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5 Favorites: Colorful Textiles from London Design Week
There's nothing like a bit of gray sky at this time of year to make us notice bold color. Here are a few that stood out last month at London Design Week. Above: Katie Mawson makes her trademark...
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A Beer Garden Inspired by The Royal Tenenbaums? And Annie Hall?
Designer Veronica Koltuniak was inspired by the aesthetics of two seemingly unrelated movies, The Royal Tenenbaums and Annie Hall, when she designed the interiors of Easy Tiger in Austin, Texas. It...
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5 Favorites: Knitted and Crocheted Pendant Lights
Traditionally the most austere of lighting options, bare-bones pendants are now warming up with cozy knits. Donning cords and shades crocheted or purled to perfection, these versatile lights can be...
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World's Most Elegant Ping Pong Table
For the aesthetically inclined athlete: the handmade limited-edition Ping Pong table from Los Angeles designer James Perse, made from environmentally farmed teak with a leather-bound net and custom...
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Lokal in Berlin
Another find from LA designer and global traveler, Cynthia Carlson: Lokal in Mitte, Berlin. Berlin restaurant owners Maren Thimm and her American partner, Gary Hoopengardner, set up a temporary...
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10 Easy Pieces: House Numbers
As warmer weather lures us outdoors, our home's exterior suddenly seems more important. What better time to consider a simple facelift or personality adjustment with new house numbers? Modern Above:...
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Marvin Architect's Challenge Winner: A Summer House on Block Island
SPONSORED POST The Block Island House is the ideal rendition of a New England summer house, with an update. Newport-based architects Jim Estes and Peter Twombly mixed two architectural features common...
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Oktoberfest in New York
Early this week we featured the best of New-York deli cuisine in Berlin. Now we present the flip-side: best of German culinary tradition in New York. Located in Gotham's West Village and Lower East...
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A Woodsy Retreat in Denmark
A Nordic cabin spotted in the portfolio of Kobenhavns Mobelsnedkeri, a Copenhagen furniture design company with a special affinity for wood. Photography by Copenhagen-based Line Thit Klein. Above: The...
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High/Low: Rustic Pewter Dinner Plates
On a recent visit to The Crown Amersham (British designer Ilse Crawford's modern take on the traditional coaching inn of yore), I was particularly taken with the pewter plates in the dining room....
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Bratwurst and Beer in Venice Beach
In 2008, Tyler Wilson and Joseph Pitruzzelli opened the first Wurstküche, a German-style sausage kitchen, in the elusive and hip arts district of downtown Los Angeles. The restaurant was an instant...
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Lighting: Thomas Hoof Produkt in Germany
If there is such a thing as perfection in this life, we think we have found it in the light fixtures of Thomas Hoof Produkt in Germany. The company was founded in 1998 with a mission of bringing back...
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Shopper's Diary: Selvedge Dry Goods in London
I recently dropped in at the Selvedge Dry Goods store in London, ground zero for the textile lover. Founded by Polly Leonard, the force behind Selvedge Magazine (an international source of all...
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Current Obsessions: Heading into West Marin
Here's a roundup of what's piquing our interest this week (and a tipoff to our upcoming design destination): • Sarah's been cooking this from Ottolenghi's new cookbook: Jerusalem, spotted on 101...
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The Designer Is In: A Midcentury Dream on the Upper West Side
Decisions about color in a home are intimidating, especially if the goal is to achieve a classic and timeless look that does not date quickly. We've asked sisters Jayne and Joan Michaels of New...
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Salt Cellars from Blackcreek Mercantile
Woodworker Josh Vogel and ceramicist Ayumi Horie were neighbors in the Hudson Valley for years, but it wasn't until recently, after Horie moved back to her home state of Maine, that the two...
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Steal This Look: Parisian Oyster Party
Parisian ceramicist Cécile Daladier throws four parties every year: one per season, and each with its own theme. In March of this year, Daladier, her partner Nicolas Soulier, and their friend Lucile...
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Underwater Chic: Seaweed-Printed Fabrics & Wallpapers
Legendary UK design arbiter Min Hogg presided over The World of Interiors for two decades as the founding editor before striking out on her own. A while back, she launched a line of wallpapers and...
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Manka's Inverness Lodge Boathouse
When the restaurant at Manka's Inverness Lodge in West Marin burned to the ground in 2006, devotees everywhere went into mourning. The good news is that the owners, Daniel DeLong and Margaret Grad,...
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West Marin's Accidental Doll Maker
Jess Brown began making her handmade rag dolls by accident, when her husband washed (and ergo shrinked) a bag of her cashmere sweaters destined for the dry cleaners. Her solution? Turn the remnants...
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