Serena & Lily Pacifica Double Chaise

Pacifica Double Chaise | Serena & Lily like their outdoor furniture to feel salty, lived-in, familiar. The Pacifica Collection manages to capture the sun-bleached look of weathered rattan with beachy resin wicker…

IIDA NY Talks Aesthetics and Authenticity

Tribeca’s Stillfried Wien was packed with designers and artists discussing artisanship in the world of modern business at a Residential Forum hosted by the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) New York Chapter…

La Maisonnette

Le Chic Derby Collection | La Maisonnette chic Au Galop collection includes their Au Galop Horse and Deer collections. Available in table toppers, cloths, placemats, runners,  napkins. La Maisonnette brings a little…

The Best Yacht Interior Designs

With Summer right around the corner, ASPIRE Metro wants to present to you what we believe to be the best yacht interior design companies. Sinot Exclusive Yacht Design | Sinot enjoys challenging…

Signature Premier Properties Spring 2016

Smart Homes in Huntington: $1,299,000 Spectacular, innovative construction in Huntington & Huntington Bay featuring smart phone control of thermostat, lighting, and doors. Huntington Bay home features a radiant heat driveway, 2 car…

Green Design at Cosulich

1980s Pair of Murano Glass Plants with Red Flower: A whimsical Italian pair of cactus in pots, exquisite quality of the blown Murano glass and detailing of execution, with rough textured stems…

Travel with Christina Valhouli: Toronto

Although celebrities and film junkies descend on Toronto each fall for its film festival, Canada’s biggest city makes an ideal destination for the spring. The city plays host to Toronto Fashion Week,…

High Wattage

For architect Luca Andrisani, there’s an incredible truth in the phrase “be bold or go home.” For him, and the clients lucky enough to live and work in his projects, bold is…

Creative Roots

Designer Lucy Harris takes cues from architecture, Mother Nature and her own childhood to create interiors rich with visual interest. Informed by an artistic upbringing, a professional background in architecture and a…

Modern Serenity

When a well-traveled couple from Moscow was house hunting in Holmdel, New Jersey, their goal was to find a sophisticated home that offered a touch of urban flair in the suburbs. What…

Rhyme & Reason

Neoclassical lines, Japanese antiques and midcentury furnishings blend beautifully, bringing a restored Brooklyn townhome to new heights. With their purchase of a Brooklyn Heights townhome that had undergone major changes over the…

Book Nook: Spring Page Turners

Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture by Aric Chen The Monacelli Press | $60 A stunning survey of the largely unknown, but increasingly collectible, modernist furniture from Brazil, a country…

Venerate Facelift

On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a gracious prewar apartment was made present with great respect to its past by designers Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller, who worked in concert with architect Gordon…

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