- Pushing the idea of Green. We mentioned the The Year Without Toilet Paper earlier this week. This is a great synopsis of a true experiment in urban living.
- Influential modern: A Mies Masterwork, Deteriorating and in Dispute. The Tugendhat House in a custody battle.
- Moving-in together: Welcome to My World, O My Beloved. Don’t Bring Your Stuff. A humorous memoir.
- Making the most of transitional space: Oversize Mudrooms Tame the Clutter at the Door. Landing Strips the size of your living room.
- Room to Improve: Our dining table doubles as a home-office desk. How can we keep clutter in check?
- Personal Shopper: Unique Flooring (lots of leather).
(Photographs by Nicole Bengiveno Pavel Horejsi, Suzanne DeChillo. Illustration by Juliette Borda)
Must every Times article be an exercise in financial alienation?
Michael - I agree with your comment. I'm expecting the Times to begin having a section simply called, "Having" which would be all of the articles from the weekend escapes section and most of the articles from the House & Home section.
So we get one story about a guy who subjects his family, including a young child, to a primitive existence of freezing cold, filth and unbearble odors and another piece about a self-absorbed jerk who can't even remember to cash a $7600 check. Where does the Times find these idiots and why do they think we should care?
There was a fantastic parody of the Times in the NY Observer that basically busted on them over and over for being so targeted to the uppercrust. I think one the Style section was renamed, "Things rich people have that you never will." I've been trying to find it for years!
Meanwhile, give up toilet paper??? I'd rather be single for the rest of my life than married to this guy.
That folding desk is brilliant. I wish NYT quoted a price for it.
I love Henry Alford
Julianna. I enjoyed that Henry Alford piece, too.
leather floors have got to be one of teh grossest things i've ever heard of. it's hardly green either.
i have no problem w/ someone wearing leather, but an entire floor made of skin seems creepy to me.
plus, have you ever worn leather sandels & you get those toe marks? you want that on a floor?
"There is status to having a mudroom"? Seriously, where do they find people who think things like this, let alone say them. Plus, that mudroom pictured is a jumbled, horrible mess that is crying out for enclosed storage.
Re the Beavan-without-toilet-paper story: that's the most self-indulgent rubbish I've seen for a while. It's so transparently obvious that it's a buzz piece for his book that he must have good connections at the NYT to get a story there. If interested, see link for my blog comments.