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Shopper's Diary: Arxe in Barcelona
Founded by Gloria Margenat in Barcelona in 2008, Arxe is a design studio focused on creating furniture and one-of-a-kind textiles for the home out of salvaged industrial materials. The principals...
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Design Sleuth: Ikea Vanity Installed by Nook Architects
Earlier this week we featured a project on Twin House by Barcelona-based Nook Architects. We couldn't help but notice (and admire) the Ikea Godmorgon vanity installed in the bathrooms (I used that same...
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Mediterranean Meets Pacific Northwest: Bar Sajor in Seattle
I've been tracking James Beard-award winning chef Matt Dillon for a while now (he's the force behind Sitka and Spruce and the Corson Building), so I headed straight to his latest venture when I landed...
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Best of Barcelona: Santa & Cole Showroom
Barcelona-based Santa & Cole was founded in 1985 by Javier Nieto Santa, Gabriel Ordeig Cole, and Nina Masó, a trio of design professionals with a curatorial mission. "Our purpose is not to...
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Current Obsessions: Last Gasp of Summer
We're not ready to give up on summer yet. We're still cooking outdoors and sneaking in a some late night swimming while the weather still allows. To that end, we'll be featuring the Summer Kitchen next...
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A Summery New England Kitchen, by Way of LA
Shortly after Abby Weintraub and Matt Manfredi bought their 1941 Hancock Park house, they watched it gobble up their savings: new roof, furnace, pipes, wiring, and air conditioning. Faced with a...
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Can We Now Call Tiles Sexy?
'Postcards from Myself' is a new collection of tiles designed by South African artist Ruan Hoffmann for Clé, the Sausalito-based tile company. The internationally celebrated Johannesburg artist, using...
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The Ultimate Kitchen Trousseau
Imagine a trunk full of premium kitchen essentials compiled to represent the best kitchen tools a cook could ever desire. This is exactly what Isabelle Mathez and Frederic Winkler set out to do, after...
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Hidden Power in the Kitchen
What you don't see can be as important as what you do see. Case in point: electrical outlets. This is especially true in kitchens, where space is tight and power needs are great. Reduce visual clutter...
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Design Sleuth: Mix and Match Lighting from the Color Cord Company
Cofounded by Colorado-based Beau Wynja and Meggan Fadden Wynja, the Color Cord Company offers offers pendant light cords in dozens of colors as well as sockets (including brass and porcelain), pendant...
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Steal This Look: A Finnish Cottage Kitchen and Dining Room
Since we first posted on designers Saana and Olli (of Sanna ja Olli), we've been curious about their cottage and working studio in Padasjoki, Finland. As it turns out, thanks to a sneak peak into...
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The Ultimate Dishwasher?
Years ago, Bosch set a new standard for American dishwashers. Slowly but surely, other manufacturers caught on and caught up, offering consumers several options in the high-end dish cleaning...
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Kitchen Art Installation: Display-Worthy Wooden Spoons
When I first fell for Joshua Vogel's hand-carved spoons, a friend said, "But you can't actually use them." I dismissed this with a breezy, "Of course I can." Since then, I've bought three from the...
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Great Danes: Aamans Copenhagen Arrives in NYC
Scandinavians in New York have their own underground circuit of home-away-from-home hangouts. There's Scandinavia House, a multi-story cultural center with a birch tree-decorated modernist cafeteria...
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Ironman: Artisan-Made Skillets from Upstate New York
A Remodelista reader clued us in to Borough Furnace, a Syracuse, NY-based blacksmith that makes hand-forged cast iron skillets. Founded in 2011 by cousins John Truex and Jason Connelly, the company...
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Considered Design Awards Entries: Now Live in Our Image Gallery
You've chosen the winners in our first annual Remodelista Considered Design Awards—now, come see all 500 entries in our newly created Considered Design Awards Gallery. You can sort by room (see all...
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10 Easy Pieces: Electric Kettles
For those who prefer a rapid boil for tea and pour-over coffee, we've combed through all the electric tea kettles on the market to find the 10 best (and most attractive). Above: Designed with...
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Herbs Gone WIld: A French Alchemist at Market
Our friend Mimi Giboin just got back from a trip to France (she was visiting her parents, who live in the town of Royan on the southwest coast). Lucky for us; she pulled out her camera and took some...
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An Herb-Drying Rack with Medieval Appeal
Think of all the households with McCormick spices sitting on the shelves. That's not you; you're going to grow your own herbs and dry them for future use. How? With a wrought-iron herb dryer (similar...
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6 Favorites: Display-Worthy French Rolling Pins
In an episode of The French Chef, Julia Child famously called American rolling pins "toys" and tossed one to the back of the set. She proceeded to introduce her audience to real French rolling pins....
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