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When the Ashtray Was Everywhere

 A new show at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design invokes a pre-Bloombergian moment. By Clio Chang
  1. This Old Sea-Biscuit Factory The poet Paul Muldoon and the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz wanted to live in the 19th century, architecturally speaking, so they relocated to Fidi.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. The Cuban House of Spirits The home of the artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda is a monument to the tropics in Fort Greene.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. The Palazzo on Beekman Place A pied-à-terre in a 1925 building overlooking the East River channels Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venice.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. Wendy Goodman’s Most-Read Stories of 2025 From Amy Sedaris’s tree-house guest apartment to a countess’s hunting lodge in Southampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon Furniture The designer and wife of Kanye West says it’s about “collapsing the distinction between object, body, and idol.”
    By Clio Chang
  6. Where the Wild Chairs Are Designer Minjae Kim’s unconventional furniture upends his traditional prewar apartment in Bed Stuy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  7. 4 New Design Galleries Off the Beaten Path In Lower East Side tenements and Long Island City warehouses, gallerists are creating lived-in spaces.
    By Adrian Madlener
  8. All That Glitters At Salon Art + Design, reflective surfaces made a big comeback.
    By Adrian Madlener
  9. The Supermodel in the Village Walk-up Susan Forristal’s parlor apartment on East 10this a shrine to a bygone era of downtown glamour.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Indiana Jones of Perry Street A designer fills his 700-square-foot railroad in the West Village with antique finds from his travels.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. Which Upstate Inn Are You? A new book on some of New York’s boutique offerings arrives just as the Hudson Valley enters peak season.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The Home Gallery in the Soho Loft A young couple with a growing art collection reimagines the top floor of a 1903 cast-iron building.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. The Horace Gifford Beach House Rescued by Art-School Friends They had two months to bring back to life a 1966 home in the Fire Island Pines.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. The Return of Embellishment At Collectible, hanging pearls, stencil motifs, and sculptural tiles adorned otherwise minimalist furniture.
    By Adrian Madlener
  15. When Architects Love Robots Too Much At the Venice Architecture Biennale, a bewildering arena of ideas mostly turns its back on the world.
    By Kate Wagner
  16. Fraggle Rock in Hudson Doug Meyer’s Wyldlands in the Hudson Valley is a three-story home channeling Jim Henson, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Antoni Gaudí.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. The Amagansett Home Called the Switchblade A Steven Harris-designed family home on a bluff overlooks an epic pool and the bay.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. The Rooftop Gallery Next Door Adam Zhu’s 9-by-15-foot shed draws the art crowd.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. Opening a Wall in a North Fork Rental Architect and designer Michael Yarinsky cut a window in a wall to make room for dinner.
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. Inside Amy Sedaris’s Guest Apartment There’s a dollhouse in a fireplace, a “full-tilt gingham” bedroom and wallpaper by Sarah Jessica Parker.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. This Used to Be the Ex-Lax Factory A whitewashed box inside an industrial building dating to the turn of the 20th century in Boerum Hill gets a deep-plane face-lift.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. Kim Kardashian Has a Real Donald Judd Now The Judd Foundation has settled its lawsuit against Kim over the fakes in her office.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. Furniture That’s Pared Down to the Bones American designers, from Frank Lloyd Wright to the Shakers, inspired the clean lines of FormaFantasma’s first U.S. show.
    By Adrian Madlener
  24. Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  25. Who Is the Countess Living in the Port of Missing Men? An 85-year-old noble is determined to protect a hunting lodge in Southampton dating to the Jazz Age.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. Men and Their Apartments in Materialists Talking to the set designers behind Celine Song’s new film about romance and real estate.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. Testing the Limits of Grass, Hemp, Steel, and Paper Craft standouts from New York design week.
    By Curbed editors
  28. A Jackson Heights Couple Covered Their One-Bedroom in Floor-to-Ceiling Murals James McGann and Madison Berg decorated their apartment with Craigslist finds and paints from the Home Depot “Oops” section.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell Are Leaving Their Yale Suburb The couple behind Moss on selling their Connecticut Colonial and paring down decades’ worth of design treasures.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. Some Excellent Chairs From New York Design Week USM cord chairs, a rare Gaudí design, and more finds from this year’s festival.
    By Anthony Paletta
  31. A Taste of Oaxaca on Bank Street Juan Carretero’s restored apartment channels his family’s ancestral home in Mexico.
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. We Asked Curators and Designers What to See This Design Week Chen & Kai, Sight Unseen’s Monica Khemsurov, and others weigh in.
    By Isabel Ling
  33. Kenny Schachter’s Uptown Playhouse A downtown art-scene refugee packed his “Lower Upper East Side” townhouse with his own work, including a life-size dinosaur sculpture in the garden.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. The Designer Inspired by Bees and Her Grandmother’s African Combs Brianna Love wants to show wood furniture can be more fun than plastic.
    By Nora Taylor
  35. A Giant Williamsburg Loft for Tiny Concerts Two musicians live in a former shoe-polish factory where they host the occasional performance by friends.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. A Dispatch From Milan’s Annual Furniture Fair The world’s biggest design showcase featured on-site installations in historic palazzos, private apartments, and an abandoned factory.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. A Bar in Amalfi Coast Colors, Paloma Wool’s New Store, and More Design Finds Plus toothy wall sconces at Allen Street Gallery.
    By Morgan Meier
  38. The East Village Duplex Filled With TV Props Every surface in Shawn Patrick Anderson’s one-bedroom apartment is covered with set pieces, including the ceiling.
    By Wendy Goodman
  39. My Own Private Avignon Claude-Noëlle Toly’s 275-square-foot studio feels worlds away from Bleecker Street.
    By Wendy Goodman
  40. Unraveling a Maze of Rooms in Greenwich Village An LA couple bought their pied-à-terre sight unseen. Architect Andrew Franz opened it up.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Robert Wilson’s Chairs, Jeweled Coffee Tables, and More Design Finds Plus new gallery openings in Soho, Nomad, and the Upper East Side.
    By Morgan Meier
  42. 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
  43. A Fun House in a Fifth Avenue Co-op Designer Dan Friedman used folding screens, fountains, and occasionally trash to transform his white-walled apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. Severance Fans Have Descended on the Bell Labs Campus But the real-life Lumon headquarters is anything but desolate.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. The Return of Archigram, USM Steel Beds, and More Design Finds Plus a downtown legend takes over Superhouse.
    By Morgan Meier
  49. 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
  50. 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
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