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Creative director and designer Sarah Sherman Samuel and her husband, Rupert Samuel, an ad exec, like to tear things up together. After overhauling a Michigan lake cabin on their own, they moved on to their current…
A few weeks back, a reader wrote to us on Instagram with a query: Where to find a folding towel rack like the one glimpsed in a pink-tiled bath at Wanås Hotel in Sweden? It…
Most kids’ rooms are stopgap affairs: basic-at-best overrun by toys and stuffed animals. After all, childhood is brief. Or is it? The parents of the siblings who occupy this compact suite in a 1905 NYC building (a…
Upper Bavaria is not usually on our radar, but we’re longing to check into Berge (Hotels, Lodging and Restaurants: Berge in Germany). In the meantime, we’ve found the next best thing: Berge Equipment, a selection…
Italian architect Gio Ponti designed the graceful Pirelli Tower in Milan in 1956; among the details was this slender Door Lever, which “succinctly embodies his refined aesthetic.” The lever (plus a companion bathroom turn) is…
New York-based designer Elizabeth Roberts grew up in Mill Valley, studied architecture at Berkeley, earned a masters in historic preservation at Columbia, and worked in the offices of William Turnbull in Northern California and Beyer…
When I was a kid, our house had a suite of pastel pink bath fixtures: pink countertops, pink shell-shaped sinks, pink shower, pink toilet. If only it had looked as romantic and sophisticated as this…
The winner of the Remodelista Considered Design Awards Best Amateur-Designed Bath is Zachary Leung of Toronto, Ontario. His project was chosen as a finalist by Remodelista editor in chief Julie Carlson, who commented: “The gray and white…
Last week we explored the Vintage Rugs in the Bath trend, and this week we’re looking to an old classic: the cottage-style striped bath rug. Here are ten of our favorites. Above: A Scandi-style attic bath in Brooklyn gets a dose of color…
Soft but not aggressively fluffy. Sized to fit in a washer and dryer with room to spare. And designed with care and subtlety. There is something just right about the best Japanese cotton bath towels. Above:…