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 “It was a wreck,” she says of the 350 square foot LES apartment. “But I could see the potential.” By Wendy Goodman
  1. Answered Prayers Brooklynites Cristiana Peña and Nick Porter dreamed of living in an old church upstate. They bought one for $99,000. It needed a lot of work.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. Wendy Goodman’s Top-Ten Finds From WantedDesign Futuristic desks, snaky tube lights, and a turntable lamp by emerging designers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. How to Build a Kitchen for Miranda July Talking to artist and contractor Nico B. Young about making July’s butter-yellow cabinetry.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Fiberglass Chairs, Rodeo-Inspired Lamps, and More From Jonalddudd’s 2024 Show The independent design show included robotic lamps and a chair composed of interlocking apple-shaped slices.
    By Morgan Meier
  5. Nobody Wants to Mow the Lawn at the Beach Breck and Georgia Eisner’s Amagansett retreat gives the children a cottage of their own.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. One-of-a-Kind Pots and Lamps Among the Shirtdresses A craft show of AAPI designers at 3.1 Phillip Lim.
    By Angela Serratore
  7. Watching Their Garden Grow In 1981, Peter Schlesinger and Eric Boman bought this “romantic ruin” on Long Island and put down roots.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. The Thirty-Year Evolution of Kitty Hawks’s Chappaqua Gardens “Plenty of mistakes have been made and rectified. Doing is the best way of learning.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, Brooklyn From cookie-cutter to an explosion of color: “The neighborhood was pretty blown away.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Wendy Goodman’s Picks From Milan Design Week Never before seen Eames lamps, modern craft collections, and new furniture made from scraps.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. A Burlesque Family at Home Showbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. Good Luck Trying to Resell This West Elm Coffee Table New Yorkers love to buy the company’s industrial storage table, but that love doesn’t last.
    By Lindy Segal
  13. The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy Meyers Rose Tarlow on her reissued book, her tiny client list, and her obsessive standards.
    By Catherine Hong
  14. The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. Spiky Trinkets, Cloud Lamps, and Hundreds of Max Lamb Chairs Plus a new metallic-furniture collection at Nomia.
    By Terry Nguyen
  16. ‘If I Had to Leave This Place, I Would Probably Leave New York’ At home with Brooklyn artists from three generations of loft living — all protected by Loft Law.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. Making Space Where There Isn’t Any New York architects on creating extra rooms and better storage in the smallest duplexes and studios.
    By Ian Volner
  18. My Tiny New York Bathroom Fits 400 Products How a beauty editor organizes the chaos of four shipments a week.
    By Tahirah Hairston
  19. The New York Apartments That Pay for Themselves How three small-space influencers live, work, and cover the rent.
    By Petra Guglielmetti
  20. I’ll Never Forget the Apartment Gaetano Pesce Did for Ruth Shuman The Italian designer reimagined almost every square inch of the Publicolor founder’s home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty Nesters They were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. A Tree House for Two Architects in Carroll Gardens Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem built the indoor-outdoor “Mini Tower One” extension to their Brooklyn home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. The Newest Louis Poulsen Lamps Are Glowing Glass A one-of-a-kind collaboration with Home in Heven is up for auction at 1stDibs.
    By Angela Serratore
  24. Audrey Flack Is 92 and Still Painting in Her UWS Apartment She’s in her “Post-Pop Baroque Period,” and has a new gallery show, a memoir and lives with a skeleton from her days teaching anatomy at NYU.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking Fireplace The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered “I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
    By Wendy Goodman
  27. A David Lynch–Inspired Nightclub, Fantasy Coffins, and More Design Finds Plus a new salon-style gallery in Soho.
    By Terry Nguyen
  28. Fashion Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson’s House in Bed-Stuy “I became obsessed with Live Auctioneers. I didn’t have the time, or the bandwidth, or the driver’s license, for going to estate sales.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. The Immediately Outdated Renovation “It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life. Now you look and say, ‘How can this look dated already?’”
    By Kim Velsey
  30. How to Build a House for Leonard Bernstein Maestro production designer Kevin Thompson on filming in the conductor’s actual Connecticut home (and going through his junk drawers).
    By Nora DeLigter
  31. Living With His Husband and His Own Furniture Designs in Greenpoint Ever since Jeremy Silberberg started Studio S II with Erica Sellers, they’d been “digging for reasons to fund our own work!”
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. Craftsman Home In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
    By Wendy Goodman
  33. The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. The Yoga Teacher Living Over an East Village Karaoke Bar Alex Schatzberg also teaches in his apartment, in an 1833 building on St. Marks Place.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. A Serene Gut-Reno in the East Village, Six Flights Up Magdalena and Jonathan Keck wanted to live on the top floor no matter what.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One) A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves Back All 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
    By Clio Chang
  38. How Do You Rebuild a Nazi’s House? For The Zone of Interest, a crew meticulously studied Rudolf Höss’s actual house, then created a replica down the street.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita Mergentime From Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. Have You Heard About the Hot-Girl Toilet Seat? Commodes with eggs and old cellphones suspended in resin aren’t for everyone. Maybe they’re for you.
    By Nora Taylor
  41. His Name Was Picked Out of a Hat to Get This Gramercy Park Apartment Michael Shane Neal is just the third artist in 117 years to occupy this studio at the National Arts Club.
    By Wendy Goodman
  42. Down the eBay Rabbit Hole to Find a Bitossi Clock These chunky mid-century ceramics looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  43. A Look Inside New York’s Mountain Houses The remote beauty and real meaning of the getaway home.
    By Curbed Staff
  44. Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2023 Including a mosaic-tiled backyard, a loft with floating bedrooms, and a transformation.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. A Tribeca Duplex Inspired by Cloud City and the Fortress of Solitude After Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought this apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. A Place, at Last, for Everything (Including the Teenager and the Shoes) A family thought they’d outgrown their apartment, until they met the architects Ideas of Order. Before and after photos for what they did.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. McDonald’s Lamps, Rubber Tables, and Anthony Haden-Guest at Design Miami Plus a literal trophy bookcase.
    By Ian Volner
  48. The Photographer Who Taught Herself How to Renovate Her Own Apartment After living in this apartment for nearly 18 years, Amanda Weil wanted a change, but first she fired her architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. TM Davy’s Fairy-, Satyr-, and Plant-Filled East Williamsburg Loft “I don’t really know that there are many places left like this.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. A Student of Corbu’s in Nutley Glenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa’s house was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr., who had worked with Le Corbusier.
    By Wendy Goodman
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