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Wendy Goodman

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Wendy Goodman is Curbed and New York Magazine’s design editor. She began as the magazine’s fashion editor in 1984 and began writing the “Design Hunting” column in 2007. She is the author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt and May I Come In? and co-authored Tony Duquette with Hutton Wilkinson.

  1. great rooms
    A Modernist Inherits an Old Sag Harbor HouseMaximilian Eicke mixes his designs with his parents’ antiques.
  2. great rooms
    Making an 1847 Greenwich Village Brownstone New Again: Before and After PhotosHistoric houses can feel dark. This renovation let in the light.
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    The Maker Couple Whose First Apartment Together Launched a Small BusinessJust out of NYU, David Zhang and Sarah Kim turned their Bushwick rental into a home-furnishings lab.
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    The Stylish Tailor Shops of Christopher StreetAngel Ramos, Jake Mueser, and Frederick Castleberry are bespoke tailors and friends.
  5. great rooms
    At Home in an Old Hotel in NomadAfter 15 years, Julie Chartoff and Irene Glezos finally really renovated their apartment inside the historic Gilsey House.
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    Introducing Wyldlands: Surrealist Bunkers to Survive the ApocalypseDoug Meyer’s show imagines a fantastical escape from future pandemics and other threats.
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    A Joyfully Painted Gowanus Walk-Up, Inspired by Bert Stern and a Trip to RomeTara McCauley moved into her own place — no roommates! — and set herself free.
  8. the real estate
    You Can Finally Live Like a WhitneyA villa built as an art studio for the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, is for sale.
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    One Foot in New York for Two L.A. ‘Art Hoarders’Joe Lucas and David Heikka’s cozy West Village rental.
  10. the covid memorial project
    David Rockwell Wants Us to Never Forget Their FacesPart 10 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
  11. the covid memorial project
    Deborah Berke Partners Proposes A Contemplative Urban StreamPart 8 of 15 proposals to help us remember the pandemic’s toll.
  12. great rooms
    How This 1856 Chelsea Parlor-Floor Apartment Got Its Glamour BackArchitects Daniel Rauchwerger and Noam Dvir invented a new history for their fixer-upper.
  13. remembrance
    Remembering Richard David Story, the Magazine Editor Who Ate the World WholeHe told me, “I want you to find the person who grows the tiniest, perfect roses that nobody knows about.”
  14. great rooms
    How Did They Make Alia Shawkat’s Disturbing All-Felt Apartment on Search Party?Alia Shawkat’s character was kept captive here.
  15. great rooms
    Artist Emily Mason’s 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left ItInside the sunny Flatiron District loft where the late artist painted for 40 years.
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    Two Musicians Renovated Their Home to Fit a Baby Grand PianoSinger Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist Jarrett Cherner transformed their Fort Greene three-bedroom into two to accommodate his baby grand piano.
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    An Upper East Side Apartment Full of Rock-and-Roll MemoriesMusic journalist Lisa Robinson has lived in this rental, where she’s kept an archive of her interview tapes, for 45 years.
  18. design hunting
    Meet Jim McDowell and His Face JugsThe ceramicist keeps his ancestors’ traditions alive from his home studio in North Carolina.
  19. great rooms
    Let’s Bring the Design Showroom Home and Live in ItArchitects Olivier Garce and Clio Dimofski turned their West Village apartment into a cozy, pandemic-friendly stage for new design.
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    A Vibrant Reimagining of a Mid-’60s Williamsburg High-Rise Co-opCassandra Bromfield inherited the apartment from her mother and has made it her own.
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    A Box Truck That Carries Our Dreams of HomeSee Swoon’s fantastical memory box on wheels, “The House Our Families Built.”
  22. design hunting
    Artist Daniel Arsham Invites You to His ‘Signature Decay’A look at his new gallery show of old-looking things.
  23. great rooms
    An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red WallTaylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.
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    A Winterized Hamptons Carriage House Where the Art World Hung Out in the 1960sJulia Gruen grew up surrounded by artists and writers in her parents’ summer home, which she has kept pretty much as it was.
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    A 1915 Crown Heights House That’s Only On Its Third OwnersAfter living all over the world, Thomas Gensemer and Gabe Brotman settled down in a Brooklyn place with “a bit of an English feel to it.”
  26. great rooms
    Visit Pierre Cardin’s South of France ‘Bubble Palace’A 1970s VIP space odyssey on the Mediterranean.
  27. a long talk
    Fran Lebowitz vs. the WorldA long talk (on a landline) with the star of Martin Scorsese’s cranky, necessary love letter to New York, Pretend It’s a City.
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    A Brooklyn Family’s Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort ZoneAda Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.
  29. great rooms
    Meet the Makers at Ostudio, Bed-Stuy’s Beehive of CreativityFernando Aciar turned a parking garage into a DIY community.
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    An 1880 Artist’s Cottage in the Rockaways That Feels Like a ShipPatrick Clark has spent the last 22 years bringing the house back to life, preserving it for its next century.
  31. reasons to love new york
    Farewell to My Go-toRuth Reichl, Rumaan Alam, Jiayang Fan, and more on losing the place where they were a regular.
  32. great rooms
    A Maximalist Bedroom With a Chakra-Enhancing HeadboardBailey Li designs by her own rules.
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    A Lounge in the Sky in the West VillageHow architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home — with enough space for 30 Dutch soldiers.
  34. design hunting
    Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His FurnitureThe designer makes his mark by letting you make yours.
  35. dance
    Ballet Dancers Get Their Nutcracker Fix UpstateBalletCollective to put on an immersive performance in a mansion.
  36. great rooms
    Room Enough to Be HomebodiesHow Designer Courtney Sloane and artist Cheryl R. Riley perfected the live/work scenario in Jersey City’s post-industrial Powerhouse Arts District.
  37. great rooms
    Renovating a 1968 Split-Level in Upstate New York“I don’t think we realized how much work we were stepping into.”
  38. in memoriam
    There Will Never Be Another David Easton“He was the most outrageous person I have ever met, and always had me on the floor in hysterics,” says Bunny Williams.
  39. great rooms
    Andrew LaMar Hopkins Paints Creole History From His 1815 Home in Savannah“My main focus is the free people of color because their voice has been forgotten.”
  40. couch gallery crawl
    See This Art Basel Online Show Looking at the ‘Dream House’While you’re stuck inside your maybe-not-so-dreamy home.
  41. great rooms
    This Floating Tiny House in East Hampton Is Inspired by a Duck BlindArtist Scott Bluedorn made it out of found materials: local kelp, a kid’s jungle gym.
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    Office Life, Inside and OutPaper co-founder Kim Hastreiter renovated a studio in her building to be her new office. But for now, meet her in Washington Square Park.
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    A Floating Home-Away-From-HomeLyndsay Caleo Karol and Fitzhugh Karol’s getaway boat, Lucy, sleeps eight and is moored at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
  44. great rooms
    A Studio Visit With Nest Founder Turned Painter Joseph HoltzmanHe paints on marble, and the sofa is from 1918.
  45. design hunting
    When Nest Was What’s NextLooking back at the fearlessly eccentric magazine that Condé Nast was too afraid to buy.
  46. great rooms
    May I Come In?A library of some of Wendy Goodman’s favorite places.
  47. great rooms
    Tour a Seaside Castle in the RockawaysCecilia Dean and David Selig’s beach retreat is more than a weekend surf lodge; it’s also a space for the burgeoning local arts community.
  48. space of the week
    A Ranch House Turned Modern OasisDesigner Matthew Patrick Smyth’s new book on interiors includes images of a 1976 prefab deck house, which he transformed for himself and his husband.
  49. space of the week
    Home Is Where This Designer’s Art IsEdward Wilkerson lives among a sophisticated palette of black and white, photos and art, and pieces he’s collected while traveling the world.
  50. space of the week
    Transforming a 1980s Time CapsuleInterior designer Leyden Lewis turned a dated high-rise apartment in midtown into a livable modern gallery.
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