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The Architects' Choice: Hix Island House in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Our architect friend Elizabeth Roberts clued us in a while back to her (and many fellow designers') favorite winter escape: Hix Island House, a wabi-sabi, eco-friendly hotel in Vieques. Here's her...
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Good Night and Good Luck: 9 Reasons We're Sad to Bid Farewell to the NY Times...
When the New York Times launched the Home section in 1977, it was a controversial move (an entire section of the paper of record devoted to the home?). But by the time we started Remodelista in 2007,...
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A Virtual Trip to the Maldives with Cereal Magazine
Rosa Park (@rosaliapark) and her partner, Rich Stapleton (@rvstapleton), launched Cereal ( @cerealmag), a quarterly magazine about travel and lifestyle, in 2012. We've been following them on Instagram...
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#RemodelistaTravels: Instagram Escapes from Remodelista Readers
To cap off our week of exploring design-worthy travel destinations via Instagram, we asked you to share your own adventures by tagging photos with #RemodelistaTravels. After combing through 600-plus...
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The Velvet Underground: Retro Glamour in Los Feliz
LA nightlife impresario Dustin Lancaster opened Bar Covell on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Feliz a couple of years ago; now he's offering five suites (upstairs) for patrons who want to stay a bit longer....
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An Insider's Guide to 6 Healthy and Happening LA Dining Spots
Our stylish and health-conscious (but not tediously so; they're into natural wine and apéros) friends David Rager and Cheri Messerli always seem to be ahead of the curve, stylistically and...
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Rintaro: East Meets West in San Francisco
It was inevitable that Sylvan Brackett would one day open a Japanese restaurant. He was born in Kyoto to a Japanese mother and an American father (Len Brackett, a temple carpenter apprentice, the first...
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A Rustic Modern Hangout in Berlin
A find from LA designer and world traveler, Cynthia Carlson: Lokal in Mitte, Berlin. German cafe owner Maren Thimm and her American partner, Gary Hoopengardner, had initially set up a temporary...
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The DIY Motel: The Spruceton Inn in the Catskills
"I’m a born and raised Brooklyn girl who turns out to have a soft spot for the country," says Casey Scieszka. "Before moving to the Catskills last year, I lived around the world in places as far-flung...
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Pine & Crane in Los Angeles
Pine & Crane owner/chef Vivian Ku, a Harvard premed grad who segued into food, named her restaurant in LA's Silverlake after her grandfather's 1950s noodle shop in Taiwan. Ku likes to keep things...
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Restaurant of the Moment: Skye Gyngell's Spring at Somerset House
If there is one chef who could turn a former government tax office into an atmospheric restaurant with indoor garden, it's Skye Gyngell. After all, she made her name cooking from a shed at a plant...
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The New Dolce Vita: A Reinvented Village in Tuscany
Ten years ago, Michael L. Cioffi, a high-powered Cincinnati-based corporate lawyer with a passion for Renaissance history, celebrated his 50th birthday with his extended family by renting a villa in...
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Paris in the Springtime: The Très DIY Hotel Henriette (Starting at $75 a Night)
Every room at the Hotel Henriette, newly overhauled by Paris designer Vanessa Scoffier, is a lesson in the transformative powers of paint and a few well-chosen (but affordable) furnishings. It's at the...
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Table of Contents: Berlin Bound
We've been admiring Berlin design from afar it seems forever. Of late, when Remodelista editors Sarah and Christine separately took off for the city—Sarah and family are there all spring—we decided it...
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Insider's Guide: 14 Don't-Miss Restaurants, Coffee Shops, and Cocktail Bars...
Our friends at Freund von Freunden, the Berlin-based online style mag, heard we were coming to town and shared their favorite places to eat, drink, and be merry. Here they are in their words, and in no...
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Fun House: The 25Hours Hotel Bikini Berlin
Most memorable place to stay in town? In-the-know Berliners told us to follow the monkey hoots to a hammock-strung hotel in a midcentury tower called the Bikini-Haus. Prime views of park and zoo...
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Expert Advice: 10 Best Detour-Worthy Design Shops in Berlin
The best thing about shopping in Berlin? Stores are often located in surprising locations: refurbished factories, Bauhaus boxes, or tiled workspaces tucked away in a courtyard. Here are 10 shops that...
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The DIY Wedding: An LA Designer's Boathouse Nuptials
Faye McAuliffe, LA interior designer, blogger, and co-owner with her sister of Bread & Water Catering, planned her Inverness, California, wedding the way she approaches interiors projects: "I went...
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The World Is His Oyster: Saltwater in Inverness, CA
Aquatic farmer and champion of native oyster restoration Luc Chamberland opened his own restaurant on Tomales Bay, north of San Francisco—and not far from the boathouse featured in today's wedding...
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A Rooftop Oasis in Downtown LA
Hidden in the middle of LA's Koreatown office buildings and karaoke bars is Commissary, a produce-focused restaurant co-owned by renegade chef Roy Choi, who got his start selling street food. It's...
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