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Jens Risom Rocker from Design Within Reach

Last autumn, the DWR Design Studio announced their first collaboration with legendary designer Jens Risom. Furthering that partnership, Jens is following his bench, chair and ottoman with a new uphol...

After the Breakup: The Shared Lake House
The New York Times

When a couple with a passion for home design ends their relationship, what happens to the house? The New York Times looks at the shared Stanfordville, New York lakeside home of Benjamin Dixon and Br...

Best Outdoor Dining Tables 2009

This weekend I discovered that we had a desperate need for an outdoor dining table. After years of carrying the inside dining table outside (which I sort of like), Sara Kate said, "enough", and I w...

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 Sleeper Sofas & Sofa Beds 2009

I've been updating my list of best sleeper sofas each year for about four years now, and things have usually changed slowly. This past year, however, things changed a good deal and I have a bunch o...

DWR: Alive & Well, Thank You!

Today we received a phone call from the folks over at DWR, telling us that Ray Brunner, their CEO, had just published a post on their blog, which was due in part to a post on ours last week, DWR Up Fo...

Best Simple Backless High Stools

We have a butcher block island in our kitchen and have really come to like sitting around it in the evening. I'd bought one stool at first, and just recently bought a second one, which allows us al...

Best Storage Beds of 2009

The Matera Bed I am generally against storing things under your bed because I feel it creates bad bedroom energy, BUT I do find it necessary - at least a little bit - in NYC, so I've created and upda...

Trends: Extreme Knitting Moves into Furnishings

This is Christien Meindertsma knitting (not Sara Kate). Over our holiday, knitting came out in a force not seen before in our home. I don't know whether it was the sense of recession, delighting in ...

Best Product: $25 Air Plants From DWR

As the light fades and it gets colder, our apartment is starting to look a little bleak. What better way to keep things bright than with a few of these Tillandsia pants from Design Within Reach......

Thursday Giveaway: DWR Tools For Living Selection

Item: 5 Design Pairs from Tools For Living Designers: Various Value: over $100 per pair >> Enter Tools Gallery (and choose one pair) Description: We got a chance yesterday to get the scoop on DWR'...

Look! Inside DWR's Brand New Tools for Living Store
New York

>>View the Tools for Living Gallery! DWR's new Tools for Living store isn't open until Friday, but Apartment Therapy got a peek inside this afternoon. We were blown away. It's full of perfect, wel...

Look!: Rex Chair and Eddy Table at Dolores Park Cafe

Okay, we happen to be in San Francisco visiting our team here (and enjoying the really good lattes), but this street scene relates to what we wrote about just last week in one of our emails... ...

AT Email: Hola Y Adios Table, The Slimest, Coolest Landing Strip - 3.31.08

March 31, 2008 City hallways tend to be narrow, small or non existent, but some kind of "landing strip" is essential if you are going to keep your apartment from getting overwh...

DWR: Design Within Reach

DWR has aged gracefully with only a few bumps along the way. Founded with the mission of making modern furniture accessible, they've delivered, spread like Starbucks and experimented with what mode...

Best Sleeper Sofas & Sofa Beds 2008

They're getting better. You really can get a night's sleep on a sofa, but some ARE better than others, and money does seem to buy you more comfort. This list represents what we've learned since our...

NY Rumors: DWR is Expanding....

We heard through the grapevine that the DWR in SoHo is going to be moving to a bigger SoHo location, but that another DWR shop is going to take it's space...but not the same kind... ...

Close-Up: Lyon Stool and Metoo Seat

Okay, so we really did move....finally. It happened suddenly and quickly when a really sweet rental apartment in our neighborhood opened up. So we found ourselves in the odd position of needing to...