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Children's Rooms: House Blocks from Landscape Products in Japan
Shinichiro Nakahara, the designing mind behind Japan's Landscape Products, has produced a lovely set of children's stacking blocks in the shape of houses (equally appealing to grownups). Above: The...
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Tabletop: Enamel-Handled Flatware from Billy Cotton
A Remodelista reader clued us in to NYC-based Billy Cotton's new tabletop line, which includes cheerful enamel-dipped flatware in bright primary shades. Cotton, who studied industrial design at Pratt...
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Required Reading: The Right Color by Eve Ashcraft
Anyone who has admired Martha Stewart's Araucana line of paints, based on the subtle shades of farm-laid eggs, should know about Eve Ashcraft, the NYC-based color expert who developed the nuanced...
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DIY: Painted Natural Objects as Decor
There is something very satisfying about painting things, especially small things (stones, sticks, anything gathered on trips or walks in the woods, for instance); the potential for transformation is...
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Kitchen: Viola Park Kitchen at Heath Ceramics
Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic, the owners Heath Ceramics, have diligently preserved the legacy of Edith Heath and her midcentury pottery in Sausalito. However, when the plywood kitchen counters...
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Domestic Science: Dustbin from Brendan Ravenhill
LA-based Brendan Ravenhill has just launched a multi-functional Dustbin, a trash can featuring a detachable lid that doubles as a dustpan (a companion brush is magnetically affixed to the side)....
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House Gift: Birch Cylinder from CB2
Any oenophiles on your holiday gift list? Add an extra flourish with CB2's Birch Cylinder, made of birch and pine with a leather cord closure. Above: The Birch Cylinder is $10.95 at CB2.
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Kitchen: Checked Cutting Boards by Fine Little Day
Swedish designer Elisabeth Dunker is the creative mind behind Fine Little Day, which she describes as a "sprawling, playful and happily inconsistent brand and blog." There, you can browse through...
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Bath Remodeling Guide from Home Depot and Moen
SPONSORED POST Bathroom remodels are among the trickiest home remodeling projects you will tackle. They need to encompass all the functional requirements of a damp environment, include all the...
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Hotels, Lodging & Restaurants: Saraghina in Brooklyn
It's not just the crisp-crusted pizza that keeps me returning to Saraghina, it's also the ad-hoc atmosphere: it's as though some good friends borrowed chairs from the neighbors, opened a restaurant in...
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Appliances: Marcus Samuelsson for BlueStar
A while back, Marcus Samuelsson (culinary trendsetter, James Beard–award winner, cookbook author, NYC restaurant owner) teamed up with BlueStar to create a limited-edition line of functional,...
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Tabletop: Hammered Copper Pitcher by Sfera
Today's post on Marcus Samuelsson's ranges for BlueStar has us thinking about the appeal of copper. We've been eyeing the elegant Hammered Copper Pitchers by Sfera for a while now; made in Kyoto by a...
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DIY: Lath Wall by Jersey Ice Cream Co.
Common in colonial times, lath walls are now almost completely obsolete. But we've noticed that this antiquated building material is experiencing a resurgence—not in construction, but as décor. Tara...
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Palette & Paints: Matte Black Painted Furniture
My mother-in-law, who has an innate design sense, has a few firmly held beliefs when it comes to interiors; one of her dicta is "a coat of matte black paint hides a multitude of sins." Tired, battered...
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Office Visit: Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory Bedroom Roundup
The bedroom is the most personal space in a home (and potentially the most luxurious, if sleep is a priority). In this roundup of bedrooms from the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory, we visit a...
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Architect Visit: Boathouse by Tyin Tegnestue in Norway
Spotted on Designboom, a summer boathouse in Norway that is at once rustic and futuristic (indeed, it looks like it was rendered by a particularly ingenious video-game designer for a Myst-like fantasy...
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Holiday Gift: Kuksa Finnish Camping Cups at Mjolk
For the backpacker on your gift list: the Kuksa Finnish camping cup from Mjolk in Toronto brings style to the wild. Hand-carved from rare arctic birch burl (and finished by boiling in saltwater for 12...
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Holiday Gift: Kin Votives by Claesson Koivisto Rune
On a recent trip to London, I stopped in at Skandium's Brompton Road shop to see a retrospective of work by Swedish design firm Claesson Koivisto Rune, founded by architects MÃ¥rten Claesson, Eero...
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Outdoors: Holiday String Light Roundup
Now that the clocks have turned back and evening arrives an hour earlier, perhaps it's not too soon to start thinking about outdoor holiday illumination. Here are a few twinkly ones spotted lately....
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Shopper's Diary: Toast UK's Christmas Collection
Our friends at Toast, the British housewares and fashion line, are launching their Christmas collection today. While it may seem a bit early to celebrate, there is no Thanksgiving in the UK, so the...
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