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A Ranch House Turned Modern Oasis
Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth’s new book on interiors, Through a Designer’s Eye, includes images of a 1976 prefab deck house, which he transformed for himself and his writer husband. → Read More
A Mid-Century in the Catskills With Room to Make Art
Last year, the Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger and artist Michael Berryhill found the perfect house in a not-yet-hip town upstate. Now they can’t wait to have visitors. → Read More
A Renovation a Long Time in the Making
Shanti Crawford of Indigo & Ochre, which creates joyful, color-infused interiors where comfort takes the lead, transformed a lackluster apartment into a dream home for a family who had put off changing things for years. → Read More
Keeping the Past Present
Sarah Zames and Colin Stief, the owners of Brooklyn-based interior-architecture firm General Assembly, reinvigorated a contemporary post-and-beam with an emphasis on tradition. → Read More
A Castle Near the Sand
Cecilia Dean and David Selig’s Rockaways retreat is more than a weekend surf lodge; it’s also a space for the burgeoning local arts community. → Read More
Plants for Daily Life
Anthony Watts recently launched his plant-and-design business, Layer, which lets clients make their homes verdant even if they don’t have a speck of natural light. → Read More
A Year in a Loft in Bushwick
Photographer Kelly Marshall and her husband, Dominic Sylvain, are enjoying the last days of their first apartment together in a converted warehouse. → Read More
The Family Tugboat
Lyndsay Caleo Karol and Fitzhugh Karol’s getaway boat, Lucy, sleeps eight and is moored at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Lucy is a 49-foot recreational motor yacht built in the late 1980s in Taiwan and designed to evoke the romance of the classic tugboat. → Read More
An Airy Loft Inside a Former Church in Jersey City
St. Boniface Church in Jersey City was converted into condos in 2015. The renovation left much of the original Gothic architectural drama intact allowing designers Paul Melo and Tom Walko to enjoy 24-foot vaulted ceilings and grand arched doorways. → Read More
A Space for Summer Solace
During the summer months, designer Robert Farrell likes to escape to an alfresco room he built at the back of his shade garden, cultivated over decades from his apartment in Carroll Gardens. → Read More
A Not-So-Public Library
For Rita Nakouzi, editorial director of The RealReal, and her husband, the writer and podcaster Touré, their family life in a renovated Fort Greene carriage house revolves around a three-sided bookcase that doubles as a walk-in closet. → Read More
A Feast of Flowers
Dutch fashion designer turned artisanal baker Natasja Sadi is flourishing in her second career. Her Instagram account (@cakeatelieramsterdam) overflows with photographs of the lush floral bouquets she creates every week in her home in Amsterdam. → Read More
Family Time Is All the Time
Author Rumaan Alam and his husband, photographer David A. Land, have improvised a new daily rhythm — a hybrid of work and play — as they quarantine at home during the coronavirus pandemic with their sons, Simon and Xavier. → Read More
As Long As You’re Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live
Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie. Most days during quarantine, he wears one of his many silk bathrobes. → Read More
My Sister’s Refuge
My sister, Tonne Goodman, and I shared a room growing up, and today, by sheer coincidence, we live around the corner from one another in the Village, writes New York Magazine’s Wendy Goodman. Here, a look at the fashion editor’s home. → Read More
Self-Quarantine in Greenwich Village
While in self-quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic, New York design editor Wendy Goodman takes the time to look carefully around and reconsider what she’s created. → Read More
Inside Athena Calderone’s Elegant Brooklyn Brownstone
Athena Calderone has established herself as a lifestyle goddess through her books Cook Beautiful and Live Beautiful, her blog EyeSwoon, and the renovation of her family’s townhouse. → Read More
A Trip (or Two) to the Past
How do we understand the collections of Dalva Brothers and Jayne Wrightsman today? Here, Robert Couturier, Liz O’Brien, and more experts on the upcoming auctions of important 18th and 19th century furniture and decorative arts at Christie’s New York. → Read More
Back to the Classics
When Michael Garvey found this 1880 Greek Revival house in 2007, the interior was stuck in the ’60s — dropped ceilings, vinyl floor tiles, faux-wood paneling, wall-to-wall carpet. His renovation returned the gracefulness of its original character. → Read More
Circular Economy
Interior designer Russell Piccione’s five-story, 25-room home in Murray Hill is full of scavenged treasures, like a massive concave mirror from a Chloé boutique window. → Read More