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    A Jubliantly Traditional Carnegie Hill Classic SixElizabeth Pyne Singer allows that parts of her home “could be construed as totally kooky-looking.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Object & Thing Goes to the BeachA selection of 100 objects by 34 artists will spend the summer at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    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
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    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
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    Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting HereShe 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
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    Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in OneThe sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    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
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    Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit WarehouseZebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Interior World of Photographer Richard AvedonOn 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
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    Wendy Goodman’s Postcards From Milan Design WeekThe 61st edition of the Salone del Mobile celebrated history while ushering in the new.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Casa Fornasetti Is the Most Captivating House in MilanThey let me take pictures when I visited.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Old-School Decorating in a West Village Bing & Bing Co-opDan 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
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    A Trippy-Looking Place to Make Your Life Better Through KetamineRandy Polumbo made pieces in the new Cardea offices out of mycelium, “the understory of the mushroom people.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    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
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    What Happens When an Architect Designs Their Own Family GetawayTwo different upstate homes — one modern, one cozy.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    From a Decaying Bohemian Skylit Garret to a Modern HomeKay 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
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    Lili Chemla’s West Village Apartment Has a Tub With a ViewIt’s as cozy and elegant as her fashion line, Leset, and she insisted on keeping the sticky old windows for charm.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Havana-Influenced In Washington HeightsAdam Rolston’s Deco co-op looks across to the Palisades.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    How Luam Melake, Designer of Furniture with Feelings, Furnishes her Harlem Co-opIt’s a three-bedroom; she works in two of them.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Let the Light InPeter Vits and Zoe Vidali opened up their Noho triplex with a 27-foot-high atrium.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Prewar Studio Made Suitable for TwoKristoffer 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
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    What the Gallerists Brought HomeHow Patrick Parrish and Alex Gilbert decided what they wanted to live with in their Clinton Hill apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Floating Bedrooms in a Williamsburg LoftMatt Spangler asked architect Keith Burns for more space and light in his new place: Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Push and Pull on a Park Avenue Co-op RenovationInterior designer Olivia Song’s clients were a couple with “polar opposite” tastes: he liked contemporary, she was more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Entirely Affordable, Cheerfully Modernist El Borinquen in the BronxNonprofit developer Comunilife teamed up with Alexander Gorlin Architects.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Bethann Hardison’s Home Has Many Stories to TellShe challenged a stubbornly un-diverse fashion world, ran a modeling agency, and soon has a documentary coming out about her life.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Curbed’s 10 Most-Read ‘Great Rooms’ Stories in 2022They include a medieval triplex, his-and-hers apartments, and Wendy Goodman’s own apartment of 27 years.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Mod, Mix-It-Up English Country Cottage in the West VillageSasha Bikoff warned her husband of her decorating plans, “I’m going to go kind of crazy here.”
    By Wendy Goodman
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    In Praise of the ‘Good Life’ Modernism of Barbie’s 1979 A-FrameAn excerpt from Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey
    By Wendy Goodman
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    He Transformed His LES Apartment To Feel Like His Minnesota Childhood Home.Artist and set designer Steven Hammel’s cozy nostalgia.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Day Wendy Goodman Moved Out of Her Apartment of 27 Years“I’d always thought that I’d be carried out feet first.” Then the brownstone she rented in was sold, and she had to sort through life.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Invite an Artisan to Holiday DinnerAn eye-popping excerpt from the new book At the Artisan’s Table.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    These Obsessive Collectors Fill Their Homes With Chicken Pottery and PrototypesAn excerpt from Sight Unseen’s How to Live With Objects.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Móyòsórè “Moyo” Martins Makes Art At Night In A Former Bronx Furniture FactoryHe painted the skylights black and has furniture from Tim Burton’s Batman movie.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    This “Not-Handy” Couple Really Didn’t Think They Wanted to Buy a TownhouseBefore and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Art Is Always Changing in Michael and Susan Hort’s Live-in Museum in TribecaYou can even sit on some of it!
    By Wendy Goodman
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    This Maximalist Bronx Condo Is All About FreedomAt home with John Goodman. An excerpt from Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays’s new book, AphroChic.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    This Might Be The Most Bohemian Family Home Left in the Village.Artist and archivist Kore Yoors, the son of the artist Jan Yoors, tends to the family legacy.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Rooftop Escape for the ParentsDavid Weinstone and Nicole Tierney added a sleek modernist hat atop their 1899 Carroll Gardens family home.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Proustian and EpicureanAriane Ruskin Batterberry and her late husband, Michael, founders of Food & Wine, moved into this apartment in 1969.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Second Time Around in Kips BayAamir Khandwala and Atif Toor’s refreshed their postwar co-op. I wrote about the last refresh too.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The It’s-Not-a-Problem ApartmentSarah and Adam Meister’s walnut-walled mid-century apartment has a dining/ping-pong table for the kids.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    From a Big Loft to a Bright-Blue StudioPam Sommers’s joyful tale of downsizing (with room for 1,000 books).
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Making Things Work in GreenpointArtist Austin Lee’s quirky, happy home.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Before and After in Bed-StuyLaura 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
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    Todd Oldham’s Place in the PoconosIt’s a patchwork of new and old ideas and … it’ll never be finished.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    Bunny Heaven in WilliamsburgRachel Nuwer and Paul Dix’s 2,300-square-foot rooftop garden is home to bees, trees, crickets, and gamboling rabbit friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    A Garden in the PinesDr. Sumner Freeman and Dr. Roy Yeager’s four-decades-in-the-making Fire Island oasis.
    By Wendy Goodman
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    The Usonian LifeLena 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
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    Ask Mr. Mickey About His ApartmentFor 30 years, Mickey Boardman has lived in this lower-Manhattan walk-up filled with many of his favorite things.
    By Wendy Goodman
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