Make Home A Haven tours this one-of-a-kind rotating round house. Eight rooms, stunning views and sunlight everywhere. But this Wilton Connecticut home’s biggest prize is its unique ability to spin with the touch of a button. It’s head turning too, both inside and out. The round shape is beautiful to look at, but this spread [...]
Archive for the ‘Variety’ Category
She Haas the Right Stuff! Levi’s Chairwoman Buys Schwab’s 834 Fifth Penthouse for $12.5 M.
Posted by James on April 14th, 2010
The co-op at 834 Fifth Avenue is the kind that would most certainly disdain denim-wearers at a board interview (current owners include Rupert Murdoch, Paul Cejas and John Gutfreund). But what if you are a denim heiress? Well, apparently, that’s O.K. According to city records, brokerage baron Charles Schwab and his wife, Helen, have sold their petite penthouse on the [...]
Posted in News, Variety 
Tags: 834 Fifth Avenue, Charles Schwab, Kathryn Steinberg, Miriam Haas, real estate, Roger Erickson, Sotheby's 
No Comments »Charming Obsolescence
Posted by James on April 5th, 2010
MARIA BERMAN was hopelessly smitten with the working fireplace in her first New York apartment, a third-floor walk-up in Cobble Hill,Brooklyn. “That fireplace was in use most of the year,” said Ms. Berman, an architect who lived in the apartment in the early 1990s. “For three years I had quarter cords of wood delivered to [...]
Posted in Variety Tags: apartment, architect, Bradley Horn, dumbwaiter, fireplace, Harlem, Historic District, house, Sugar Hill, town house No Comments »The Armory Show
Posted by James on March 9th, 2010
As if a day walking through the art gallery isles of Chelsea weren’t a field day in itself, The Armory comes into town every year for four days and brings us the world’s most prestigious art galleries as they represent a few of their selected artists. In some instances a gallery would showcase only one [...]
Posted in Variety Tags: art galleries, Chelsea, contemporary art, New York, the armory, tony feher No Comments »Architecture in Dinnerware
Posted by James on February 18th, 2010
Stefano Seletti describes his kitchen as “big but nice chaos,” with open shelves that hold plates of various shapes and sizes. When Mr. Seletti, the president of Seletti, the Italian home furnishings company, challenged the designer Alessandro Zambelli to come up with a solution for hiding dinnerware in plain sight, the Palace Collection was Mr. [...]
Posted in Variety Tags: Alessandro Zambelli, aplusrstore.com, dinnerware, home furnishings, kitchen, Palace Collection, plates, Seletti, shelves, Stefano Seletti No Comments »
