out a Lot of People Have Mixed-Up Feelings About Their KitchenAid Mixers A fancy wedding gift, after a divorce, takes on fraught new meaning.
    By Eve Ettinger
  24. A Sleek, Cozy Postwar Alcove Studio Gut Renovation: Before and After Photos Shawn Henderson knew just what to do when he moved from a prewar walk-up to a smaller postwar apartment. Before and After Photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. Lights, Orbs, and Inflatables Animate the Noguchi Museum’s Sculpture Garden The collaborative exhibition with design studio Objects of Common Interest runs through February 13.
    By Diana Budds
  26. A Bunch of Ideas for Banana-Themed Home Décor From the Lower East Side design studio Fort Makers, which currently has an exhibit up called “Bananas.”
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  27. Living in a One-Bedroom Museum Thomas Lollar — ceramicist, teacher, and, most of all, collector — can always find space for his latest discovery.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. A Diane Arbus Tribute, Graphic Blankets, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus, a public sculpture made from 400,000 acrylic fingernails.
    By Diana Budds
  29. The Cutting-Edge Ceramics at the Exhibition ‘Clay-Pop’ Alia Williams curated the playful show at Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. A New Book Asks Artists, Designers and Writers: What Is Home for You? Excerpts from Charlotte Moss’s new book, ‘Home: A Celebration.’
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. The City’s Newest Design Gallery Is in a Chinatown Mall Superhouse Vitrine opens with an exhibition of Sean Gerstley’s ceramic furniture.
    By Diana Budds
  32. Meet the Designer Making Custom Fonts for Spike Lee Tré Seals sifts through Black history and culture to leave Helvetica behind.
    By Diana Budds
  33. Bed in a Box Just how much drama can you pack into a studio apartment?
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. This TikTok Star is Just Really Good at Painting Clean Corners No tape!
    By Willy Blackmore
  35. This Online Shop Sells Only Architect-Approved Home Goods Five things to buy from Civilian Objects
    By Diana Budds
  36. An Urbane Connecticut Farmhouse The architecture firm Husband Wife’s clients didn’t want their country house to be too country.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. An Artist’s Bed-Stuy House That Feels Like It’s in the Country Adrian Nivola found what he wanted.
    By Wendy Goodman
  38. BTS at the United Nations, Doughy Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus, Richard Neutra’s VDL House reopens in L.A.
    By Diana Budds
  39. A Metallic Living-Room Set Inspired by … the Elevator An exclusive first look at the latest monochrome furniture from Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  40. A Brooklyn Storefront Church, Resurrected As a Family Home Virginie Sommet’s latest project, in Ocean Hill.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. The Pope of Gloop For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.
    By Matthew Schneier
  42. The Bingo Heiress’s Fantastical Duplex With its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s home is like nothing else on the Upper East Side.
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. Charlie Watts’s Drawings, 58 Cities Named Columbus, and Other Design Finds Plus an exhibition of Push Pin’s posters.
    By Diana Budds
  44. A Horse Trailer Named Beauty Gets a Makeover Graphic designer Laura Valenzuela’s upstate pandemic project (she learned how to weld!)
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. How Cooper Hewitt Revived Willi Smith’s Radical Showrooms In the ’80s, the architect James Wines tore off building façades to find materials. This time, he went through more official channels.
    By Diana Budds
  46. A (Semi) Fixer-Upper in Stuyvesant Heights Interior stylist J.C. Garcia-Lavin and real-estate broker George Fesser each deployed their complementary skills when they took on a townhouse.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. I Call the Pink Plate! My Indestructible Love for Hellerware Alan Heller and Massimo Vignelli have set my dinner table for three generations.
    By Alissa Walker
  48. A Joyful Brownstone in Bushwick Attorney, influencer, and mother Cynthia Andrew and her husband, Les, teamed up with the Brownstone Boys on their first renovation.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. Blobby NFT Chairs, Reinvented Shaker Design, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus, a book on the Tokyo Olympic Stadium’s architect, Kengo Kuma.
    By Diana Budds
  50. She Lost a View But Gained a Gallery Construction of a hotel next door to Han Feng’s loft covered her east-facing windows, so she came up with a plan.
    By Wendy Goodman
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