I’ve been obsessed with teeny, tiny jewelry lately — pieces you can wear all the time and never take off. At the top of my wish list is Iwona Ludyga’s tiny skully bracelet. While I save my pennies for a splurge purchase, I thought the second best thing to new bling would be a peek…
To create a home with a clean look that was also comfortable for family living, Joshua and Jodie Steen have spent the last five years cultivating their Williamsburg apartment into a space that they describe as “Brooklyn modern meets mid-century.” Whether it was one of Joshua’s DIY shelving projects or trying 10 different shades of…
Fine art wedding and food photographer Karen Wise and her husband, Chandler Kauffman, a director, writer and cinematographer, live in an 850 square-foot prewar co-op apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. As photographers/filmmakers, their work often takes them to LA and various locations around the world. They share a love of beautiful sunlight, rich colors, wood, high…
Just one year ago, graphic designer and pattern maker Jill Malek moved with her husband, Vram Malek, and their 2 1/2 year-old son to this Brooklyn Heights apartment, which is on the 22nd floor. Although Jill had lived in New York for ten years, her relationship with the city transformed; she had never lived quite…
Native New Yorker and textile designer Shelley Goldberg started working in fashion houses before moving into the realm of home design. While she often considers her work “art for the floor,” today’s peek into her Clinton Hill, Brooklyn home demonstrates how the space becomes a palette for larger design experiments. Overall, Shelley considers her aesthetic…
Sisse Jonassen works in the television industry in New York City, and the bright lights, noise and chaos of her daily life sent her searching for something a little more relaxed, something that reminded her of her childhood growing up in Denmark. She found an online listing for a small 1795 post-and-beam farmhouse in the…
Emma & Mike’s Brooklyn Home Tour from David Land on Vimeo. This is one busy couple. Mike and Emma have only lived in this home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, for a little over a year. Michael Fusco runs a design studio out of the house, where he designs book jackets, record covers and identities. Together…
here on d*s it’s always a treat for us when we can throw in a dose of “boy” style. this sneak peek comes to us from artist and former top design contestant, ryan humphrey. ryan and fashion designer girlfriend, lindsay derose, bought the apartment located in jackson heights queens six years ago as a major…
in our continued look at some of the homes of professors at pratt, today we have a sneak peek into the home of graduate communications design chair jeff bellantoni. he and his wife, ceramist kim westad, along with their pit-mix maddy, live in this attached 3-story 1950s brick house located in the pelham bay/country club…
julie torres moskovitz, principal of fabrica 718 in brooklyn, is an architect who teaches sustainable design in the interior design department at pratt institute where she is a visiting assistant professor. today we have a great look into her williamsburg, brooklyn home that she and her husband renovated this past winter. they’d been in the…
pratt adjunct assistant professor of architecture gregory merryweather’s home first appeared in the book, brooklyn modern: architecture, interiors, and design by diana lind. he and his wife renovated into the small carriage house that is right across the street from pratt’s brooklyn campus that is now home to them and their two sons. the house…
when i first moved to brooklyn in 2003, i was fresh out of college, new to the borough and looking for a place or a group of people with whom i could connect. so during my first summer in town, i would spend my afternoons walking from my apartment in greenpoint down to williamsburg to…
today’s second stellar sneak peek comes to us from swedish designer cathy gedda westrell and her fiance erik. their williamsburg, brooklyn home in is a small, restored bakery and the bakery was actually active up until the construction started. both being from sweden (a country that’s dark 7 months of the year) they knew they needed…
for over a year now, swissmiss has been one of my favorite stops for daily inspiration. authored by designer tina roth eisenberg, she always has the best finds, which clearly are rooted in her swiss upbringing. as hard as i try, i know i for one will never be able to pull off the minimalist,…
today i’m posting a special sneak peek because sadly work has thrown me for a loop and i’ve got to take the day off to catch up. so i thought i’d share a special peek to make up for not having anything else today (sorry!). this gorgeous peek belongs to ink + wit designer tara…
today’s special tuesday sneak peek is into the home of bill hilgendorf and maria cristina rueda (and their cats, as you will see!) of the design + build furniture company uhuru design. their carroll gardens home is a wonderful collaboration showcasing many projects the two have worked on together. thanks to bill and maria for…
we’ve see them work their magic in the sneak peek of the home of robin lester, and soon we’ll be seeing what they’ve cooked up for grace and ac (stay tuned in the next few weeks!), but today we get a special glance into the home of carl and russell, the brains and brawn behind…
when it comes to creative people, we’re rarely happy with the status quo. today we get a fantastic peek into jen altman‘s “old” house, which is beautiful in its own right, but jen no longer feels like it’s a reflection of her. so, she gladly agreed to share both with us, and she’ll be back…
our first sneak peek of the day features the 800-square-foot tribeca loft of andrew and heather wagner. the couple – andrew is the editor in chief of american craft magazine, and heather, a soon to be published author with her book, friend or faux, to be released by quirk books in spring 2009 – was…
there is so much incredible content that was intended for the house & garden website that won’t be making it on the site. rather than continue to cry about it, i figured i should share some of it here. one of my co-workers sent over these shots of actress, author and hostess extraordinare amy sedaris‘…
