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Marimekko's Sauna System by Aarno Ruusuvuori

Back in the 1960's, Aarno Ruusuvuori designed the Marimekko sauna system. Today, the prefab design is still a shining example of simple, modern summer living... ...

Former Urbanites, Now "Local Food" Farmers
The New York Times 7.3.08

Many urban dwellers have embraced the local food movement. Greenmarkets are booming in Manhattan and CSA food boxes are trendy. The New York Times shows us some former urban dwellers have embraced t...

Finnish Summer Houses

Summers in Finland mean heading out to the country house, often without electricity or running water. Time is spent outdoors and the sun is up around the clock. This book, Finnish Summer Houses by J...

BEEFY Home & Garden Tool Source: Forestry Suppliers, Inc.
Email from 6.10.08

Looking at garden catalogs is an annual occasion at our house. While it's usually window shopping and imagining "WHAT IF WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY", tucked away inside are always a few super cool, use...

Cozy English Barn Renovation
The New York Times 6.4.08

Searching for a simpler, more solitary life, Lila Walton purchased the remains of a 17th-century threshing barn in rural Norfolk, England. Now newly renovated, the 1,300-square-foot barn retains a t...

J. Morgan Puett's Artists' Colony: Romantic Decay
The New York Times 5.29.08

The New York Times loves to profile some kooky homes. In the past year they've shown us a Funhouse in East Hampton, Arizona's Eliphante & Hippodome and Pearl Lam's Shanghai Loft. This week, they're ...

Survey: To Escape In or Out?

With the first big long weekend of summer just hours away, we're curious how many of you are going to be heading out of town and where you go. We can already tell that many of you are not in front ...

Modern Connecticut Country House
The New York Times 5.4.08

The Connecticut weekend home of Style Guy Glenn O'Brien and Gina Nanni was our favorite part of the latest T Style Magazine from The New York Times. A modern renovation of a 1940's two-story house, ...

House Among Rocks
The New York Times 4.24.08

A New York sculptor who works with stone, Elyn Zimmerman built a new home and studio among the rocks in Oaji, California. The New York Times gives us a peek inside the modern and "disciplined interi...

Modern, Prefab Sheds
NYT 4.6.08

We've had our eye on the trend for pre-fabricated modern sheds for a while — with the recent addition of Kithaus to the lineup at Design Within Reach and the upcoming MoMA exhibit on prefab housi...

Saving Downtown Syracuse & Restoring an Eames Lounge
NYT House & Home Roundup 4.3.08

The picture at left is the home of the Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, Mark Robbins. The New York Times shows us how Robbins has helped to jump-start the Syracuse community into ...

House Tour: The House that Porn Built
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.13.08

Here's a new angle: The New York Times shows us the upstate home of former porn actor, Tom Judson (known in some circles as Gus Mattox). With a broad range of experiences in music and performing, Ju...

House Tour: Updated Swiss Chalet
NYT 3.5.08

In this week's "Great Homes" feature from The New York Times, a couple transformed a 1960's Alpine home into an open and airy family space that takes full advantage of its location in the mountains....

House Tour: Home in the Heart of Provence
NYT 2.27.08

Comfortable and spacious, Le Paty is the second home of Robert Burns and his wife, Isabelle Pisani. The couple purchased the home in the late 90's to act as a family retreat for their large (and grow...

Neon Desert House
NYT 2.15.08

The New York Times looked at the desert home of Los Angeles couple Tracy Tynan and Jim McBride. Their 1,200-square-foot weekend home in Joshua Tree, California was inspired by the prefabricated housin...

Emilio Ambasz' House of Spiritual Retreat

Relatively small. Emilio Ambasz' house is surrounded only by the expanse of nature north of Seville, Spain......

House Tour: Remote Log Cabin
NYT 2.3.08

The nearest neighbor is thirty-six miles away from the remote log cabin that belongs to brothers Andy and Jonathan Bourne. Located in the Inyo National Forest on the eastern edge of California, the ...

Zachary House by Steven Atkinson

Small rural living. This little house is the country mouse alter ego to our city mouse dwelling. It's the Zachary House, designed by Steven Atkinson. We've long admired the design and wanted to shar...

NYT: Dutch Barn Rural Getaway

The Sanders Family weekend home in Roxbury, New York looks like the perfect setting for a J.Crew photo shoot. The 8,000 square foot Dutch-Style barn from 1897 was reconfigured as a living space by D...

FarmTek

We saw the catalogue cover and were drawn to it like a moth to flame. While staring at page after page of farm equipment may not be your cup of tea, we have found Farm Tek to be unbeaten for their l...

Michael Trapp's Ranch House Spectacular
NYT House & Home Roundup: 11.15.07

Grand Space. When interior and garden designer Michael Trapp bought a rotting ranch in the Berkshire foothills of Sharon, Connecticut he transformed it into Ranch House Spectacular by minimizing the...

Apple Racks at Plantstuff.com

Why don't we have these stateside? We came across these apple racks at UK-based Plantstuff then started looking for something similar available in the US......

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...

The Eileen Fisher Home Collection

Simplicity is Luxury is Eileen Fisher's take on her new Eileen Fisher Home Collection. The collection, like her clothing line, depends on materials of high quality and simple design......

NYT: Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House

Hot Property. Thanks to a tip from Mason, we wanted to post yesterday's New York Times piece, A Landmark Modernist House Heads to Auction. Richard Neutra designed the Kaufmann House for Edgar J. Kau...

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