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great rooms
Feb. 25, 2025
The Hudson Valley Log Cabin No One Wanted Furniture designer Jake Szymanski grew up in a Colorado log house. He thought he’d never want to live in one again.
Where Gold Paint, Fringe, and Crystal Chandeliers Meet A glimpse into the living rooms of the Middle East, from Istanbul to the border of Iran.
great rooms
Feb. 19, 2025
A Wood-Paneled Renovation Turns Two Units Into One Danielle Fennoy used curved walls and concrete floors to fuse two adjacent apartments.
design edit
Feb. 12, 2025
great rooms
Feb. 11, 2025
Brushing Up Scott Csoke’s East Williamsburg Railroad The artist took a can of pink paint to an otherwise ho-hum rental.
great rooms
Jan. 28, 2025
A Cabin in the Middle of St. Marks Place Charles FitzGerald and Kathy Cerick transformed a seven-bedroom SRO loft by hand using reclaimed wood.
Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
great rooms
Jan. 14, 2025
John Derian’s Apartment Is Full of Wonderful Things Papier-mâché birds, découpage, flea-market finds from Paris, antiques, furniture he designed himself that was inspired by antiques — and more.
design edit
Jan. 13, 2025
The Furniture that Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy Designed for Their Paris Home Plus, a look at the recording booth they designed for Travis Scott’s world tour.
‘I’m Not Designing for You. I’m Not Designing for Me.’ Nine years after turning down a role on Queer Eye , Jeremiah Brent on joining the show and decorating on a $40,000 budget.
great rooms
Dec. 31, 2024
Two Texans in Williamsburg David Nuss and Sarah Martin-Nuss tried to decorate their house on their own — until they realized they needed help.
design edit
Dec. 27, 2024
Skateboard-Ramp-Inspired Lamps, a Soothing Dispensary, and More Design Finds Plus, a stone-embellished collection of dustpans and garbage cans at Future Perfect.
year in review
Dec. 26, 2024
Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2024 From an Amagansett retreat with a children’s cottage to the Nashville artist living in the National Arts Club.
My Brilliant Friend Compelled Me to Get a LandlineGoing down the rabbit hole of Italian mid-century phone design.
design edit
Dec. 14, 2024
Keeping It Simple on Lower Fifth Jack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro’s apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design Enthusiasts From a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
great rooms
Nov. 19, 2024
why this looks like that
Nov. 18, 2024
A Dutch Designer’s Grand Return to New York Hella Jongerius’s first collaboration with Salon 94 features experimental textiles and a full cast of clay animals.
design edit
Nov. 12, 2024
Ryan Lawson Lives Above His Favorite Italian Restaurant He designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.
cheap furniture
Nov. 1, 2024
I Am Already in Couch Hell Amazon’s $20 sofa will make it worse.
A Museum for Place-Setting Obsessives The International Museum of Dinnerware Design opens in Kingston.
great rooms
Oct. 31, 2024
The Death Mask Unearthed at the Players Club A renovation of Edwin Booth’s room revealed the contents of a cabinet that had been locked for nearly 100 years
great rooms
Oct. 22, 2024
The Water-Tower Penthouse in the Bronx Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s rooftop apartment on the Grand Concourse looks out on Yankee Stadium.
Megalopolis Is Yet Another Neri Oxman FantasyMystery substances that can grow buildings, heal wounds, and stop time? Why not.
The Real Russian Oligarch Family Who Built Anora’ s Mansion Not much seems to have changed in the 14,000-square-foot compound in Mill Basin since the Anisimov family moved out a decade ago.
Rosario Candela Invented the Upper East Side Apartment David Netto’s new book tells the story of how the architect defined quiet luxury in New York City.
From a Downtown Loft to a Sutton Place Classic Seven After 18 years in Noho and three in a Paul Rudolph pleasure palace, Christine and John Gachot decided to try something more traditional.
The Santa Fe Home That Was Alexander Girard’s Final Triumph A new book by Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee surveys everything the designer ever touched.
When a Townhouse Renovation Raises Questions About a City’s Future A debate about gentrification is set against a backdrop of monochrome and tasteful decor in ‘Good Bones’ at the Public.
great rooms
Sept. 24, 2024
They’re Not in Kansas City Anymore Todd and Emily Voth’s bold pied-à-terre in Herzog & de Meuron’s “Jenga Building” drinks in the city lights.
Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.
great rooms
Sept. 18, 2024
great rooms
Sept. 10, 2024
Ali Richmond’s Crown Heights Loft Has a Higher Purpose The co-founder of the Fashion for All Foundation has lived in this space almost 20 years with his archive of designer clothing.
design edit
Sept. 7, 2024
Frothy Gazebos, Beehive Lamps, and More Design Finds From a Brussels Fair For its New York debut, the Brussels-based Collectible design fair took over two office floors in Fidi.
design edit
Sept. 6, 2024
Ruffled Vases, Chaises Longues Made of Pipes, and More Design Finds Plus, a new wedding-veil-inspired collection at Design Within Reach.
great rooms
Sept. 5, 2024
They Wanted a Loft with a Garden in the Sky “One of our inspirations was the High Line.”
great rooms
Aug. 27, 2024
A Gallery Owner and an Artist, Having a Ball Living in a Former Ballroom Jack Shainman and Carlos Vega’s apartment had to have space for “big art.”
great rooms
Aug. 13, 2024
The Cold Picnic Couple Have a Very Chill Catskills Farmhouse Its four bedrooms, pond, and forest are more than enough space for their daughters and their dogs to roam.
Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo.
designing for life
Aug. 1, 2024
Pottery Barn Made Some Remarkably Nice Furniture For Seniors A new Michael Graves design collaboration is unusually subtle about accessibility.
brick and mortar
July 24, 2024
Printemps Is Coming to One Wall Street The Parisian luxury department store has a long history of operating in landmarks.
great rooms
July 18, 2024
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.
great rooms
July 16, 2024
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.
Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
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.
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