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Astor Courts: Renovating a Historic Hudson Valley Escape
The New York Times 11.6.08

The Astor Courts Estate is in Rhinebeck, New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Designed by Stanford White in 1902 for John Jacob Astor IV, the massive home has been used as a family vacation home,...

InstaPool! : Galvanized Tanks from Behlen Country
Email from 8.15.08

Galvanized cool. You may remember that Sara and I went looking for a galvanized tub to use as a pool for Ursula (@2yrs), and found this great company: Dover Parkersburg, from which we bought a real...

Light-filled California Home
The New York Times Magazine 6.15.08

This angular home, perched on a hilltop in Southern California, was designed by architect Tom Kundig to take advantage of its unique position and embrace the indoor-outdoor life. Pilar Viladas of Th...

Black and White Bungalow of Colonial-Era Singapore
The New York Times 6.11.08

The European-style homes of expatriates and colonial families in colonial-era South East Asia were often black and white. The New York Times shows us one such home in Singapore, currently inhabited ...

Queens Modern
New York Magazine 5.19.08

Here's another unexpected home featured in New York Magazine: The Hsu family built a modern home in Flushing, Queens with the design help of architecture firm Grzywinski Pons. The high-design aesthe...

Modern Family Home
The New York Times 4.13.08

The Radziner-Cottle home in Venice California was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine and we found it very inspirational. Though the house is large, the abundance of large windows and s...

Pool Pavillion Furnishings for Kithaus from DWR

Last month, Design Within Reach began selling the Kithaus, a modern prefab building kit. As a clever way to market their foray into office and commercial furnishings, the team at DWR put together an...

Outdoor Furniture: Kolorado Collection by Mark Robson for Sifas

This gorgeous collection of ebony-stained beechwood furniture was designed to help bring the indoors, out. Manufactured by French company Sifas (they specialize in high end furnishings for resorts) ...

House Tour: Home in the Heart of Provence
NYT 2.27.08

Comfortable and spacious, Le Paty is the second home of Robert Burns and his wife, Isabelle Pisani. The couple purchased the home in the late 90's to act as a family retreat for their large (and grow...

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: Chesapeake Bay Modern Retreat

This beautiful home nestled in the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland is the weekend retreat of James Woodyard and his girlfriend, Khadeja Salley. Just two hours from Washington D.C., t...

NYT: The Bright White Home of Howard Schatz

Coming Up for Air is a great reminder that "home" has a different meaning for everyone. The Connecticut home of underwater photographer Howard Schatz and his business partner/wife Beverly Ornstein is...

NYT: Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House

Hot Property. Thanks to a tip from Mason, we wanted to post yesterday's New York Times piece, A Landmark Modernist House Heads to Auction. Richard Neutra designed the Kaufmann House for Edgar J. Kau...