Tablescape designed by Andrea Stark for Ashley Stark Home. Eric Striffler While most fundraisers, especially in the Hamptons are beautifully designed, it’s rare to have an event as full of design inspiration as the Holiday House Hamptons Coming Together Tabletop Event, which took place on July 20, 2022 at Topping […]
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum — and this 12-year-old boy’s dog house
Written by Zoe Sottile, CNN Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York — and he also designed a dog house for a 12-year-old boy who sent him a letter. Jim Berger grew up in a […]
From ‘frat house’ to family home: A major remodel in Bethesda
Placeholder while article actions load When a rainbow-painted gladiator statue is the housewarming gift from a builder to the homeowners, you know there must be a great story behind it. “My grandmother’s cousin sculpted this concrete gladiator statue that had a lamp on top and eventually it ended up in […]
East Louisville home boasts “Little House on the Prairie” vibe
Carol Shutt describes her east Louisville home as a diamond in the rough. “We feel so fortunate to have found it,” she told The Courier Journal. She and her husband, David — who are now officially empty nesters — rightsized from having 10 people in a seven-bedroom house to just […]
What Is a Passive House? Principles and Design
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Passive House (or Passivhaus) is a design and construction concept that defined by energy efficiency, comfort, and affordability. Worldwide, it is the strictest energy efficiency standard for buildings. Because heating and cooling come from passive sources such as the sun or internal sources like people and appliances, and not entirely […]
Modernist Fire Island house reimagined by Rawlins Design
Rawlins Design breathes new life into midcentury Fire Island House Rawlins Design respectfully remodels a midcentury gem on New York’s Fire Island, a 1969 house originally designed by architect Harry Bates Perched less than four miles off the south shore of New York’s Long Island, Fire Island Pines is a […]
Step Inside Derek Lam’s Minimalist Fire Island Beach House
Looking around fashion designer Derek Lam’s waterfront home, one doesn’t immediately think of sipping sake. But that was key to the inspiration he shared with architect and interior designer Neal Beckstedt when they began working on this project together. Of course, Derek Lam being Derek Lam—a womenswear star known for […]
This compact heritage house has relaxed scandi-modern style
In a compact home with no option to make additions, every inch of space has to earn its keep. This family home in a historic parkway in Minneapolis, Minnesota, dates back to 1925, with a symmetrical foursquare floor plan – a room in each corner of the property, with a […]
Ree Drummond and Her Sister Betsy Are Working on a House Project!
Ree Drummond My sister Betsy lives in Seattle. She didn’t get to travel home to Oklahoma for a year-plus during the early pandemic days, and by the time Alex’s wedding rolled around last year, she was ready for a nice, long visit! Long story short, that visit turned into more […]
As Schindler House turns 100, MAK Center honors its design
The history of Rudolph Schindler’s 1922 house is a quintessential Los Angeles story: a story of new ideas that are rapidly devised and rapidly dismissed, only to reemerge years later as pioneering and influential. Built on an empty lot at 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood, then a scrubby […]