The Apartment Project: The Kitchen Goes Green
Making over a disappointing kitchen takes $50 of paint and a little patience. Magic is, truly, possible.
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Journal
Cheap Old Houses in the Hudson Valley
What do you do when the power goes out an hour before a big event with the creators of Cheap Old Houses and the Brownstone Boys? You light candles, lean into the atmosphere, and have an awesome con...
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The Apartment Project: Color Theory
It's probably pretty unsurprising that we struggle to use technology to envision a space. We spend most of our days steeped in the old and, while I'm typing this on a computer, we spend more time w...
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The Apartment Project: the Beginnings and Befores
The Quittner Apartment project is a makeover of a Germantown apartment, featuring the Quittner products, designs, and look. Once completed, it will be available for design meetings and tours by app...
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A Stitch from Time Past: On Collecting Antique Sewing Boxes
For the March/April 2024 issue of the Magazine Antiques, we wrote about the sewing boxes as symbol, object, and tool through the lens of female architect Theodate Pope Riddle (1867-1946) and her ...
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Constructing Cozy in Connecticut by Nyla Liburd
With the room transformed, slipping into bed feels a bit cozier and relaxing feels a bit more natural. There’s a reason for this. The Danish term hygge refers to the feeling of being content in bei...
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On Chairs, and Happiness as a Byproduct
In order to keep a traditional chair together, you often have to risk it ripping itself apart. The very thing that makes it capable of lasting for centuries is the same thing that could — if not co...
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The French Influence: Cabinetmaker Léon Marcotte in 19th C. New York City
Léon Marcotte, a now-mostly-forgotten Frenchman, once shaped the tastes and adorned the homes of the richest of the rich in New York. His firm even took on a room in the White House.
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