How To Make Inexpensive DIY Vertical Garden Room Divider From IKEA Plant Stands

October 5, 2012

Like many urban apartments, my daughter’s first apartment in New York City is small on space. It’s a budget “converted” one bedroom–which means there is a temporary sheet rock wall to carve another bedroom out of part of the original … Read More...

Wings of Steel Chair Takes Flight

October 3, 2012

I love Brooklyn designer, Laurie Beckerman’s new Wings of Steel chair. Nominated for a Best of Year award from Interior Design magazine and exhibited at ICFF, it’s fabricated from laser cut steel and powder coated in a variety of colors … Read More...

London Design Festival: 100% Design on My Mind

October 2, 2012


A remembrance of things past: Magis red Proust Armchair sits indoors or out. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens.

I hope you’ve been following along as I report on my recent travels to Paris and London in search of cool Read More...

Iconic Eames Lounge Chair Inspires Mal Outdoor Chair

October 1, 2012

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ray Eames, half of the iconic husband and wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames, whose vast collection of works includes the world-renowned Eames lounge chair, below, now in … Read More...

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