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• Waking Up Inside an Image: A Surrealist Guesthouse, Restaurant, and Bookshop in Mexico City

  The most striking aspect of Pensión, the Mexico City guesthouse by Rafael Prieto and Bernardo Dominguez of Savvy Studio, is that it looks unlike any other design-forward hotel on your Instagram feed. It feels as though it were conceived entirely outside of the internet design…

• Current Obsessions: New and Noted

  A surrealist Pensión in Mexico City, a new Manhattan atelier, and a “rather chic” community garden are just a few of the fresh ideas that captured us this week. Have a look: Are you following @grainandknot? Everything this “object maker” creates is so good. “Love that all of…

• Quick Takes With: Lisa Przystup

  You may remember Lisa Przystup from our 2017 post on her rustic-meets-minimalist Catskills home (the one with that clever DIY brass backsplash) or our 2021 story on the updates made since then. Or perhaps you’ve heard of her because you read and loved her book on the chic homes…

• Room to Grow: Kai Avent-deLeon Turns a Mobile Home Into a Modern Sanctuary

  We’ve been following artist/designer/entrepreneur Kai Avent-deLeon’s moves since 2019. Back then, we photographed her one-bedroom railroad apartment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. A year later, we reconnected when she moved into a larger duplex in the same neighborhood, and we shot it…

• Remodelista Reconnaissance: Good-Looking Storage Jars in a Designer’s Pantry

  No surprise: We’re always in pursuit of good-looking jars for decanting bulk dry goods. So of course our interest was sparked by A Graphic Designer’s Redone Victorian, Where the Pantry Takes Center Stage: What does Martina Casonato, the homeowner and designer behind…

• 10 Easy Pieces: Freestanding Wood Stoves

  Not your grandmother’s wood stove: A new generation of designs offers high fuel efficiency, high combustion temperatures, and lower emissions. They’re powerful, cost effective, and environmentally responsible heaters for your home. Many of these new stoves combine the best of…

• In Praise of Wicker: 7 Handmade Baskets to Swoon Over

  Have you heard? Basketry is hot. It’s due to a new film, Wicker, in which a lonely fisherwoman (Olivia Coleman) commissions a local basketmaker to weave her a husband. Let’s just say her affair with her wicker suitor (played by Alexander Skarsgård) is bringing new, unexpectedly…

• Remodelista Reconnaissance: A Transparent Floor Lamp with “Softness and Structure”

  We’ve seen, and admired, a lot of transparent lights of late (see: A Ghostly Cloth Pendant Light, for example, highlighted in this very column). But let’s take a moment for this floor lamp version, spotted in our recent tour of Campbell House: A Restoration-First Renovation by…

• ‘Romanticism of the Ruin’: Leila El-Kayem and Sophie Mayer’s Art-Filled Devon Home and Studio

  Inspired by Margot’s post a while back on the stellar, nontraditional kitchens she spotted on the websites of European real estate firms, I found myself perusing the listings of my favorite U.K. agency, The Modern House, and there, I came across an especially dreamy offering: a…

• Quick Takes With: John Pawson

  “It’s all architecture”: This is John Pawson’s vision, whether he is designing a home or a stage set. His singular focus and lifelong commitment? “Rigorously simple” design. About his work, which ranges in scale and type: “Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house, a…

• Current Obsessions: Practical Magic

  Happy All Hallow’s Eve! On our calendar: hot cider with a celebrated artist, an exciting new book by a longtime contributor, a stunning exhibit at the most beautiful cemetery in NYC, and other eerily good autumn news. This just in: Altbau, a new bakery from the cofounder of…

• The Editors’ Cut: 11 Dark, Beguiling Finds for the Autumn Interior

  Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: Every room needs an element of black. It’s a stylist trick we’ve learned over the years, though we’ve come to believe that aubergine, espresso,…

• Against Cultural Flattening: Creative Retreats as the New Way to Travel

  This past March, The Wall Street Journal‘s “Craft Retreats Are the New Burnout Cure” caught our attention. It’s something we’ve noticed among friends, too: traveling to Sicily to finally take up basketry from a favorite weaver, making cheese and yogurt in the Basque mountains,…

• Kitchen of the Week: An Award-Winning Project with a Heart of Darkness

  Our love for light-filled, airy interiors is well-documented, but every once in a while, we encounter moody, sexy spaces that tempt us to the dark side—like this culinary lair from deVOL designed for a couple who live in Petersham, a small village on the Thames, not far from…

• 10 Easy Pieces: Ebonized Wood Stools

  Here, a selection of our 10 favorite black stools, of various heights, made of wood ebonized by each designer using different techniques. For more of our favorite counter, bar, office, and dining stools, see our posts: 10 Easy Pieces: Studio Stools 10 Easy Pieces: Counter Stools…

• The Witching Hour: 15 Times a Broom Doubled as Decor, from the Archives

  This is Halloween, Remodelista style. A humble household object has served as display-worthy decor in several of the homes we’ve featured over the years. Here, 16 favorite examples of brooms as witchy decor: More unexpected objects used as decor: 10 Ways to Display Wooden…

• Remodelista Reconnaissance: Back-of-the-Seat Book Boxes at Cremer in London

  In the running for our informal award for Coziest Cafe of All Time? Cremer in London. We particularly love the wooden boxes latched to the backs of the rush-seat chairs, each one stocked with reading material. But what’s their story? Read on: The Sighting The Source Want…

• Design Detail: A Poetic “Shroud” to Hide the TV

  I love putting a movie on the “big screen”—AKA the TV. Much better and more atmospheric than a laptop. But I don’t love the idea of having a screen front and center in our living area. In fact, none of us on the Remodelista team do—we’ve written before about ways to hide the…

• In the Stillness: A 1640s Georgian in an Affecting Palette by Cassandra Ellis

  A while back the New Zealand-born, London-based designer Cassandra Ellis sent a note from across the pond: She’d completed a project in East Sussex, not far from her redone flint barn but “a completely different color palette,” she wrote. And because this is a designer who often…

• Psst…What We Loved this October

  Welcome to Psst, where each month the Remodelista and Gardenista editors share an inside look at what we’ve been reading, watching, coveting, pinning, visiting, and otherwise loving lately. Without further ado, a glimpse of what we’ve been up to in October: Photographs by…

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