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Six Decades of Gio Ponti, All at Once

 A retrospective at Donzella reveals rare works by the Italian designer not seen in 20 years. By Adrian Madlener
  1. Where Gothic Revival Meets Grown-up Eloise Nina Johnson’s Tudor City home by Adam Charlap Hyman is a cloud of gray with a touch of Lynchian red.
    By Wendy Goodman
  2. The Perfectly Imperfect Vessels of Madeline Coven The Bushwick-based designer uses animal hides sourced from her hometown of Albuquerque to experiment with form and light.
    By Jill Singer
  3. Janis Joplin Slept Here In facing studios at Hotel Chelsea, a pack rat and fountain-show choreographer lives amid memories of his divas.
    By Wendy Goodman
  4. The Graza Olive-Oil People Are Designing Mamdani’s New Groceries But is the shoppy-shop aesthetic at odds with rock-bottom prices?
    By Adriane Quinlan
  5. A Moon Over the Bowery After a renovation, a couple knew exactly where to put the biggest artwork from their collection.
    By Wendy Goodman
  6. The Artist Who Lived in Central Park “She really did deserve to have an exhibition somewhere.”
    By Maggie Duffy
  7. Back to the Studio with Fernando Mastrangelo The designer streamlined his 20-person operation and returned to making things by hand.
    By Adrian Madlener
  8. Designing With Straw in the East Village The design studio Sunfish used the material to create an entire collection of furniture and décor.
    By Jill Singer
  9. The Cactus Apartment Above Midtown For nearly 50 years, a couple have cultivated a wild private garden in their loft overlooking Madison Square Garden.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. Rafael Prieto’s New Furniture Is Made of the Building Across From His Studio At Emma Scully, the designer’s collection is based on fragments that might otherwise have gone into a dumpster.
    By Jill Singer
  11. George Rouy Makes a Bigger Splash The British “It” boy edging the art world debuts on the megagallery main stage.
    By David Lê
  12. Don’t Mind the Rug, Kids A historic townhouse in Gramercy Park gets a makeover for a family of five.
    By Wendy Goodman
  13. This Old, Very Old, Hamptons House The restoration of an 18th-century cottage in the Springs proves worthy of its rich bohemian past.
    By Wendy Goodman
  14. Interior Motives Host Ben Mora Knows You by Your Stuff “I’ve invented a way to monetize making fun of gay people’s bedrooms.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  15. Wake Up and Smell the Pine Trees Loring McAlpin lost his view in Noho and gained a garden.
    By Wendy Goodman
  16. North Fork Perch An architect couple did a number on a cottage set high above the Long Island Sound.
    By Wendy Goodman
  17. The Tree House Next Door A 19th-century brownstone is restored with a French twist and an interior courtyard.
    By Wendy Goodman
  18. Karim Rashid’s Very Pink New Jersey Home The product designer learns what it’s like to build a house from the ground up.
    By Fred A. Bernstein
  19. Transforming John Early’s Actual House for ‘Maddie’s Secret’ The film’s production designer, who is also his ex, found it therapeutic to turn it into a cooking influencer’s pink hideaway.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  20. A Roaming Art Fair Finds a Home in Robert Wilson’s Southampton Retreat Nomad takes over the late theater director’s Watermill Center in the first exhibition since his passing.
    By Adrian Madlener
  21. Richard Avedon Lived Here A couple has preserved the Montauk property built by the photographer nearly 50 years ago. Minus the erosion, things look just about the same.
    By Wendy Goodman
  22. The Knicks Logo Almost Included the Empire State Building Graphic designer Michael Doret, who drew it in 1991, shares his favorite rejects.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  23. Skinny-dipping in the Park Ryan McGinley’s first solo exhibit in New York in nearly a decade was shot all over the city.
    By Samuel Hine
  24. What Lalanne’s Marvelously Sinister Marble-Bird Chairs Show Us At TEFAF and David Zwirner, marble and stone pieces remind us of a much more measured era of handcraft.
    By Camille Okhio
  25. Where the Guests Sing For Their Supper At the home of a Gramercy couple, chicken potpie dinners are followed with Cole Porter by the piano.
    By Wendy Goodman
  26. The Small, Beautiful Things of New York Design Month Juicy dimmers, smokestack incense holders, and handles inspired by Noguchi.
    By Anthony Paletta
  27. 14 Standout Lamps From New York’s Design Week Including a Tobia Scarpa reissue, a mad-scientist nightlight, and milk-glass snow globes.
    By Anthony Paletta
  28. They Rescued a Teardown and Raised the Roof An artist couple renovated a neglected Connecticut country house with enough space for an art collection and their own work.
    By Wendy Goodman
  29. Wendy Goodman’s Picks For Her Dream Apartment From TEFAF New York An Alexandre Noll ebony trio, two Giacomettis, and a marvelously weathered chair.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. The Independent Art Fair’s Massive New Home on the Lower East Side At Pier 36, SO-IL’s glowing entrance beckons.
    By Natalia Torija
  31. There’s a Lot of Blue-Chip Slop for Sale at Frieze The work on display at the fair reflects a spooked art market still feeling its way out of the wilderness.
    By David Lê
  32. Marble Dominated Milan Design Week Ten Alcova picks by Wendy Goodman.
    By Wendy Goodman
  33. The House Museum in Washington Heights The home of the artist George Nelson Preston, a seminal Beat Generation figure, is full of personal history.
    By Wendy Goodman
  34. Who Would Buy This $3 Million Golden Apple? A string of record-breaking design auctions at Sotheby’s shows furniture is now just as blue-chip as art.
    By David Lê
  35. Nick Poe’s Houseplant Hot Spot The Lower East Side loft of the architectural designer is filled with monsteras, spider plants and umbrella trees.
    By Wendy Goodman
  36. The Minimalist’s Soho Loft The curator Jessica Morgan avoids overdecorating at home. “Frankly, I don’t like having things,” she says. “We’re not really tchotchkes people.”
    By Wendy Goodman
  37. The Family That Wallpapers Together Rumaan Alam and David Land, with their two sons, downsized toa three-bedroom in Fort Greene and then colormaxxed everything.
    By Wendy Goodman
  38. The Elite Design Firm That Built Jeffrey Epstein’s World The Pintos designed his New York, Paris, and Caribbean homes. They seem to have turned a blind eye to everything else.
    By Adam Robb
  39. There’s Not Enough Noise in ‘Art of Noise’ A new Cooper Hewitt show on music design is heavy on the gizmos but missing the music that grounds it.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. A Couple’s Clinton Hill Rental, Sunny-Side Up Kiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli are unapologetic color maximalists, and their home is awash in rich yellows, browns and reds, plus Goti’s own designs.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. When the Ashtray Was Everywhere A new show at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design invokes a pre-Bloombergian moment.
    By Clio Chang
  42. This Old Sea-Biscuit Factory The poet Paul Muldoon and the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz wanted to live in the 19th century, architecturally speaking, so they relocated to Fidi.
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. The Cuban House of Spirits The home of the artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda is a monument to the tropics in Fort Greene.
    By Wendy Goodman
  44. The Palazzo on Beekman Place A pied-à-terre in a 1925 building overlooking the East River channels Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venice.
    By Wendy Goodman
  45. Wendy Goodman’s Most-Read Stories of 2025 From Amy Sedaris’s tree-house guest apartment to a countess’s hunting lodge in Southampton.
    By Wendy Goodman
  46. Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon Furniture The designer and wife of Kanye West says it’s about “collapsing the distinction between object, body, and idol.”
    By Clio Chang
  47. Where the Wild Chairs Are Designer Minjae Kim’s unconventional furniture upends his traditional prewar apartment in Bed Stuy.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. 4 New Design Galleries Off the Beaten Path In Lower East Side tenements and Long Island City warehouses, gallerists are creating lived-in spaces.
    By Adrian Madlener
  49. All That Glitters At Salon Art + Design, reflective surfaces made a big comeback.
    By Adrian Madlener
  50. The Supermodel in the Village Walk-up Susan Forristal’s parlor apartment on East 10this a shrine to a bygone era of downtown glamour.
    By Wendy Goodman
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