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How To: Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet

Less is more. If leaves fall off of trees in order for them to grow again, how come nothing falls out of our apartments? If we were good, we'd already be thinking about Spring Cleaning and maybe ...

Table Topics

We're big fans of playing games at home. Table Topics is a "game" of sorts to use to get conversation rolling at dinner parties......

Interiors on ABC's Brothers and Sisters

Speaking of television, we've just realized we love the interiors on ABC's drama Brothers and Sisters. Three in particular: the family's traditional home, the mistress' modern house, and the daughte...

Good Design in a... Game? Pentago

Good design where you least expect it. We love playing board games and were delighted by the design and strategy found in Pentago, a Christmas gift we received. The game is a Swedish classic and is ...

Jessica Helfand on Things

We're all about reducing useless things around the house here at AT. Here, in Jessica Helfand's Things, Part I, we read about our seemingly insatiable want and need for more and more things... ...

Black Box Home, Green Parties & Menorahs
NYT House & Home Roundup: 11.29.07

Sleek, Severe, Sophisticated. A Black Box Among the Georgians looks inside David Adjaye's design for Ed Reeve and Michela Meazza's London home. The stark design suits this small house. Chek out addi...

Ikea's Play, Live, Create
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Play, Live, Create. Ikea's new ads by Jung von Matt take the shape of floorplans. Can you see the words buried neatly in the plans above and below? Our apartment is only about the size of the "li" o...

How To: Make a Socket Chandelier

See How To Slideshow Good ideas inspire. While visiting the David Allen Gallery (we don't know why his links don't work anymore) on Smith Street a few weeks ago we were struck by his remarkably si...

Top 5: Cheap Furniture Basics

Space & Budget Conscious. We've compiled this list of tried-and-true furniture basics that are under $500. Personally, we own a few of these and nearly everyone we know owns at least one of the item...

Good Questions: Any Adjustable Coffee Table Resources?

NYT: Modern Green Retreat

Greener, Happier. Architects Paul McKean and Amy Donohue tackled The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple when they built a weekend home outside Portland, Oregon in the Hood River Valley. The...

Lasenza Chair by Eurway

Like the classic Emeco Navy Chair but don't like the $400 price tag? Here's a pure aluminum substitution that's a fraction of the cost: Eurway's Lasenza Chair......

NYT: Inside 40 Bond

Corian & Austrian Smoked Oak! Separate from the T Style Magazine, this Sunday's NYT Magazine featured a slideshow of Ian Schrager and Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 40 Bond. These are the first photos ...

Bertjan Pot's Non-Random Light
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More Orderly. We're so used to seeing Bertjan Pot's Random Light for Moooi, that we almost missed the new Non-Random Light. It has a regular pattern and a more bulbous structure (the Random Light is...

NYT: Tom Dixon

Wealth Redistribution? There is a lot of great material in the newest T Style Magazine � Design & Living Winter 2007. The first article we chose to tackle was Re-Arranging the Furniture, a look at...

Modern Gingerbread House
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Have modern homes finally gone mainstream? This is a Modern Gingerbread House from Red Envelope... ...

New York Magazine's Design Revolutionaries:
Martha Stewart

Professional Homemaker. We all know Martha Stewart as one of New York Magazine's Design Revolutionaries there is a quick overview of her growth as a brand and home-making icon. There is a great ti...

NYT House & Home Roundup: 10.25.07
Part I

Market Report. We loved this feature! Best Sellers and Bombs, and What Stores Are Betting On looks at products from design stores around the country that defied expectations good or bad. By profil...

Time Out NY: Home Design Issue

Starting Small. The newest issue of Time Out New York is devoted to Home Design. In addition to publishing photos of five of the city's small space dwellers with different living styles (minimalist ...

George Nelson's Desk Clocks

Time(less) Design. Many of us are familiar with George Nelson's iconic (and much copied) wall clocks (including the Zootimers), but far less know of his desk clocks......

AT on: Warm & Cool People

Diana never eats at home. Her apartment is a crash pad. Her living room hasnt been sat in during the last 12 months, and she spends most of her home time at a makeshift desk in the kitchen hooked...

New York Magazine: Unofficial Frank Lloyd Wright

Petra Island Paradise. Looking at the original drawings from 1950, it is easy to understand how Frank Lloyd Wright's house designed for Petra Island (a private island on Lake Mahopac, about 50 miles...

More-Affordable Alternative: Shutter Storage Cabinet

Sussex on the Sly? We looked for a lookalike two years ago. Now, check out these modular Shutter Storage Cabinet units from online and catalog retailer, Grandin Road. Currently on sale, the three s...

Chair-themed Chuck Taylors

Friday Fashion? Check out the Chair-themed Chuck Taylors $46.99 at Converse.com. (Search for patterened Chuck Taylors.) Or do you prefer to wear your chairs as tattoos? Or maybe ahat? • Chai...