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A Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty in Mississippi
Eudora Welty's parents built a house in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1925, when she was a girl, and until her death in 2001 she wrote there, sitting at a bedroom window with a view of life on Pinehurst...
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5 Tips for Taking Care of Your Books
If you are a book lover and owner (like my husband, who collects fly-fishing tomes), you are, by default, a conservator. Here are five tools we use at home to protect our library. For more ideas, see...
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The Reading Rooms in Margate, England
Enjoy Georgian grandeur, if only for a weekend, at The Reading Rooms, a classic Georgian townhouse turned into luxury bed-and-breakfast, located in the seaside town of Margate, England. In its heyday,...
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10 Unexpected Places to Store Books
We might be able to download a digital book with the click of a mouse, but at the end of the day there is something very reassuring about a home filled with books; they serve as a roadmap of sorts...
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DIY: Bookshelf Systems, One Easy, One Difficult
Two DIY wooden book shelves: one for the hardcore DIY-er, the other for the lightweight (count us in for the latter). Above: British based designer Nina Tolstrup created the Studiomama Bookshelf using...
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10 Favorites: Bookshelf-Printed Wallpaper
Did UK designer Deborah Bowness start the bookshelf-printed wallpaper craze with her Genuine Fake Bookshelf paper? Lately we've been spotting (and admiring) installations of bookshelf wallpaper...
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In a Modern London Addition, Books Come First
The homeowners of a remodeled London townhouse gave their books pride of place, but still managed an appealing (book-free) kitchen addition and a built-in den for their cat. Spotted on Dezeen;...
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A Modern Atelier in France, Books Included
Based just north of Paris, interior designer Marianne Evennou believes that houses have souls and are the "carriers of mysteries and stories"; her aim is to "create interior spaces that transcend...
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5 Favorites: Design-Worthy Book Covers
Would you cover your book collection in white paper and hand letter the titles on the spines? If we had the time, we probably would (yes, we are that fanatical). Here are five ideas for turning your...
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London's Most Beautiful Bookstore
In 2009, literary agents Sarah Lutyens and Felicity Rubinstein opened their Notting Hill bookshop (named after their eponymous literary agency, Lutyens & Rubinstein) on a simple premise: to...
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5 Favorites: Bookshelves for Small Space Living
Some days I reminisce about the simple and small living spaces I was surrounded by after my college years. My roommate and I lived in a Bauhaus-styled apartment building which had been completely...
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DIY: Accordion Book Keepsake with Angela Liguori
When photographing Angela Liguori's studio last week, I admired a small accordion book among her treasures, propped open to reveal a charming story by her son, Hani. "They're easy to make," she...
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Ask the Expert: Erik Heywood Talks Books
We've been following self-confessed bookworm Erik Heywood since 2007, when he started Books at Home, a blog devoted to bookshelves. He's since opened Book/Shop, an online shop where he sells vintage...
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Required Reading: Things We Made, by Roman & Williams
Have you lounged in the lobby at the Ace Hotel in New York, or dined at the Standard in the Meatpacking District, or thrilled to the decor at the Breslin? Then you should get your hands on a copy of...
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Required Reading: The Art of Fixing Things
Here is finally a book we all could find helpful—a reference book of how to fix things in the home or simply learn the basics of how to use a specific tool. We're definitely adding a copy to our...
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Required Reading: The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
British florist Constance Spry's image is at odds with who she was: a revolutionary flower decorator and an intensely creative teacher, gardener, cook, and friend. The glove-wearing gentility which...
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Required Reading: Nest by Truck
If you're like us, a slavish fan of Truck Furniture (and the owner's entire approach to design), you might be interested in their latest book, "Truck Nest." Osaka-based Truck, a collaborative venture...
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A Japanese Expat's Adventures in Cooking
What if you are a Japanese graduate student in Sweden who wants to cook your favorite Japanese dishes, but can't find the ingredients? If you are Moé Takemura, you turn this conundrum into your...
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Required Reading: Vegetable Literacy
This is a cookbook that assumes two things about you, that you like vegetables for the sake of their being vegetables and that you already know how to cook. If you fit into one (or more) of these...
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Required Reading: Belgian Designers and Their Interiors
For fans of all things Belgian (ourselves included), could there be anything more enticing than a voyeuristic view through almost 20 Belgian designer’s homes? Spotted on Blosem Blogs, lifestyle...
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Britain's Can-Do Garden Guru
The basic (and compelling) idea underscoring British journalist Alys Fowler's can-do gardening philosophy is that you can pretty much plant a garden anywhere—in boxes, or rusty tin cans even, if you...
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Required Reading: The New Safari
Essential reading for admirers of contemporary African design: "The New Safari" offers a look at landscapes, lodge architecture, and interior designs of more than a dozen safari camps that fuse...
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Cleaning Tips from a Hollywood Star? Strange but True
"I’m not a vegan, I don’t live off the grid, and I don’t wear hemp every day." That's Jessica Alba speaking, perhaps not the first person that pops to mind as the next guru of green living. But in her...
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Required Reading: Building with Cob and Using Natural Finishes
My greatest architectural pet peeve? Buildings (newer ones, in my observations) that don’t breathe. And by this, I mean interiors that are stuffy and feature a distinct lack of circulating air, which...
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Required Reading: New York City of Trees by Benjamin Swett
Just as pets resemble their owners, the 5.2 million trees that manage to survive in Manhattan and its boroughs closely echo the mad mix of humanity that calls the metropolis home. Some are young and...
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Open, Free, and Ready: A Cutting-Edge Bookstore in the Marais
In 1995, brother-sister team Alexandre and Marie Thumerelle found it impossible to source all the books and magazines they wanted from just one shop. Back then, and as is typical Parisian fashion, you...
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Required Reading: The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
It doesn't take us much convincing that the botanical world is an intoxicating one. But in case there are any non-believers out there, let us introduce you to Amy Stewart's latest book, The Drunken...
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Gift Guide for the Architect
Architects are a discerning bunch and that can make it tricky when it comes to buying them gifts (I know, I have two in my family). Here are six ideas that should pass muster. Above: "The ubiquitous...
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Required Reading: Artists' Handmade Houses
In his book Artists' Handmade Houses, writer Michael Gotkin takes us into the homes of thirteen artists and craftspeople in America (from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century), showing the...
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Required Reading: Rock the Shack
In Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons, and Hide-Outs, Sofia Borges and Sven Ehmann describe how for the first time, city dwellers outnumber people living in rural areas. The antidote...
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The New Bookstore Model: Book/Shop in Oakland, California
When you ask book enthusiast Erik Heywood about his new shop in Oakland's Temescal Alley, he'll first tell you: "We are not a bookstore, that's not really what we're doing. We're here to encourage...
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Announcing Our First Remodelista Book
Remodelista began as a group of design-obsessed friends with a mission to create a new resource, a digital guide devoted to demystifying the home design experience. Now, with our first foray into...
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Required Reading: The Architecture of Happiness
A while back I heard Swiss-Brit philosopher and writer, Alain de Botton give a talk and he proved to be a delightful mix of cerebral and witty. I've just finished his book The Architecture of Happiness...
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Required Reading: Daily Rituals
Does everyone long to find a daily ritual that unleashes new powers of invention, efficiency, focus—and hours of free time? As a habitual night worker (and morning sleeper), I certainly do. Which makes...
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Required Reading: From the Land
Have you dined at French Blue, lodged at Meadowwood, or taken a tipple at Harlan Estate? If so, you're probably a Howard Backen fan without knowing it. Delve into the architect's oeuvre in the recently...
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Gift Guide: For the Literati
I live with a book lover who, if he could, would spend his entire day reading about and researching the history of fly fishing. I myself have my own obsession: clean-lined design old and new. Here,...
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Required Reading: The Inspired Home, Nests of Creatives
Rizzoli’s newly released The Inspired Home: Nests of Creatives by Kim Ficaro and Todd Nickey is one of our favorite interiors books of late (the Remodelista book notwithstanding). It's a refreshing...
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Glasgow's Coolest Concept Store (and Coffee Bar)
If we lived in Glasgow, you would likely find us typing away on our laptops and slyly inserting ourselves into the meetings and workshops held by local artists and designers at All That Is Solid, a...
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Required Reading: Pretty Pastel Style
“Hear the word ‘pastel’ and you may instantly imagine the sugary pink of a little girl’s bedroom or the cheerful, springtime shades found on retro floral fabrics. Today, these saccharine visions are...
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Required Reading: Modern Originals: At Home with Midcentury European...
In 2005, San Francisco-based photographer Leslie Williamson decided to make a list of the houses of her favorite architects and designers with the idea of visiting them all in her lifetime. As she was...
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Required Reading: Lunch at the Shop by Peter Miller
Whenever I head back to my hometown of Seattle, I stop in at Peter Miller Books (and I always tell my design-minded friends to do the same). Two summers ago, after 25 years in the landmark Terminal...
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Current Obsessions: Summer Reading List
It's finally time to get to summer reading. Here's a look at the books—plus reading paraphernalia—on our list. Above: Edited by Joanne Dugan, Summertime is a "photography book about the essence of...
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Required Reading: Vintage Industrial
There's a poetry to the spare, nothing-but-essential shapes of industrial modern furniture—which explains its popularity and proliferation of late. Forthcoming book Vintage Industrial reminds us that...
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Required Reading: Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren
The New York Times calls Leonard Koren "a maker of deceptively modest books about deceptively modest subjects"—his topics include gravel and sand gardens, tea ceremonies, and flower shops. His book...
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Gift Guide: For the Young Bookworm
What to get for the kid who loves books—other than, well, more books? Get those, yes. But we've also rounded up some accessories that stand a good chance of pleasing the petit bibliophile. N.B.: To...
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Gift Guide: Cookbooks That Make Perfect Presents
I've come to treat cookbook purchases the way I approach shopping for clothes: I only buy what I know I'll put to use and want to have around for a long time. No impulse purchases. I feel the same way...
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Gift Guide 2014: Editors' Design Book Picks
A roundup of interiors books that we've covered this year, plus a few newly released titles. Above: Commune: Designed in California; $42.45 from Amazon. From LA's arbiters of eclectic cool, Commune's...
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Required Reading: Faculty Department
Surrounded by creative and inspiring people on a daily basis, New York fashion and lifestyle photographer Justin Chung decided to document the lives of artists, friends, and mentors. And this led to...
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Enter to Win: Heath Ceramics' "Tile Makes the Room" Giveaway
Are you as obsessed with tile as we are, but haven't had the chance to get your copy of Tile Makes the Room? We've partnered with Ten Speed Press to give a copy of the book to 20 lucky Remodelista...
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Required Reading: The Artful Wooden Spoon by Joshua Vogel
We've been fans of Josh Vogel's work since day one, ever since we spied his handcarved spoons at March in San Francisco. Now the architect turned master woodworker and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile...
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