Like so many of us, Stephan Weishaupt considers real estate browsing a leisure sport. And so a few years ago, while on vacation in Miami Beach, he took up a friend’s offer to show him a 1932 Art Deco villa the day before it was to go on the market. “I never had any intention of buying a […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Modern Space Thanks to a Traditional ‘Tsubo-Niwa’
A while back, we wrote about Fraher & Findlay‘s inspired update of a Georgian home. Today, we’re sharing another project, a renovation of an old Victorian in Hackney, London, featuring a Japanese-inspired tsubo-niwa. Tsubo is a unit of measure equal to the area of two tatami mats (about 3.3 square meters); niwa means garden. As […]
Modern Design Meets the Center-Hall Colonial: A Washington D.C. House Gets a Bright New Guise
It was a case of strange bedfellows: an Italian couple based in Washington D.C. approached local architecture firm Fowlkes Studio with a 1980s brick Colonial and an impressive collection of pedigreed European modernist furniture. How to combine the two into a family home? Fowlkes, which is run by husband-and-wife team, VW and Catherine Fowlkes (they […]
Launching Today: A New Cooking School in Clerkenwell, London
Something’s cooking in Clerkenwell: Michelin star chef Adam Gray, in partnership with the Bourne & Hollingsworth Brasserie and Bar, is launching B&H Kitchen today, a new cooking school for Londoners. Situated on the top floor of the B&H building, which houses the brasserie and bar, the loft-like space is outfitted with British Standard cabinets and has six catering stations, a demonstration […]
In the Mood for Layers: A Brooklyn Home That Connects East and West
The architecture of 19th-century Shanghai was a study in eclecticism, a blend of traditional Chinese design and Western classical styles that was a direct reflection of the city’s foreign concessions at the time. This is the period from which designer Melissa Lee, principal and founder of Brooklyn-based Bespoke Only, drew inspiration when she was tapped […]
Restaurant Visit: Le Doyenné, a Potager-to-Table Restaurant and Guesthouse
To be filed under the perfect overnight adventure from Paris: Le Doyenné is a destination restaurant and farm—with guest rooms—on the grounds of Château de Saint-Vrain. It’s a culinary lab for Australian chefs Shaun Kelly and James Henry, both of whom have made a splash in their adopted country: Kelly served as head chef at […]
Kitchen of the Week in Kazakhstan: Emerging Designer Fariz Mamedov’s Ode to Blue and White
How does a 28-year-old from a small town in Kazakhstan become an in-demand interior designer with projects featured in The New York Times and AD? “Am I really a designer? Is this real?” asks Fariz Mamedov. “It feels like a fairytale.” An understandable response: not so long ago, Fariz explains, he was singing in a […]
Domestic Science: How to Clean a Mattress
You spend a third of your life in bed. How often do you really clean it—all the way down to the mattress? Chances are, not enough. Maybe you think that with a mattress pad and a sheet, it’s not really dirty (wrong). Or that that you need a professional cleaner or harsh chemicals (no, and nope). Here’s […]
Designer Lena Corwin at Home in Fort Greene
When Lena Corwin and Josh Dreier were leaving Manhattan for Brooklyn, they were drawn to Fort Greene for its character and history. “The neighborhood is filled with artists and is flanked by The Brooklyn Academy of Music to the south and Pratt Art Institute to the east,” says Lena. “For years it was a predominately […]