Interior Design & Decor

There isn’t much demand for minimalist design at my house. My 7-year-old twins have never seen a white surface they didn’t think could use a little color. (Sol LeWitt, because he got to draw on walls, is already the boys’ favorite artist.) As for furniture, none of those spare, Modernist chairs, like Karim Rashid’s Oh or even Gerrit Rietveld’s Zig-Zag, will do. Their favorite place to sit is anywhere on Daddy, and that they have explained just a bit too enthusiastically is because Daddy is sq…

The furniture designer Jason Miller rented and renovated a Brooklyn one-bedroom on a $5,000 budget, drawing inspiration from the polyester and plastic of 1970s design.

Two lines of attractive young white-jacketed waiters stood MGM-ready at the 10th annual National Design Awards gala, held in New York last week.

Most New York City apartment buildings are a stack of identical boxes, but three apartments in a Brooklyn high-rise show how radically different places can be inside.

A client and her designer trade ideas (and barbs) en route to a happy ending on a tight budget.

The cinematographer Claudio Miranda’s dark, awkward hillside home in Los Angeles was transformed into an open space filled with light.

From Mayr & More health spa, deep in Austria, the British interior designer extraordinaire and irrepressible party giver and -goer Nicholas Haslam explained his whereabouts: “Well, my dear, I needed to shape up!” Haslam, 70, was there to prepare for the November release of his memoir, “Redeeming Features” (Knopf). The book is set on a planet akin to earth but peopled only with the famous and the fabulous. And so he paints watercolors for Princess Michael of Kent, gives a party for the Rol…