What room would you be willing to sacrifice to create your dream kitchen? For Emmanuelle and David Cadji-Newby, it was clear their dining area, with its original moldings and garden views, ought to be turned into the hub of the house. The couple—she’s a psychotherapist in training, he’s a founder of personalized kids’ books publisher […]
El proyecto de cocina ética: Una máquina para cocinar
Why are contemporary kitchens so big? Danish designer Tobias Tí¸stesen poses this question on behalf of the environment, as well as our quality of life: “Do we really need all those one-purpose machines that then require big kitchens with a lot of space?” Tí¸stesen thinks not, and to prove it, he designed the Ethical Kitchen, a prototype […]
La cocina de la semana: Una cocina en tonos pastel inspirada en el artista sueco Carl Larsson
Founded in early 2020 by Mia and Marcus Sahlin, the owners of high-end kitchen company Kitchen & Beyond, Cupboards & Goods is a more affordable line of handmade preassembled cabinetry for the kitchen. Based in Gothenburg, in the tiny village of Hyssna, located on Sweden’s west coast, Cupboards & Goods recently worked with the family trust […]
Uno para todos: TBo renueva un adosado de Brooklyn para familias multigeneracionales
The family wanted to stay together—literally. Bretaigne Walliser and Thom Dalmas’s clients asked the architects to reconfigure an 1899 Brooklyn townhouse for three generations—grandparents and their daughter, her wife, and their two children—to cohabitate and have space for creative pursuits. Thom and Bretaigne run TBo, one of our favorite NYC design studios: see A One-Room […]
La cocina de la semana: Un fotógrafo de Filadelfia construye la cocina de sus sueños con armarios de Ikea y frentes Semihandmade
Over the course of 15 years of shooting interiors and food, Philadelphia photographer Jason Varney started envisioning his dream kitchen. It would have veined white marble counters, cabinets painted a pale gray, wood accents for earthiness, and a bit of an industrial vibe to “balance the softness.” What he was picturing wasn’t for his home […]
La cocina de la semana: La nueva cocina rural italiana de Katrin Arens, edición Chatarra de madera
For 20 years now, Italy-based German interior designer and furniture maker Katrin Arens has been finding fresh uses for discarded wood. She’s still on the vanguard of the reclaimed movement: “I love reusing wood to make things that will last,” she tells us. “I aim for designs that are simple and clean without being cold.” Today […]
Disruptores del sueño: 14 nuevas empresas de colchones
Every entrenched industry is getting a dose of disruption these days. And as fans of the little guy, we’re all for it. Perhaps the biggest industry to see some shakeup is the $14 billion American mattress trade—and it couldn’t happen to a better brute. News articles in recent years have shone a light on the […]
100 por cien artesanal: La histórica casa fluvial de Valentin Loellmann en Maastricht
In 2012, German designer Valentin Loellmann took a risk on a listed heritage building in one of Maastricht’s most sought-after neighborhoods along the Maas river. The building, a former stable house, was missing a roof, all its windows, and electricity, “but I wasn’t afraid of what it would take to fix it up,” he says. […]
Ver en tecnicolor: 10 cocinas de colores que cambian la pintura por el pigmento
Noticed recently, with increasing frequency: kitchens where color-stained wood does more with less. Tinted linseed oils and pigment-rich Polyx-oils offer a tactile alternative to lacquered gloss or flat paint—allowing tone, grain, and texture to coexist. It’s a resourceful move: cost-conscious, low-VOC, and richly expressive. The result is a custom look without the custom price tag. […]
“This Is the House I’d Leave Amsterdam For”: A Family’s Airy, Springy 1893 Quarters in Haarlem
It was a Sunday and as usual Arianne Bonthuis was perusing the Dutch real estate sites. Arianne and her husband, Derk, and their four young kids had long ago outgrown their Amsterdam apartment when a banner ad on Fonda.NL caught her eye. “After a few clicks on the pictures, I turned to my husband and […]
Kitchen of the Week: Charlie Smallbone and deVol Team Up to Create a Conservatory Kitchen, Copper Doors Included
A surprise star at the recent Chelsea Flower Show in London: a kitchen oriented to the garden. Set in an energy-efficient Passive House conservatory, the design intrigued us thanks not only to its cabinet doors of patinated copper but also its exotic pedigree: It was created by UK kitchen titans Charlie Smallbone (formerly of Smallbone […]
Antes y después: Un apartamento de 2.500 metros cuadrados en el Brooklyn de la preguerra se amplía reubicando la cocina
Dubbed “Brooklyn’s Champs-Élysées” by the New York Times, Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights is a grand thoroughfare that counts among its architectural gems Grand Army Plaza, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Museum—all within a half mile of each other. Nestled among these landmarks are elegant pre-war apartment buildings, like Turner Towers, Brooklyn’s first […]
Steal This Look: A Wood-Clad Scandi Guest Room in London
Working with London-based firm Mike Tuck Studio, Danish-American couple Catherine and Toke Nygaard remodeled their four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in South Hackney with a decidedly Scandinavian bent. Case in point? Their upstairs guest room clad in Dinesen wood and Nordic furniture reads more like a fjord-side summerhouse than a small urban bedroom. Here we profile the […]
Formerly a Garage: A 400-Square-Foot One-Bedroom House in LA
We brake for grottages: garages converted into cottages (our own Michelle Slatalla invented the term for her own place). This one is the work of LA house flipper-turned designer-builder Shanty Wijaya of Allprace. Wijaya replaced the crumbling dwelling on the property with a spec construction, and rebuilt the remains of its one-car garage as this […]
Pasado Futuro: El Hotel Drei Berge de Ramdane Touhami en Mürren, Suiza
Suspending time in a cinematic atmosphere, the Drei Berge Hotel in the Bernese Oberland Alps of Mürren, Switzerland, can only be the creation of Ramdane Touhami. The French Moroccan creative polymath is an expert of reinvention, responsible for Cire Trudon and the historic beauty brand L’Officine Universelle Buly, which he co-founded with wife and partner […]
¿Merece la pena? Sábanas básicas de lujo de la línea Alma de Sferra
Over the four years I’ve lived in my apartment, I’ve steadily—slowly—swapped my lesser-quality essentials for better, more lasting versions. Glassware, under-bed storage, even my plastic clothes hangers: They all got upgrades. Somehow, though, it took me years to invest in quality bedding—I’m not sure why, given how much attention I pay to my bed and how […]
Roba este look: Una cálida y tradicional cocina inglesa en Hampshire
Interior designer Tamsin Saunders refreshed a Grade II listed Arts & Crafts home in Hampshire, England for a family with a light touch, an updated traditional aesthetic. She worked with the family’s inherited antiques while sourcing others, added an AGA range, customized cabinetry, and refitted fixtures. Here, we present a list of similar sources to […]
Residencia New Road: Una casa londinense comisariada por Hostem
James Brown, the 28-year-old owner of always edgy London fashion boutique Hostem, had a yearning to move into art and furnishings. But rather than simply expand his inventory, he took on an entire townhouse, an elegant Georgian specimen in Whitechapel, a 20-minute stroll from Hostem’s Spring Store and in-progress updated headquarters, both in Shoreditch. With the company’s artistic director, Christie Fels, who has a background in interior […]
Camptown: El nuevo refugio de cabañas de alto estilo en las Catskills
Rivertown Lodge in Hudson, New York, debuted in 2015 and set a new standard for locally sourced, inventively designed hotels in the Hudson Valley and Catskills north of NYC. Designed by Workstead, Rivertown was the first project of Ramshackle Properties, Ray Pirkle and Kim Bucci’s boutique hospitality firm, and is a favorite Remodelista retreat—and source […]
Villa Lena: A New Creative Hub (and Hotel) in Tuscany
Last summer I met up with French designer Clarisse Demory in her Paris apartment during the only two days of the year that she happened to be in the city. Clarisse had been living deep in the flowery hills of Tuscany for the past year (she brought bunches of dried flora back with her), working on […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Bright Berlin Kitchen with a Subdued Palette
Experts of European luxe minimalism, designers Lea Korzeczek and Matthias Hiller of Studio Oink were called upon to renovate the garden apartment of a Wilhelminian-style building in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood for a young family of four. The order included a 200-square-foot bespoke kitchen among the 1,400 square feet spanning the ground and first floors. […]
Ses Sucreres and Hevresac, Two Subtly Stylish Hotels in Menorca, Spain
Last summer, our friends Jonathan Hokklo and Ashley Helvey were traveling around the Spanish island Menorca. Around that time, Ashley was sending me photos of sinks, mini refrigerators, and light fixtures at one of the hotels where they stayed called Hevresac. The hotel is one of a few from owners Ignasi, a Spaniard, and Stéphanie, […]
LA Autumnal: Un cambio de imagen de una casa de los años 20 en tonos joya
Floral velvet has never crossed the threshold of any architect I know. Ditto leafy Victorian wallpaper. I’ve visited a lot of architects at home, and most are highly allergic to color and pattern. Sherry McKuin says she herself was a committed member of that cohort. That was until her family moved from a mid-century house […]
Roba este look: La cocina de bajo impacto
The cover of our newest book, Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home, features the kitchen of architects Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston of CO Adaptive. Their firm specializes in retrofitting existing buildings to make them energy efficient, and the couple transformed their own historic Brooklyn brownstone into an ultra-efficient passive house. Their monthly energy bill is zero—and […]
Para estetas y surfistas: Una nueva casa de huéspedes Vipp en el “frío Hawai” danés”
The latest Vipp guest house sits on its own in a coastal stretch of Denmark known as Cold Hawaii. Vipp is the family-owned Danish design company that gots its start in 1939 with the invention of a pedal-operated steel trashcan. Its design offerings have grown to include modular metal kitchen systems, bathroom vanities, furniture, lighting, […]
Roba este look: Cocina rústica moderna en Hudson, Nueva York
This past long weekend, I took the train out to Hudson, New York, to check out the Rivertown Lodge, by Brooklyn firm Workstead (it’s been on my design visit to-do list for a while now). A standout feature of the hotel lobby? The communal eat-in kitchen with turmeric-colored cabinets and a mix of high and low fixtures. […]
Una cocina sutilmente detallada en acero inoxidable y madera para una artista de DC y su familia
When artist Roxana Alger Geffen and her family moved into a Victorian-era townhouse in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC., the house had an awkward configuration, but they tried to make it work. Specifically, the kitchen and living room were located on the second floor, so although the artist was able to set up her studio […]
Roba este look: Una cocina con baldas de color amarillo intenso en Londres
En una cocina diseñada para el piso de su madre en Hampstead, la diseñadora Lonika Chande creó una atrevida cocina de estilo Shaker en forma de U en amarillo indio intenso. Los armarios, adquiridos a través de su constructor, contienen electrodomésticos integrados (frigorífico, despensa, lavadora y lavavajillas) y se compensan con cálido latón y frías encimeras de piedra. Aquí perfilamos los elementos clave que completan [...]