"Just as homes can be laid out to maximize social interaction, an individual room can be designed to positively reinforce parent-child bonds. The placement and relationship of each piece of furniture …
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Anthony Baratta: On Exuberance
"Color is, of course, the easiest way to make a bold statement. There are no bad colors, but it is a lot easier to create an exuberant interior with red than it is with beige. Nancy Lancaster’s butter …
Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2017
I realize I'm not the only design enthusiast that remembers Robert Denning & Vincent Fourcade's maximalist approach to decoration. I loved the excess of their interiors and I was certainly not …
Books: MR Architecture + Decor
In the opening paragraph of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus Manifesto, the founder of the movement suggests "The ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building!", further professing "Architects, …
The New Chic: French Style from Today’s Leading Interior Designers
The title of Marie Kalt's new book from Rizzoli New York references 'The New Chic', but she could just as easily have suggested 'the radically cool' as an alternative description. Every room in this …
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VMAD’s West Elm Headquarters
By Lisa Zeiger When Mark Murashige and Kay Vorderwuelbecke of VM Architecture and Design (VMAD) began redesigning the Empire Stores on the docks of the East River in DUMBO for West Elm in 2013, a …