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Except it’s on lower Fifth Avenue.

MISSION STATEMENT: “Everything was about not obstructing the view.

We could have filled 1,000 pages with New York’s living design innovators, but there are space limits. Here, in brief, another 25 crucial names.

Here, we pay tribute to nine New Yorkers who changed—and are still changing—the way we look at our world, from centenarian ceramist Eva Zeisel to graphic iconoclast Fabien Baron.

Homemaking was a dreary chore until she made it an artisanal pursuit. And built an empire.

The polymath has designed advertising, perfume bottles, magazines, and everything you see on this page.

Fifty-seven years after he designed it, the house that Frank Lloyd Wright thought might be his greatest has finally been built by one determined fan.

For the next two months, all these artistically valid tchotchkes are gathered under one West Chelsea roof.

French starchitect Jean Nouvel’s 40 Mercer reimagines the quintessential New York apartment house downtown, with river views.

The good news: There’s a hot new period to collect. The bad news: It’s the eighties. Karl Springer, Angelo Donghia, and the Michael Taylor pillow chop are back.