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Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds

Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo.
  1. Pottery Barn Made Some Remarkably Nice Furniture For Seniors A new Michael Graves design collaboration is unusually subtle about accessibility.
  2. Printemps Is Coming to One Wall Street The Parisian luxury department store has a long history of operating in landmarks.
  3. A Paris Pied-à-Terre With an Olympic View New Yorkers Sean Cassidy and Gerry Logue will be watching the opening ceremony from their balcony on the Left Bank.
  4. Uncovering Good Modernist Bones at U.N. Plaza James Spindler and John Vitale bought their apartment from the family of its original owner, who decorated it in a prewar style. They opened it up.
  5. Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
  6. Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
  7. An Art-Filled Dutch Colonial Hidden Behind the Hedges in Bridgehampton All Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, did with their house was paint it — and fill it with art.
  8. MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent And ends up not saying much about it at all.
  9. Apothecary Lamps, Shaker-Inspired Wall Hooks, and More Debut Design Collections New work from a design residency at Colony in Tribeca.
  10. Anne Hanavan’s ‘Freedom Pad’ Was Always Going to Be Painted Pink “It was a wreck,” she says of the 350 square foot LES apartment. “But I could see the potential.”
  11. 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.
  12. Wendy Goodman’s Top-Ten Finds From WantedDesign Futuristic desks, snaky tube lights, and a turntable lamp by emerging designers.
  13. How to Build a Kitchen for Miranda July Talking to artist and contractor Nico B. Young about making July’s butter-yellow cabinetry.
  14. 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.
  15. Nobody Wants to Mow the Lawn at the Beach Breck and Georgia Eisner’s Amagansett retreat gives the children a cottage of their own.
  16. One-of-a-Kind Pots and Lamps Among the Shirtdresses A craft show of AAPI designers at 3.1 Phillip Lim.
  17. Watching Their Garden Grow In 1981, Peter Schlesinger and Eric Boman bought this “romantic ruin” on Long Island and put down roots.
  18. 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.”
  19. A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, Brooklyn From cookie-cutter to an explosion of color: “The neighborhood was pretty blown away.”
  20. Wendy Goodman’s Picks From Milan Design Week Never before seen Eames lamps, modern craft collections, and new furniture made from scraps.
  21. A Burlesque Family at Home Showbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
  22. 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.
  23. The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy Meyers Rose Tarlow on her reissued book, her tiny client list, and her obsessive standards.
  24. The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
  25. Spiky Trinkets, Cloud Lamps, and Hundreds of Max Lamb Chairs Plus a new metallic-furniture collection at Nomia.
  26. ‘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.
  27. Making Space Where There Isn’t Any New York architects on creating extra rooms and better storage in the smallest duplexes and studios.
  28. My Tiny New York Bathroom Fits 400 Products How a beauty editor organizes the chaos of four shipments a week.
  29. The New York Apartments That Pay for Themselves How three small-space influencers live, work, and cover the rent.
  30. 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.
  31. A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty Nesters They were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
  32. 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.
  33. The Newest Louis Poulsen Lamps Are Glowing Glass A one-of-a-kind collaboration with Home in Heven is up for auction at 1stDibs.
  34. 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.
  35. A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking Fireplace The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
  36. Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered “I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
  37. A David Lynch–Inspired Nightclub, Fantasy Coffins, and More Design Finds Plus a new salon-style gallery in Soho.
  38. 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.”
  39. 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?’”
  40. 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).
  41. 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!”
  42. Craftsman Home In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
  43. The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One) A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft
  47. How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves Back All 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
  48. 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.
  49. You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita Mergentime From Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
  50. 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.
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