Garden Design Classics: The Urn

For thousand of years, urns have been lending their classic design to gardens all over the world. From the early Greek and Roman gardens to formal English landscapes, urns are the most common and enduring of decorative ornament to be incorporated into gardens throughout history. Urns, with their timeless and stately appeal, are one of the rare garden design elements that can add architectural interest purely on their own.

Delicious Decor: Rooms Good Enough
to Eat

I have a friend who always calls everything delicious, especially non-food items. "What a delicious sweater," she'll say. So, just for fun, here are some pairings of yummy shots of food and equally delicious rooms. Bon appétit!

Blast from the Past: 80's Style Hair Salon Design Milk

Young Mič Styling, a new brand of salon in Slovenia, is taking a different approach to targeting today's youth. Instead of going with a grungy skater look, their locations embrace full-on 80's nostalgia. Follow me after the jump to see more...

Help Restore Villa E1027 by Eileen Gray

I guess it's not a coincidence that the two Modernist works of architecture that I chose to study in depth while in graduate school were both built in France and created by designers whose skills and works were undervalued for the first 40-50 years of their careers.

Meet the Maker: Denyse Schmidt

Designer Denyse Schmidt grew up in a family of makers of the hobbyist variety. Surrounded by old textile mills in central Massachusetts, she watched her mother sew her own clothes and her dad make furniture. Along the way (with a stopover at RISD) Denyse picked up the skills for what would become her business: patchwork quilts, colorful fabrics and paper goods.

Huhu Pillow by Cool Enough: Design for Fidgeters

This one is for the fidgeters among us. The HUHU pillow by Cool Enough Studios is a soft, cuddly pillow with an elegant, basket-weave look, but the strips of fabric hide tiny loops of fabric that can be pulled out and pushed back in at the cuddler’s whim, making it ideal for absentmindedly fussing with while watching TV.

What Crazy Things Would You Put In Your Dream Home? Buzzfeed

It’s difficult to read design magazines and blogs and celebrity living profiles without silently ticking off the things one would put in one’s dream home, assuming, of course, that one were to win the lottery or publish Harry Potter before moving in. Sure, we might think we'd be living in nice little cottages with just as much as we need, but then one day a bathroom renovation goes too far and suddenly there's a water slide in the house.

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If you're done hanging art on your walls, but the room you're decorating still needs something, try hanging art on the ceiling. These rhombus ceiling tiles from The Fundamental Group are made to be painted, then arranged however you see fit. More

Design Q&A with Timothy Corrigan

Timothy Corrigan grew up in Los Angeles — in fact, he even lives in the same Hancock Park home he grew up in! — but you'd be hard-pressed to guess that just by looking at his interiors. Their design vocabulary, which has been described as "comfortable elegance," probably owes as much to his time abroad (including 7 years in Paris as the head of the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in a previous life) as it does to his California roots.

Apartment Therapy at the Opening of Muji's Sixth U.S. Store April 2013

Inside Muji's Newest Store at 54 Cooper Square, NYC

Muij, the Japanese retailer of minimalist home and lifestyle goods, recently opened their 6th U.S. store (fifth in NYC). We were given a preview of their pristine duplex space and latest products.