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Design Borough: Two Fairs in Brooklyn
Elodie Blanchard ’s installation at WantedDesign Brooklyn in Industry City. What used to be a New York “design week” has evolved into NYCxDESIGN , a full, two-week stretch of design exhib...
Wanted Design: How Two French New Yorkers Gave the City What It Really Wanted
Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat, founders of the WantedDesign fair, at Industry City. Five years ago, a rumor spread through the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Javits...
An Interview with Designer/Maker Evan Z. Crane
AH: Where in Brooklyn did you grow up? EC: I grew up on 13th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenue. It is the borderline between Park Slope and Gowanus. It has all the colorful aspects of a neighborh...
Life Inside: A Passive House in Carroll Gardens
Laura Mackall and Robert Manley did not set out to build a passive house when they embarked upon the renovation of their 1860s townhouse in Carroll Gardens. The building required a near gut renov...
A Sunny Design-Build Comes to Crown Heights
Palmer Thompson-Moss and Dane Risch purchased what appeared to be a tear-down on Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights in 2013 and transformed it into King Tai, a sun-filled neighbor...
Skillful Design on a Doable Budget: Park Slope
When interior designer Nora Calderwood and architect Adam Darter bought their 650-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Park Slope, they knew they would need to renovate in a major way but on a sc...
A Theatre Fit for Kings
The historic Kings Theatre in Flatbush opened its doors on February 3 to a new generation of audiences. The lead act—the incomparable Diana Ross—was not the night’s only focus of attention;...
Hiroko Takeda: Weaving the New in with the Old
Hiroko Takeda’s textile designs stretch the boundaries of what a textile is and what design is, simultaneously. As a weaver, designer, artist, and maker creating in her downtown Brooklyn studio...
Living Design: Boerum House & Home
With its expansive front room and triple-height glass-paned façade, Boerum House & Home on Atlantic Avenue offers a boutique retail experience that is impossible to find in New York. The buildi...
Intersecting Industrial with Intimate: Rosanne Pugliese’s Fine Jewelry Shop
Rarely does a shop on the garden level of a Brooklyn brownstone shine, but the interior of Rosanne Pugliese’s jewelry store delivers a surprising exception. Although the retail space is all of ...
Brooklyn Bridge Park: One Pier at a Time
Many New Yorkers have discovered Brooklyn Bridge Park. Many others have yet to explore the ever-growing park creations that unfold there almost every month. On May 22, Brooklyn Bridge Park celebr...
Book Signing
This Saturday, Michel Arnaud will be signing copies of Design Brooklyn from 3 to 5 pm at TK Home and Garden at 411 Warren Street in Hudson, New York. Hope to see you there. http://www.tkhomea...
Focus on Brooklyn Designers: What’s New at ICFF 2014
THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR (ICFF)—one of the centerpiece events of New York City’s design week— opens to the public on Tuesday, May 20th at Jacob K. Javits Center in Manh...
WantedDesign at Industry City, Sunset Park
Designer and artist Sebastian Errazuriz unveiled his latest work: a giant golden calf piñata, standing tall in the courtyard of Bldg 2. On May 8, NYCxDesign celebrated the opening of a new d...
Mary Wallis at UrbanGlass: Sculpting in Neon
The Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Fort Greene has put forth a beautifully concise exhibit focused on the role glass plays in lighting. “Illuminate: Design in Light” features nine Ne...
Courtside in Gowanus: Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club
A little piece of coastal Florida now resides on Union Street in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ashley Albert and Jonathan Schnapp opened the doors of their self-envisioned Royal Palms Shu...
WALKING BUSHWICK
One of the pleasures of being a photographer is being able to take time to walk the city’s streets and witness the ever-changing scene. This is especially true in Bushwick where there are miles...
“In Pursuit of Freedom”: Groundbreaking Exhibition Design at the Brooklyn Historical Society
In January, the Brooklyn Historical Society inaugurated its first-floor Shellens Gallery with the long-term exhibition “Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom,” which explores the histo...
Urban Beauty and Usability: The LeFrak Center, Prospect Park
In a section of Prospect Park called Lakeside—until recently the somewhat neglected site of the Wollman Rink—a crisply beautiful new building has taken its place within the landscape. Designe...
Inside the Mind of an Interior Designer: An Interview with Jessica Warren
AH: HOW LONG HAVE YOU PRACTICED AS AN INTERIOR DESIGNER? HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INVOLVED IN IT? JW: I started my business, JP Warren Interiors, in the fall of 2011 when I was offered the opportu...