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Guest Diary• April 21, 2022

Expand your mind and dope decor will follow

Barbara Hodes goes on the hunt for some spring treats to spruce up the home, as well as all kinds of interesting gifts for all occasions and sensibilities, including the “can’t resists.” ...

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Gaetano Pesce

House• March 4, 2022.
We revisit the chat by Sian and Lesley with JH photographing of Italian architect and design pioneer Gaetano Pesce. Wonderful interview... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: A Whole Lot of Crazy

House• February 4, 2022.
We return to John Foreman who gives us the history (and a tour) of the houses on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street as well as the apartment tower rising high above them all... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: “The King of New York”

House• January 27, 2022.
We return for your comfort and curiosity to the late John Foreman’s visit to the interior and the history of the King of New York, Otto Kahn’s still perfectly preserved mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue... READ MORE
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Be it ever so palatial, there’s no place like home — If you’re a billionairess like this lady

House• January 24, 2022.
The 54-room, three-story penthouse on Fifth Avenue, built for a legendary American heiress on land replacing the mansion she owned and now divided into nine separate and spacious residences... READ MORE
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Pierre Durand

House• January 21, 2022.
A look back at our 2011 interview of Pierre Durand in his exquisite 5th Avenue home. Much of his collection is up for auction next week at Christie's New York... READ MORE
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1015 Park — A History of One of Park Avenue’s Most Distinct Private Residences

House• November 9, 2021.
A personal history of the red brick house on the corner of Park and 85th, completed for its family in 1915, who lived there for the next 50 years... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: Forget Gatsby

House• October 14, 2021.
Revisiting a 2012 tour of The Braes given by the late John Foreman, the second great mansion (still standing) of Standard Oil heir Herbert Pratt... READ MORE
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Brock Forsblom

House• October 8, 2021.
A look back on Sian and Lesley interview with interior designer/art collector/writer Brock Forsblom, strong on color, on visuals and on wit, all photographed by Jeff Hirsch... READ MORE
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BIG OLD HOUSES: In My Dreams

House• September 27, 2021.
We recount the amazing history, thanks to the late John Foreman, of the Morris-Jumel Mansion (1765) in upper Manhattan... READ MORE
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Sheelin Wilson

House• September 10, 2021.
Re-visiting master gilder Sheelin Wilson who is now selling ALL her furniture "and things" in a Doyle at Home auction coming up next week... READ MORE
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Charlotte’s Web Untangled, New York Neighborhood History

House• September 3, 2021.
An intimate look of an heiress’ aerie that dominates Turtle Bay back then and today... READ MORE
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Charles King

House• July 2, 2021.
A look back at an interview with Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works, who lives in a tiny, book-filled guest room within the East 9th Street residence, the Keith D. Cylar House. Truly a good man living a good life, not the good life, and that’s not always an easy thing to find... READ MORE

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