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A Burlesque Family at Home Showbiz couple Angie Pontani and Brian Newman’s high-spirited Marine Park house.
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Apr. 16, 2024
The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
‘If I Had to Leave This Place, I Would Probably Leave New York’ At home with Brooklyn artists from three generations of loft living — all protected by Loft Law.
A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty Nesters They were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
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Mar. 26, 2024
A Tree House for Two Architects in Carroll Gardens Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem built the indoor-outdoor “Mini Tower One” extension to their Brooklyn home.
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Mar. 19, 2024
Audrey Flack Is 92 and Still Painting in Her UWS Apartment She’s in her “Post-Pop Baroque Period,” and has a new gallery show, a memoir and lives with a skeleton from her days teaching anatomy at NYU.
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Mar. 12, 2024
A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking Fireplace The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
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Feb. 27, 2024
Fashion Editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson’s House in Bed-Stuy “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.”
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Feb. 20, 2024
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!”
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Feb. 13, 2024
Craftsman Home In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
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Jan. 30, 2024
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.
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Jan. 23, 2024
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.
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Jan. 16, 2024
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.
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Dec. 26, 2023
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
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Dec. 19, 2023
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
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Dec. 12, 2023
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
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
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Nov. 28, 2023
By Wendy Goodman
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Nov. 21, 2023
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
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Nov. 14, 2023
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
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
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Oct. 31, 2023
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
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Oct. 24, 2023
They Still Make Art in Soho Reformed “wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.
By Wendy Goodman
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Oct. 17, 2023
Hollywood Regency in Park Slope When Anna Turner bought her first apartment, she wanted “eclectic, maximalist.” But somehow practical, too.
By Wendy Goodman
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Oct. 10, 2023
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
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
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Sept. 26, 2023
It’s Giving Halston Evoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.
By Wendy Goodman
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Sept. 19, 2023
Donald Judd’s Soho In His Own Words The story behind 101 Spring Street.
By Wendy Goodman
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Sept. 12, 2023
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
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Sept. 5, 2023
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
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Aug. 29, 2023
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
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Aug. 22, 2023
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
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Aug. 15, 2023
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
A Writer’s Shed in the Springs Glyn Vincent writes his books in a former workshop for duck decoys.
By Wendy Goodman
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
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July 25, 2023
Artists in the Potato Barn Designer Aelfie Oudghiri is opening a residency in her family’s place in Sagaponack.
By Wendy Goodman
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July 18, 2023
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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July 11, 2023
By Wendy Goodman
The 11,000-Square-Foot Soho Loft ‘Bad Paintings’ Bought When artist Neil Jenney paid just $36,000 for this full-floor space 1973, it was “completely unlivable.”
By Wendy Goodman
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June 27, 2023
House of Julio Artist and fashion designer Julio Espada’s floor-through apartment in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens reflects his former shop’s aesthetic.
By Wendy Goodman
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June 20, 2023
Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-up Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder of the gallery Tiwa Select, had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it. Then his lease ended.
By Wendy Goodman
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June 13, 2023
Just Follow the Red Door Through the Trees An excerpt from Country Life , by William Abranowicz.
By Wendy Goodman
A Jubliantly Traditional Carnegie Hill Classic Six Elizabeth Pyne Singer allows that parts of her home “could be construed as totally kooky-looking.”
By Wendy Goodman
Object & Thing Goes to the Beach A selection of 100 objects by 34 artists will spend the summer at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.
By Wendy Goodman
You Could Make a Movie in This 1885 Park Slope ‘McMansion’ In filmmakers Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi’s brownstone, “there are all these stories within the walls.”
By Wendy Goodman
An ‘Old School’ ’80s Soho Loft Gets a Family-Friendly Makeover “You want a place where the kids can run around or knock something over,” says father of four Greg Griffith.
By Wendy Goodman
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