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Bouroullec's polystyrene Cloud - which is still hip enough to be shown in Milan. This is from their studio.

Spring is here! H&H is red hot this week with news of the Milan's design fair, I Saloni, as well as the International Home Furishings Market in Highpoint, NC, along with a variety of articles that cover the home front (no gardens, though, sorry Mary - Czarina :-)).

This week is also a great example of what H&H can do best: cover the world's events with good, largescale photos that really begin to give you a sense of what is going on. That said on our part, feel free to read and weigh in yourself as we run the second week of "Hot or Not H&H?"

Top Stories

Which Way Design?: Feels like you're actually there - Check out the awful, arresting new lamps from Philippe Starck
Dredged From the Deep, Pickled Paneling: Here's the full story on the new luxury wood: river-recovered wood
A Sectional Built for Two?: Smaller furniture holds the spotlight in NC - favorite quote by Jonathan Adler: "There's been a steroid epidemic in baseball. But there's been a telling silence about steroids in furniture."
The British Visit Milan, Bearing Tips on Design: The British are coming! Wait a second, we already know that online - the Grey Lady catches up.
Personal Shopper: Finding Ingenuity in the Details: Marianne covers the Kips Bay Showhouse by focusing on details like window dressings.
Restrictive Covenants Stubbornly Stay on the Books: "Whites Only" real estate rules still live on the books, if you can believe it
Kosher Kitchens, Quick: Rabbi Sholtiel Lebovic will kosher your kitchen! Just call his rapid response number: 888-GO-KOSHER.
Currents: All about Britain this week
Jasper Conran's new store and line of furniture: Go to www.jasperconran.com
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s new exhibition, "International Arts and Crafts," explores the British-born design movement
Francesco and Gael Boglione have a sweet nursery and cafe in Richmond: Go to www.petershamnurseries.com
Two hot new restaurant designs in London: Go to www.fiftylondon.com
"Chris Levine, who has made light sculptures for Massive Attack, recently introduced a new product for the home, the Laserpod": Go to www.laserpod.com

Comments (6)

First of all, we all know the "House and Home" section should really be named the "Having" section... Mostly it's just a bucket of Dren. Yes I'm using "Farscape" speak instead of what I'd rather write.

I appreciate the London/Milan stuff... It should be covered, but I think the "Currents" should include affordable things, as well as the lavish. I also hate when currents is all about a far-away place... I want to hear about things in NYC every week and get the far away stuff as an on the side type of story.

And window treatments? Please. Going out on a sexist limb here but can we please have some level of a topic that's interesting to a guy? Or at least an innovative way of dealing with window treatments that would actually raise a guy's eyebrows?

So yes, that was my poor/stinky vote.

let me qualify my sexist remark... I'd like to see topics on home design that are interesting to men and women alike.

Oh damn Paul, I was coming up with a witty response when you had go and get PC on me.

I thought this was a good issue. Paul, don't forget The New York Times is an international and a hometown paper. At least that's what I tell myself when I read Currents Los Angeles.

I can almost accept the Currents LA argument... but not Currents London. The american paper abroad is the Herald Tribune. The NYTimes, once it's been shipped, is prohibitively expensive to all but the elite. I am not sure how fast it gets to Newstands in London, but in Rome it's 2-3 days behind and like $5.00 for the daily, and about $9.00 for the Sunday, which arrives on like Tuesday. So who reads it? People on airplanes? Does the Having section write articles based on who might be reading the complimentary airplane copy? I suppose the NYT online factor might be mitigating...

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