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Aussie Style Invades Brooklyn at Brunswick Cafe
"It's a lovely immigration story," says Alexander Hall, who came to the United States "with nothing" eight years ago. Hall grew up in Melbourne and has worked for more than 20 years in the restaurant...
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Bed and Beer: The Dogfish Inn on the Delaware Coast
The perfect summer chaser: Brew master Sam Calagione's new boutique hotel, the Dogfish Inn, is set in a former motel on the harbor in Lewes, Delaware, not far from beaches, pretty coastal towns, and...
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10 Wall-Mounted Wire Baskets as Storage
Spotted lately: wire baskets with a vintage vibe used as wall storage (in the bath, the kitchen, the nursery, anywhere where clutter collects). Kitchen Above: Create an instant pantry with wall-mounted...
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Sensuous Simplicity for the Thinking Woman: La Garçonne in NYC
"Working on an interior space is a nervous journey," says La Garçonne founder and creative director Kris Kim of her new store on Greenwich Street in New York's Tribeca neighborhood. It's the first...
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Sumptuous Yet Simple: Boxy Fine Foods in Belgium
For 25 years, culinary wonder twins Stefan and Kristof Boxy have been redefining food in Belgium with their Michelin-starred restaurants, catering services, and cookbooks. One of their latest ventures...
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Smoke and Mirrors: A Glittery New Cocktail Bar in SF
In SF's most hipster neighborhood, the Mission District, a new bar aims to avoid design clichés. It's called ABV (Alcohol by Volume) and was opened by three restauranteurs with serious Bay Area...
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Redefining the Bakery, Glamour Edition
Located in the elegant lobby of Tribeca's 1900s Merchant's Square building at 220 Church Street, the newly opened Arcade Bakery elevates the bakery to an art form. Owner Roger Gural, a Staten Island...
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The Ultimate High/Low Housewares Shop, Belgian Edition
Back in 2010, we first heard word of Belgian interiors shop Magazyn; it continues to earn a spot on our hit list, especially now that the shop sells its collection online and delivers worldwide. Owned...
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Trend Alert: Bakery Chic in Japan
An 80-something-year-old bakery in Kiryu, northwest of Tokyo, recently received a remarkable facelift courtesy of Sunao Koase, the principal at Snark, a young, up-and-coming Japanese firm that has its...
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A Clubhouse for Creatives: The Rose Hotel in Venice
Brooklyn-based British fashion photographer Glen Luchford first visited Venice Beach in 1993 to photograph Dennis Hopper and fell in love with the grittiness of the neighborhood (it reminded him of...
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A Modern Beer Hall in Brooklyn by a World-Famous Architect
Brooklyn urban entrepreneur and real estate developer Jonathan Butler got his start writing the real estate blog Brownstoner before cofounding the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg. His latest venture with...
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Great Danes: The Copenhagen in NYC
Scandinavians in New York City have their own underground circuit of home-away-from-home hangouts. There's Scandinavia House, a multistory cultural center with a birch-tree-decorated modernist...
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Miss Clara: Glamorous Comfort in Stockholm
Swedish hotelier Nobis Group have renovated a former girls' school in an Art Nouveau building, transforming it into Stockholm’s latest must-visit hotel. At Miss Clara, the guest rooms offer sparse yet...
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France's Oldest—and Most Esteemed—Hardware Store
Paris has E. Dehillerin, France's oldest kitchenware store, established in 1820. Its longstanding competition in Marseille? Maison Empereur, a family-run institution established in 1827 by François...
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A Neo-Hippie Opens a Parisian Cafe
Park Slope comes to Paris: The newly opened Folks and Sparrows features a Brooklyn vibe, with folk tunes playing in the background, bunches of wildflowers on the tables, and butcher-paper-wrapped...
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Old World Meets New World in the Napa Valley
Stacia and Edwin Williams, the owners of Cairdean, a newly opened 58-acre winery just north of St. Helena, California, named their venture after the Scottish Gaelic word for "friends." So when the...
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Field + Supply: An Elevated Arts and Crafts Show in the Hudson Valley
Save the date: On the weekend of October 11 and 12, on a farm field in High Falls, New York, interior designer Brad Ford is hosting an arts and crafts fair with "a modern, elevated approach." We'll be...
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On Top of the World: A Belgian Antiquarian Designs a Penthouse in NYC
Robert De Niro fell under the spell of Belgian design impresario Axel Vervoordt after discovering his work at the NYC Winter Antiques Show (others who have succumbed include Sting and Kanye West, as...
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Alice's Restaurant Comes to Antwerp
We have a weakness for stylishly ragtag cafes and are happy to see them proliferating, from Upstate, NY, to Paris to Tokyo. At our latest find, Tinsel, in Antwerp, there's nothing the least bit...
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Home Stories: High Style in Brooklyn Heights
Looking to bring a bit more gray into your life? Husband-and-wife shop owners Paul Gross and Sophie Yanacupoulus-Gross stand ready with suavely minimalist tableware and furnishings in the perfect...
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