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The Artist Making Furniture Out of Real Flowers and Toy Ants

 Chris Wolston’s “Flower Power” is on view at the Future Perfect through June. By Diana Budds
  1. New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design Obsessives From critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  2. Object & Thing Goes to the Beach A selection of 100 objects by 34 artists will spend the summer at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. A New Antiques Gallery, Utopian Furniture, Bubble Glass and More Finds A special dispatch from the 2023 edition of NYCxDesign.
    By Diana Budds
  4. These Chairs Were Made in 3 Days “Make-do,” curated by the L.A. gallery Marta and auction house Catalog Sale, is an homage to not overthinking things.
    By Diana Budds
  5. You Could Make a Movie in This 1885 Park Slope ‘McMansion’ In filmmakers Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi’s brownstone, “there are all these stories within the walls.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. An ‘Old School’ ’80s Soho Loft Gets a Family-Friendly Makeover “You want a place where the kids can run around or knock something over,” says father of four Greg Griffith.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. A New Infinity Room, Architecture for Ants, I ♥ NY Knockoffs, and More Finds Plus a COVID memorial at Greenwood Cemetery.
    By Diana Budds
  8. Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting Here She found the Bushwick building after walking by one day and admiring the windows; she imagined that it would be a great place to work.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. Have You Seen the Courthouse Where George Santos Surrendered? Richard Meier’s behemoth is the Death Star of the Southern State Parkway.
    By Clio Chang
  10. A ‘Greater New York’ for Designers At the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.
    By Diana Budds
  11. Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in One The sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. Artist Firelei Báez Has Always Kept It Moving “I think growing up in precarity prepared me for the life of an artist because I knew that poverty wasn’t the end of things.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. Mining the Milton Glaser Archives From never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.
    By Diana Budds
  14. Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit Warehouse Zebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. How to Design a King Charles III’s coronation is ultimately a performance of majesty. The props matter.
    By Kelly Faircloth
  16. Ikea’s Answer to Inflation? Make Things Flimsier. With hollow table legs, paper veneers, and more plastic.
    By Diana Budds
  17. The Interior World of Photographer Richard Avedon On the occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday, a look back at the photographer’s Upper East Side apartment on the year of his death.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. Jake Gyllenhall Is a Teacup Guy Now Luxury porcelain company Ginori 1735 has picked the actor to star in its latest campaign.
    By Clio Chang
  19. A Museum’s Pollinator Garden, Rare Pierre Paulin Furniture, and More Finds Plus a design scandal at the Milan Furniture Fair.
    By Diana Budds
  20. The Collectors Offering Thousands for Vintage Pyrex Raiding Grandma’s cupboards is no longer enough.
    By Angela Serratore
  21. The Zaha Hadid AI Feedback Loop Patrik Schumacher is one architect eager to hand over design work to Midjourney.
    By Diana Budds
  22. The Artist Making Furniture Out of Felted Concrete “People think the fuzziness is cute. Or they’re a little weirded out by it,” says Susannah Weaver.
    By Diana Budds
  23. Wendy Goodman’s Postcards From Milan Design Week The 61st edition of the Salone del Mobile celebrated history while ushering in the new.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. There’s a Monument to South Central L.A. on Top of the Met Once the run in New York ends, it goes back to its home community for permanent installation.
    By Diana Budds
  25. Shallot Is Le Creuset’s New Color The inside of one, specifically.
    By Clio Chang
  26. Casa Fornasetti Is the Most Captivating House in Milan They let me take pictures when I visited.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. Beef Gets the Design World Right From its bland, beige Calabasas minimalism to gloopy vases.
    By Diana Budds
  28. Old-School Decorating in a West Village Bing & Bing Co-op Dan Lobitz, a partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Mark Jacobson, a photographer, were meticulous with the details of their home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. Gaetano Pesce’s Drawings, Helen Levi’s New Ridgewood Store, and More Finds Plus a furniture collection that captures “the explosive feeling of cuteness.”
    By Diana Budds
  30. A Trippy-Looking Place to Make Your Life Better Through Ketamine Randy Polumbo made pieces in the new Cardea offices out of mycelium, “the understory of the mushroom people.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. The Tiny Antiques Gallery of an Avid 31-Year-Old Collector Find French tapestries and Murano glassware in Christopher Cawley’s Chinatown storefront.
    By Diana Budds
  32. A Tribeca Loft With a Kitchen Swing and an Old Convent Door “Everything changes in this house,” says its owner, Grimanesa Amorós, who has filled it with her organic light sculptures.
    By Wendy Goodman
  33. Rare Akari Light Sculptures, Alexander Girard Posters, and More Finds Plus, Public Records’ new “living room.”
    By Diana Budds
  34. What Happens When an Architect Designs Their Own Family Getaway Two different upstate homes — one modern, one cozy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. From a Decaying Bohemian Skylit Garret to a Modern Home Kay Lee and Jonathan Chong were beguiled by this Village walk-up owned by artists for decades. But then they had to live in it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Tom Sachs Promised a Fun Cult The sculptor likes to call his studio part of his art practice. Working there could often be scary.
    By Katy Schneider and Adriane Quinlan
  37. The 9 Best Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Books Out This Spring Including a compendium of Milton Glaser’s illustrations and a delightful collection of underground weed ads.
    By Curbed Staff
  38. A Visit to the Home of Dansk’s Most Prolific Designer An excerpt from Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer.
    By The Editors
  39. This Year’s Pritzker Winner is a Surprise, But Not in a Good Way After a decade of experimental, diverse winners, David Chipperfield feels like a safe choice.
    By Kate Wagner
  40. Lili Chemla’s West Village Apartment Has a Tub With a View It’s as cozy and elegant as her fashion line, Leset, and she insisted on keeping the sticky old windows for charm.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Havana-Influenced In Washington Heights Adam Rolston’s Deco co-op looks across to the Palisades.
    By Wendy Goodman
  42. An Installation of Clothes, Cardboard, and Plywood Takes Over the Japan Society Artist collective CFGNY brings a fashion show to Japan Society after 50 years.
    By Drew Zeiba
  43. How Luam Melake, Designer of Furniture with Feelings, Furnishes her Harlem Co-op It’s a three-bedroom; she works in two of them.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. Let the Light In Peter Vits and Zoe Vidali opened up their Noho triplex with a 27-foot-high atrium.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. A Minimalist Ashtray, a Carved-Wood Lamp From the 1970s, and More Design Finds Plus a new bar in Greenpoint designed to look like it was always there.
    By Diana Budds
  46. How to Sauna, the Ikea and Marimekko Way With rhubarb-print robes, ripply towels, and birch benches from their new Bastua collection.
    By Diana Budds
  47. A Prewar Studio Made Suitable for Two Kristoffer Cusick and Dan Hickle bought the 600-square-foot West Village co-op as a pied-à-terre, then redid it to live in it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. I’ll Miss You, Design Bots The loss of Twitter’s open API will probably finish off the accounts that put random visual delights into my feed.
    By Alexandra Lange
  49. What the Gallerists Brought Home How Patrick Parrish and Alex Gilbert decided what they wanted to live with in their Clinton Hill apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. The Rainbow Hellerware Revival, Artist-Made Dream Houses, and More Design Finds Plus, an architect’s quest to perfect the tiny wood stool.
    By Diana Budds
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