A Wood-Lined Retreat in the Heart of Paris
IN THE CENTER of Paris, in the First Arrondissement, around the corner from the Jardin du Palais-Royal — with its orderly tree-lined promenades — there’s a ragged bistro called Juveniles at which tourists jostle for tables and locals buy bottles of wine to bring home after work. It’s a true neighborhood spot in an office-dominated district…
Saying Goodbye to a Legendary Milanese Palazzo
SECRETS AREN’T EASILY kept at Casa degli Atellani. From his pied-à-terre on the top floor of his family’s three-story Milanese palazzo, the Italian interior designer Nicolò Castellini Baldissera, 55, who lives there with his partner of eight years, the American writer and editor Christopher Garis, 36, can see past the courtyard into his aunt Anna’s…
Two Artists Make a Home for Their Family, and Their
WHEN THE ARTISTS Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian bought their home near Gramercy Park in 2020, it was a longstanding shrine to rock ’n’ roll glory. On a gracious Manhattan block shielded by a canopy of Bradford pear trees, the five-story, almost 24-foot-wide townhouse, built in 1910 and reimagined by the architect Rosario Candela in…
Lincoln grandad spends 14 years camping in garden
8 hours agoBy Kevin Shoesmith, BBC NewsDavid PriestleyDavid Priestley believes sleeping indoors is “overrated” and prefers to sleep in his gardenA grandfather-of-three says he has spent almost 14 years sleeping in a hammock in his garden. David Priestley, 68, discovered outdoor sleeping helped soothe chronic back pain and keep his sinuses clear.The former RAF armourer, from Lincoln,…
For Two Color-Obsessed Artists, a White-Walled Home
IN 1973, THE painter Stanley Whitney moved into a long, skinny loft overlooking Cooper Square in downtown Manhattan. In the course of the next 50 years, he’d meet and marry the artist Marina Adams, who makes rhythmic large-scale paintings in vibrant jewel tones, and together, they’d raise their son, William — all in that loft.…
Cancer Survivors Are Sharing The Weird Symptom That Made Them
Recently, we wrote about early cancer symptoms, and users from the BuzzFeed Community chimed in with their own experiences. Here are 39 more stories of how people first realized something was wrong.**Along with some examples from the original Reddit thread.1.”When I was eight, I’d start getting this God-awful pain under my ribs. It would hit…
How Do You Build a Jungle?
THE ARCHITECTS MARCIO Kogan and Renata Furlanetto of the Brazilian firm Studio MK27 had just broken ground on a new house in São Paulo in 2010 when the landscape designer Isabel Duprat informed them that they’d have to raise the entire 10,225-square-foot project, known as Casa Rampa, by almost 20 inches. The root system of…
Patsy Aust: Man charged with murder of retired teacher
PSNIPatsy Aust was found dead in a house in the Hawthorne Court area of BangorA man has been charged with murder following the death of an 81-year-old woman in Bangor.Patricia “Patsy” Aust, a retired teacher, was found dead at a house in Hawthorne Court in the County Down city on Sunday.An 85-year-old man has been…
The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de Cárdenas and Daniel Romualdez; the Museum…
Hong Kong 47: Who are the democracy activists facing jail?
BBCThe Hong Kong 47 were charged three years ago in what was seen as the biggest crackdown under the National Security LawFrom a 68-year-old former opposition lawmaker to a 27-year-old student activist, fourteen pro-democracy campaigners have been convicted for subversion by a Hong Kong court in the city’s largest national security case. They are among 47…
The 10 Best Things We Saw at Salone del Mobile
The annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair has always been big — it’s the event of the year for the international design world, drawing hundreds of thousands of makers, curators, editors and buyers to Milan each April for a week’s worth of inspiration, shop talk and aperitivi. Even more so than fashion week, the fair…
Mortgage rates: Five ways to save money
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The House That Once Embarrassed Them Is Now a Showplace
For a long time, Alicia and Craig Oberg disliked their house so much that they didn’t want to invite anyone over.“We were actually embarrassed,” Ms. Oberg said of the house in Plymouth, Minn., which had a dated 1990s interior that “was just so far from what we felt our aesthetic was.”But the 3,800-square-foot ranch house,…
