Maybe it's just us, but this week's H&H is a summer delight, full of guilty pleasures.
First of all, we love the big, juicy pics of the Perlbinder's Norman Jaffe house in Sagaponac, then we got into Ken Druse's story on the suburban chicken keeping fad (what? no garden?), and it all came right back home with Aric Chen's article on a hip Williamsburg renovation (with a Ron Gilad lamp).
Hey, even Marianne Rohrlich's roundup of Dorm Decor made us chuckle with how glad we are not to be that young anymore....
TOP STORIES
- Drama in the Dunes: Act 2 for a Norman Jaffe Classic:
Beautitul pics and a great story about a family that has held onto this Jaffe classic despite a growing family and numerous attempts by nature to kill it.
- Scratch a Suburb, Find a Chicken:
Hey Martha! We're ordering our chickens this weekend...
- Mold? Mildew? Odors? New Towels Fight Back:
New towels are coming out with Microban, and anti-fungal fabric treatment. Ugh, will the American obsession with germs and our avoidance of work ever end. Eight words: "Teach the kid to pick up his towel."
- In Williamsburg, a Loft Renovation Based on Reuse: Matt Gagnon, a Williamsburg-based designer, does a really nice job with Ramona Liberoff's 1,700-square-foot loft, using recycled and reused bits and otherwise showing what you can do when you aim to consume less.
- Personal Shopper: Dorm Decor:
Oh, how nice not to be a kid again (But check out those crazy colors!)
- Q. What can I do to jazz up a white ceiling? :
Mitchell Owens goes to town on solutions
CURRENTS
- There's a green-dragon branding fight brewing in Chinatown
- Chilewich is at it again with a new material called Spun Vinyl
- DWR releases it's first bedding collection - not bad
- Cool - Multimedia work by Julie Farris and Shane Sigler is projected into a lot in Carrol Gardens
- Homer has opened a new shop downtown in in NoLIta, where everything is 50% off
I'm going to go read this on the beach RIGHT NOW.
But I have to put in my 2 cents about last week's H&H, which I read with much mirth. Especially that european clutter v unimaginative bachelor minimalism.
Good summer fun . . .
Erm...why does AT refer to the NYTIMES section as H&H? The link off the NYTIMES website calls the section Home and Garden - so why not H&G?
Not complaining or objecting - just curious about any explanations.
Jennifer - until fairly recently the NYT called that section House & Home.
Jennifer: The print version of the section is titled "House & Home".
I wish the NY Time article on ceiling ideas had some more photos accompanying it because some of the ideas seem intersting. Anyone know of a website that has intersting ceiling ideas?
I'm surprised no one has come rushing to the defense of the dragon-stealing "designers" who copied the design from another vendor, in the same way people are so quick to come to the side of those furniture manufacturers/vendors making/selling knock-offs...
So. . . chickens are the new decor? I never liked that country-cute look, but live chickens? Actually, I would prefer live chickens. Come to think of it, chickens would be fun (I'm thinking my apt neighbors won't agree). But the question is, if I get a mellow chicken the cat might eat it and if I get a touch chicken it might kill the cat. Decisions, decisions....
"tough chicken" not "touch chicken"
Don't want to be mistaken for some sort of poultry pervert.....
I miss Nest.
It just occurred to me that if you didn't read the thing about the ceilings, you wouldn't have even seen the Nest reference they made, but anyway, that was one of the most interesting and lurid, gorgeous, baroque publications on the planet -- ever. To be fair, I've not seen all the publications on the planet, but among the Decor ones, it was amazing.