Friday, April 29, 2011

Home & Garden

At Home With Moby

A Castle for the King of Techno

Moby stands in his pool house, which has a view of the Hollywood Hills.
Trevor Tondro for The New York Times

Moby stands in his pool house, which has a view of the Hollywood Hills.

Moby, once the ultimate downtown New York musician, now lives in a 1920s castle in the Hollywood Hills.

Design Notebook

Kips Bay Decorated, and Curated

Designers flexed their curatorial muscles at the annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House, animating their spaces with contemporary art.

As Buds Open, So Do Doors: Home and Garden Tours, 2011

Throughout the Northeast and beyond, there are mansions, studio apartments, bungalows and row houses to suit every taste.

Domestic Lives

Cooking With Children

With small children in the equation, a father tries to cook and clean up as he serves Sunday brunch, but success is elusive.

Shopping With Michael Devine

Garden Stools

Michael Devine, a fabric designer, shops for garden stools that are decorative outdoors or inside.

Habitats

Her Decorators? Flotsam & Jetsam

Deborah Lutz’s apartment reflects her keen interest in the 19th century — taxidermy, mourning jewelry and all.

The Kips Bay Decorator Show House, Room by Room

Spaces by a dozen of the designers featured in the show house.

Moby’s Castle in the Hollywood Hills

The musician spent $2 million restoring a 1920s house with views of Beachwood Canyon and the Hollywood Reservoir.

Remaking a Studio Apartment at the Villa Carlotta

A renter with a talent for D.I.Y. projects aggressively redecorated her studio in an old Hollywood building.

Currents
Q&A;

Lisa Occhipinti, Author of ‘The Repurposed Library’

The artist, who turns old books into functional objects like lamps, mirrors and fire screens, has written her own book with a how-to guide.

Seating

A Stackable Chair With an Artistic Bent

L’Eau, a new chair from the Italian company Calligaris, has a seat with a gently curving shape and a semi-transparent concentric-wave design.

Shows

A Photo Exhibit That Honors Trees With a Past

“Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story,” an outdoor photo exhibition, opens Saturday at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, N.Y.

Open

A Manhattan Pop-Up for F. P. Victoria & Son

Frederick P. Victoria & Sons, a 78-year-old company known for antiques, reproductions and custom pieces, will have a pop-up store in Manhattan in May.

Lighting

LED Bulbs That Try to Please the Eye

Switch Lighting mounts outward-facing LEDs on metal fingers and cools them with an inert liquid, creating a warmer, brighter output.

Deals

Sales at Ligne Roset, John Robshaw and Others

Discounts on furniture, bedding, linens and carpets.

From the Great Homes Section
On Location

In France, a Home Nestled in Nature

The 19th-century stone-and-glass structure sits on an acre amid a fruit orchard and the thicket of chestnut, oak and beech trees.

What You Get for ... $650,000

A 1910 house in Austin, Tex.; a log house on the Deschutes River in Oregon; and a condo in an 1850 carriage house in Boston.

House Hunting in ... Prague

Even with the economic crisis, the apartment inventory most popular with foreigners has not seen a dramatic drop in prices.

The Scoop iPhone App

An insider’s guide to what to eat, drink and do in New York, including a category on our favorite home furnishing stores, compiled by the editors and reporters in the Home section and T Magazine.