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
Every year, the Salone del Mobile, otherwise known as the Milan Furniture Fair, gets bigger, and so do the roving packs of the design obsessed. This year, the frenzy took place from April 21 to 26. But beyond the Fiera Milano complex occupied by Salone, t... See more
Ryan Leegallery next year. Photo: Jeremy Liebman The artist George Nelson Preston sometimes can’t believe the characters he has crossed paths with in nearly nine decades of living in New York. Growing up in Sugar Hill in the 1940s, his neighbors included ... See more
Keith McNally should get some credit for the bathtub in the middle of Nick Poe’s 1,500-square-foot loft on the Lower East Side. Poe, an architectural designer, roomed with McNally’s son Harry in the early aughts, and he was taken with the classic claw-foo... See more
