Cooking with Heart at the Hart and the Hunter
Tucked inside of Palihotel on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles is a new restaurant from Brian Dunsmoor and Kris Tominaga, who first made their mark with pop-up canteen A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The two...
View ArticleA Napa Valley Winery with a Sense of Whimsy
Living in the Napa Valley, as my family and I do, means hosting a steady stream of visitors who come for the local wineries. Whenever I notice our guests' enthusiasm waning from all the heady...
View ArticleThe Modern Farm Table, Sydney-Style
One table, 20 seats, four courses, no nonsense. That's the concept behind Farmhouse, a restaurant in Sydney's Kings Cross neighborhood with a pared-down modern rustic interior and menu to match. The...
View ArticleA Housewares Collection with a Cult Following
To the initiated (and obsessed, like us), designer Christina Kim's Los Angles-based fashion company Dosa is an eternal source of inspiration. Her tiny, under-the-radar home line, produced by hand the...
View ArticlePilgrim's Progress: The Cape Cod Modern House Trust
Designed by prolific Cape Cod architect Charles Zehnder in 1970, the Kugel Gips house—once slated for demolition—is the first completed project of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, a group dedicated to...
View ArticleCandles for a Cause: Glassybaby Opens in SF
I used to live near the Glassybaby studio in Seattle, and, like so many other Seattleites, became entranced by the colored votives that are the glass studio's signature. Now that I live in San...
View ArticleThe Webb Street Company in Cornwall
Oliver Davies and Ben Bailey, a pair of modern-day merchants, turned a seaside art gallery (formerly owned by Oliver's parents) in Cornwall, England, into the Webb Street Company, a showcase for...
View ArticleRemodelista Holiday Market in LA on Saturday
This Saturday we're hosting a Remodelista Holiday Market at Big Daddy's Antiques in Los Angeles. We'll be packing the warehouse with a lineup of 36 of our favorite local designers and indie shop...
View ArticleA Bright New Lighting Company
Having spent ten years at Schoolhouse Electric as the general manager and, later, as a designer director, Michelle Steinback knows the world of interior lighting exceptionally well. But recently, when...
View ArticleRestaurant as Social Experiment: 28 Posti in Milan
Located on a quiet side street in the heart of Navigli in Milan, 28 Posti is a 28-seat trattoria-as-social-experiment. Designed by architect Francesco Faccin and fitted out by inmates of the nearby...
View ArticleHousehold Essentials, Boerum Hill-Style
Lauren Snyder started her career as a fashion stylist in New York before shifting her focus to decor and the everyday objects we surround ourselves with. The result? Her recently opened shop, The...
View ArticleA (Concrete) Gold Mine: Betonggruvan in Stockholm
To add to your Stockholm itinerary: designer Josefine Halfwordson's tiny shop, Betonggruvan, specializing in durable housewares made from simple materials and hand picked from Sweden and beyond....
View ArticleRestaurant as Enchanted Forest, Copenhagen Edition
Noma cofounder Claus Meyer (known as one of the founding fathers of New Nordic cuisine) is the force behind the newly opened waterfront jazz club/restaurant/bar the Standard, which encompasses a jazz...
View ArticleRemodelista SF Holiday Market at Heath Ceramics This Saturday
We're thrilled to be back on home turf for our final Remodelista Holiday Market of the year. You can find us at Heath Ceramics in the Mission this Saturday, December 14, from 10-5. We'll be featuring a...
View ArticleA Modern Bistro That Doubles as a Museum
Care to dine next to a tiger skeleton? Restaurant Museet is a new Swedish bistro that puts more than food on display. Located off the buzzing Birger Jarlsgatan in Stockholm, the restaurant is the work...
View ArticleThe Homemade Baja Hotel, $75 a Night Edition
Having helped plan resorts for splashy chains, such as the Four Seasons, Starwood, and Intrawest, Canadian hotelier Stu Waddell recently went renegade and decided to invent his own hotel. An...
View ArticleWild at Heart: A Nose-to-Tail Restaurant in Brussels
Last spring, I took a train to Brussels from France, arriving on an exceptionally rainy afternoon (it always seems to be raining in Belgium, but the truth is the rain only adds to the city's charm, and...
View ArticleBabylon by the Beach: A DIY Artist's Hotel
Last summer a group of Brooklyn impresarios—Robin Scott and Jamie Wiseman, owners of the nightclub Output, along with Diego Galarza and Eduardo Suarez, of Williamsburg restaurants, El Almacen and...
View ArticleAn Artful Black and White Restaurant
Heading to Basel any time soon (the next Art Basel is June 19-22)? Last spring, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron finished work restoring a classic 1925 building in the heart of the city....
View ArticleInto the Wild: Faviken Restaurant in Northern Sweden
Six hundred miles north of Stockholm, on a remote hunting estate near Jarpen, Magnus Nilsson mans the kitchens at a restaurant straight out of ancient agrarian times. "We do things as they have always...
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