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"The Venture Brothers" Love Mid-Century Modern Chairs

We enjoy Adult Swim's hilarious cartoon The Venture Brothers, so we were thrilled when reader Dave sent in visual proof of the show's coolness: In addition to being incredibly funny, Cartoon Netwo...

Look!: Political Displays at Home

The windows of your apartment can be eyes into your style, your habits, and yes - even your politics. Check out how these homeowners have made one window of their home into a display of their suppor...

This Old House is Coming to NYC

Are you renovating in the big city? Do you dream of the team from the original fix-it television show, This Old House, swooping in and doing the job for you? Well, right now just might be your chanc...

IKEA Brooklyn!

Super IKEA Slideshow Yesterday, some members of the Apartment Therapy Media team spent the afternoon touring the brand new IKEA in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was a little eerie to see a near-perfectly ...

Grocery (or Laundry, Cleaning, Bill-Paying) Day

In our suburban childhood, our mother designated Saturday's as grocery day. We knew there was a period of time each Saturday when we would go out together and purchase the groceries. It was never hu...

IKEA Digital Furniture for Sims2

Not only is IKEA infiltrating ICFF, now the furnishings giant will officially launch a collection of furniture for your Sims. When we dabbled in Sims2, our favorite part of the game was designing an...

Look! IKEA at ICFF

Walking the aisles of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair can be daunting — these products are at the high end of the furnishings scale and many designs command prices in the many-thousa...

Inspiration: Grouping by Color

Will the current trend of grouping your books and clothing by color expand to include everything? Photographer Helga Steppan grouped her own personal belonging by color to create these amazing photo...

How To: Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet

Less is more. If leaves fall off of trees in order for them to grow again, how come nothing falls out of our apartments? If we were good, we'd already be thinking about Spring Cleaning and maybe ...

Table Topics

We're big fans of playing games at home. Table Topics is a "game" of sorts to use to get conversation rolling at dinner parties......

Interiors on ABC's Brothers and Sisters

Speaking of television, we've just realized we love the interiors on ABC's drama Brothers and Sisters. Three in particular: the family's traditional home, the mistress' modern house, and the daughte...

Good Design in a... Game? Pentago

Good design where you least expect it. We love playing board games and were delighted by the design and strategy found in Pentago, a Christmas gift we received. The game is a Swedish classic and is ...

Jessica Helfand on Things

We're all about reducing useless things around the house here at AT. Here, in Jessica Helfand's Things, Part I, we read about our seemingly insatiable want and need for more and more things... ...

Black Box Home, Green Parties & Menorahs
NYT House & Home Roundup: 11.29.07

Sleek, Severe, Sophisticated. A Black Box Among the Georgians looks inside David Adjaye's design for Ed Reeve and Michela Meazza's London home. The stark design suits this small house. Chek out addi...

Ikea's Play, Live, Create
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Play, Live, Create. Ikea's new ads by Jung von Matt take the shape of floorplans. Can you see the words buried neatly in the plans above and below? Our apartment is only about the size of the "li" o...

How To: Make a Socket Chandelier

See How To Slideshow Good ideas inspire. While visiting the David Allen Gallery (we don't know why his links don't work anymore) on Smith Street a few weeks ago we were struck by his remarkably si...

Top 5: Cheap Furniture Basics

Space & Budget Conscious. We've compiled this list of tried-and-true furniture basics that are under $500. Personally, we own a few of these and nearly everyone we know owns at least one of the item...

NYT: Modern Green Retreat

Greener, Happier. Architects Paul McKean and Amy Donohue tackled The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple when they built a weekend home outside Portland, Oregon in the Hood River Valley. The...

Lasenza Chair by Eurway

Like the classic Emeco Navy Chair but don't like the $400 price tag? Here's a pure aluminum substitution that's a fraction of the cost: Eurway's Lasenza Chair......

NYT: Inside 40 Bond

Corian & Austrian Smoked Oak! Separate from the T Style Magazine, this Sunday's NYT Magazine featured a slideshow of Ian Schrager and Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 40 Bond. These are the first photos ...

Bertjan Pot's Non-Random Light
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More Orderly. We're so used to seeing Bertjan Pot's Random Light for Moooi, that we almost missed the new Non-Random Light. It has a regular pattern and a more bulbous structure (the Random Light is...

NYT: Tom Dixon

Wealth Redistribution? There is a lot of great material in the newest T Style Magazine � Design & Living Winter 2007. The first article we chose to tackle was Re-Arranging the Furniture, a look at...

Modern Gingerbread House
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Have modern homes finally gone mainstream? This is a Modern Gingerbread House from Red Envelope... ...

New York Magazine's Design Revolutionaries:
Martha Stewart

Professional Homemaker. We all know Martha Stewart as one of New York Magazine's Design Revolutionaries there is a quick overview of her growth as a brand and home-making icon. There is a great ti...