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House• January 10, 2020

Bentley Meeker

Sian Ballen, Lesley Hauge and Jeff Hirsch visit lighting designer and artist Bentley Meeker at his Harlem home where he talks about how "Light" and "Lighting" changed his life...

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Sean McNanney

House• December 20, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and Pierre head to Williamsburg to visit with Sean McNanney — designer, interior decorator, and owner of SAVED on Irving Place... READ MORE
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Bernd Goeckler

House• December 13, 2019.
Today’s House column is a look back at our 2011 interview with renowned gallerist Bernd Goeckler who passed away from cancer on December 4th at the age of 78. In the three decades that he ran his antiques store on East 10th Street, the German-born Goeckler was a trusted source throughout the design community and known for his sharp and thoughtful... READ MORE
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Kate Rheinstein Brodsky

House• December 6, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and Pierre visit Kate Rheinstein Brodsky in her Upper East Side apartment which is loaded with “juicy color" and filled with “objects of charm."... READ MORE
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Linda Hafner

House• November 15, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and Pierre visit with milliner Linda Hafner and learn that there is little she can’t, literally, turn her hand to... READ MORE
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Thomas Woltz

House• October 25, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and JH visit landscape architect Thomas Woltz who is spreading the gospel about his particular approach to landscape design and his painstaking ambition to create “high functioning biological systems designed as living paintings." ... READ MORE
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Erick Espinoza

House• October 11, 2019.
Erick Espinoza was the first ever recipient of the full Albert Hadley Scholarship at the New York School of Interior Design so he wasted no time in packing his bags to move from Miami to the city. He’s never looked back. From an initial internship with Diamond and Baratta, he has since rocketed upwards from […]... READ MORE
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Apryl Miller

House• July 26, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and Pierre are gobsmacked when visiting artist April Miller in her properly original Upper East Side digs. You will be, too... READ MORE
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Sheila Kotur

House• July 12, 2019.
Sian, Leslie, and JH visit artist/illustrator and interior designer Sheila Camera Kotur in her apartment that matches her charm, presence, and a strong sense of visual detail. ... READ MORE
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Center Art Studio – Lansing Moore

House• June 14, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and JH visit Lansing Moore, the owner of Center Art Studio. The studio has been restoring fine art and objects since 1919, making it one of the oldest art conservation studios in New York... READ MORE
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John Born

House• May 3, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and JH visit ceramicist John Born in his Brooklyn town house. John only relatively recently “escaped” a career in pharmaceutical advertising to return to his original goal of making things and living in a more tactile, meaningful world... READ MORE
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Richard Rabel

House• April 12, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and JH visit interior designer Richard Rabel in his Hudson Heights apartment, which is in one of those buildings that pretty much everyone wonders about when they drive past them on the Henry Hudson Parkway... READ MORE
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Philip Mitchell

House• March 22, 2019.
Sian, Lesley, and JH visit designer Philip Mitchell in his Upper East Side apartment, where with his husband Mark Naransky they have managed to balance their Canadian roots with the need to maintain a design practice in New York City. ... READ MORE

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