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  1. A Prewar Studio Made Suitable for Two Kristoffer Cusick and Dan Hickle bought the 600-square-foot West Village co-op as a pied-à-terre, then redid it to live in it.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. I’ll Miss You, Design Bots The loss of Twitter’s open API will probably finish off the accounts that put random visual delights into my feed.
    By Alexandra Lange
  3. What the Gallerists Brought Home How Patrick Parrish and Alex Gilbert decided what they wanted to live with in their Clinton Hill apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. The Rainbow Hellerware Revival, Artist-Made Dream Houses, and More Design Finds Plus, an architect’s quest to perfect the tiny wood stool.
    By Diana Budds
  5. Floating Bedrooms in a Williamsburg Loft Matt Spangler asked architect Keith Burns for more space and light in his new place: Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. U.S. Department of State Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Serifs For memos, Times New Roman is out, Calibri is in.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. Push and Pull on a Park Avenue Co-op Renovation Interior designer Olivia Song’s clients were a couple with “polar opposite” tastes: he liked contemporary, she was more traditional.
    By Wendy Goodman
  8. The Entirely Affordable, Cheerfully Modernist El Borinquen in the Bronx Nonprofit developer Comunilife teamed up with Alexander Gorlin Architects.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. Bethann Hardison’s Home Has Many Stories to Tell She challenged a stubbornly un-diverse fashion world, ran a modeling agency, and soon has a documentary coming out about her life.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Wall-to-Wall Carpeting’s Very Good Year It made a dramatic, dreamy entrance in galleries, homes, bars, and museums.
    By Diana Budds
  11. Curbed’s 10 Most-Read ‘Great Rooms’ Stories in 2022 They include a medieval triplex, his-and-hers apartments, and Wendy Goodman’s own apartment of 27 years.
    By Wendy Goodman
  12. Talking to the Guy Who Put Bees in Julianne Moore’s Backyard Will Ferrell’s honey tastes like acacia, oak, and chaparral. LeBron’s is more Chinese elm and eucalyptus.
    By Clio Chang
  13. Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2022 They included bitter real-estate feuds, our deep dive into trash, and a report from Caroline Calloway’s drawn-out good-bye to the city.
    By Curbed Staff
  14. A Mod, Mix-It-Up English Country Cottage in the West Village Sasha Bikoff warned her husband of her decorating plans, “I’m going to go kind of crazy here.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. In Praise of the ‘Good Life’ Modernism of Barbie’s 1979 A-Frame An excerpt from Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey
    By Wendy Goodman
  16. Mashed Potatoes Meet Monet Climate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. He Transformed His LES Apartment To Feel Like His Minnesota Childhood Home. Artist and set designer Steven Hammel’s cozy nostalgia.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. The Day Wendy Goodman Moved Out of Her Apartment of 27 Years “I’d always thought that I’d be carried out feet first.” Then the brownstone she rented in was sold, and she had to sort through life.
    By Wendy Goodman
  19. George Lois, the Impossible Ad Man The madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. Invite an Artisan to Holiday Dinner An eye-popping excerpt from the new book At the Artisan’s Table.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. You Made Harry’s Couch And now you can buy it right side up.
    By Clio Chang
  22. Peloton Founder Is Going Big on Rugs Inspired by Ernest Hemingway and Bob Marley.
    By Clio Chang
  23. These Obsessive Collectors Fill Their Homes With Chicken Pottery and Prototypes An excerpt from Sight Unseen’s How to Live With Objects.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. A Takashi Murakami Pancake Pan, Cold Picnic Sweaters, and More Giftable Finds Plus a long-awaited tableware collection from Laila Gohar and Hay is finally for sale.
    By Diana Budds
  25. The Objects That Sight Unseen’s Jill Singer Collects Including a vase with too much sentimental value to let go of and a custom desk.
    By Diana Budds
  26. The Best New Books for Design, Architecture, and Urbanism Enthusiasts From an encyclopedia of furniture to an especially gorgeous travel guide to Florida.
    By Curbed Staff
  27. Móyòsórè “Moyo” Martins Makes Art At Night In A Former Bronx Furniture Factory He painted the skylights black and has furniture from Tim Burton’s Batman movie.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. What to Bid on in the Joan Didion Estate Auction A rattan Peacock chair, a slipcovered sofa, and powder-pink pressed glassware, for starters.
    By Diana Budds
  29. Tiwa Select Moves to New York With an exhibition of textile screens and collages by Megumi Arai.
    By Diana Budds
  30. This “Not-Handy” Couple Really Didn’t Think They Wanted to Buy a Townhouse Before and after photos.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. The Art Is Always Changing in Michael and Susan Hort’s Live-in Museum in Tribeca You can even sit on some of it!
    By Wendy Goodman
  32. The Watcher in The Watcher Is (Probably) a Trad-Arch Guy They don’t just have strong opinions about your countertops.
    By Diana Budds
  33. This Maximalist Bronx Condo Is All About Freedom At home with John Goodman. An excerpt from Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays’s new book, AphroChic.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. This Might Be The Most Bohemian Family Home Left in the Village. Artist and archivist Kore Yoors, the son of the artist Jan Yoors, tends to the family legacy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  35. NASA-Inspired Lighting, Kid Cudi’s Netflix Special, and More Finds Plus labor-as-artwork in the 1970s.
    By Diana Budds
  36. A Rooftop Escape for the Parents David Weinstone and Nicole Tierney added a sleek modernist hat atop their 1899 Carroll Gardens family home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. A Design Gallery With Literary Roots Opens in Tribeca Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons inspired Jacqueline Sullivan’s first show of British antiques, Gaetano Pesce chairs, and contemporary objects.
    By Diana Budds
  38. Kim Kardashian’s $355 Bathroom Vanity Set Is Brutalist Muji Keeping up with koncrete.
    By Diana Budds
  39. Gaetano Pesce Designed 400 Gloopy Chairs for Bottega Veneta And you might be able to snag one at Design Miami in November.
    By Diana Budds
  40. Proustian and Epicurean Ariane Ruskin Batterberry and her late husband, Michael, founders of Food & Wine, moved into this apartment in 1969.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. Nature-Inspired Glass Lighting, Soft Seating at Lincoln Center, and More Finds Plus a monument to a historic Filipino settlement in Louisiana.
    By Diana Budds
  42. The Best Part of ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Is the Set Design Mid-century Palm Springs stands in for a utopia that devolves into something sinister.
    By Diana Budds
  43. Unsurprisingly, Dwell Magazine is Now Selling Its Own Prefab ADUs For just $389,000.
    By Diana Budds
  44. ‘We Weren’t Afraid to Fall on Our Face.’ A new exhibition honors the rebellious Soho design gallery Art et Industrie.
    By Diana Budds
  45. Second Time Around in Kips Bay Aamir Khandwala and Atif Toor’s refreshed their postwar co-op. I wrote about the last refresh too.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. The It’s-Not-a-Problem Apartment Sarah and Adam Meister’s walnut-walled mid-century apartment has a dining/ping-pong table for the kids.
    By Wendy Goodman
  47. Minecraft at MoMA, Barbie Dreamhouse Paint, and More Finds Plus a furniture and design exhibition in a landscape architect’s historic midcentury house.
    By Diana Budds
  48. Designers Are Getting Horny “Sexy,” curated by Eny Lee Parker, features a phallic grill, racy candle holders, a squeezable vase, and more libidinous designs.
    By Diana Budds
  49. From a Big Loft to a Bright-Blue Studio Pam Sommers’s joyful tale of downsizing (with room for 1,000 books).
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. The Wing’s Lasting Legacy Is the Furniture It makes sense that everyone’s trying to strip the co-working spaces for parts.
    By Diana Budds
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