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What Happens When an Architect Designs Their Own Family Getaway

 Two different upstate homes — one modern, one cozy. By Wendy Goodman
  1. Kim Kardashian’s $355 Bathroom Vanity Set Is Brutalist Muji Keeping up with koncrete.
    By Diana Budds
  2. Gaetano Pesce Designed 400 Gloopy Chairs for Bottega Veneta And you might be able to snag one at Design Miami in November.
    By Diana Budds
  3. Proustian and Epicurean Ariane Ruskin Batterberry and her late husband, Michael, founders of Food & Wine, moved into this apartment in 1969.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Nature-Inspired Glass Lighting, Soft Seating at Lincoln Center, and More Finds Plus a monument to a historic Filipino settlement in Louisiana.
    By Diana Budds
  5. The Best Part of ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Is the Set Design Mid-century Palm Springs stands in for a utopia that devolves into something sinister.
    By Diana Budds
  6. Unsurprisingly, Dwell Magazine is Now Selling Its Own Prefab ADUs For just $389,000.
    By Diana Budds
  7. ‘We Weren’t Afraid to Fall on Our Face.’ A new exhibition honors the rebellious Soho design gallery Art et Industrie.
    By Diana Budds
  8. Second Time Around in Kips Bay Aamir Khandwala and Atif Toor’s refreshed their postwar co-op. I wrote about the last refresh too.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. The It’s-Not-a-Problem Apartment Sarah and Adam Meister’s walnut-walled mid-century apartment has a dining/ping-pong table for the kids.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Minecraft at MoMA, Barbie Dreamhouse Paint, and More Finds Plus a furniture and design exhibition in a landscape architect’s historic midcentury house.
    By Diana Budds
  11. Designers Are Getting Horny “Sexy,” curated by Eny Lee Parker, features a phallic grill, racy candle holders, a squeezable vase, and more libidinous designs.
    By Diana Budds
  12. From a Big Loft to a Bright-Blue Studio Pam Sommers’s joyful tale of downsizing (with room for 1,000 books).
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. The Wing’s Lasting Legacy Is the Furniture It makes sense that everyone’s trying to strip the co-working spaces for parts.
    By Diana Budds
  14. Did a Retouched Architectural Digest Photo Cover Up Stolen Relics? Now you see the Cambodian antiquities; now you don’t.
    By Diana Budds
  15. Making Things Work in Greenpoint Artist Austin Lee’s quirky, happy home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  16. A LEGO Playscape in Harlem, a Squishy Chair, and More Finds Plus, a mural for Little Ukraine.
    By Diana Budds
  17. Issey Miyake Was A Designer’s Designer The Japanese fashion designer was not just a favorite of architects; he was an early supporter of many young practices.
    By Diana Budds
  18. Before and After in Bed-Stuy Laura Higby and Rebecca Stubbs knew their new 19th-century brownstone would be beautiful. A look at the work that got it there.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. Todd Oldham’s Place in the Poconos It’s a patchwork of new and old ideas and … it’ll never be finished.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. Candy-Inspired Tables, an Archive of NYC Water, and More Finds Plus, a new ashtray from Seth Rogen’s weed brand Houseplant.
    By Diana Budds
  21. Jimmy Fallon Found the Perfect Buyer for His Clown House And that buyer is Cara Delevingne.
    By Zach Schiffman
  22. Bunny Heaven in Williamsburg Rachel Nuwer and Paul Dix’s 2,300-square-foot rooftop garden is home to bees, trees, crickets, and gamboling rabbit friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. Love Island’s Outdoor Seating Is All Over the Emotional Map A taxonomy.
    By Clio Chang
  24. So You Want to Build a Sex Room … Interior designer Melanie Rose thinks you should have a place to explore pleasure (sex swing optional).
    By Diana Budds
  25. A Garden in the Pines Dr. Sumner Freeman and Dr. Roy Yeager’s four-decades-in-the-making Fire Island oasis.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. Tables Inspired by Pasta, Hudson Square’s Walkable Upgrade, and More Finds Plus new stormwater flood maps for New York.
    By Diana Budds
  27. Get the Look: Oath Keepers General Counsel’s Playful, Minimalist Kitchen Kellye SoRelle borrowed her Zoom background from Queer Eye (and West Elm).
    By Zach Schiffman
  28. The Usonian Life Lena Stringari works at the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim Museum and owns a house in a community upstate inspired by Wright’s ideas.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. Ask Mr. Mickey About His Apartment For 30 years, Mickey Boardman has lived in this lower-Manhattan walk-up filled with many of his favorite things.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. A Montauk Motel Renovation, Stadium Seating for Open Streets, and More Finds Plus a 1960s flyer for a whisper abortion consultation service run by clergy members.
    By Diana Budds
  31. What Wendy Goodman Loved at This Year’s Milan Furniture Fair The off-site wonders and provocative installations of the design world’s biggest showcase.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. A ‘Comical Dungeon’ Designed in VR Takes Over a Chinatown Gallery Neo-feudalism and medieval creatures inspired Ryan Decker’s first solo show.
    By Diana Budds
  33. A Debonair Gut Reno of a Bohemian East Village Co-op: Before and After Photos Tech entrepreneur Matt Hackett and designer Archie Archambault remade an apartment in the storied Onyx Court.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. Architect-Designed Birdhouses, a Busway Mural, and More Design Finds Plus fashion designer Duro Olowu mines the Cooper Hewitt’s archive.
    By Diana Budds
  35. Inside the Obsessive World of Taschen’s Custom Book Stands The publisher’s 50-pound editions are too big for most furniture, so it’s been making its own.
    By Diana Budds
  36. Take a Meeting With Julio Torres in His New Greenpoint Office “I need to be surrounded by the things I like and to be visually stimulated in order to function.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. These Dutch Designers Transform Old Cabinets With Psychedelic Patterns “All the time, people say, ‘You must use a lot of drugs,’” says FreelingWaters, who follow a strict process to get their wild results.
    By Whitney Mallett
  38. Misha Kahn’s Sunset Park Studio Is Home to Robots and a Night Possum “You need talented people and talented machines” says the artist.
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. Bioplastic Sculptures, an Okra-Inspired Rug, and More Design Finds Plus glass vessels for environmental causes.
    By Diana Budds
  40. Designer Minjae Kim Translated His Mom’s Paintings Into Chairs “I sent her a photo of the chair. She was like, ‘Oh, it’s my painting.’”
    By Diana Budds
  41. An Op-Art Womb of a Loft In Los Angeles Joseph Giovannini’s extreme home makeover: “Realism is not my deal.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  42. 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
  43. Rope Masks, Nubby Vases, a Steel Bar Cart, and More Design Finds A special dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 10th anniversary.
    By Diana Budds
  44. Architect Hani Rashid Goes to Bear Mountain, or the Metaverse, to Be Alone The architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. 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
  46. A Mexican Design Exhibition Has Taken Over a Rockefeller Center Post Office “Intervención/Intersección” celebrates creative kinship.
    By Diana Budds
  47. Eric Adams Is Design’s New Hype Man And by design, he means fashion.
    By Diana Budds
  48. 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
  49. Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
    By Diana Budds
  50. 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
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