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
Most people could have torn it down,” Al Ravitz says of the 1929 country house he shares with his wife, Sue Ravitz. The property, which sits on three and a half acres in Wilton, Connecticut, had been owned for more than five decades by the president of a ... See more
I’m no stranger to design fairs; I’ve been going to them for decades. But TEFAF is on another level. Just entering the Park Avenue Armory feels different from, say, the Winter Show, which offers plenty of extraordinary furniture and art. But TEFAF really ... See more
