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Design House Stockholm: Design Products from Scandinavia

Dorothy, we're not in Ikea anymore. When I just out of college, my mother gave me a beautiful little votive candle holder from a place called Design House Stockholm. It came with a note explaining...

Roundup: Best Throw Pillows 2008

Thomas Paul, Unison & Loolo During Fall Colors Month (see all our entries here), many readers are learning that one of the best ways to experiment and add color without painting or spending a lot mon...

Victoria's Best Affordable Art Picks

Last week Two weeks ago I spent most of Monday in Victoria Smith's apartment in San Francisco (you can see the video clip we did for the local television show here). Besides having a stunning apartm...

Grizzly Metal Furniture

A number of years ago Martha Stewart had a catalog, which sold some pretty cool stuff. I bought a fair amount from it both for myself and for clients, and missed it when it shut down. One of the be...

Best of Three: NYC House Tours

Name: Alysia and David Location: Harlem Size: 2400 sqft, 4 bdrm brownstone Favorite: the space and that it is finished! >> Alysia and David Get Sponsored by Dwell (8,197 views) From Harlem, to Hob...

AT on Getting Your House in Order

While the daily financial news couldn't be more dramatic (is someone writing this stuff?), and here in NYC there is a palpable sense of disbelief in the air, I have no doubt that the fall out from t...

AT: Wings Over America #3

Chris & I with John Gabbert, founder of R&B Last Friday was our final day of travel, and we spent it entirely at Room & Board's main offices outside of Minneapolis. For those of you in the furniture ...

AT: Wings Over America #2

The view from Target's Ad Agency looking out over Mary Tyler Moore's hometown [Note: this was from last Thursday] Yesterday saw our departure from the dry West and our entrance into the green and ver...

Best of Four: Side Chairs (a little more formal)

Charme Chair by Archirivolto Design Lately, I've noticed a few new side chairs that I really like. For today's roundup, I thought I'd get all the info and share them with you. They run the range in...

Living Simply: Surfwise, The Film

The 24' Camper - Truly Tiny Living Sara Kate and I have often talked about just taking off and hitting the road for a year before Ursula gets too old and has to go to school. We'd live small and lig...

Best Wallpaper 2008: Designers & Sources (with massive links)

Julia Rothman Custom and at Wallcollection.com seen in this house tour Perhaps you don't know that wallpaper is the hippest new old thing since sliced bread, or perhaps you do and you're wondering wh...

4th Annual Fall Colors Contest: Submissions Start 9.22!

Name: Nathaniel & Keith (2nd Place) Location: West Midtown, New York, NY Type: We own this two-bedroom apartment >> Nathaniel & Keith's Blue Period We're doing it again. At Apartment Therapy we ha...

The Record Cabinet by Atocha Design

This just came across our desk minutes ago: a beautiful, high end solution for those special few of you who not only still have vinyl records, you covet and prefer them. Jen Levin Atocha is one of t...

Cedric's Brilliance: The DIY Glass Backsplash

Way back in 2005, I saw Cedric's house tour on our site and I was mesmerized by the clean simplicity and elegance of his kitchen setup (above). At the time our own kitchen was practical and cooked ...

The Slow Chair by The Bouroullec Brothers: My Favorite Armchair of 2008

Here's a comfy old man's chair for anyone under 40. A good chair is easy to love, hard to find, and I don't crave many. Last week, we were walking by the Vitra shop over in MePa, and I s...

Best Wine Racks for the Home 2008

>> Vintage View Racks at Cafe Falai (above)>> Vintage View Racks in our home (we buy them through Beverage Factory and eBay) I am proud to say that while I have cut down on my swollen book collection...

Favorite Textiles: Lauren Saunders

The Joni Mitchell of pillow design. I had the good fortune of meeting Lauren Saunders at ICFF two years ago. It was her first year taking a booth there, and she sat through all four long days like a...

Wary Meyers: Click On This...

Wary's bedroom. Note the tall cat tower in honor of Pet Design Month in the back corner Ok, it's time to just say, check out Wary Meyers. Here's today's inspiration. This will rock your world. Click ...

New Classics: Woods Wallpaper [& fabric] from Cole & Son

This just in from Eddie: "...just walked by the Elizabeth Bauer store on Greenwich Ave bet Charles and Perry and saw the pattern on a fabric on a loveseat that is in the display window." I first saw ...

Best of Three: Homes with Pets

Liz's Herald Square Apartment with Go Go Cat and Koo Koo Kitty "3 cats, a turtle and a lizard - Yay pet month!" So say's Hollie in today's survey of what pets readers have at home. While Hollie defi...

Tools for Pet Living: The Cat Jet and The Roomba
Email from 9.1.08

Wow, it's September, the first day of Pet Design Month here on AT. This is the month that we dig deep to find and share those solutions to the problems that our pets bring - much as we love them - ...

Photos from Meter Gallery
Email from 8.28.08

William Abranowicz I met Marty Weiss four years ago. A creative soul and founder of two successful advertising companies, he kept finding himself in love with the skill and art of the photographers ...

Like Forever: Big Bold Graphic Art
Email from 8.27.08

>> Laure's Constant Change Tour>> Poster by Tracy Jenkins from Village Maybe it was a last year thing or maybe it's an evergreen, but I found myself thinking about the "For Like Ever" poster last nig...

Tomorrow's Email: New Views of this Woodsy Wallpaper

Thursdays I zone in on something I've seen around town. This time I'm looking again at this fashionable wallpaper, that is becoming something of a classic, particularly as it is introduced in new c...

The Dutch Bicycle Company: Sexy Dutch Roadsters
Email from 8.26.08

This Velorbis takes its curvilinear shape from the "subtle, smooth lines of the female form." Sorry to do this to you again, but I've got to get it out of my system. In my search for super cool Dutch...