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Marvellous Record Cushions from Ask Alice

I discovered these during a house tour months ago. It was a Beatles white album, rendered as a pillow with crocheted grooves and perfect embroidery so that you could read the label clearly and see...

Best Outdoor Lighting 2009: Tips & Products

In the past year, my top outdoor lighting picks have changed a little, but the number of really good posts from our writers documenting all sorts of solutions has stacked up. Among them is my top pi...

Outdoor Grilling Inspiration: Chianti, Italy & Grillworks Grills

Me at the outdoor oven managing the fire and getting ready to cook up the pizzas.   While in Italy over the past two weeks we did a ton of cooking, a lot of it on a gril...

Best Composters & Tools 2009

I've used composters inside and outside my house for many years, starting with a wooden one that I built myself and kept under the sink with red wriggler worms (vermicomposting). It was an experime...

Inspiration: Our Summer Trip to Italy
Florence 2

We had two rooms! This is the living room where Ursula slept, giving us a little privacy. Today I get a little bit more inside to show off the hotel we stayed at our first night. With the un-Floren...

Inspiration: Our Summer Trip to Italy
Florence 1

Scene down a side street this afternoon - a group of men having lunch in a courtyard. In the last 24 hours we've landed, checked into two hotels, eaten three meals (one, amazing), and walked around ...

Look! Campaign Chairs at Sylvester & Co.

This is crazy for me to do, but I want to do it anyway. I saw these chairs this past weekend. They are totally amazing and should be scooped up right away......

The Brondell Swash 800
in the Test Lab

Our new Brondell Swash 800 - closed position Product: Brondell Swash 800 Designer: Brondell Price: $850 Rating: Strong Recommend I have always been fascinated by these funny, new-fangled bidet se...

Idea Paint: Make Any Surface Dry Erase

Tired of blackboard paint? Here's a cool little tip/product that I spotted a few weeks back in Swiss Miss's twitter feed: Idea Paint (that we've previously blogged on Apartment Therapy Chicago: Id...

Best Outdoor Dining Chairs 2009

I've been looking to upgrade our outdoor dining chairs for the past month. The ones' we've got are simple old Paris park folding chairs which I love, but they've become really run down from many ye...

Best Green Cleaning Products 2009: Editors' and Readers' Home Lineups

It can seem hard to be green when you live in an apartment in a big city. Particularly if you live modestly and don't drive a car everyday, you can come to feel that your environmental footprint is...

Best Water & Wine Glasses for Summer 2009

We had dinner at a friend's house two weeks ago and they served us wine in these glasses up top (bottom left). Though they are really water tumblers, they have a passing resemblance to the Riedel s...

Renate Aller: Photographer

You have to imagine these really large. As a Christmas present to ourselves, Sara Kate and I left the baby with her mother and checked into a sweet little hotel in Sag Harbor for TWO nights just be...

Best of Six: Eastern Small Cool Homes in 2008

Remember these babies? Here's the last roundup of stellar Small Cool entries from last year. These were the creme of the crop. Tony and Hilary won the grand prize, and they, along with Patrick's fa...

Interiors from The Lives of Others

"If I keep listening to it, I won't finish the revolution" Lenin on listening to Beethoven's 'Appassionata' I'll never forget the weeks I spent in Eastern Germany right after the Wall fell ...

Maxwell's Top Picks from ICFF 2009: Batch C

Here's (maybe my last) ICFF roundup, featuring the new and the cool in home design. Of particular note is the top waste bin design by Cranbrook graduate Grace Youngeun Lee, and - for all the cat lo...

Weekend Sales Guide: 5.22.09
New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bay Area & Online

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...

Jim Denevan: Artist & Photographer

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...

Thread Count Fraud @ Bed, Bath & Beyond
The New Yorker

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...

Maxwell's Top Picks from ICFF 2009

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...

Postcards from Provence: Julian Merrow Smith

I found the British painter, Julian Merrow Smith, via the NYTimes a few years back and blogged him here: Postcards from Provence. Inspired by Duane Keiser's "A Painting a Day" site, and his move to...

Current Favorite Pendant Lamps: Roost, Thomas O'Brien, CB2 & Cecile Manz

Today I'm fixated on my recent pendant lamp obsession. I've rounded up all of the best ones that I've seen lately and passing them on. Enjoy!......

Edison Bulbs, Story and Sources

Thomas Edison presented his first light bulb in 1879 (U.S. Patent 223,898 - there were many disputes about this*) and it's been improved upon and made more efficient ever since. But while the effic...

Dash & Albert Rug Company by Annie Selke

Dash & Albert is a little spin-off by Annie Selke, and it's got a collection of SUPER AFFORDABLE, COLORFUL cotton rugs that come in so many colorways, there's something here for everyone. If you're ...

Eames Shell Chairs with Wood Dowel Bases

Last year we found this beautiful article, Asian Fusion, featuring the home of Rirkrit Tiravanija. What is particularly interesting about Tiravanija's home is that while sitting in Chiang Mai (North...