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A FARMHOUSE was always Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer's dream. But more than that: 'We wanted land and space that our children could continue to return to for the rest [...]

James Spindler and John Vitale bought their U.N. Plaza apartment from the family of its original owner, who had decorated it as though it were a prewar. They opened it [...]

I always dreamed of having a country house with a separate studio,' says Nicholas Howey, which is just what he got when he and his husband, Gerard Widdershoven, bought this [...]

Pink was always going to be the color of Anne Hanavan's new apartment, the 'freedom pad' she bought because she was getting a divorce. Pink is everywhere--Benjamin Moore's 052 Conch [...]

DESIGN HUNTING Cristiana Pena always wanted to live in something other than a regular house. Maybe a school, or a firehouse, or a store, she says. 'But a church has [...]

BRECK AND GEORGIA EISNER are based in Los Angeles, but they have always loved visiting their friends in the Hamptons. It was during the pandemic that Georgia asked one of [...]

In 1992, Larry Lederman, a lawyer in New York, and his wife, the interior designer Kitty Hawks, bought a small house in Chappaqua on four wooded acres overlooking a nine-acre [...]

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT we love old things,' says the burlesque artist Angie Pontani, who is showing me the exuberant, family-hand-me-down-filled Marine Park house in in Southeast Brooklyn she shares with [...]

IN 2010, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem bought a two-family Carroll Gardens building constructed in the 1930s. They live in the duplex on the bottom two floors and rent out [...]

EVERYONE TAKES NOTICE when Gabriella Karefa-Johnson enters a room; with her infectious exuberance, she brings the party with her wherever she goes. You feel the same energy walking into her [...]

The students are everyone from a kindergarten teacher to Alan Cumming. You never know who is going to walk through the door,' Alex Schatzberg tells me when I meet him [...]

HOW A KID FROM Nashville, Tennessee, lucked out,' Michael Shane Neal tells me as we sit in the northern afternoon light of his double-height art studio behind the National Arts [...]

THE FIRST THING photographer Amanda Weil asks 'pretty much anyone' who walks into her Village apartment is to stand, in profile, before a translucent-glass door so she can take a [...]

IN 1981, CLAUDIA DORING BAEZ and her two brothers had moved to New York from Mexico to attend Columbia University. Her mother, the artist Lucero Gonzalez, followed, and together they [...]

Even after 44 years of living in New York City--43 of them in this Soho loft-artist John Alexander still sounds, to this New Yorker anyway, as Texas as can be. [...]

WHEN ANESTHESIOLOGIST John Martins and a director of legal tech sales, Zorik Pesochinsky, bought this two-bedroom apartment in a perfectly practical but entirely unglamorous brick mid-century co-op building near Lincoln [...]

WELL, I MARRIED the apartment,' John Githens says of his home of over five decades in a 19th-century townhouse overlooking Washington Square Park. In 1968, Githens was a 30-yearold professor [...]

You see, I have this problem,' Neil Jenney tells me when I meet him at the Wooster Street end of his 11,000-square-foot full-floor Soho loft. 'I have a landline telephone, [...]

Since leaving London in 2016, Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder and creative director of the gallery Tiwa Select, has lived in 'a shack' in Sonoma, in a drafty barn in Berkeley (which [...]

INTERIOR DESIGN RUNS IN Elizabeth Pyne Singer's family. In 2009, after seven years at Sotheby's, she joined McMillen, Inc., the venerable decorating firm. The company was founded in 1924 by [...]

TWENTY YEARS AGO, Andrew Rossi attended a rough-cut screening of the documentary Startup.com at the brownstone owned by the filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on the Upper West Side. [...]

East Williamsburg HUGH HAYDEN's Former Fruit Warehouse I had outgrown my previous studio in the Bronx,' Hugh Hayden says, sitting beside an aluminum and wood zebra skeleton sprouting massive branches [...]

When artist and builder Randy Polumbo heard about the three-year-old 'healing, recovery, and awakening' organization Cardea, which his friend Dimitri Mugianis founded, he wanted to help. Polumbo joined as a [...]

The first time I visited the loft Grimanesa Amoros shares with her husband, William Grant Fleischer, and daughter Shammiel, it was on the occasion of a dinner party. The vast [...]

The fifth-floor walk-up apartment on West 11th Street, which has a 22-foot-tall skylight but in places is only eight feet wide, had been owned by an artist couple since the [...]

BEFORE ARCHITECT Adam Rolston and his partner, research psychologist Dr. Martin McElhiney, bought their one-bedroom co-op in Washington Heights six years ago, 'we had lived on the Lower East Side [...]

It's almost like a townhouse within a building,' Peter Vits says of the three-story Noho space in an 1858 cast-iron building that he and his wife, the architect Zoe Vidali, [...]

Alex Gilbert, a director of Friedman Benda gallery, and her husband, Patrick Parrish, head of the eponymous gallery, have a story, or an explanation, for everything that has found its [...]

She challenged--and changed--a stubbornly un-diverse fashion world, ran her own modeling agency, and will soon have a documentary coming out about her life. Everything in her apartment has a story [...]

Back in 2017, when designer Ellen Van Dusen bought this 1899 brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the backyard was a tumble of weeds and concrete. 'It was painted green, probably 30 years [...]

SASHA BIKOFF'S 21-foot-wide house on Commerce Street in Greenwich Village was built in the 1820s in the late Federal style, which doesn't call undue attention to itself. But step inside [...]

I love kitschy '70s wall decorations,' the artist and set designer Steven Hammel says, as we sit by the cozy imitation hearth in his living room with a view of [...]

I NEVER WOULD HAVE LEFT. I'd always thought that I'd be carried out feet first down that polished wood stairwell with its Arts and Crafts wallpaper. For 27 years, I [...]

MOYOSORE 'MOYO' MARTINS moved his workspace into this 3,000-plus-square-foot studio in a former furniture factory in Mott Haven in December 2021. He'd been working from his Harlem apartment and using [...]

MICHAEL AND SUSAN HORT'S three-story, 10,000-plus-square-foot home in Tribeca is alive with art. It's simply everywhere: on every wall, up and down the stairs, on every table (some of which [...]

WHEN YOU WALK into the double-height living room of Kore Yoors's 1,500-square-foot full-floor apartment in Greenwich Village, the legacy of his father, Jan Yoors, a Belgian American artist who died [...]

BEST BETS A Perfect Plucker IT WAS NOT entirely surprising that when Strategist writer Arielle Avila started her search for a flawless pair of tweezers, the aestheticians, spa owners, and [...]

I DON'T COOK at all,' says Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, which might seem like a surprising thing for one of the founders of Food & Wine magazine to say, as we [...]

IT SAID IN the advertisement for the apartment, 'Featured in House Beautiful,'' remembers Sarah Meister of this postwar three-bedroom in a Richard Roth-designed building on the Upper East Side. 'I [...]

I wasn't looking for anything specific--or anything,' says artist Austin Lee of this 1899 house he bought three years ago in Greenpoint after a brief stint living in a rather [...]

The house is taller than it is wide. The living room is around 30 feet high,' says Todd Oldham of the 'very strange' home that he and his partner (in [...]

When Sumner Freeman bought this 1960s A-frame house in Fire Island Pines in 1980, the property it sat on was so obscured by poison ivy, catbrier, and Virginia creeper that [...]

I'm not exactly a hoarder,' Mickey Boardman tells me as we sit amid the eccentric abundance of his living room. 'I have hoarder tendencies. I can get rid of things--I [...]

I really dislike traditional writer's rooms,' the writer and actor Julio Torres says while sitting on the custom-made red-and-blue couch in his office in Greenpoint, his hair dyed to match. [...]

I was probably conceived in the building,' says the architect, critic, and author Joseph Giovannini of this circa-1890 three-story Los Angeles commercial structure his family has owned since the 1930s, [...]

It's the first time that I've lived by myself, and it was fun to be actually making all the choices of what was in the space,' says the sculptor and [...]