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''Instead of a straight shelf, we wanted some geometry,'' said Carol Egan, an interior and furniture designer in Manhattan, explaining how she came to create the single-twist shelf. The walnut [...]

Envielife.com, a new Web site run by Christi Rogers, an interior designer, and Maria Capotorto, a product designer, will sell home furnishings by artisans from France, Italy and Spain. Ms. [...]

When Sean O'Hara was snorkeling off Bali and saw some manta rays swimming nearby, he was fascinated by how they moved. ''They undulate in such a soft, relaxed way,'' said [...]

When the 10th annual Orchid Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx on Saturday, it will feature an installation designed by Patrick Blanc, the Paris botanist [...]

The TRYP Times Square South, a cheerful-looking 173-room hotel, opened earlier this month on a cheerless block of West 35th Street. Glen Coben, the Manhattan architect who designed it, said [...]

''Be Your Own Decorator,'' by Susanna Salk (Rizzoli; $45), presents rooms by well-known designers like Jamie Drake, Ruthie Sommers and Kelly Wearstler that are intended to inspire readers to take [...]

AYA YAMANOUCHI LLOYD met Nadia Yaron and Ry Scruggs, the Brooklyn designers who own Nightwood, in the spring of 2010. It all began with a mirror. Mrs. Lloyd's husband, Benjamin [...]

Marie-France de Crecy, a 38-year-old Parisian textile designer who once worked as a fashion stylist, creates upholstery fabrics with many of the same qualities as those found in haute couture, [...]

MIAMI TAMARA HENDERSHOT shares Magic City Farm, her home here, with 4 dogs, 7 cats, 20 Muscovy ducks, 8 chickens and a 350-pound Vietnamese potbellied pig that was just 40 [...]

The Wave Dining Table, by Salih Teskeredzic, a Bosnian furniture designer, was inspired by the Neretva River, which overflowed during a storm in the autumn of 2010. ''The waves that [...]

THE marriage game has no shortage of matchmakers, wedding planners, fashion stylists, floral designers and other referees. Now joining their ranks is a group of consultants called proposal planners, who [...]

For Ian Schrager, ''sticking to the basics'' was his goal in designing Public Chicago, a hotel that opened this fall in what had been the Ambassador East, built in 1926. [...]

TOM NISHIOKA twirled his wife, Alexandra Bloom, up and down the aisles of the Park Slope United Methodist Church on a recent Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn. As Dr. Bloom danced, [...]

Marazzi, the Italian tile company, opened its first New York showroom this month, in the Flatiron district. The company is known for producing tiles that replicate natural materials like marble [...]

THE food cognoscenti like to know the source of their vegetables, fish and meat. Is that lettuce organic? Did that chicken range freely and merrily during its short life? But [...]

Ana Mestre, 33, a Portuguese furniture designer interested in sustainability, has been researching the uses of cork since 2004. ''It grows as the bark of a tree,'' she said. ''You [...]

''Everyone thinks of African art in terms of sculpture and masks that are made by men,'' said Vanessa Drake Moraga, the curator of ''Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven [...]

Lakeville, Conn. PILAR PROFFITT and Robert Bristow are partners in Poesis, a Connecticut firm known for its residential, interior and furniture design. So two years ago, when the couple decided [...]

Lace, Beaded Black, a new wallpaper from Jocelyn Warner, a British textile and wallpaper designer, is the highly tactile result of Ms. Warner's longstanding interest in lace. ''I've always been [...]

''I keep a kind of mental notebook of phrases that resonate in my mind,'' said Rob Wynne, an artist who lives in Manhattan. ''Some are made up, some come from [...]

''There's something innately pleasing about a stripe,'' noted Peter Osborne, the chief executive and head of design at Osborne & Little, the British wallpaper and fabric company. But since stripes [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED SOME might think the blob-like fiberglass forms on Wendy Evans Joseph and Jeffrey Ravetch's roof terrace look like Al Capp's sweet-natured Shmoos. But for the couple and their [...]

The W St. Petersburg, which opened in Russia this spring, ''is like a Faberge egg,'' said Mike Tiedy, the senior vice president of global brand design and innovation for Starwood [...]

When Michele Oka Doner was a teenager, her favorite book was ''Microbe Hunters'' by Paul de Kruif. ''I loved the microscope,'' said Ms. Doner, a Manhattan artist known for sculpture, [...]

Molo, a Canadian company that makes furniture, lighting and a flexible partition system called Softwall, has created an indoor emergency housing system called Softshelter. The pleated paper partitions stand 6 [...]

Hans J. Wegner's Oculus chair was designed in 1960, but there were only two prototypes made -- one in orange fabric, the other in leather -- and the chair was [...]

The second edition of ''A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present'' (W. W. Norton; $50) is being published this week, more than four decades after the [...]

The cafe at the century-old Municipal Theater of Sao Paulo reopened to the public this week, with furnishings by the Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana, as part of a [...]

The design of the newest Sprinkles Cupcakes shop, which opened recently on the Upper East Side, is an ode to the product. The cupcakes sold there, some of which are [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED IN February, Tyler Alexandra Gallagher Ellis, the 26-year-old daughter of the fashion designer Perry Ellis and of Barbara Gallagher, a television writer and producer, emerged from a beneath-the-radar [...]

Frederick P. Victoria & Son, a 78-year-old company known for antiques, reproductions and custom pieces made for decorators like Billy Baldwin, hasn't had a shop in Manhattan since 2009. It [...]

All three patterns in Ink, a line of wallpaper by Abbott Miller, began with a drop of India ink on white paper. It was something of an act of rebellion [...]

When is a rug a work of art? Maybe when it's priced at more than $35,000. That's what the manufacturer of the Circus rug, designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ''Bathrooms are very boring,'' said Jaime Hayon, the Spanish artist and designer. ''They are square and white and geometric, and only care about being hygienic.'' Instead, he suggested, [...]

PHILOSOPHERS may ponder the chicken-egg question. But for cooks, a far more pressing concern is the yolk-white question. Which comes first depends on whom you ask. For Danny Meyer, the [...]

Viktoria Nygren and Adam Gistedt of Adam & Viktoria, a small design partnership in Stockholm, are not afraid to revisit an earlier design and revamp it. A recolored pillowcase makes [...]

The curvy Bilou Bilou chair is one of four pieces of children's furniture from Promemoria, an Italian furniture company that will open its first American showroom at the Fine Arts [...]

WHEN Zack Snyder and Deborah Johnson married on Sept. 25, 2004, he had just finished directing his first feature film, a remake of ''Dawn of the Dead,'' and she was [...]

Shirley Shivhon, an interior designer in Los Angeles, was working on a house in Maui in 2008 and planned a home office with a red chinoiserie desk and a rug [...]

WHEN he was a boy and his father hunted game in the woods of Alsace, Jean-Georges Vongerichten would tag along and forage for mushrooms. ''The morels smell like fresh moss [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED CHEFS praise cabbage. They embrace its sweetness. They delight in its crunch in raw slaws and its melting smoothness in cold-weather braises. More often than not, their customers [...]

The cheerful Cappello lamp, which mixes formal materials (a marble base) and informal ones (a molded paper shade), is designed for intimate tasks. ''It produces plenty of light for a [...]

Pamela C. Gould and Bill H. Scholtz were married Friday at City Hall in San Francisco. James M. Illig, a deputy marriage commissioner, officiated. The bride, 54, is taking her [...]

JIM LEIKEN, the executive chef at DBGB Kitchen & Bar on the Bowery, was looking for hearty, rusty garnishes to go with the whole roast suckling pig feasts that the [...]

Many colleges have residences for their students. Those that don't often rely on companies like Educational Housing Services, in Manhattan, which builds and operates dorms and student lounges that colleges [...]

Beauty & Essex, a restaurant opening on Saturday on the Lower East Side, was designed by the Manhattan firm AvroKO to resemble a jewelry store that would sell ''pieces kind [...]

Malia Jensen, a 44-year-old artist in Brooklyn, considers her life-size painted bronze cherries and stainless steel bird feet to be small sculptures. But whether they are art, functional objects (paperweights?) [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Three designers had a month and $5,000 to design a studio or one-bedroom apartment in 99 John Deco Lofts, a 442-unit condo built in 1933 as the Insurance [...]

The East Hampton Historical Society's 2010 House and Garden Tour will open with a cocktail party on Friday. The tour will take place the next day. It includes six homes, [...]

Shepard Fairey, the artist responsible for the Barack Obama ''Hope'' poster, has created a series of murals for the Wynwood Kitchen and Bar, a restaurant opening on Friday in Miami, [...]