The work of interior designer India Mahdavi is showing up all over — last week we showed you her colorful design for Paris's Germaine bistro — and today it's the cool and calm interiors ...
The new Parisian restaurant Germain was designed by India Mahdavi and its centerpiece is the oversized, faceted, yellow, and highheeled sculpture Sophie by Xavier Veilhan. Sophie lives in two spaces...
We've admired Thomas Jefferson's bed alcove at Monticello both here and here. And so has Maira Kalman......
This single art photograph made such an impression on us during a stay at a Hudson, New York bed-and-breakfast a few years ago. It is an over-sized sepia print of a buffalo, and it was displayed in ...
The summer is wrapping up and so is my trip to the beach. We’ve shared doors, restaurant walls, a dilapidated house, but I you leave with 10 things I'll miss about my home away from home in Provin...
On my trip to Helsinki Design Week, I got to take a quick walk through Marimekko headquarters. The inside was home to design offices, showrooms and the large factory where their textiles are printed...
Name: Alvar Aalto & family Location: Munkkiniemi neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland Size: approximately 2,200 square feet Years lived in: 40 years Alvar Aalto's first building built in Helsinki was ...
I'm currently taking part in press events surrounding Helsinki Design Week — one of my first stops in the Finnish capital was the temporary Wisa Hotel. It's a small two room structure on the t...
Rob and Damia Stewart are the forces behind Transit Authority Figures, a team that creates subway maps for places most unlikely to ever install that mode of transportation. ...
While we will (probably?) never be wealthy enough to commission a custom yacht by a world class designer, seeing the mega yacht that Phillipe Starck designed for Russion billionaire Andrey Melnichen...
In extremely expensive cities like New York, small hotel rooms that still put you right in the thick of it can be a hot commodity. It keeps your accommodation costs relatively low while retaining so...
Intrepid travelers are customizing vintage VW buses to serve a mobile houses. Would you consider life on the road in a Volkswagen bus? If so, you can actually purchase the bus in the first photo. If...
Here on Apartment Therapy, we talk a lot about ways to make your bedroom a serene and comfortable place. But July is Escapes Month and this would definitely be an escape from anyone's everyday life!...
Iceland is nothing if not a tremendous amount of outdoors and is certainly an escape from New York City. Thanks to incredibly aberrational good weather, my husband and I were able to celebrate our ...
Looking at some of our favorite New York City Hotels, we're glad to see The New York Times just published a look at the history behind the west side's Jane Hotel. The sailor's boarding house that da...
Here's an example of turning a liability into a design statement. It's also sort of steampunk. These pics are from my travels last month in Italy. This is in a little wine shop in Florence, where ...
Do you know anyone going on a trip of a lifetime this summer? My parents are leaving soon for Morocco, the Canary Islands, and Spain. The trip is a big deal and we want to send them off with a boost...
House: Sujiya-cho Machiya Location: Kyoto, Japan Type: Traditional Townhouse available for rent from Iori Size: 2,600 square feet — easily sleeps up to 10 guests Enter the Sujiya-cho Machiya ...
Premier Holidays has rounded up 5 private islands in North and Central America — and these escapes are bound to make you green with envy! ...
Here's some modern inspiration from Miami — a residence at the EPIC Miami Hotel. This high-end space is a great mix of contemporary style: a wood farm table, futuristic lighting, dark horizont...
We've suddenly gotten WAY into biking. This past weekend we biked everywhere and it made us feel like kids again. Sara gets on her new bike with Ursula in the baby seat and I get on my old bike an...
Dr. Kent and Susan Weeks live on an iron-hulled dahabiya — a traditional Nile riverboat — when they aren't working on archeological excavations in Egypt. The New York Times shows us the 8...
Last week we posted the vibrant interiors of Edinburgh's Hotel Missoni — on the other end of the Italian fashion spectrum, designer Giorgio Armani announced his Cavour 220 apartment complex in...
Mark Malkoff likes to challenge the definition of "home." He's the guy who lived in an IKEA and more recently lived on an AirTran airplane for 30 days. Mark set a world record by taking 135 schedule...
Today I want to go back to Italy and share some more pics from our vacation. The focus is two restaurants that were really good and also had awesome decor in and around them. The first one is in Si...
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