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Venice Beach: Surf and Sleep in Style at Casa Shelter Half
If you've ever eyed the houses on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, in Venice, California, and fancied moving in, now is your chance. The just-finished Casa Shelter Half, a two-bedroom bungalow, stands ready to...
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Trending on Gardenista: Style on a Budget
Michelle and her team offer their favorite low-budget tips and tricks for kitting out your outdoor space, including 10 garden hacks that feature concrete blocks, recycled bedsprings as modernist garden...
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21 Tips: How to Save Water at Home, One Drop at a Time
I'm afraid that of late I've become a crushing bore on the topic of water (just ask my family). I’m on a mission to reduce consumption, at least in my own household. We recently downsized to a smaller...
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Current Obsessions: In the Studio
Here's a look at what's on our radar this week. Above: Ceramic artist Brit McDaniel of Paper & Clay shows photographer Alice Gao around her Memphis, Tennessee, studio. Photograph by Alice Gao....
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Architect Is In: A Skylight Like a Moon in Tribeca
How to draw natural light into the center of an apartment? Long, narrow spaces with limited windows pose a perennial problem for New York’s urban dwellers. When Melissa Baker and Jon Handley, founding...
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Table of Contents: Kitchens Around the World
Our kitchens, like our favorite meals, tend to be a mix of subtle influences borrowed from places near and far. This week, we're focusing on a different country or region each day (first up,...
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10 Stellar Scandinavian Kitchens
Lagom, a Swedish term meaning "just the right amount, not too much or too little," is testimony to the Scandinavian desire to keep things simple, moderate, and effortless. We've rounded up 10 of our...
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Great Danes: The Copenhagen in NYC
Scandinavians in New York City have their own underground circuit of home-away-from-home hangouts. There's Scandinavia House, a multistory cultural center with a birch-tree-decorated modernist...
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11 Scandi Kitchen Essentials, High to Low
Outfit your kitchen like a Scandi with well-made, useful, low-key essentials. Here are 11 that we swear by. Above: Designed by Bent Georg Jensen, the cotton and flax Abild Tea Towel is a Danish icon;...
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DIY: Easy Herb Drying Rack for the Kitchen
We like to dry our own culinary herbs and have long admired a particular herb drying rack made using S hooks and a halo of steel. So when we noticed a DIY version with a similar appeal, we thought we'd...
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Steal This Look: A Retro English Kitchen in Hampshire, England
Has kitchen company Plain English got a lock on the ultimate British kitchen design? It certainly seems that way. Here in the US, our friends are constantly asking, "How do I get the Plain English...
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Greatest Hits: 12 Favorite Kitchens in the UK
Over the years we've posted hundreds of admirable English kitchens and learned a lot about kitchen design in the process. Here's a roundup of 12 of our favorites—kitchens that have influenced the way...
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Expert Advice: Sebastian Conran's 11 Tips for Designing a Small Kitchen
The other day I found myself in a Twitter conversation with UK industrial designer Sebastian Conran (yes, of that Conran family; he's the son of Sir Terence Conran and older brother of fashion designer...
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5 Favorites: British Boutique Paint Companies
Slightly moody and never obvious, the best paint colors in the UK look as if they were created against the soft gray light of the British Isles. In addition to longtime favorite Farrow & Ball, here...
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16 Favorite Accessories from the English Kitchen
The classic English kitchen manages to be warm and cozy—a perfect antidote to the variable weather—and also resolutely practical. From one hour to the next, whatever it's doing outside, there's always...
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Object Lessons: The Great British Range Cooker
Think of a classic British kitchen and an Aga range cooker is likely part of that picture. The cast-iron construction, with its shiny enamel surface and Dig-for-Victory utilitarian appeal, is a sign of...
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10 Easy Pieces: Salt and Pepper Grinders from Around the World
Pepper mills first appeared in European kitchens in the 14th century. Today the concept of pepper grinding remains much the same, but the look of the mill and the inner workings have evolved. Here are...
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France's Oldest—and Most Esteemed—Hardware Store
Paris has E. Dehillerin, France's oldest kitchenware store, established in 1820. Its longstanding competition in Marseille? Maison Empereur, a family-run institution established in 1827 by François...
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Greatest Hits: 10 Fantastique French Kitchens
The French cook with effortless panache, and, by extension, their kitchens have an appealing nonchalance. Here’s a roundup of 10 of our favorites. Above: French architect Joseph Dirand's own kitchen in...
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12 Made-in-France Kitchen Essentials for Francophiles Everywhere
French kitchens are filled with ideas worth stealing. Equip your own as the French would with a batterie de cuisine, all the essentials from the right cookware to vinegar fermentation pots and string...
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