House & Home Roundup: April 28, 2005

This Week H&H cleans out their editorial drawers and tosses up a grab bag of interesting articles (8 in all!). Since we don't want to skew the vote (we got slapped last week), we will leave our review at this:

Check out the lead article, Growing Up Denatured, which we couldn't agree with more. Having been an elementary teacher for 7 years, we have seen this first hand and consider the "naturing" of the children (and adults) as important as healthy food, a beautiful, well organized home and general sanity. The concept of home is much greater than sofa, chair, lamp... it is what we do in that space and how we do it. MGR

Top Articles

At home with Francine du Plessix Gray: Ms. Gray reveals her home and domestic life on the eave of the release of her memoir, "Them."
Is Cork Making a Comeback?: Everything you want to know about cork flooring right now, including that it's not a great idea
A Pied-à-Terre Firmly Planted in the Seine: Talk about Small and Cool! This New Jersey family are living on a barge for 9 months.
Roses, Playing Well With Garden's Others: Anne Raver takes the week off... a home with garden in New Jersey is "the working laboratory of two obsessed gardeners."
New Lines With That Hacienda Look: Cristina Saralegui is the new star of the home furnishing market. Why? Because the hispanic market for furniture is growing faster than any other.
Personal Shopper: Marianne Rohrlich checks out a handful of hip new stores that will also be showing at ICFF
Currents
Designed in Sweden, part of an exhibition called Wow!Design at Felissimo Design House will be on during ICFF from May 11 to June 4
Liselotte Watkins, an illustrator and rug maker, will be at Design Downtown during ICFF week
Jason Miller makes mirrors with images in them
F. Schumacher & Co. has just introduced a collection of wallpapers based on Brooks Brother's ties
A new line of ergonomic mops, brooms, shovels and rakes from Delta Ergo
Gauri Nanda designed the "Clocky," an alarm clock runs and hides when the snooze button is pressed!

Comments (5)

The cork floor question would have been better answered by a cook or at least a cook in conjunction with an architect. as wise as most architects are, they generally aren't as attuned to these issues of kitchen floor usage as an actual cook would be. One of my best friends has been a home chef for years and often sings the praises of a cork floor. When you are cooking all day, cushioning counts...

And why did the writer tepidly praise cork floor in the whole article and then slam it in the last line? I was confused. Make me want a cork floor then ooops not so fast.

The cork flooring question could be an excellent issue for AT to examine.

Only last night on HGTV I saw Kenneth Brown on reDesign put a cork floor in someone's place (I didn't see the entire show). That's the first time in a very long time that I remember it mentioned, and then this. Actually forgot to buy the paper yesterday -- thanks for this little round-up. Thursday is the only day I ever buy it.

Which leads me to another thing -- just like I would like to buy a CD of the Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest, I would LOVE to buy such a thing, I dunno, say -- annually or semi-annually, or something of the NYT House and Home section. It's a nightmare to archive and the way (at the moment that I now keep them stored looks like I have little pockets of my apartment (all hidden) that remind me of those (long-since-dead) crazy brothers (whose last name I can't remember) in Harlem who never threw papers away.

If memory serves, architect Aida of the Kitchen Contest used a very dark cork floor to gorgeous effect. And cork has seemed to be a favorite of Debbie Travis...