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House• October 25, 2019

Thomas Woltz

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 biologi...

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

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

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

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

NYSD House: 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

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

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

Anne Spalter

House• March 8, 2019.

Anne Spalter is a mixed-media digital artist who creates perspective-bending, kaleidoscopic work using computer-enhanced images that she shoots herself, often from helicopters, airplane windows or moving cars and trains. Her ideas range from a series based on Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane to a piece that New Yorkers may well have seen if they we... READ MORE

Maureen Footer

House• February 22, 2019.

A detailed and historically informative interview this week with designer and writer Maureen Footer, author of the new book, Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look (Vendome). Meticulously researched and replete with glamorous illustration, it tells the story of how the fashion design legend, Christian Dior co... READ MORE

James Coviello

House• February 8, 2019.

James Coviello is a fashion designer with what he calls a “passionate pursuit”. His Brooklyn Heights apartment as well as his country house upstate have been, over the years, meticulously filled with fascinating and beautiful old objects that he has spent a lifetime collecting. Apart from electronics and linens, he owns nothing new—and doesn�... READ MORE

Katie Leede

House• January 25, 2019.

Photographs by Jeff Hirsch Our interview this week involved a thoughtful discussion with designer Katie Leede about the intersection between acting and designing. The former was something she wanted to do but, as she puts it, “didn’t have the talent for my talent”. The latter, however, was something that just seemed to come naturally in [&hel... READ MORE

Jenny Dina Kirschner

House• January 11, 2019.

Photographs by Jeff Hirsch After being something of a serial taker of college degrees (she has four), interior designer Jenny Kirschner quickly struck out on her own some twelve years ago and has managed to sustain a solid business along with being a mother of two daughters, PTA Leader and keeping up with some art […]... READ MORE

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Thomas Woltz

Erick Espinoza

Apryl Miller

Sheila Kotur

Center Art Studio – Lansing Moore

NYSD House: John Born

Richard Rabel

Philip Mitchell

Anne Spalter

Maureen Footer

James Coviello

Katie Leede

Jenny Dina Kirschner

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