Buzzing up to architect Luca Cipelletti’s latest residential project in Milan, it’s impossible not to notice two other names on the door: Nathalie Du Pasquier and George Snowden. The designers (who happen to be husband and wife) were founding members of the 1980s radical design movement, the Memphis Group. And […]
Digest
Interior designer Courtney McLeod adds sophisticated, feminine elements to a bedroom. What to do when you’re grown up, but your bedroom is a throwback to childhood? That’s the decorating conundrum faced by Cassandre, a young New York entrepreneur. Interior designer Courtney McLeod, founder and lead of Right Meets Left Interior […]
Interior designer Heidi Caillier needed little direction on a new guesthouse project on Fox Island in Washington state. Caillier had already worked with the clients twice before, creating interiors for the young couple’s forever home on the property—a hilly tract with gorgeous views of the Puget Sound—and conceiving a luxe […]
“We found it on Zillow, just like everyone did during the pandemic,” musician Vanessa Carlton says of her charming Federal post-and-beam house. She and her husband, fellow musician John McCauley, even purchased the Rhode Island home—which was built during the first few years of the 1800s—without ever seeing it in […]
You want to refresh your living room design, but the idea of hiring an interior designer or contractor to revamp the space sounds daunting (and expensive)? Before you resign to spending yet another evening in a lackluster living room consider this: It’s possible to transform the core room in your […]
You may think you can either have interior design done well, or you can have it done fast. But a recent home renovation carried out in Dallas’s tony Highland Park neighborhood makes a compelling case that maybe, in the right hands, you can have both. The 6,500-square-foot Federal-style house received […]
The bespoke design studio of Nomita Joshi Design is located in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans. The firm run by Nomita Joshi-Gupta has made a name for itself through the team’s innovative approach to design and creative solutions. “I believe in feeding your eyes and your soul,” says […]
It’s a classic New York story: A young family is moving some 80 blocks north but doesn’t want to sacrifice downtown cool for the change of address. That was the brief for Manhattan-based interior designer Neal Beckstedt, when a pair of clients called on him to decorate their new place: […]
Follow the old adage of “what goes together well in the kitchen, grows together well in the garden,” Vallin Kostovick says. For example, plants like lettuce and tomato grow well next to each other because as the tomatoes grow taller, they provide necessary shade for the lettuce. 3. A slender […]
“I’m a collector,” asserts Jenna Chused, the interior designer behind Chused & Co. and a forager of vintage treasures. “I’ve been antiquing and going to yard sales since I was eleven.” Unsurprisingly, that skillset came in handy when decorating her own home—a charming Italianate town house nestled in Brooklyn’s leafy […]
It was the soothing, monumental landscape that ultimately swayed Whitney Cummings to buy her home just outside L.A. “I spent a lot of my childhood in Virginia and West Virginia, where the medicine is the mountain,” recalls the comedian and actor, whose many talents include writing, directing, producing, and podcasting. […]
In addition to underestimating the budget, Cutler believes that DIY’ers also get carried away with all of the various options: “We have all been there in the plumbing showroom looking at all those amazing options: Body sprays, steam, heated floors, and even talking toilets, but they all come at a […]