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Collecting Chinese Art in Columbia County, New York
The New York Times 11.9.08

The recent T Style Magazine from The New York Times gave us a peek into the weekend home of Christopher Tsai and Andre Stockamp &mdash their modern home was a collaboration between Beijing artist Ai...

East #77: Jeanie's Candy Colored World

Click image for gallery Name: Jeanie Location: New York City Type of Home: rental apartment What inspired you to use color? I love candy, plastic toys and super bright colors. I have collections ra...

White Castle: Long Island City Loft
The New York Times 9.28.08

As contrast to the beginning of our Fall Color Contest, Pilar Viladas shows us a white loft in the design issue of the T Style Magazine. Architect Steve Blatz created a gleaming white backdrop for a...

Upside Down House in Edinburgh, Scotland
The New York Times 9.18.08

Though not as upside-down as Tuesday's post from ATSF, the original owners of this house in the Morningside suburb of Edinburgh called their home the Upside-Down House &mdash the architects, James M...

House Proud: 19th Century Watercolor Interiors
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Welcome to Keehnan — A new voice for ATNY! The history of documenting interiors goes back farther than one would think; before blogs, before glossy shelter magazines, even before the printed p...

Alessi Miniatures: Small-Scale Design Classics

Alessi has released miniature versions of some of their most recognizable designs — Phillipe Starck's iconic citrus juicer, above is included in this collection... ...

Roland Emmerich's London Home with an Edge
The New York Times 8.7.08

Whoa. The London home of director Roland Emmerich is a melting pot of styles, political art, taxidermy, large murals and odd-ball collections. We're especially fond of the small room painted entirel...

Hard-to-Find Art & Design Books
The New York Times 7.17.08

In this week's Shopping With... feature from The New York Times, designer Kelly Wearstler visits Potterton Books in Los Angeles and shares her tips and resources for finding out-of-print design book...

Built-in and Rotating Bookshelves at the Franz Kafka Society Center

The pictures of the newly renovated Franz Kafka Society Center in Prague left us swooning for a built-in bookshelf budget of our own. Designed by architects Steven Holl and Marcela Steinbachová, th...

EDEFORS Display Cabinet from IKEA

We were really surprised to see that this EDEFORS glass-doored display cabinet from IKEA is made from solid oak! (Update: The frame is solid oak but the shelves and sides are oak veneered particlebo...

Barry Wine's Whimsical Estate
The New York Times 6.5.08

Known for his experience as a chef and restauranteur (The Quilted Giraffe), Barry Wine has allowed his creative spirit to pervade his life — whether he is practicing photography, designing jewelr...

Limited-Edition Furniture & Design: Design-Art
The International Herald Tribune 5.30.08

In the past few weeks, we've brought you information on the near sale of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House (lower left) and BarberOsgerby's Iris tables at Established & Sons (upper right). Both repres...

J. Morgan Puett's Artists' Colony: Romantic Decay
The New York Times 5.29.08

The New York Times loves to profile some kooky homes. In the past year they've shown us a Funhouse in East Hampton, Arizona's Eliphante & Hippodome and Pearl Lam's Shanghai Loft. This week, they're ...

Artfully Crammed Red Hook Rental
New York Magazine 5.19.08

This is the last of the six New York homes featured in New York Magazine's Interiors Issue. Artist Judyth van Amringe loves her stuff...and it fills her Red Hook apartment to the gills. In the autho...

Personal Library: Collecting Books
The New York Times 5.15.08

How much is too much? The New York Times shares the first-person account of author Alberto Manguel discussing his life-long love of books and his personal library of over 30,000 volumes. As romantic...

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...

Inspiration: The Best Way to Hang Artwork the Wrong Way

Rules were made to be broken, right? As popular as our How To: Hang Your Artwork and Not Screw It Up post is, it's very refreshing to see a completely different approach. Illustrator Claudia Carieri...

BERGSBO Cabinet from IKEA

Waiting patiently for the Red Hook IKEA, I still needed my seasonal IKEA fix. On my most recent visit to Elizabeth, I put the new BERGSBO cabinet on my list of purchases to consider. The picture on th...

House Tour: Modern Layers
NYT 3.16.08

This apartment in the United Nations Plaza building was recently featured in The New York Times T Style Magazine. As usual, author Pilar Viladas covers the cream of the housing crop. The story's foc...

House Tour: Family-Friendly Modern
NYT House & Home Roundup 2.28.08

Behind the restored Federalist facade of Ellen Weiman and Dubi Silverstein's West Village town house, hides a modern home that resembles an Eames storage unit. The combination of white walls, bright...

Blogging New York Magazine: Harry Heissmann's Packed Living Room

I've always defined minimalists as people with really great closet space. As one's apartment gets smaller, the minimalist ideal becomes less and less likely. The ten-by-twelve-foot living room of de...

House Tour: Orchid King
NYT House & Home Roundup 2.7.08

Robert Fuchs is the president of R. H. Orchids, a very successful nursery in Homestead, Florida. Mr. Fuchs has won over 800 prizes for his orchids and his love for the exotic plants and their hybrid...

House Tour: Dutch Town House
NYT 1.23.08

The home of Benjamin Moser and Arthur Japin is a five-story, 2,690-square-foot Dutch town house in Utrecht, The Netherlands and was recently featured in The New York Times. Built in 1600, the home i...

Mini House Tour: Embracing Art

We've seen lots of art-filled homes recently. From the over-the-top Art Cave in California to the more modest Mini House Tour of Pam's Art-Filled Condo. The SoHo loft of art advisors Thea Westreich ...

September Best Miscellany: Collections, Color 101, Reupholstering Chairs, Sparkle Josh...

Collections, Color 101, AT Interview: Josh Johnson, Reupholstered Chairs, Summer Living Room Though our Look! features were extra popular in September, we also had a lot of traffic for Patrick's in...