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Best Wine Glasses 2009

Need good wine glasses? Here are my recommendations, updated for 2009. I can't drink wine out of a jelly jar anymore and enjoy it (unless I'm at a picnic or camping!). I've come to prefer the thin ...

Take Us To Your Home: Tiny Terrariums by Matteo Cibic

Terrariums are the latest trend getting a modern makeover, and Domsai Terrariums by Matteo Cibic are no exception. These cute, almost alien like creatures will stand by your side and ask nothing in ...

How To Tell Drinks Apart at a Party

When Werblers get together on the holidays, a cluster of scotch glasses is left behind on every horizontal surface. It can be hard to tell which drink belongs to which relative, especially as ice me...

Health Care Cures for the Home

A lot of home design brings the current health care situation front of mind. Some designers, like Tonky, are going one step further than red cross motifs and donating all profits from their modern p...

Classic Centenarian: Eva Zeisel's Timeless Tableware
Retrospect

In honor of Entertaining month at Apartment Therapy, let’s take a look at the mid-century tableware of Eva Zeisel, the prolific designer who turns 103 next week. An important designer from Moderni...

5 Ways to Dress Up your Wine

It's Entertaining Month at Apartment Therapy, and what's good company without good wine? There are plenty of gadgets out there and true, you can't beat a basic corkscrew, but sometimes it's nice to ...

Kabinett & Kammer

We recently saw Sean Scherer's home on re-nest via The New York Times so when my husband and I were up in the Catskills this weekend and came across one of the best antique stores I have ever seen, ...

Victorian Trading Co.

Even though my own style is a mix of modern and traditional, I still enjoy and appreciate the more old fashioned styles. The Victorian Trading Co. has me imagining life in a Charles Dickens novel....

Stripping Glass of Colored Film?
Good Questions

Q: Hi! I am wondering if anyone can tell me a safe and inexpensive way to strip a lamp like this of the color so that it is just clear glass? I have two — one in green and one in amber. I know t...

Wobble Bowls by Jessica Phillips
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: Ceramic Price Point: $30-70 (based on size) "Bringing play to your table, these round-bottomed bowls rock and spin with a touch, but won’t tip over, just like children's toys..."...

How To: Make Your Own Glasses from Bottles
Makezine

More crafting! Here’s a project that’s about a 5 on a 1-10 difficulty scale. Actually, it’s not that tough, it just requires some precision and a few tools you most likely don’t have around ...

Roundup: Everyday Objects Redesigned

There are some things that just can’t be duplicated, and we’re not talking about the remake of The Stepford Wives. But every now and then someone puts a new spin on a classic that’s both usefu...

ShROOMS: Mushroom & Fungi Themed Decor

Look at all the Fungus Among Us — from lamps, to bedding and lots of stools... ...

Nautical Roundup: Anchor Designs for the Home

The weekend is here, but before you head off to the beach let’s check out some housewares inspired by a classic fisherman's anchor. A pillow is also a much less permanent than a tattoo!l Arg. ...

Canvas: New Line from Ochre

Yesterday, I got a tour of the new line Canvas from Ochre owner Andrew Corrie. As a board member of Aid to Artisans, Andrew's interest in sustainable, quality furnishings and handcraft has formed a f...

Home Goods at The Neue Galerie Design Shop

On a recent visit to The Neue Galerie New York — the Museum for German & Austrian Art — we discovered the beautiful home goods and furniture on display, most of them from designers and a...

All Things Botanical: Accessories For Your Home

You might not have a green thumb, but you can still have a little green in your life. Here's a round-up of ten botanical decorative items from prints, to pillows to showers curtains and ceramics &md...

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...

Five Cozies for Sweaty Summertime Glasses

click thumbnails for larger pics When you pour yourself a tall, cold drink, do you ever use a cozy on the glass? If so, here are five cool cozies we've culled from the web... ...

Carole Smith Updates Pyrex with Ceramics

click thumbnails for larger pics When we first saw this bowl, we took a double take. It was shaped like a Pyrex bowl, but that surely wasn't a familiar Pyrex design! Designer Carole Smith actually re...

Gift Fair: Kikatsu Glassware by Shizuyo Seagusa

We've loved these glasses in Masa's booth before, but today we had a new lens and were able to get really close so that you could see how fine these things really are. Made in Japan, these glasses ...

Gift Fair: New Designs from Jonathan Adler

click for more pics The bright colors and bold shapes of Jonathan Adler's designs can be somewhat overwhelming when they're all in a booth together at the Gift Fair — they can also be really f...

Shop Tour: The End of History

Long a favorite of some of New York's top prop stylists and editors, we were a little surprised to discover we had never given the West Village's The End of History a proper shop tour. EoH specializ...

Wine Decanter from Scandinavian Grace

We've been obsessing about this wine decanter, ever since we spotted it at Scandinavian Grace a couple of months ago. Not only do we love the look, but we also love the $29.95 price tag. We've neve...

Andy Paiko's Amazing Glass Objects

It seems there is nothing that glass-maker extraordinaire Andy Paiko won't attempt to make in glass. From traditional tableware to an absinthe fountain, to a glass chair, he seems to have tried ever...

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