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Dip-Dyed Walls: Ombre Tiles from Clé
When Deborah Osburn of Clé tiles in Northern California unveiled her Watermark tile collection at our LA Remodelista Holiday Market last December, it was a show stopper. Everyone was mesmerized by her...
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Trend Alert: Your Grandmother's Cut Crystal Makes a Comeback
A couple months ago, I was at a Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective watching In a Year with 13 Moons. The bedroom of the main character, a tortured transsexual in West Berlin, is equipped with a...
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Aristocratic Dining (and a Side of Gossip) at Kettner's in London
This week's stealth luxury theme at Remodelista put us in mind of Kettner's, a London lounge, brasserie, and collection of private dining rooms in what was once the French Quarter of Soho. Founded in...
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Brass Dome Lamps from Allied Maker
While working on his thesis at Parsons, Ryden Rizzo found himself watching a series of YouTube tutorials about basic woodworking. Pairing his past experience with technology and lighting design with...
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10 Easy Pieces: The Blue Velvet Sofa, Luxe Edition
Is there something in the air? We recently spotted a blue velvet sofa at The Apartment, Vanessa Traina's new retail concept shop in Soho, and since then we've seen them seemingly everywhere. Here are...
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Kul: A Charcoal-Colored Grill Restaurant in Copenhagen
Kul is the latest restaurant addition to booming Kødbyen, aka the Meatpacking District of Copenhagen. Chef-owners, Henrik Jyrk and Christian Mortensen, met at Tivoli’s Michelin-starred restaurant, The...
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Storage/Furniture: Brass Shelving from Amuneal
Philadelphia design company Amuneal has taken the industrial pipe shelving look to new heights with its Collector's Shelving System. Sporting a solid brass framework and oxidized oak shelves, the...
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Beyond Carrara: 12 Splashy Marble Baths
I first took note of the burgeoning ugly marble trend last year, and ever since I've been visiting salvage yards in search of marble scraps and stopping at old downtown buildings (just to soak up the...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Ritz: The New Marlton Hotel in Greenwich Village
A former flophouse on West 8th Street has just received a glam, French-inflected makeover, complete with buzzing bar and restaurant. The Marlton's new guise comes courtesy of hotelier-about-town Sean...
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Trending on Gardenista: Grand Gardens
This week on Gardenista, Michelle and Erin ask, "What makes a garden grand?" It's not size, necessarily, or wealth, they say. It's more a state of mind, and in this week's Grand Gardens issue they...
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10 Favorites: The Sleaze-Free Silky Pillowcase
During a recent stay at a nice hotel, I started thinking about what it is exactly that makes hotel bedding so great. Beyond having the resources to make a fresh bed daily with high-thread-count sheets,...
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Palettes & Paints: Modern Masters Metallic Wall Paint
Wanting to experiment with metallic paints, we asked members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory for their recommendations. They pointed us to Modern Masters, a widely available,...
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DIY: The $7 Pendant Light Redo
During our recent remodel, I installed a pair of Industrial Pendant Glass lights from West Elm in our dining room. I loved their overall look (and price), but I found that the shiny nickel hardware and...
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Remodeling 101: Simple Roller Blinds
My living accommodations in architecture school came with windows, but no window treatments. On a student budget, I did nothing, a solution which suited me just fine—the purist in me strongly believed...
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Style Counsel: An Under-the-Radar Parisian Designer
Before introducing his eponymous label in 1991, the French designer spent his formative years working alongside Yves Saint Laurent and Thierry Mugler and as an assistant to Christian Lacroix. He...
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Shadows on a Wall in Autumn: Wallpaper from Callidus Guild
My ceramicist/aesthetic arbiter friend Richard Carter recently introduced me to the work of Yolande Milan and Christian Batteau, describing the creative duo as "true Renaissance people." He was right....
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Clamato: Paris's New Seafood Hotspot
On a recent trip to Paris for the Maison & Objet design show, I kept hearing people talking about Clamato. As a kid I had a strange affinity for the salty, clammy, tomato-based drink, and so my...
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High/Low: Marble-Topped Coffee Tables
In honor of Michelle's one-of-a-kind marble cocktail table (see Domestic Dispatches: The Allure of the One of a Kind), we did some sleuthing and found a trio of appealing options—very similar in looks...
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Current Obsessions: Daylight Savings Edition
This week we reveled in all things posh: blue velvet sofas, splashy marble bathrooms, and handsome brass shelving. Next week, we're jumping into the kitchen and deconstructing the best layouts,...
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This Week's Table of Contents: Kitchen Composition
Come join us in the kitchen this week. We'll be exploring kitchen layouts and presenting exemplary horseshoes, U-shapes, L-shapes, and galleys. We'll also be introducing you to a new concept: the sexy...
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