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Lighting: Michelle James Globe Chandeliers
Fashion stylist Michelle James' focus turned to interior design after she bought and renovated an 1866 brownstone in Brooklyn. While renovating the house, James started collecting vintage glass light...
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Domestic Science: Bow Bins by Cordula Kehrer
A highlight of last spring's ICFF in New York: the work of German designer Cordula Kehrer, who has a passion for utilitarian objects such as laundry racks and waste bins. Her Bow Bins are a...
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Restaurant Visit: Saraghina in Brooklyn
It's not just the crisp-crusted pizza that keeps me returning to Saraghina, it's also the ad-hoc atmosphere: it's as though some good friends borrowed chairs from the neighbors, opened a restaurant in...
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Accessories: Vessels from Lindsey Adelman
Ever since Brooklyn-based Lindsey Adelman introduced her lighting at ICFF a few years ago, we've been admiring her lyrical hand-blown glass lighting fixtures. She continues her exploration of blown...
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Kitchen: Tea Towels from Hus & Hem
Currently coveting: marine-inspired Karringen mot Strommen tea towel (translates to "the woman who goes against the stream") from Almedahls, designed in the 1950s by Scandinavian graphic artist...
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Designer David Stark’s Pop-Up Shop
Designer and event planner David Stark takes over Haus Interiors in Nolita with a limited-edition line of products. We stopped by the grand opening a couple of days ago to chat with Stark and interior...
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An Idyll on Inis Meáin
It’s no wonder that artists, writers, and naturalists have been drawn to the Aran Islands for centuries; the dramatic landscape—with its craggy shores, rich cultural life, and bird-watching...
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Royal Tichelaar Makkum in the Netherlands
Founded in 1572, Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the Netherlands' oldest company, yet it works with some of the design world's most cutting-edge practitioners. The flagship store adjacent to the factory in...
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Scrapwood by Piet Hein Eek in NYC
We’ve been admiring the work of Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek for a while now, so we were pleased to hear that Future Perfect in Brooklyn recently became the sole US representative of the line. Both the...
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The Handmade Kitchen: Paula Greif in Brooklyn
Brooklyn-based Renaissance woman Paula Greif set herself a creative goal: to make everything in her kitchen by hand. Greif views her working life as a horizontal line—she started as a graphic designer...
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Required Reading: Interiors by Martyn Thompson
I met photographer Martyn Thompson recently when he was riding his bicycle in my Brooklyn neighborhood, scouting locations. Dressed in a kilt with fur accessories (he started out as a fashion...
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Northern Spy Food Co.: A Bit of Country in the City
How could you not love a restaurant named for an heirloom apple? Northern Spy Food Co. offers homespun style and farm-to-table cuisine on a gritty street in the East Village. When Christopher Ronis...
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Couture Furniture: Jason Wu for Canvas
NY-based fashion designer Jason Wu brings a dressmaker's eye to his furniture collection for Canvas: his elegant detailing (slim metal legs, brass accents, midnight linen, and lace appliqué) evoke...
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Justin Timberlake’s New Line for HomeMint
Yesterday, I found myself in a hotel room with Justin Timberlake checking out bed linens. But it’s not what you think– Timberlake and his longtime friend Estee Stanley, an LA-based stylist and interior...
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Two Carpenters and Two Designers: Snickeriet Furniture from Sweden
A pair of Swedish designers teams up with a pair of cabinetmakers to found Snickeriet (Swedish for carpentry), a new line of handmade furniture based on craft and simplicity. Karl-Johan Hjerling and...
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White Heat in Brooklyn: The Wythe Hotel
I knew something was up when I saw the rows of town cars lined up outside the brand-new Wythe Hotel, located in a gritty street in Williamsburg. In keeping with the Brooklyn design spirit, the...
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Hotels & Lodging: Kasbah Bab Ourika in Morocco
On a recent trip to Morocco, I spent several nights at the 15-room Kasbah Bab Ourika in Morocco. Perched on a hilltop at the edge of the Ourika Valley, just outside Marrakech, the hotel (opened in...
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High Wire Act: Floating Florals at Blue Hill Stone Barns
We notice floating, mid-air gardens everywhere these days—including the flying centerpieces created by Laureen Barber, an owner of the sustainable-food mecca Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York’s...
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Dark Shadows: The Bedford in Williamsburg
The brutal heat in NYC is making us want to retreat into a cool, dark, cavelike space; that’s where the Bedford in North Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comes in. The owners describe the restaurant’s interiors...
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An Eco-Conscious Hotel in New York
Located on Grand Street, at the crossroads of Soho and Tribeca, The James in New York (designed by the Office for Design and Architecture in collaboration with Perkins Eastman) focuses on...
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A Shop for Small-Space Living
A retail concept we haven't seen before: a shop devoted exclusively to modular design. Founded by Donald Rattner, an architect and artist, the Brooklyn store specializes in "customizable,...
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Fashionable Chairs for a Cause from Marni
We've been admiring our favorite fashion designer's line of wildly pattered woven chairs for a while now; if you're heading to Miami for Art Basel this week, you'll be able to see (and purchase) the...
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The Ultimate Camp Stove
The founders of Biolite started the company with "a strong sense of responsibility not just to develop products that work well but also to create businesses that make a positive contribution to the...
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A Wooden Storage Headboard, Made with Walnut (and Love)
Montreal-based design studio Objets Mecaniques calls itself a "slow design laboratory"; we especially like a recently completed wooden storage headboard ("made with a lot of walnut and love," as they...
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A Photographer at Home in Brooklyn
The Clinton Hill Cooperative Apartments are a secret architectural gem, designed in the 1930s by Wallace K. Harrison (his oeuvre includes the Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center and Radio City...
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5 Favorites: Classic Delft Tiles in Modern Settings
On a trip to Amsterdam a while back, I visited Royal Tichelaar Makkum, the Netherlands oldest and, in some ways, most surprising company. The ethos encourages innovation, striving to "live up to this...
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An Indigo Pioneer in Mali
Ever since we spotted the work of Malian textile designer and calligrapher Aboubakar Fofana, at ICFF a while back we’ve been devout fans of his ethereal textiles. Fofana, who spent more than 20 years...
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Steal This Look: Food 52 Office Kitchen
When Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, the founders of cooking site Food52, moved into a new midtown Manhattan office space, they built a test kitchen that’s both photogenic and functional (not to...
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DIY: Painted Runner Tablecloth by David Stark
Tonight in Brooklyn (Wednesday, June 12, at 7 pm), David Stark and Remodelista NYC editor Francesca Connolly talk table settings–specifically, quick DIY tricks for creating a serene summer tablescape....
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Jesse James in Upstate New York
Aesthetic Movement founder and creative director Jesse James has spent the last decade carefully renovating his upstate New York country house, The Smithy, in verdant Schoharie County. Originally built...
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At Home with a Brooklyn Fashionista-Turned-Lighting-Designer
Lighting designer Michelle James’ 1890s brownstone in Brooklyn is like the perfect pared-down wardrobe: a little black dress; a crisp white shirt; a touch of velvet; and, of course, a bit of...
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Fabrics and Linens: New Designs from Lindsay Alker
We’ve been following textile designer Lindsay Alker ever since she debuted her first collection at the ICFF in New York a few years ago. At this year’s Decorex show in London, she launches a handful of...
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Spotlight: David Weeks’ New Tribeca Studio
We have been following David Weeks’ work for years (and buying his light fixtures: I own three of them and Julie convinced me to get her one, too, at one of David’s sample sales). His latest venture...
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Dinnerware Simplified, Jasper Morrison Edition
Jasper Morrison calls his design philosophy “super normal,” and describes it as a celebration of ordinary house objects. “Things which are designed to attract attention are generally unsatisfactory,”...
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Home Stories: High Style in Brooklyn Heights
Looking to bring a bit more gray into your life? Husband-and-wife shop owners Paul Gross and Sophie Yanacupoulus-Gross stand ready with suavely minimalist tableware and furnishings in the perfect...
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Gift Guide 2015: For the Evolving Hipster Man
I live in Brooklyn, where the hipster man originated and went on to become a marketing phenomenon around the globe (French department store Le Bon Marché launched a Brooklyn exhibition this fall). The...
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Bassett Hyde: Heritage Linens from Italy
As a stylist, Beverley Hyde has spent her career making other people’s products look lovely. Over the years, working for clients such as Calvin Klein Home and Williams Sonoma, she developed a keen eye...
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Design Sleuth: Made-in-the-USA American Flags
The Fourth of July has us thinking about flags; here are some sourcing ideas. Above: A large old American flag hangs in the hallway of a white painted barn. Photograph from Rachel Halvorson Designs....
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Sunny’s Callicoon Pop: An Upstate Shop from Sunrise Ruffalo
A couple of weeks ago, our architect friend Oliver Freundlich emailed us to let us know about his client Sunrise Ruffalo’s Sunny’s Callicoon Pop in upstate New York: “Sunny and her husband, Mark, have...
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10 Easy Pieces: Simple Doorknobs
Think how often you’ll wrestle with your doorknobs in the course of a lifetime and you’ll realize it doesn’t make sense to scrimp on this stalwart of the home. It’s worth seeking out the...
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