It always seems as if a murder has just taken place when you walk into a room with off-white carpeting, peacock-blue chairs with tight silk bodices and a winking crystal chandelier. Perhaps the police are even there measuring a body.
Invariably, grand, formal settings seem to give rise to wicked events. Philip in Alfred Read More
While New York goes about its modernist business these days, slamming into glassy walls, over on 183-5 West Fourth Street sits a most unusual house. What is this place? There are no Barcelona chairs, no rough pillows with blue and brown squares. Only a bust of Diana with a moon on her head, a very Read More
Behind a locked gate, a floor up from a street in Chinatown where men stare down at green vegetables and octopuses and woman carry parasols in the heat of the day, the model Emily Sandberg was eating cherries and her husband was watching her eat the cherries and a big blond dog had his eye Read More
Standing near the umbrella stand outside the door of the actor Tony Roberts’ apartment on Park Avenue, the suspense was mounting. Would he be like he was in the Woody Allen movies? The door opened, and—he was exactly like he was in the Woody Allen movies.
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As recently as two years ago, people were ashamed to live north of the highway in Southampton. There was such ignominy. “People would say, ‘Oh, oh, oh—I’m sorry,’” said Ivan Bart, the senior vice president of IMG Models, remembering. Then Mr. Bart bought a modest summer home on a pond there and suddenly everything was Read More
Is there a longing for a William Morris time, a handcrafted, special aesthetic going against the machine and to a handmade world of peacocks and furniture made by forest gnomes?
Perhaps. In a sometimes-shoddy age, Jonah Zuckerman, a designer and master craftsman of contemporary furniture using traditional techniques and materials, has a relentless drive Read More
Where will the guests alight, Sancerre in hand, eager for salmon, flying fish and a mint leaf? Where to sit when being disconsolate, eating a cherry, dreaming of a love affair—if you are not in the country, drifting in a swan boat, hand trailing in the water?
In Manhattan, where people already have a Read More
Geoff Isles has seen it all, but he’ll be there anyway. Like so many collectors of craft, he cannot help but fill his home with more and more vases and sculptures. At the 58-gallery SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) New York fair from June 1 to 3 at the Park Avenue Armory, these collectors Read More
Just when you thought the past might be vanishing a little too quickly, terra cotta is coming back in new ways, making New York warmer, deeper, and not so flat and icy with glass.
Midnight-blue glazed terra cotta, all full of inky depth, will surround the lower portion of architect Annabelle Selldorf’s 520 West Read More
The model apartment of today is a rather sophisticated piece of work: Not only does it come with an aura of a projected future, but with pre-made, manufactured ghosts.
Two examples at 995 Fifth Avenue—a conversion of the former Stanhope Hotel across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, built in 1926, now with some Read More
