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Wendy Goodman

Design Editor

Wendy Goodman is Curbed and New York Magazine’s design editor. She began as the magazine’s fashion editor in 1984 and began writing the “Design Hunting” column in 2007. She is the author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt and May I Come In? and co-authored Tony Duquette with Hutton Wilkinson.

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    Misha Kahn’s Sunset Park Studio Is Home to Robots and a Night Possum“You need talented people and talented machines” says the artist.
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    An Op-Art Womb of a Loft In Los AngelesJoseph Giovannini’s extreme home makeover: “Realism is not my deal.”
  3. 21 questions
    Architect Hani Rashid Goes to Bear Mountain, or the Metaverse, to Be AloneThe architect answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
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    A Fidi Loft With Room for the Pokémon: Before and After PhotosArchitect Shane Neufeld’s streamlined renovation for Yuan Jiang and William Chen.
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    Mort & Me in Bed-StuyThe artist Simone Bodmer-Turner lives in this apartment of her own devising with her rescue dog, Mort.
  6. 21 questions
    The Worst Career Advice Lynn Yaeger Ever Got Was ‘Try to Look Normal’The fashion writer and editor answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
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    Let’s Make Our New Townhouse Feel Like This Biophilic HotelThe couple who bought this new townhouse loved the natural feel of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, so they hired its architects.
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    The Couple That Built Very Different, His and Hers Apartments, Side by SideShe collects stuff, he likes pared-down traditionalist Japanese rooms. After years of marriage, Dorothy and Stephen Globus grew apart. What to do?
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    Joni Mitchell, Meet Edith WhartonMusician Chase Cohl checked into the Lafayette House early in the pandemic — and never left.
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    Quilts, Nan Goldin, and a Cello-Shaped DresserArtist Sam Roeck’s Williamsburg apartment is full of art he made, art by his friends and family, and many quilts.
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    Saving the Modernist Scull House in the HamptonsDesigner Lisa Perry has restored it and is turning it into Onna House, a gallery for women artists.
  12. 21 questions
    Nari Ward Wants to Build a Giant Coffin Around the Columbus Circle MonumentThe artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
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    A Neo-Moderne Reinvention of a Derelict Village House, Abandoned for 10 YearsBefore and after photos.
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    When a Gallerist Asks One of Her Artists to Redo Her Farmhouse UpstateValerie Goodman enlisted Jacques Jarrige to create a new interior — plus all the furniture and the art.
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    Fashion Designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh Is Raising Two Kids in This All-White Loft“We’re working on becoming more minimal.”
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    A Mid-Pandemic Move to a Former YMCA in Hudson“It was the Brooklyn lifestyle we always wanted…without the crowded streets and the inflated prices.”
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    The 17-Year Bed-Stuy Brownstone RenovationRodney Lawrence and Terry Sonterre took their time.
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    Just for Men No More: Before and After Photos of a Former Uptown Men’s ClubRiver Terrace has always been a Washington Heights power building. Its renovated men’s club now welcomes all.
  19. 21 questions
    Laurie Simmons Would Love to Live in a New York Department StoreThe artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
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    Artist Andres Serrano’s Medieval-Style Greenwich Village Triplex“I realized that the things that made the most sense here were religious in nature.”
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    Before and After: Revival of an Actress’s Dated CondoTess Soltau enlisted White Arrow to gut-reno her apartment with showstopping views.
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    A Two-Bedroom, With Room for a ScooterInterior designer Kammi Reiss created a serene apartment her husband could navigate with ease.
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    Then-and-Now Photos: Staying Put In the Same One-Bedroom for 60 YearsArchitectural historian Andrew Alpern bought his one-bedroom Chelsea apartment in 1962 with no intention to ever leave. And he hasn’t.
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    Meet the Residents of a New Low-Income Building by Robert A.M. Stern ArchitectsIn Brownsville, Brooklyn, not on Billionaires’ Row.
  25. 21 questions
    Murray Moss Wants to Live in the Harvard ClubThe director of Moss Bureau answers Curbed’s 21 Questions.
  26. year in review
    Curbed’s 10 Most-Read Great Rooms Stories in 2021They include stories about a storefront church, a rock-star journalist, and a 300-square-foot East Village studio.
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    Wait, You Bought a Used Lighthouse on Long Island?Randy Polumbo won the 1899 Orient Point landmark in a government auction and turned it into an artists’ retreat.
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    Making an 1840s Cobble Hill Townhouse Whole Again: Before and After PhotosA project by Peter Guthrie and Susanne Schaal’s Yellowtrees studio.
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    A Very Modern Life in a Very Old Stone HousePeter Speliopoulos and Robert Turner bought the 1720s Hudson Valley house and took their time with it.
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    J. Morgan Puett’s 94-Acre Industrial-Chic Country CompoundIt’s featured in photographer Simon Upton’s book, New York Interiors.
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    A Blue-Floored Loft That ‘Looks Like a Hardware Store Exploded’An impromptu visit with artist and How to Make Mistakes on Purpose author Laurie Rosenwald.
  32. design week hunting
    What Wendy Goodman Loved the Most During Design WeekSo many wonderful things! But a few of the absolute standouts …
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    A Dated Fifth Avenue Penthouse Sees the LightWORKac architects let the views in.
  34. stacked
    I Fell In Love With Stackabl’s Colorful, Sustainable FurnitureAt the Salon of Art + Design.
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    How Peter Lane Created His 32-Foot Wall of Clay for the Salon of Art and DesignIn the studio with the ceramicist and his team as they prepare an immersive installation for the Park Avenue Armory.
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    A Sleek, Cozy Postwar Alcove Studio Gut Renovation: Before and After PhotosShawn Henderson knew just what to do when he moved from a prewar walk-up to a smaller postwar apartment. Before and After Photos.
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    Living in a One-Bedroom MuseumThomas Lollar — ceramicist, teacher, and, most of all, collector — can always find space for his latest discovery.
  38. ceramics in the mix
    The Cutting-Edge Ceramics at the Exhibition ‘Clay-Pop’Alia Williams curated the playful show at Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
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    A New Book Asks Artists, Designers and Writers: What Is Home for You?Excerpts from Charlotte Moss’s new book, ‘Home: A Celebration.’
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    Bed in a BoxJust how much drama can you pack into a studio apartment?
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    An Urbane Connecticut FarmhouseThe architecture firm Husband Wife’s clients didn’t want their country house to be too country.
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    An Artist’s Bed-Stuy House That Feels Like It’s in the CountryAdrian Nivola found what he wanted.
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    A Brooklyn Storefront Church, Resurrected As a Family HomeVirginie Sommet’s latest project, in Ocean Hill.
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    The Bingo Heiress’s Fantastical DuplexWith its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s home is like nothing else on the Upper East Side.
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    A Horse Trailer Named Beauty Gets a MakeoverGraphic designer Laura Valenzuela’s upstate pandemic project (she learned how to weld!)
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    A (Semi) Fixer-Upper in Stuyvesant HeightsInterior stylist J.C. Garcia-Lavin and real-estate broker George Fesser each deployed their complementary skills when they took on a townhouse.
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    A Joyful Brownstone in BushwickAttorney, influencer, and mother Cynthia Andrew and her husband, Les, teamed up with the Brownstone Boys on their first renovation.
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    She Lost a View But Gained a GalleryConstruction of a hotel next door to Han Feng’s loft covered her east-facing windows, so she came up with a plan.
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    A Book About the Influential Brooklyn Design Firm, WorksteadTheir work is “tied to the past and … living in today.”
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    From Townhouse to BauhausAfter years in a Greenwich Village brownstone, Alexandra Pappas wanted to live her modernist dream. To a point.
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