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What’s the Wallpaper on Camera Obscura’s “Let’s Get Out of This Country” Cover
Tracking down a floral wallpaper featured on the artwork for Camera Obscura’s “Let’s Get Out of This Country.”
It’s an Indie Pop Gem. But What’s on the Cover?
T Magazine|It’s an Indie Pop Gem. But What’s on the Cover? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/t-magazine/camera-obscura-wallpaper-artwork.html Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions.
How a Couple Turned Their Home Into a Design Laboratory
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How a Couple Turned Their Home Into a Design Laboratory At their 19th-century farmhouse on the Italian coast, the duo behind GamFratesi blend modern Scandinavian simplicity with Mediterranean warmth.
A Hotel Had the Perfect Chairs. How Do I Get Them at Home?
Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “I recently stayed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York (because I learned about it from your magazine) and loved it. In the lobby and bar, they have these diminutive, upholstered chairs with fringe along the bottom.
These Offbeat Wall Mirrors Do More Than Reflect
In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at wall mirrors with character, or pieces with unexpected details that are more akin to artworks than your standard reflective rectangle, and sure to make an impact wherever you hang them. Here are the favorites of Tom Delavan, T’s design editor. Image Credit...Courtesy of Wayfair 1.
This Summer, Toast Your Marshmallows in Style
It must be something primal that causes us to find comfort in the sight of a flickering candle or a wood-burning fire, and perhaps these tendencies are only heightened by long days spent staring instead at screens. While, when it comes to design, we often associate fire with wintry dens rich in hygge, flames can bring light and warmth to your outdoor space during peak summer and into fall.
My Wedding Gift Broke. How Can I Replace It?
Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “We received four of these wineglasses 50 years ago as a wedding present.
Wait, My Lamp Wasn’t Even Italian?
Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “I’m trying to identify a lamp that my parents gave me between 1980 and 1984, when we were living in Japan. Unfortunately, I have very little information about it.
Perfect Planters for Any Patio or Sunlit Room
In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at planters, those flat-bottomed, high-walled containers for growing flora that were present in ancient times and are still elemental design pieces today. Ranging from the ornamental to the minimal, the glazed ceramic to the faux rattan, here are the T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites. Credit...Courtesy of the brand 1.
Small Portable Lamps That Make a Big Impact
In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at portable lamps, the kind that can be charged, unplugged and carried from room to room and, in some cases, outside. From fresh takes to classics that have recently gone cordless, here are the favorites of T’s design editor, Tom Delavan. Credit...Courtesy of the brand 1. Ikea, $20 This battery-powered lamp emits a rosy glow, and the top can be tilted to direct the light.
Tracking Down a Vase From ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “I’ve been trying to find out who made the vase in the attached photo.
On the Trail of an Elusive Midcentury Chair
SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “My partner, Monica, and I own a 1946 Modernist home in Palm Springs, Calif.
The Best Coffee Tables on the Market Right Now
SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at coffee tables, those horizontal holders of art books, drinks and besocked feet that can set the aesthetic tone of an entire room. Here are T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites. Image Credit...Courtesy of the brand 1.
Where Do I Get That Sofa From “Call Me By Your Name”?
Welcome to Style Detective, a new series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions.
Colorful Patterned Quilts at a Range of Prices
1 Piece, 10 Budgets Whether striped, checked or neither, these textiles are sure to enhance any room. CreditCredit...Courtesy of the brands Oct. 2, 2025, 5:55 p.m. ET In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. Because fall is here and the weather will soon change — and because we believe in the power of good linens — this iteration is dedicated to quilts.
By In T's column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. Sectional sofas - comprising two or more pieces that can be rearranged - are often reserved for large rooms, but they can also help make the most of tight quarters, and tight budgets. Here are T design and interiors director Tom Delavan's favorites. Image
T’s Holiday Gift Guide: Chile Flakes, Cookie Candles and More
Hot Stuff Chile Toppings From Around the World From left: Pizza Marvin Slice Spice, $9, pizzamarvin.com; Fly by Jing Chengdu Crunch, $17, flybyjing.com; Daphnis and Chloe smoked chili flakes, $14, cloveandcreek.com; Bungkus Bagus Sambal Goreng chile topping, $22, bignightbk.com.Credit...Courtesy of the brands One of my go-to gifts over the years has been flavored salt — always useful on popcorn or around the rim of a margarita, I figure — but this season I plan to present my loved ones with a...
Shop '70s-Inspired Carpets by Dimore Studio
Lines formed around the block during Milan Design Week in April for the cinematic vignettes created by Dimore Studio, the design firm known for its layered interiors, which cleverly incorporate historical references. Once patient visitors got inside Dimore’s Brera headquarters and gallery, they were invited to peer through holes in the wall to see rooms including a psychiatrist’s office, a collector’s pied-à-terre and a seaside apartment.
In the Catskills, Seasonal Farmhouse Dinners With House-Made Beer
Step by Step The Designer Matilda Goad’s Beauty Regimen Left: Matilda Goad.
The New York Times
When an Italian architect was hired by his French agent to collaborate on an unusual triplex, they committed themselves to creating a space unburdened by the past.
A Culinary Retreat in the Berkshires Original
T Magazine|A Culinary Retreat in the Berkshires https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/t-magazine/husky-meadows-farm-berkshires.html Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. step by step The Chef Daniela Soto-Innes’s Beauty Regimen Left: Daniela Soto-Innes.
Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia
“It’s a cauldron of humanity pushed up against the ocean,” says the artist Doug Aitken about Venice Beach, the Los Angeles neighborhood where he lives. He could just as well be talking about his most recent piece, “Wilderness” (2022), an immersive multimedia installation currently on view at Manhattan’s 303 Gallery. The 12-minute video, projected on a number of large screens that form a circle, depicts a day at a beach less than a mile from Aitken’s house.
人気インテリア・スタイリストの ミニマルで心地よい ブルックリンの自宅を訪ねて - T JAPAN:The New York Times Style Magazine 公式サイト
1830年代の自宅アパートメントの装飾を必要最低限までそぎ落とすことで、余計な手を加えないことの威力を証明した、ブルックリンハイツのインテリア・スタイリストの世界観をクローズアップ BY TOM DELAVAN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY BLAINE DAVIS, TRANSLATED BY FUJIKO OKAMOTO...
A Parisian Home That Breaks With Tradition
When an Italian architect was hired by his French agent to collaborate on an unusual triplex, they committed themselves to creating a space unburdened by the past. One of two circular cement staircases Andrea Tognon designed for Julien Desselle’s Paris home. The floor is an abstract pattern of avocado quartzite and cement, and the large vases are by Massimo Micheluzzi, a renowned Venetian glass artist.Credit...Alexis Armanet Sept.
In His Own Home, an Interior Stylist Takes a Light Touch
by design By filling his 1830s Brooklyn Heights apartment with just the essentials, Colin King has created an oasis of calm. In the main room of Colin King’s Brooklyn apartment, a 1960s Pierre Jeanneret Kangaroo chair and a Charlotte Perriand Berger stool beside a Gerrit Rietveld Utrecht armchair from Cassina. In the background, a branch in a Thaddeus Wolfe vase and a Henry Moore plaster maquette on a 1970s travertine table.Credit...Blaine Davis Aug.
The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week
Herbal wines, a hotel on the French Riviera — and more. July 15, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com.
In Marrakesh, One Designer’s Adobe House Is as Colourful as Her Ceramics
Most days, the 28-year-old Belgian designer Laurence Leenaert can be found in her sunny studio in Sidi Ghanem, an industrial area of northwest Marrakesh where many of the city’s artisans produce their painted ceramics or leather goods.
A Manhattan Apartment That Pays Tribute to the City’s Jazz Age
By Design Inside an early Art Deco building, the designer Martin Brûlé has created an understated homage to New York’s vibrant past — and his own pioneering vision. In Martin Brûlé’s living room, a French Art Deco armchair, a Maurice Jallot cocktail table and a Jean-Michel Frank sofa from Ecart International.
The T List: Valentine’s Day Gift Guide, Part I
Decoupaged mementos, artisanal chocolates from Ghana — and more. Feb. 4, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. This week and next, we’ve turned it into a Valentine’s Day gift guide, with recommendations from T staffers and contributors on what to give your loved ones — or yourself. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com.
In Italy, a Fabric Designer’s Wildly Colorful Home
By Design Perched above the shores of Lake Como, the vibrant weekend house of Caterina Fabrizio is a shrine to pattern and texture. On the top floor of Caterina Fabrizio’s home in Como, Italy, Hermès Jardin d’Osier wallpaper, a sofa upholstered in Dedar’s Farniente outdoor twill, Giovanni Travasa for Bonacina armchairs with cushions in Dedar’s Tagomago, an African-inspired jacquard and a vintage kilim from India.
How to Refresh Your Home With Minimal Fuss
If you’re lucky enough to be healthy but bored, having already reorganized your spice rack and closet, you might be in need of another project to fill some of the remaining hours of self-isolation. Perhaps, like many of us, you’re also feeling overly familiar with every contour and corner of your home, and are longing for a not-too-daunting, not-too-costly way to refresh it. Here are a few simple home-décor projects you can accomplish without the need for outside help.
How to Refresh Your Home With Minimal Fuss
From reconsidering your lighting to upgrading your bedding, suggestions for making the space you’re isolating in feel new again. If you’re lucky enough to be healthy but bored, having already reorganized your spice rack and closet, you might be in need of another project to fill some of the remaining hours of self-isolation.
A Farmhouse Fantasy Tucked in the Woods of Upstate New York
By Design The interior designer Billy Cotton imbued a couple’s old Greek Revival home with European antiques, Americana-inspired accents — and an easygoing mood that recalls the region’s agrarian heyday. One of the features that attracted Derek Curl and Thomas Christos Kikis to their home in Andes, N.Y., was a weathered hemlock barn with a fieldstone ramp.Credit...Stephen Kent Johnson Published Feb. 27, 2020Updated Feb.
A Charming Swiss Home That Respects, and Reimagines, the Past
THE ITALIAN WORD patinare is often invoked at Studio Peregalli, the Milanese interior design and architecture firm co-founded by Laura Sartori Rimini and Roberto Peregalli 27 years ago. The term, which translates to “patinate,” is rarely used as a verb in English, generally because it’s something that’s accomplished by time, not by human interference.
The T List: Colorful Cardigans, Tokyo’s Most Exciting Neighborhood and More
What to wear, see and know about this week, from the editors of T Magazine. Oct. 2, 2019, 2:19 p.m. ET Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we’re sharing five things we are eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. We hope you’ll join us for the ride.
The T List: What to Know About, Wear and Smell This Week
Jell-O as art, repurposed Roman coins and more. Sept. 25, 2019, 2:22 p.m. ET Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we’re sharing five things we are eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. We hope you’ll join us for the ride.
How a Design-Dealing Couple Turned a School Gymnasium Into a Home
“WE HAD NO IDEA what we were doing,” says Sam Pratt of the first show he and Valerio Capo staged in London 13 years ago — a surprising declaration from the co-owner of Gallery Fumi, one of today’s most respected design dealers in the world, with an exhibition space in Mayfair and a roster of famous British designers including Max Lamb and Faye Toogood.
光陰の矢の先にあるもの＜前編＞ ――12世紀オーストリアの城に 現代のキュレーターが移り住んだら - T JAPAN:The New York Times Style Magazine 公式サイト
BY TOM DELAVAN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON WATSON, TRANSLATED BY MIHO NAGANO ボローニャで過ごした子ども時代、キュレーターのアリス・ストリ・リヒテンシュタインは、ルキノ・ヴィスコンティの1963年の映画『山猫』のワンシーンに心奪われていた。貴族の若い男、タンクレディが、彼の一族が所有する城にいったいいくつの部屋があるのかと聞かれたときに、こう答えるのだ。「誰も知らないんだ。僕の伯父ですら知らない」。そしてこう続ける。「伯父はすべての部屋が把握できてしまうような城は、住むには及ばないと言うんだ」。 それから20年あまりが過ぎた2000年代の初頭、彼女はのちに夫となるアルフレッド・リヒテンシュタインとともに、オーストリア東部の丘陵地帯にある彼の先祖代々の家、ホレネック城を初めて訪ねた。そこで彼女は、まったく同じ質問を彼にぶつけてみた。「僕もすべての部屋に入ったことはないと思うな」と彼は答えた。一族が200年近くにわたって所有してきたこの城を、彼が26歳のときに相続したにもかかわらず（ちなみに、部屋数の合計は52室だ）。...
How an Eight-Month Trip Shifted the Course of Art History (Published 2018)
Histories and Happenings In the early ’50s, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly traveled together through Italy and Morocco, transforming more than just their own careers. Much of the surviving work from Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly’s trip across Europe and North Africa from 1952 to 1953 consists of photographs taken by the artists. Left: Twombly, shot by Rauschenberg.
First He Built a Set of Stairs. Then He Built Somewhere for Them to Lead.
“I didn’t decide to move to Tangier so much as I just dribbled into it,” says Jonathan Dawson, an affable 67-year-old Englishman who has divided his time over the last two decades between Morocco and Spain.
In Marrakesh, One Designer’s Adobe House Is as Colorful as Her Ceramics
Taken as a whole, the space reflects a modern way of thinking that privileges beauty but not preciousness. In the bedrooms, Leenaert’s tapestries are thrown casually over the beds, and her canvases are stacked against the wall. The same is true at the studio. A fast painter, Leenaert isn’t one to obsess over a less-than-perfect line. When she started out, some of her local collaborators were taken aback by her freewheeling approach.
The 10 Best Pieces at This Year’s Design Miami (Published 2013)
Design Miami, the nine-year-old satellite fair to Art Basel in Miami Beach, is known for showcasing works by modern masters like Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand. This year proved no different, with prefab houses by both on display (Prouvé’s built within the Design Miami tent, Perriand’s on the beach behind the Raleigh Hotel). But in addition to the large-scale showstoppers, there were numerous more intimate works of interest. Many dealers showed jewelry or decorative objects alongside furniture.
When a 21st-Century Family Moves Into a 12th-Century Castle
AS A CHILD in Bologna, the curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein was enchanted by a scene in Luchino Visconti’s 1963 film, “The Leopard,” in which the young nobleman Tancredi is asked how many rooms are in his family’s castle. “No one knows, not even Uncle,” he responds.
Creative People’s Stunning Homes, All Over the World
For almost 30 years, the former interiors editor Dara Caponigro and the photographer Melanie Acevedo have collaborated on design stories. They’ve shot people in their homes all over the world, from Nicky Haslam in his London flat and Lin Tianmiao’s home in Beijing to the artist Lia Chavez’s meditative Long Island cottage. Over that time, they found that the subjects that stand out share one quality: authenticity. So they decided to produce a book on the topic.
Where an Iconic East Village Photographer Lived
Two years after the New York School photographer Saul Leiter died, François Halard had the good fortune to come across the East Village apartment where Leiter lived for more than half a century. Leiter had created some of his best-known work there: gritty scenes of Manhattan streets in the ’50s and ’60s. There was almost nothing left but the barest traces of Leiter’s life — boxes of photographs, a paper lantern, an unfinished sketchbook, a lonely chair — which Halard documents in a new book.
An All-Gray Apartment That’s Not Blah - But Not Hygge Either
In the paintings of the 19th-century Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi, the color gray achieves a beguiling incandescence. His introspective interiors, which feature the simple, classical architecture of 18th-century Copenhagen apartments bathed in Scandinavia’s soft northern light, present havens of timeless tranquillity. Entering Oliver Gustav’s home is not unlike stepping into one of Hammershoi’s paintings.
A New Collection of High-Gloss Furniture and Accessories
For a new line for James Lowther’s Lacquer Company, Ben Pentreath (owner of the London shop Pentreath & Hall and decorator to William and Kate) stays true to his reputation as someone who lovingly upends classic British design. A Georgian-style night-stand, for instance, is done in slick olive green with a shocking robin’s egg blue interior.
A Potter’s Appealing Artistry, Broadcast on Social Media
Eric Landon, the co-founder of Tortus, a pottery studio in Copenhagen, has won serious accolades, including the 2015 Danish Design Award for Craftsman of the Year, for his work: simple, organic shapes glazed in appealingly muted pastels.
Musings on the Toilet
I know I sound like Andy Rooney, but when I arrive at a hotel, jet-lagged and bleary-eyed, I don’t want to have to figure out the faucet. I don’t want a design statement or an abstract objet. These are moments when I long for the familiar — and a handle clearly marked on or off, hot or cold, shower or tub. It seems that many Modernists have oversimplified in the name of progress and novelty at the expense of utility.
The Clock That Time Cannot Improve
Anyone who travels is familiar with the large flip-board displays indicating the gate of your plane, train or bus. Their distinctive shuffling sound, which sends travelers scurrying like a well-orchestrated flash mob, is so synonymous with departure that when Boston’s North Station upgraded its boards to LED displays, they were programmed to emit the familiar clicketyclack, as much for nostalgia as for necessity: How else to get passengers to look up from their phones?
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