Great Rooms A visual diary by design editor Wendy Goodman. The Volcano Room Steve Willis painted the mural on the wall behind his Murphy bed for his Off Broadway show about Yma Sumac. He designed the bedspread. The café chair was a gift from the actress R... See more
Right across the street from Madison Square Garden, there is a secret garden. It’s 13 stories aboveground inside a former fur atelier that is now a 2,000-square-foot loft overlooking the arena and most of midtown. The front door opens to a wall of giant s... See more
Three years ago, Deby and Vivek Mathew moved into a three-story 1910 townhouse in Gramercy Park with their three children. It was more space than the family had ever had. Until then, they’d been living in a classic open-format loft on 24th Street. “Just t... See more
Twenty-five years ago, the artist and custom framer Pamela Morgan got a call from a friend alerting her to the sale of a worn cottage house in the Springs believed to date back to the late 1700s. Its last owner was the literary muse Patsy Southgate. Morga... See more
The fashion designer Lusha Wang and her husband, Rodion Steshenko, a software engineer, were about to close on a brownstone in Boerum Hill when they were outbid. That may have been for the best because the place they bought instead, a 19th-century former ... See more
