A whole-home guide to sustainability and efficiency, with room-by-room tips. Very dense, very informative. Read it here....
The Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street in New York City has a storied history, and was home (either temporarily or more permanently) for a host of now legendary creative types, ranging from Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart to Jimi Hendrix and James Morrison. The hotel was sold in 2011, a renovation was started and, long story short, a guy who was homeless at the time (but had lived in the hotel) noticed that the doors to these rooms were being thrown away, figured out how to save them, catalog them, and bring them to auction. The article explores some of...
A spread of home furnishings made with real crystals or minerals, including pieces by Regis de Saintdo, Phoenix Gallery, and even CB2....
The artist Doug Meyer, known for his popular “Cameo” series, recently debuted “Wyldlands”: an imagined resort town filled with florescent surrealist buildings in miniature. (The pieces range from 13 to 24 inches tall.) Set in the year 2037, in Arizona’s Sonoran desert, the installation — currently on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York — imagines a future where pandemics are the norm and elites have constructed a safe haven, called Wyldlands, to which they can slip away and live out their fantasies without risk of infection. “Wyldlands” is on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art through May...
Many jewelers find beauty in ordinary objects — smooth pebbles, delicate shells — but Régis de Saintdo perhaps more so than most. Years ago, the Parisian maker, who spent over two decades working for the designers Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti before going out on his own, started saving veal and beef bones he’d procured from his local butcher, simply because he liked their shape. He then bleached, sanded and carved one of them, with the intention of turning it into a gift for his wife. The resulting geometric pendant, which he accented with red coral, attracted a slew of...
Are two dining tables better than one? It's a polarizing topic, debated in this weekend's Off Duty section of the Wall Street Journal. You can read the entire article here (paywall) with opinions by Joe Nahem, Benjamin Noriega Ortiz and Kristen McGinnis on the PRO side and Viktor Udzenija, Christopher Coleman and Michelle Gerson on the CON side....
“I didn’t want to create another device that required a large amount of real estate on someone’s countertop,” says Joey Roth, designer of Osma, a sleek new machine that brews hot or cold coffee or tea in under 2 minutes. “I wanted it to be portable, and to look at home on various surfaces in your home and workspace.” Osma, two years in the making, is Roth’s second design in this space. His first was the very modernist Sorapot tea pot, designed while he was still a student at Swarthmore; it launched in 2007 and an updated version debuted in...
Mini profiles of five future stars all pushing the boundaries of materials to very cool effect: Atang Tshikare (South Africa), Flavie Audi (Lebanon/London), Nico Conti (Malta/London), Ammar Kalo (Dubai) and Seungjin Yang (Korea). You can read more about all of them, and see the cool pieces they create, here....
Interior designer Lucinda Loya breaks down the elements, and costs, of a great room she designed in a home in a resort community outside Houston. Read it here....
Andile Dyalvane is a South African ceramic artist who I first became aware probably 15 years ago through the now-defunct Amaridian Gallery in New York City, and was really excited to *finally* be able to write something about him in a major publication. Andile's new works, shown first in his home village, currently at Southern Guild in Cape Town and in 2021 at Friedman Benda in New York City, are the physical representation of a language he created to symbolize people, places, traditions, etc he feels his people and village are losing. You can read the whole piece here, and Andile's...