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Here are all the sales and design events across the country that are fit to print! The full list is below the jump for New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles & The Bay Area. Got a sale of your...
These stools were really nice. We met Chris Jackson in his booth, which was filled with more than a dozen of his Pythagoras Stools. Each stool is made from three pieces of powder coated steel...
This actually a Good Idea and a Good Question rolled into one! Apartment Therapy reader Amy sent us this image of her foyer. Instead of hanging wallpaper, she stenciled a Moroccan Damask design, whi...
I recently purchased a Knoll Platner looking coffee table on Craigslist for $40. Are there any identifiers on the authentic table to let me know if it’s an original Knoll? The table appears to be...
Crucially important bits of exercise-related intel for those that like to take care of their body as well as their home:
Madden NFL yesterday released its would be Wii Fit-killer: EA Sports Active....
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A few weeks ago, I, along with the lovely and talented Amy Merrick, woke up early to be out at Dead Horse Bay by low tide. Dead Horse Bay, in Floyd Bennett Field...
Here's some eye candy for the long weekend....
While Sara Kate is primarily interested in Jim Denevan's food business, I am more drawn to his hobby, his sideline, his totally irrational attachment...
I wrote in a few months ago trying to find the right wheels for a platform bed. I got some great advice and ended up spending a little more money for the wheels with breaks so the bed didn’t end u...
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In the West Village, Apartment Therapy reader Kristen has a cool wall unit for sale that can can be arranged in a variety of ways. Jump below for links:
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It's touted as the best-preserved architect-designed home in the UK. And it's designed by Jorn Utzon, the same man who brought the world the iconic Sydney Opera House, at that. The 1962 modern desig...
Hi Apartment Therapy — My husband and I would like to hang this Expedit unit horizontally in our kitchen for open storage for plates, cups, wine bottles, etc. We know it will be very heavy when ...
Christina of blog Thirty a Week is looking for good boxed wine suggestions. Can you help? She writes:Going canoe camping Memorial Day weekend and our group is looking for some good boxed wine to take ...
They call themselves "young talented Seattle dumpster-diving designers" and their Scrap lights were the most aesthetically impactful design we saw at the entire show that used low impact materi...
Check out the new collection of rugs from 102-year-old designer Eva Zeisel and The Rug Company. This first part post looks at the beautiful neutral rugs...
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We shared SCAD graduate Paul Isabella's Table of Contents design last week and while digging around on his site we found these designs for Flat Pack Television Stands that are superbly simple.....
Hi, I just moved to a small apartment in Park Slope with adjustable shelving in the living room. We do have a lot of books, but would like a better, prettier solution to what is currently up. Can yo...
We don't even have a cat and this won us over: a beautifully designed kitty litter box that keeps your home cleaner and doesn't require you to use disposable liners.
More info and pics below.....
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This is a trend that has seemed to have had some staying power. And while you wouldn't necessarily want every object in your home numbered, a little numerical d...
Product: FS-20 Steam Cleaning Floor Sanitizer
Designer: Romi Haan
Price: $100
Rating: Recommend**
The Haan Steam Cleaning Floor Sanitizer promises to clean and disinfect hard surface floors wi...
Steven Gambrel established his practice in New York City only three years after graduating from the architecture program at the University of Virginia. We think his interiors have a lush, sophistica...
THIS WEEK
• Blu Dot Sidewalk Sale
• Frette Online Outlet
• Japan Brand Pop Up Shop
• DwellStudio Overstock Sale
• Bobby Berk Home Overstock Bedding Sale
COMING UP
• Hous...
While preparing the final Spring Cure post over on Apartment Therapy, we came across the kitchen of Fabien Barral in Auvergne, France. His home has graced several magazines in the UK and we're privile...
Name:Tom and Justin
Location: Brooklyn Heights
Size: 1-bdrm, 410 sqft. co-op in a 1918 landmark apartment building
Years lived in: 6 months
>> Enter Tom and Justin's Gallery!
This is Tom's first...
This is a remarkable design that we spotted in the Cranbrook booth (amazing BTW). An elegant trash can in two pieces that you open and close with your foot, made of powder coated steel. Closed pic...
The Pratt booth was particularly good this year. The title of their show was Design for a Dollar, and industrial design students were challenged with coming up with original designs that could...
This booth had something we'd never seen before: a full wood bathroom (sink, tub and all!). We stopped to chat with Laurie and Daniel, who run Gardenside and take pics.
More info and pics be...
Hi, I'm contemplating buying a cute house in the country but all of the rooms have yellow-ish pine wood walls and ceilings. My furniture is more modern (not the stuff in these rooms). Do I paint? ...
We just thought these were the sweetest napkins. Don't they seem tailor-made for a little summer party? We were completely impressed when we learned that Rachel of Heart of Light made these. She cut...
If you ever wondered what the deal is with all those thread count promises made on every sheet you buy nowadays, this is for you. In the New Yorker there's a great article on April White, who sued - a...
Aside from these cool chairs, we pulled the best of DWR off of Craigslist today. Some good stuff from there, and other places, down below.Apartment Therapy Furniture Classifieds are open for yo...
Some of the details of this residence, designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects, are expressions of humor in design. Take, for instance, the custom coat rack inside the rural home's front door. The ha...
This sink would be great for tiny apartments. I was at Bar East in the LES (NYC) last night and noticed their sinks are mounted in the wall. The tap comes out at an angle and underneath the soap dis...
I have been saving this still life for a very special post and a very special day. It is the perfect cake for afternoon tea, and with my house guests leaving tomorrow, I thought it would be an appropr...
We have a favorite old dad sweater that we love, but with a decades-old stain on the front, it doesn't get worn very much. Yet, we can't quite bring ourselves to throw it away. So we we were thrilled ...
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The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking is a process where the photograph of a life-size location is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a min...
Hi Apartment Therapy, Attached is a pic of my dining area and portion of living space next door so you can see some of the colors/materials that share the joint space. I don't know why I'm having s...
Tyler from Plastolux had a hankering for a pair of Eero Saarinen side tables, but he wasn't quite excited by their steep price. After scouring all the usual sources for a deal but coming up empty-ha...
Here is my next batch of top picks from the weekend's International Contemporary Furniture Fair. I'm running these each day for the next few days.......
As design month here in New York builds momentum, I stopped into the Meatpacking District for MPD Design 09, hoping to find something colorful to write about. Designers from Finland were featu...
This West Elm headboard is half off and is thus a great deal. Lots of other cool stuff down below! Apartment Therapy Furniture Classifieds are open for your business in our Shopping Guide....
This tech-y looking loft has an egg crate shelving and ceiling design that's a sort of running theme through the entire home. Here we see it in a wall of storage with green-painted backs and in the ...
This small collection of furniture is by the San Salvadorean team of Claudio Segovia and Jenny Menjivar, and it caught our attention from aisles away. Beautifully conceived of opposing forms and ma...
Hi Apartment Therapy! I'm hoping you can help me out. We've got a giant farmhouse table in a beach house. We've been looking for chairs for about two years now, to no avail. I think we are going to at...
Recently over on Apartment Therapy Chicago, we featured our new cork cabinet siding. It wasn't ever in our plan, but on a whim became a great, useful choice for figuring out a kitchen gone slightly aw...
We spent forever in this booth. Not only did we chat for a long time with founder, Sheridan Coakley, we met and traded cards with Birgit Lohmann, founder of Designboom, and learned more about ...
This was the brightest booth we saw! Another new entry this year, Cadee Wilder founded Kreme Life just last year and produces stunning wallpaper that is low VOC, eco-solvent, and designed & ma...
We've always been drawn to Koi's thick leather chairs on wire bases that remind us of Eames or Saarinen. This year we found Koi's founders, Kirstin Jones and Adam Bottomley, out of their booth...
This one was so sweet! Lizzie Allen's booth was another refresher that reached back to childhood to do it. A young Brit inspired by a nostalgia for A.A. Milne and more innocent days, her bespo...
This booth was a little confusing to source, but we met Florence Edmond from Martinique and loved her pillows as well as this amazing bedroom by Aboubakar Fofana of Mali. Both are part of Afri...
We've long been fans of Trine Anderson's colorful, retro designs for Ferm Living, and when we passed Ferm's booth at ICFF, there was certainly a lot to love. But our favorites were definitely the 100%...
In most rental apartments, for what ever reason—the over-head lighting is inadequate and unflattering or there's not quite enough outlets for table lamps—there's always that one dark cor...
Hi there Apartment Therapy, I hope you can answer my question. I would like to experiment with decorating my studio with moulding on the wall or the ceiling (I was inspired by an image on the site),...
I just spent the weekend trawling the aisles at ICFF in NYC and had a great time. Unlike past years, which have been crowded and frenetic, with lots of stuff that wasn't so interesting, this year th...
We first learned of the work of David Cafiero when we saw the House and Garden feature on the fantastic design he did for Chloe Sevigny's apartment. We found this beautiful home on Cafiero Sele...
Name: pinolb
Location: Cubelles, Spain
We moved from the U.S. to Spain last spring and due to high shipping costs and limited space in our new place I had to do some major downsizing. The o...
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These sleek Danish Modern arm chairs bring airiness and sophistication to a wide variety of interiors. And speaking of a wide variety, check out our listings be...
We recently visited a friend's apartment that's on the market. They've staged the home beautifully and every last detail has been thoughtfully addressed to show the apartment in its best light at op...
This was one of our favorite new booths. Andrew Moe showed off a super simple line of ash furniture, The Oslo Line, made of reclaimed lumber that had relatively low price points, compared to t...
Can anyone tell me where I might find a rug similar to the rug pictured in the attached? However, I'm looking for a rectangle, not a circular rug. I'm decorating a nursery in an astronomy theme and ...
A while back I transformed the surface of my refrigerator into a giant chalkboard and began to record what I cooked in the kitchen and harvested from our garden. It was a handy way to plan meals and t...
More color. Amy Helfand's rugs are always a favorite. This year she presented new workings in wool, with prayer flags featuring prominently as they strut across the backgrounds.
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This year, the Noguchi Museum had a very stripped down booth that featured one new, reissued design - the 1AS - a painted version of the 1A that hasn't been seen since 1952. We always love their lam...
More amazing color and incredible patterns. This one is from Camilla Meijer, a Swede living now in London, who was debuting her new line of designs for shades, wallpaper and cushions. Her miss...
Anglepoise is back! The original design, over seventy years old based on a simple spring mechanism, AND on which Luxo was based is now available right from the source at a good price. We spen...
This was the first thing we saw when walking into ICFF yesterday, and we loved the simple, upbeat color and pattern. After a winter like this last one, it's what we need. The Brits had some of the...
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