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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. By Wendy Goodman
  1. 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.
    By Sukjong Hong
  2. A Wood-Paneled Renovation Turns Two Units Into One Danielle Fennoy used curved walls and concrete floors to fuse two adjacent apartments.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. The Return of Archigram, USM Steel Beds, and More Design Finds Plus a downtown legend takes over Superhouse.
    By Morgan Meier
  4. Brushing Up Scott Csoke’s East Williamsburg Railroad The artist took a can of pink paint to an otherwise ho-hum rental.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. Building the Corporate Menace of Severance Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
    By Diana Budds
  7. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. 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.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  9. ‘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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Two Texans in Williamsburg David Nuss and Sarah Martin-Nuss tried to decorate their house on their own — until they realized they needed help.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. Skateboard-Ramp-Inspired Lamps, a Soothing Dispensary, and More Design Finds Plus, a stone-embellished collection of dustpans and garbage cans at Future Perfect.
    By Morgan Meier
  12. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. My Brilliant Friend Compelled Me to Get a Landline Going down the rabbit hole of Italian mid-century phone design.
    By Clio Chang
  14. Ethereal Lamps, Fendi Furniture, and More at Design Miami Plus a woven Colombian craft collection in Miami colors.
    By Morgan Meier
  15. Keeping It Simple on Lower Fifth Jack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro’s apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
    By Wendy Goodman
  16. 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.
    By Curbed editors
  17. Artist Vivian Reiss’s Murray Hill House of Whimsy A brownstone that’s pink inside.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. Ferrari Rocking Chairs, Giant Claes Oldenburg Sculptures, and More Design Finds Plus the openings of an LES homewares shop and a gallery in Seaport.
    By Morgan Meier
  20. Ryan Lawson Lives Above His Favorite Italian Restaurant He designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. I Am Already in Couch Hell Amazon’s $20 sofa will make it worse.
    By Bridget Read
  22. A Museum for Place-Setting Obsessives The International Museum of Dinnerware Design opens in Kingston.
    By Anna Hezel
  23. 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
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. The Water-Tower Penthouse in the Bronx Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s rooftop apartment on the Grand Concourse looks out on Yankee Stadium.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. Megalopolis Is Yet Another Neri Oxman Fantasy Mystery substances that can grow buildings, heal wounds, and stop time? Why not.
    By Kate Wagner
  26. 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.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. 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.
    By David Netto
  28. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. 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.
    By Terry Nguyen
  31. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. Donald Judd’s Everlasting Influence Colin King, Nick Poe, and Landon Brown talk about the artist’s impact on their work.
    By Ian Volner
  33. Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace A closer look at the company’s new “Preowned” concept.
    By Lindy Segal
  34. Making Plant Kween’s Crown Heights Apartment Bloom Just add wallpaper and lots of sun.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. 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.
    By Morgan Meier
  37. Ruffled Vases, Chaises Longues Made of Pipes, and More Design Finds Plus, a new wedding-veil-inspired collection at Design Within Reach.
    By Morgan Meier
  38. They Wanted a Loft with a Garden in the Sky “One of our inspirations was the High Line.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. 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.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo.
    By Morgan Meier
  42. Pottery Barn Made Some Remarkably Nice Furniture For Seniors A new Michael Graves design collaboration is unusually subtle about accessibility.
    By Natalia Torija
  43. Printemps Is Coming to One Wall Street The Parisian luxury department store has a long history of operating in landmarks.
    By Ian Volner
  44. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. Oh No, We Like the New MTA Lamp The OnlyNY design revives an old logo and is, unfortunately, kind of great.
    By Zach Schiffman
  47. Melting, Jeweled, Chiseled Glass in July’s Design Shows Plus Todd Merrill’s glowing installation at Bergdorf Goodman and a design weekend upstate.
    By Morgan Meier
  48. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent And ends up not saying much about it at all.
    By Carolina A. Miranda
  50. Apothecary Lamps, Shaker-Inspired Wall Hooks, and More Debut Design Collections New work from a design residency at Colony in Tribeca.
    By Natalia Torija
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