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My Brilliant Friend Compelled Me to Get a Landline

 Going down the rabbit hole of Italian mid-century phone design. By Clio Chang
  1. The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy Meyers Rose Tarlow on her reissued book, her tiny client list, and her obsessive standards.
    By Catherine Hong
  2. The Selby’s New Book About Creatives With Kids at Home A decade after his last book, Todd Selby is now a family guy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  3. Spiky Trinkets, Cloud Lamps, and Hundreds of Max Lamb Chairs Plus a new metallic-furniture collection at Nomia.
    By Terry Nguyen
  4. ‘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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  5. Making Space Where There Isn’t Any New York architects on creating extra rooms and better storage in the smallest duplexes and studios.
    By Ian Volner
  6. My Tiny New York Bathroom Fits 400 Products How a beauty editor organizes the chaos of four shipments a week.
    By Tahirah Hairston
  7. The New York Apartments That Pay for Themselves How three small-space influencers live, work, and cover the rent.
    By Petra Guglielmetti
  8. I’ll Never Forget the Apartment Gaetano Pesce Did for Ruth Shuman The Italian designer reimagined almost every square inch of the Publicolor founder’s home.
    By Wendy Goodman
  9. A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty Nesters They were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home?
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  11. The Newest Louis Poulsen Lamps Are Glowing Glass A one-of-a-kind collaboration with Home in Heven is up for auction at 1stDibs.
    By Angela Serratore
  12. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. A Clinton Hill Townhouse With a Cooking Fireplace The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s house.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Prop Stylist John Dittrick Did Not Want His Apartment to Feel Cluttered “I was very influenced by the taste my mom had,” he says.
    By Wendy Goodman
  15. A David Lynch–Inspired Nightclub, Fantasy Coffins, and More Design Finds Plus a new salon-style gallery in Soho.
    By Terry Nguyen
  16. 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.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. The Immediately Outdated Renovation “It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life. Now you look and say, ‘How can this look dated already?’”
    By Kim Velsey
  18. How to Build a House for Leonard Bernstein Maestro production designer Kevin Thompson on filming in the conductor’s actual Connecticut home (and going through his junk drawers).
    By Nora DeLigter
  19. 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!”
    By Wendy Goodman
  20. Craftsman Home In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form.
    By Wendy Goodman
  21. The Empty Dry Cleaner That Became a Printing Studio Artist Leslie Diuguid needed a larger space to work (and her bedroom back).
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  23. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  24. Federico de Francesco Gave up Finance to Be an Artist (and Live Like One) A visit to his Bohemian Tribeca loft
    By Wendy Goodman
  25. How the Nivola Horses Got Their Hooves Back All 18 modernist sculptures have been reinstalled in an Upper West Side plaza.
    By Clio Chang
  26. How Do You Rebuild a Nazi’s House? For The Zone of Interest, a crew meticulously studied Rudolf Höss’s actual house, then created a replica down the street.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. You Should Know About Textile Designer Marguerita Mergentime From Radio City music hall to Keds sneakers.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. Have You Heard About the Hot-Girl Toilet Seat? Commodes with eggs and old cellphones suspended in resin aren’t for everyone. Maybe they’re for you.
    By Nora Taylor
  29. 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.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. Down the eBay Rabbit Hole to Find a Bitossi Clock These chunky mid-century ceramics looked ugly at first. Then I had to have my own.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  31. A Look Inside New York’s Mountain Houses The remote beauty and real meaning of the getaway home.
    By Curbed Staff
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. McDonald’s Lamps, Rubber Tables, and Anthony Haden-Guest at Design Miami Plus a literal trophy bookcase.
    By Ian Volner
  36. 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
  37. TM Davy’s Fairy-, Satyr-, and Plant-Filled East Williamsburg Loft “I don’t really know that there are many places left like this.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  38. 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
  39. Leave the World Behind’s Apocalyptic Airbnb A modern farmhouse in Old Westbury, Long Island, was just what the design team wanted for the collapse of civilization.
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. From the Floral, Red Rooms of Barbara Walters The broadcaster liked monograms, astrology, and her red Eames chair.
    By Angela Serratore
  43. 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
  44. They Still Make Art in Soho Reformed “wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. Hollywood Regency in Park Slope When Anna Turner bought her first apartment, she wanted “eclectic, maximalist.” But somehow practical, too.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. Floral Storefront City When did fake wisteria take over every retail façade in Manhattan?
    By Mia Mercado
  47. 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
  48. Sofia Coppola’s Bedrooms The director’s new book, Archive, is a showcase for the little temples, or little cells, she creates for her characters.
    By Katie McDonough
  49. 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
  50. 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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