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 “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.” By Wendy Goodman
  1. The Immediately Outdated Renovation “It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life.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?’”
    By Kim Velsey
  2. 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).
    By Nora DeLigter
  3. 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!”
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Craftsman Home In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One) A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves Back All 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
    By Clio Chang
  10. 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.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  11. You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita Mergentime From Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. 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.
    By Nora Taylor
  13. His Name Was Picked Out of a Hat to Get This Gramercy Park Apartment Michael Shane Neal is just the third artist in 117 years to occupy this studio at the National Arts Club.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Down the eBay Rabbit Hole to Find a Bitossi Clock These chunky mid-century ceramics looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. A Look Inside New York’s Mountain Houses The remote beauty and real meaning of the getaway home.
    By Curbed Staff
  16. Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2023 Including a mosaic-tiled backyard, a loft with floating bedrooms, and a transformation.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. A Tribeca Duplex Inspired by Cloud City and the Fortress of Solitude After Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought this apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. A Place, at Last, for Everything (Including the Teenager and the Shoes) A family thought they’d outgrown their apartment, until they met the architects Ideas of Order. Before and after photos for what they did.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. McDonald’s Lamps, Rubber Tables, and Anthony Haden-Guest at Design Miami Plus a literal trophy bookcase.
    By Ian Volner
  20. The Photographer Who Taught Herself How to Renovate Her Own Apartment After living in this apartment for nearly 18 years, Amanda Weil wanted a change, but first she fired her architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. TM Davy’s Fairy-, Satyr-, and Plant-Filled East Williamsburg Loft “I don’t really know that there are many places left like this.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. A Student of Corbu’s in Nutley Glenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa’s house was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr., who had worked with Le Corbusier.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. Leave the World Behind’s Apocalyptic Airbnb A modern farmhouse in Old Westbury, Long Island, was just what the design team wanted for the collapse of civilization.
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  24. A California Artist Lives His Mexico City Dream Brian Thoreen’s studio and home has a tree growing in the middle of it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. She Finally Got Around to Really Decorating Her Tribeca Penthouse Artist Claudia Doring Baez lived in the former Wool Club space atop American Thread Building for 22 years before enlisting the help of an architect.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. From the Floral, Red Rooms of Barbara Walters The broadcaster liked monograms, astrology, and her red Eames chair.
    By Angela Serratore
  27. Sarah Nsikak Is So Happy to Be Back in Bed-Stuy The designer of the upcycling fashion line Le Réunion tried living upstate. It wasn’t for her.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. They Still Make Art in Soho Reformed “wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. Hollywood Regency in Park Slope When Anna Turner bought her first apartment, she wanted “eclectic, maximalist.” But somehow practical, too.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. Floral Storefront City When did fake wisteria take over every retail façade in Manhattan?
    By Mia Mercado
  31. Michael Henry Adams’s Candlelit Harlem Apartment The author and architectural preservationist has filled his home with the history of Harlem. He found some of it on the street.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. Sofia Coppola’s Bedrooms The director’s new book, Archive, is a showcase for the little temples, or little cells, she creates for her characters.
    By Katie McDonough
  33. The Sisters Sharing a House in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens Zoë Wendel moved into her sister’s three-story house to help with renovations. She made this floor entirely her own.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. It’s Giving Halston Evoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. Beverly’s Is Making It Permanent Beverly Nguyen’s roaming homewares pop-up signed a lease at 27 Orchard.
    By Clio Chang
  36. Donald Judd’s Soho In His Own Words The story behind 101 Spring Street.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. Bye, Bouclé Resale sites are flooded with bubbly, fuzzy couches and chairs. Are we experiencing textural fatigue?
    By Mia Mercado
  38. Ten Years Later, Still Coming Soon Fabiana Faria and Helena Barquet opened the Lower East Side home-design shop on 11/12/13.
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. A Decamping to a Broad Channel Swim Club Coming Soon co-founders Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria left the Upper East Side for the Rockaways.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. Who Knew So Many Celebrities Wanted to Design Wallpaper Sarah Jessica Parker, Drew Barrymore, and Gwyneth Paltrow found a lucrative side hustle.
    By Clio Chang
  41. A Fairy-Tale Beach Cottage in Cherry Grove Allison Michael Orenstein and Simone Saint Laurent have a motto: “When in doubt, paint it white.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  42. Charles Renfro’s Fire Island Beach House Feels Like a Stage The architect bought the simple 1961 bungalow designed by Horace Gifford, and only added outdoor rooms.
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
    By Chris Stanton
  44. An Edible Garden in Bed-Stuy That Feels like a Living Room JC Garcia-Lavin and George Fesser had a barren backyard when they bought their house in 2019. Then things went wild.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. The Tribeca Townhouse of an Art Collector Who ‘Doesn’t Like Boring’ After Page West had the six-story building to herself, it was time for a bold redesign.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo Sculpture After a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
    By Clio Chang
  47. A Writer’s Shed in the Springs Glyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. Let’s Tile the Yard! Thirty friends pitched in on Ellen Van Dusen’s Bed-Stuy mosaic. “It felt like a quilting group.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. Artists in the Potato Barn Designer Aelfie Oudghiri is opening a residency in her family’s place in Sagaponack.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. 54 Years on Washington Square North “Well, I married the apartment,” says John Githens of the floor of the 19th century townhouse he shared with artist Ingeborg ten Haeff.
    By Wendy Goodman
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