Among the abiding lessons of Marcel Proust is this one: A longing for our childhood home never leaves us. Wherever we live, we carry inside us a vision of the place in which we were, if not in every case happiest, then first conscious of the world beyond ourselves. For […]
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Midcentury modern, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house on Racine tour
Jen Hinkle describes her Racine home in a variety of ways. She calls it midcentury modern, a home on three levels, and one that’s done in a post and beam construction. She also calls it “the perfect Nerf house,” because of its open concept design. “Our 12-year-old son, and our daughter […]
Tour Designer Travis London’s Fabulous Miami Home
The Big Apple was starting to bring celebrity chef turned interior designer Travis London down. “I get so seasonally depressed in New York,” he says. “I knew I wanted to be in Miami.” The Florida hot spot’s neon-tinted exuberance was much more on London’s wavelength, so he decamped to the […]
Tour a Sky-High New York City Apartment That’s Modern Yet Cozy
“This will not be like any typical New York City project,” interior designer Noha Hassan thought to herself when she first arrived at her clients’ 10,000-square-foot, five-bedroom, eight-bathroom duplex on the 63rd and 64th floor of a very high-rise building in the Financial District. “It’s truly a house in the […]