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At Home with … Jared Geller
Who: Jared Geller, Producer at hitRECord Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1 Bedroom Railroad Apartment WC: How long have you lived in the space? JG: Pretty sure it's been ten years. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? JG: The floors had seen better days so I white-washed them. Also, I painted the walls grey. Other than that, the physical space is pretty much the same. WC: Where do you spend most of your time at home? JG: Most of the time I'm sitting on [...]
At Home With … Kim Mesches
Who: Kim Mesches, Fashion Designer and Creative Director of KM Collective Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Townhouse with workspace WC: How long have you lived in the space? KM: I've been here for about six months. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? KM: The place was pretty much furnished, blank walls, some artwork. The mood board wall was blank and the studio area was empty. WC: Where do you spend most of your time at home? KM: If I'm not [...]
At Home With … The Mother’s Worry
Who: Victoria Stevens, Photographer, Zackery Michael, Photographer, Ian Shea, Sound Engineer/Producer Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 5-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? MW: Zack has been here for almost 5 years. I (Victoria) moved in almost 4 years ago. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? MW: Debauchery station. WC: Where do you guys spend most of your time at home? MW: On the roof in the tiki bar/baby pool, watching someone [...]
At Home With … Judith Henry
Who: Judith Henry, Artist Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Townhouse with Artist Studio WC: How long have you lived in the space? JH: In 2006, I sold my loft in Soho where I had lived for over 30 years and bought this apartment, sight unseen. Since the building wasn't finished, I only saw some construction, a floorplan and the model suite. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? JH: It looked pretty much like all the other new construction apartments [...]
At Home With … Suzanne Rae
Who: Suzanne Rae, Fashion Designer Where: Bushwick, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? SR: 5.5 years WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? SR: The space is basically a white box. For the first year there was very little furniture and no work area. It was just a very clean empty loft, and it seemed so large to me at the time. Then I started my line, and slowly it began to fill up and seemingly shrink in size. WC: So you did [...]
At Home With … The Haskells
Who: Ryan Metke, Painter, Matthew D'Elia, Director of operations at the Crowe Company, Lee Trice, Art Director Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 3-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? Three and a half years WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? H: Amazing! I knew I had to have it. There were a lot of white walls that I had to do something about. WC: So you did all this work yourself? H: Not one piece of furniture was paid for. Everything [...]
At Home With … The Dobbins
Who: Trish Andersen, Adriana Rizzolo, Marcel Dagenais, Maureen Walsh and Dracula Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 4-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? Almost 2 years. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? Empty. It was 1200 square feet of possibilities. WC: So you did all this work yourself? We did everything except the bathroom and the kitchen, but it's always a work in progress. WC: Do you have any future plans you're working on for the [...]
Grounded
Photography by Unusually Fine Words by Ryan Michael Commins The girls at Domestic Construction have never been ones to rest on their heels. With the passing days come new inspirations, new projects and an ever-growing mountain of fabrics and potential design materials. Their latest creation is Grounded, their fresh take on interior/exterior mats. In Grounded, the girls have downsized their experiences in large-scale installations for your apartment’s sake. The process starts with [...]
At Home With … Elizabeth
Who: Elizabeth Perrin, Photographer Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: Parlor Floor of an 1890's Brownstone. WC: How long have you lived in the space? EP: It will be two years March 2011. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? EP: It was very bizarre. The man who lived here previously was a surgeon and one of two brother's who lived in the old family home. He died and it was left more or less untouched for five years. I had to go through all of his things and give the [...]
At Home With … Tiffany
Who: Tiffany Porter, Owner of Old Hollywood Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Railroad Apartment WC: How long have you lived in the space? Tiffany Porter: Right at a year. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? TP: Pretty scrappy. My landlord loves to just haphazardly throw linoleum down so the floors were caked with layers of linoleum I had to rip up and the walls were all a light yellow/orange, or white. WC: So you did all this work yourself? TP: I did. It [...]
Suki Cheema
Suki Cheema Home is a collection for sleeping and living – including hand crafted pillows, quilts, throws, napkins and tablecloths. A love affair between art, travel and textiles, the range is inspired by Cheema’s travels through India. Having taken hundreds of photos and translating them to prints, Suki caught the attention of Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren – all of whom enlisted his talents for color textiles print making. After meeting Diane von Furstenberg in 2002, Suki [...]
At Home With … The Objectionists
Who: Jim Dreitlein, Architect, Justin Smith, Architect, Serban Ionescu, Architect, Narek Gevorgian, Illustrator and Eric Juron, Another architect Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 5-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? Objectionists: We've been here since August first, but we didn't sleep inside the structure until it was complete, which was in December of 2009. It felt like a strange ritual to sleep outside of it, surrounding it... WC: What did it look like when [...]
Smoke
Photography by Maarten van Houten Dutch designer Maarten Baas was born in Arnsberg, Germany but spent most of his childhood in The Netherlands. After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002 Baas developed two concepts. One of them was the Smoke series, for which Baas charred furniture and treated the torched skeletons with a coating, turning them into usable pieces of furniture again. Each piece is literally burned, after which they are preserved in a clear epoxy [...]
DIY: Rebuild-a-Chair
Words and Photography by Sunny Beermann Tools: 1 free chair, found on the sidewalk of Avenue B 1yd. of free scrap fabric, from my 'scrap fabric' pile 1 borrowed staple gun w/staples 1 borrowed screw driver 1 borrowed needle nose pliers 1 sewing needle + thread + pencil As someone who generally has an eye out for exciting finds of furniture that just need a little love and work... I came across a rather simple chair while also in need of a clever gift. It was a gift of thanks [...]
At Home With … Mike
Who: Mike Mabes, Photographer Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1 Bedroom Apartment Photography by Jamie Beck
Sprout Home
Words by Sandra Larriva Henaine Several decibels away from the cacophonous Bedford Avenue scene, but only a short walk from the L Train stop is Sprout Home, arguably the neighborhood's greenest shop. Co-owned by Brooklyn resident Tassy Zimmerman and her partner Tara Heibel, who runs their Chicago store, this indoor and outdoor plant heaven in Williamsburg has everything an urban gardener could ever hope for, from recycled glass terrariums, to aphid-eating lady bugs, to city gardening books, [...]
At Home With … Jamie and Kevin
Who: Jamie Beck, Photographer and Kevin Burg, Web Designer Where: Upper West Side, NYC What: 1-bedroom brownstone apartment
Domestic Construction
Words by Marcel Dagenais I'm sitting on a front porch in Savannah, Georgia with Trish Andersen and Maureen Walsh of Domestic Construction, a design company that was started with a simple idea and has evolved into something completely refreshing to the way people approach their home environment. The air is thick and steamy on this summer night; the girls have let me tag along with them on their trip down south to take care of some business for an upcoming project. The bugs are buzzing and [...]
Living Faith
Photography by Charlotte Davis An exploration of the ways in which spirituality manifests itself in one's personal environment. Art Direction and Prop Styling by Jessica Soga and Kylie Fife
At Home With … Jeff
Who: Jeff Poulin, Artist Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 2-bedroom apartment Photography by Charlotte Davis