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September 5, 2016 Issue
Cover Story
New York Design Hunting Winter 2017
This is a city of madly inventive visual style right now, and in the sixth edition of our Design Hunting guide, editor Wendy Goodman has chased down 12 new examples of breathtaking range. Some of these New Yorkers
cozy up inside their own walls; others have turned a 17th-floor condo into a house with a full backyard, or reimagined a pair of ancient tenement floor-throughs as a dinner-party showplace. Pull up a chair.
On the Cover:The artist Clarina Bezzola’s Gowanus house, designed with RAAD Studio’s James Ramsey. The living-room wall was fabricated by Bezzola herself. Photograph by Annie Schlechter for New York Magazine.
Features
The Inside-Out Duplex
Everyone loves a terrace. So why not turn the whole living room into one?
Our Dining Table Seats 40
Gallerist Simon Preston renovated his Lower East Side apartment with entertaining in mind.
Upscaling While Downscaling
How a bland postwar 3-bedroom turned into a one-bedroom pink extravaganza.
A Reproduction Original
This designer loves his apartment so much that he’s transplanting it to an identical space four floors up.
Ask the Experts
Where do you start when you’re hiring a contractor or craftsman? Briefings from five top professionals, from landscape architect to upholsterer, offer advice and talking points.
My Favorite Things
Who sells the best table linens? How about art books? What’s your go-to hostess gift? Where’s the best dry cleaner, florist, wineshop? Six discerning New Yorkers give their (forceful) opinions.
The Hunt
Great things you’ll want right now, from golden lighting to a Dolce & Gabbana–wrapped fridge.
Then
Cecil Beaton’s showplace New York hotel suites, gone but not forgotten.
Guess Who Renovated Here
See if you can identify who created this bright, bold tile bathroom for his neighbor.
Eat, Sleep, Grow, Drink
The Kitchen
Peonies and vines led to a kitchen with a rare pink center (that’s very well done).
The Bedrooms
These minimalist pod bedrooms maximize form, function, and fun.
The Garden
A New York City rooftop garden inspired by the French Alps.
The Cellar
A wine cellar built to hold 1,500 bottles, many of them containing Chianti produced by the homeowners’ own vineyard.
Great Rooms
Into the Walls
A seamless collaboration between Clarina Bezzola and James Ramsey, whose RAAD Studio is responsible for creating the Lowline.
From M Train to Meadow
A 1918 seven-bedroom in Nyack with multiple porches where no two rooms are alike.
Swing Time
A jewel-box one-bedroom that pares Art Deco down to its most elegant moves.
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