Hunt & Gather

5 Ways to Maximize Your Outdoor Space

Marquette Clay’s Oklahoma City home is tiny, but what he did to the garden is huge. With a keen eye for design and color, this landscape contractor proves that sometimes less is much more. read article

18 Budget-Friendly Makeovers

Make over your rooms with these affordable and fresh ideas. read article

Redesign Your Hydrangeas

Try this simple trick to turn your hydrangeas pink, blue, or both read article

Shortcuts to Spring Bouquets

A stunning arrangement of fresh flowers is just a few steps away. Here are our expert tricks. read article

Tomatoes: Plant By Color

Grow an assortment of colorful tomatoes this season in your garden. read article

10 Ways With Silver

Take hints from top designers and create stunning displays throughout the home read article

How To Spot a Fake

An antique always has a story to tell. Let’s just be sure it’s true. If your treasure hunts are serious investments, Senior Editor Julie Cole Miller reveals a few tips for making sure that you get what you pay for read article

Our Top 10 Kitchens

There are so many choices when it comes to designing your perfect kitchen. Here are 10 of our favorite kitchens with tips on what makes each of them work read article

Chat with Joe Minton

This designer gives each house an identity, always with a touch of elegance read article

Tour the Riverhills Showhouse

The Southern Accents Showhouse at Riverhills brings a taste of the English countryside to Texas. read article

Lifewall: Pollution-eating vertical gardens

Spanish company Ceracasa recently debuted a new spin on the vertical garden: Lifewall, a tile-based system designed to absorb pollution and convert it to fertilizer that feeds drip-irrigated plants. The square-meter-sized tiles can be arranged on a building's facade in any pattern, and come in whi… read article

Discovering Color in Historic Metalwork

We are working on the decoration for the new headquarters building for Historic Hudson Valley, an organization overseeing the preservation of some of the most important historic monuments of American design. Peter Pennoyer Architects are the architects. In the course of working on the decor… read article

A Monday morning reflection

I stumbled upon this image this past weekend, and was confused, then intrigued, then depressed, then humbled by it. Artist/designer Ian Collins runs a website called The Big Caption, in which he superimposes captions over photographs and posts them daily. He recently posted this aerial image of oi… read article

Tom Dixon

British designer Tom Dixon does not disappoint—at least I'm never disappointed. I was genuinely thrilled with his multiple booths this year at ICFF. The arrangement of furniture was simple graphic and cohesive. He adds a fun element to his installations by stacking… read article

JSPR

Everyone is exhausted after ICFF—the show, the parties, the cocktails, the chatting...and all this crammed into half a week. I know, I know, it's nothing compared to Milan, but since I don't get to go to Milan this is the closest design excitement that I get and it's in New York, my b… read article

Registration Extended for AIA|LA 8th Annual Restaurant Design Awards

D.B. Kim Appointed Principal at Daroff Design + DDI Architects

Roger Thomas debuts line for Maya Romanoff

Helmut Lang Exhibits Sculpture in New York

Outside Looking In: Astrid Anderson

At home in modernism: The John C. Waddell collection of American design

The art of today must be created today," the designer and author Paul T. Frankl wrote in 1928. "It must express the life about us. It must reflect the main characteristics and earmarks of our own complex civilization."1 Over the past four decades, collector John C. Waddell has explored the idea behind Frankl's words.   read article

The Kaufman Collection: The pursuit of excellence and a gift to the nation

In my catalogue of friends, mentors, scholars, and collectors, Linda Ha. and the late George M. Kaufman fill all the roles... read article

Genius is always above its age

A traveling retrospective of George Bellows offers a fresh perspective on an artist whose work transcended time, place, and the accomplishments of his contemporaries. read article

Sewn not hooked

About the same time I bought Mercy Huntting's rug at auction in 2007 (facing page, top), I was given a full run of The Magazine ANTIQUES. Before shelving them for reference I paged through every issue, and to my surprise, found the rug illustrated in May 1951, in Florence Peto's article "Some Early American Crewelwork"; she stated that the rug had been made by Mercy Huntting, who attended Mrs. Lyman Beecher's School in East Hampton, New York. As most rugs are relatively anonymous, this was a spec¬tacular rediscovery and started me on the quest to understand sewn rugs in their appropriate context and to dispel longstanding myths that they were essentially folk art or the products of home craft like hooked rugs, with which they are often confused. read article

Upscale Downsized

Downsizing-a midlife rite of passage common to those whose offspring have grown up and moved out-is not a contingency that his friends would have ever dreamed possible of the abundance-loving Paul F. Walter, the New York connoisseur renowned for the scale and quality of his pathbreaking collections, which have run the gamut from Indian miniature paintings and early photography to nineteenth-century British decorative arts and African tribal pottery. Walter is one of those exceptional aesthetic bellwethers who has had far-reaching effects not only on the formation of contemporary taste, but also on the direction of art markets.     read article