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Joan Crawford's Two Addresses, Southern California and Manhattan, Open for a Look
Architectural Digest has assembled ten photographs of Joan Crawford at home, moving between a Southern California house and a New York apartment set h…
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A Los Angeles House With No Pedigree Borrows the City's
Dean Levin has taken a Los Angeles residence that arrived with no particular architectural identity and given it one drawn from the city itself. The d…
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A Bowery Night Brings Rhizome More Than $438,000 for Its Thirtieth Year
Rhizome, the New York nonprofit devoted to digital art, turned thirty this fall and marked the occasion with a benefit at Capitale in Manhattan. The e…
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Surface Names Martin Bourne Its Designer of the Day
Martin Bourne, the New York interior stylist, is Surface's Designer of the Day. His career in the city runs past thirty years, most of it spent arrang…
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Apparatus Picks Miami for Its Next Showroom
The New York design studio Apparatus has announced that it will open a showroom in Miami. The news arrived just before the studio is set to unveil a n…
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Balanchine at Both Ends: City Ballet Frames Adrian Danchig-Waring's Last Night on October 18
New York City Ballet has set October 18 as the night Adrian Danchig-Waring dances with the company for the final time, and the program has been built …
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The House Is the Brief: Swizz Beatz Draws a CB2 Collection From the Home He Keeps With Alicia Keys
Swizz Beatz has turned the rooms he lives in into a line of furnishings. The producer's new collection for CB2 is modeled on the residence he and Alic…
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Apple Gives the Well-Run House a Screen of Its Own
Apple has introduced HomeView, the company's first display built to manage a home from a single surface. The design is spare, the kind of object that …
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Before the Cold Arrives, a Verdict on the Terrace Pots
A well-kept house is judged as much by its terrace as by its rooms, and the containers lining a loggia or flanking a front door are part of the archit…
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The Easiest Party in the House Needs Only Candles, Music and Cheese
Angelica Hicks, the illustrator and creator, has laid out her approach to entertaining at home, and it asks remarkably little of the house itself. Her…
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Fewer Pictures, Better Sold: The Case for an Edited Listing
A house going to market does not need seventy images to make its case, according to Elle Decor's advice for sellers. The counsel is one of restraint: …
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Seven Beds That Sleep Two and Show One
Architectural Digest has gathered seven trundle beds, the type with a second mattress stowed beneath the first, selected for clean lines and for the f…
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Five Towels That Earn a Place in a Well-Run House
The linen closet rarely gets the attention of the kitchen or the primary bath, yet it is where a house shows whether it is truly kept. Architectural D…
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Rolex Marks the Occasion by Turning Its Own Name Into the Design
The newest Oyster Perpetual arrives as a commemorative piece, timed to a milestone the house considers significant. Rather than reach for a new compli…
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Fifth Avenue's Spiral Was Never Meant to Be White, Its Architect Insisted
The Guggenheim stands on Fifth Avenue in the one color most New Yorkers can picture with their eyes closed, and the man who drew it did not want it th…
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Seventy Years On, Janus Films Takes a Room at the New York Film Festival
The Filmmakers Lounge of the New York Film Festival was the setting for a cocktail evening marking the seventieth year of Janus Films. The distributor…
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A Manhattan Street Gets Its Own Retrospective at the New Museum
The Bowery, one of the oldest thoroughfares in Manhattan, is now the subject of a large-scale show at the New Museum, which has just opened an exhibit…
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A Sixty-Dollar Volume Veranda's Editors Are Wrapping This Year
The price is on the record, and it is modest by the standards of the shelter world: sixty dollars, ordered from Amazon. For that sum, Veranda's editor…
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The Console Table Gets a New Occupant: Apple's HomeView
Apple has introduced a device built for the house, and it is called Apple HomeView. The object is finished in a choice of four colorways, its face a d…
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Eight American Towns Where Halloween Is the Whole Season, Not One Night
Architectural Digest has assembled a roster of eight towns across the United States that treat October as a season-long production rather than a singl…
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Six Bed Frames for the Primary Bedroom, Put Through Their Paces by Architectural Digest
The editors at Architectural Digest have put a field of bed frames to use in their own homes and narrowed the results to six worth recommending. Among…
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The Houses Lucy and Desi Actually Lived In, Seventy-Five Years After the Show
I Love Lucy reaches its 75th anniversary this year, and Elle Decor marks the occasion by stepping past the familiar set and into the residences Lucill…
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The Finishing Touch for a Well-Run House: AD Puts Percale Through Its Paces
Architectural Digest has gone through the trial of sleeping on percale and come back with a ranked list of ten it stands behind. The brief was the gue…
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Movers Themselves Weigh In on Making the Next Move Cheaper and Faster
Every closing in Palm Beach or the Hamptons ends the same way: with a truck at the curb and a household to get from one address to the next. Architect…
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The Thanksgiving Table, Sourced From the Hardware Store
Elle Decor has turned its eye to The Home Depot for the dining room this season, assembling a selection of pieces meant to dress the room where the No…
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David Netto Follows a Hamptons Win With Lamps for Soane Britain
The decorator David Netto has a new line of lamps, made in partnership with the British firm Soane Britain. The release arrives on the heels of a well…
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A Berkeley Hillside Midcentury Gets a Second Act Written for One Owner
In Berkeley, California, a midcentury residence that reads like a perch among the branches has been brought forward without being flattened, the work …
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The Mantel Gets Its Due: Veranda Picks 27 Lavish Gifts Sized for a Stocking
The stocking hung from the mantel is the smallest room in the house, and Veranda has furnished it with 27 extravagant selections for the season. The p…
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The Last Thing a Finished House Needs Is the Right Sheet
Architectural Digest has put percale through its own trials and come back with a list of ten it would put on a bed. The verdict on the weave itself is…
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The Last Step of Any Sale Is the Van in the Driveway
Every closing this title records ends the same way, with a household packed into boxes and carried out the door. Architectural Digest has gone to the …
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Built in 1870, a Brooklyn Heights One-Bedroom Asks $945,000
A one-bedroom in a Brooklyn Heights building that dates to 1870 is on the market with an asking price of $945,000. It has two features you don't often…
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A Singer-Songwriter's New York Town House, Worn In on Purpose
Zach Bryan and his wife, Samantha, have made a Manhattan town house into a home that carries the feel of Oklahoma. Architectural Digest's look inside …
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In Southampton, Patrick McGrath Mixes Freely in a Collector's House
Southampton has a new house to talk about, and the designer whose work is on show there is Patrick McGrath. The house belongs to an art collector. McG…
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Ben Marshall, Measured Against the City
Curbed has put Ben Marshall, a cast member of *Saturday Night Live*, through its New York Quotient, its gauge of how deeply a person belongs to the ci…
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In Southampton, a Collector's House Becomes the Showcase for Patrick McGrath's Eye
A Southampton house belonging to an art collector is the latest setting for the work of designer Patrick McGrath, a talent clearly on the rise. The ho…
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The Mid-Century Room, Bought New: Architectural Digest Picks Its Dozen From Article
Architectural Digest has tried furniture from Article, a retailer based in Canada, and narrowed it to twelve pieces it recommends. The selection follo…
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The Bridal Salon Is Now Designed Like a Private Residence
A newer group of wedding-dress shops is taking its cues from the living room, not the department store. Their interiors are the work of leading design…
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A $25 Million Ask for Thierry Henry's SoHo Penthouse
Thierry Henry has put his New York penthouse on the market with an asking price of $25 million. The condominium is in SoHo, the downtown Manhattan nei…
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A Beauty Founder Turns Her Eye to Rooms
Gucci Westman, the makeup artist whose name sits on her own beauty company, has given Elle Decor a conversation about how she thinks a room should loo…
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Nine Coupes Worth a Place in the House Bar
Elle Decor has gathered nine champagne coupes it considers worth setting out on a home bar, a roundup for anyone finishing a room down to the glasswar…
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The Study Gets a Desk That Rises to Meet the Day
Architectural Digest has put out its 2026 list of nine sit-or-stand desks it considers worth the room, framed as an invitation to loosen up the way a …
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In New York, Laila Gohar Pours a Highland Park and Sees a Whole Scene
Hand Laila Gohar, who works out of New York, a glass of Highland Park and she will not reach for the usual tasting checklist. Where most drinkers name…
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Uptown to the Promenade: The Week's Apartments Worth a Walk-Through
Curbed's latest roundup of New York City apartment listings it deems worth a buyer's attention lands in three corners of the city: Morningside Heights…
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Fernando Mastrangelo Turns Material Into a Map of Belonging at Cristina Grajales
Fernando Mastrangelo, the artist and designer who works out of New York, has opened a solo show called "Territories" at Cristina Grajales Gallery. The…
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An 1850s Captain's Cottage on Telegraph Hill Gets a Second Life With Zac Posen and Harrison Ball
Zac Posen and Harrison Ball have brought an 1850s sea captain's cottage on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill back from a long slide into disrepair. The h…
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Decades of Patient Work Return a Soho Townhouse to Its Era
One Soho townhouse has been carried back to the condition of its own century by an owner who gave the job the better part of a lifetime. When the work…
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A NoHo Penthouse Closes Out AD PRO's Season With the City Going Gold Behind It
The last session of AD PRO Design Dialogues was held high above NoHo, in the Andrée Putman Studio's top-floor exhibition space, with the sun going dow…
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What Finishes a Pergola Is Not the Carpentry but What Climbs It
Veranda has gathered twenty-eight climbing plants that flower, each of them suited to a fence line, a run of lattice or the overhead frame of a terrac…
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The Houses Worth Revisiting Once the Garlands Go Up
Veranda has assembled its standing roster of residences dressed for the holidays, the ones its editors return to each year when the season calls for a…
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A New York Designer Builds a Collection Around a Single Scotch
Todd Snyder, the menswear designer who works out of New York, has drawn a new line from one bottle and one island: Lagavulin's sixteen-year-old malt a…
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