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Wendy Goodman

Design Editor
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Wendy Goodman is Curbed and New York Magazine’s design editor. She began as the magazine’s fashion editor in 1984 and began writing the “Design Hunting” column in 2007. She is the author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt and May I Come In? and co-authored Tony Duquette with Hutton Wilkinson.

  1. great rooms
    North Fork PerchAn architect couple did a number on a cottage set high above the Long Island Sound.
  2. great rooms
    The Tree House Next DoorA 19th-century brownstone is restored with a French twist and an interior courtyard.
  3. the hamptons issue
    Richard Avedon Lived HereA couple has preserved the Montauk property built by the photographer nearly 50 years ago. Minus the erosion, things look just about the same.
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    Where the Guests Sing For Their SupperAt the home of a Gramercy couple, chicken potpie dinners are followed with Cole Porter by the piano.
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    They Rescued a Teardown and Raised the RoofAn artist couple renovated a neglected Connecticut country house with enough space for an art collection and their own work.
  6. design month
    Wendy Goodman’s Picks For Her Dream Apartment From TEFAF New YorkAn Alexandre Noll ebony trio, two Giacomettis, and a marvelously weathered chair.
  7. design edit
    Marble Dominated Milan Design WeekTen Alcova picks by Wendy Goodman.
  8. great rooms
    The House Museum in Washington HeightsThe home of the artist George Nelson Preston, a seminal Beat Generation figure, is full of personal history.
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    Nick Poe’s Houseplant Hot SpotThe Lower East Side loft of the architectural designer is filled with monsteras, spider plants and umbrella trees.
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    The Minimalist’s Soho LoftThe curator Jessica Morgan avoids overdecorating at home. “Frankly, I don’t like having things,” she says. “We’re not really tchotchkes people.”
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    The Family That Wallpapers TogetherRumaan Alam and David Land, with their two sons, downsized toa three-bedroom in Fort Greene and then colormaxxed everything.
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    A Couple’s Clinton Hill Rental, Sunny-Side UpKiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli are unapologetic color maximalists, and their home is awash in rich yellows, browns and reds, plus Goti’s own designs.
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    This Old Sea-Biscuit FactoryThe poet Paul Muldoon and the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz wanted to live in the 19th century, architecturally speaking, so they relocated to Fidi.
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    The Cuban House of SpiritsThe home of the artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda is a monument to the tropics in Fort Greene.
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    The Palazzo on Beekman PlaceA pied-à-terre in a 1925 building overlooking the East River channels Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venice.
  16. year in review
    Wendy Goodman’s Most-Read Stories of 2025From Amy Sedaris’s tree-house guest apartment to a countess’s hunting lodge in Southampton.
  17. great rooms
    Where the Wild Chairs AreDesigner Minjae Kim’s unconventional furniture upends his traditional prewar apartment in Bed Stuy.
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    2588 New York Magazine Susan Forristal
    The Supermodel in the Village Walk-upSusan Forristal’s parlor apartment on East 10this a shrine to a bygone era of downtown glamour.
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    Indiana Jones of Perry StreetA designer fills his 700-square-foot railroad in the West Village with antique finds from his travels.
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    The Home Gallery in the Soho LoftA young couple with a growing art collection reimagines the top floor of a 1903 cast-iron building.
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    The Horace Gifford Beach House Rescued by Art-School FriendsThey had two months to bring back to life a 1966 home in the Fire Island Pines.
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    2568 New York Magazine Doug Meyer
    Fraggle Rock in HudsonDoug Meyer’s Wyldlands in the Hudson Valley is a three-story home channeling Jim Henson, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Antoni Gaudí.
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    The Amagansett Home Called the SwitchbladeA Steven Harris-designed family home on a bluff overlooks an epic pool and the bay.
  24. neighborhood news
    The Rooftop Gallery Next DoorAdam Zhu’s 9-by-15-foot shed draws the art crowd.
  25. great rooms
    Opening a Wall in a North Fork RentalArchitect and designer Michael Yarinsky cut a window in a wall to make room for dinner.
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    Inside Amy Sedaris’s Guest ApartmentThere’s a dollhouse in a fireplace, a “full-tilt gingham” bedroom and wallpaper by Sarah Jessica Parker.
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    This Used to Be the Ex-Lax FactoryA whitewashed box inside an industrial building dating to the turn of the 20th century in Boerum Hill gets a deep-plane face-lift.
  28. the hamptons issue
    Who Is the Countess Living in the Port of Missing Men?An 85-year-old noble is determined to protect a hunting lodge in Southampton dating to the Jazz Age.
  29. great rooms
    A Jackson Heights Couple Covered Their One-Bedroom in Floor-to-Ceiling MuralsJames McGann and Madison Berg decorated their apartment with Craigslist finds and paints from the Home Depot “Oops” section.
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    Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell Are Leaving Their Yale SuburbThe couple behind Moss on selling their Connecticut Colonial and paring down decades’ worth of design treasures.
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    A Taste of Oaxaca on Bank StreetJuan Carretero’s restored apartment channels his family’s ancestral home in Mexico.
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    Kenny Schachter’s Uptown PlayhouseA downtown art-scene refugee packed his “Lower Upper East Side” townhouse with his own work, including a life-size dinosaur sculpture in the garden.
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    A Giant Williamsburg Loft for Tiny ConcertsTwo musicians live in a former shoe-polish factory where they host the occasional performance by friends.
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    A Dispatch From Milan’s Annual Furniture FairThe world’s biggest design showcase featured on-site installations in historic palazzos, private apartments, and an abandoned factory.
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    The East Village Duplex Filled With TV PropsEvery surface in Shawn Patrick Anderson’s one-bedroom apartment is covered with set pieces, including the ceiling.
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    My Own Private AvignonClaude-Noëlle Toly’s 275-square-foot studio feels worlds away from Bleecker Street.
  37. great rooms
    Unraveling a Maze of Rooms in Greenwich VillageAn LA couple bought their pied-à-terre sight unseen. Architect Andrew Franz opened it up.
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    A Fun House in a Fifth Avenue Co-opDesigner Dan Friedman used folding screens, fountains, and occasionally trash to transform his white-walled apartment.
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    The Hudson Valley Log Cabin No One WantedFurniture designer Jake Szymanski grew up in a Colorado log house. He thought he’d never want to live in one again.
  40. great rooms
    A Wood-Paneled Renovation Turns Two Units Into OneDanielle Fennoy used curved walls and concrete floors to fuse two adjacent apartments.
  41. great rooms
    Brushing Up Scott Csoke’s East Williamsburg RailroadThe artist took a can of pink paint to an otherwise ho-hum rental.
  42. great rooms
    A Cabin in the Middle of St. Marks PlaceCharles FitzGerald and Kathy Cerick transformed a seven-bedroom SRO loft by hand using reclaimed wood.
  43. great rooms
    John Derian’s Apartment Is Full of Wonderful ThingsPapier-mâché birds, découpage, flea-market finds from Paris, antiques, furniture he designed himself that was inspired by antiques — and more.
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    ‘I’m Not Designing for You. I’m Not Designing for Me.’Nine years after turning down a role on Queer Eye, Jeremiah Brent on joining the show and decorating on a $40,000 budget.
  45. great rooms
    Two Texans in WilliamsburgDavid Nuss and Sarah Martin-Nuss tried to decorate their house on their own — until they realized they needed help.
  46. year in review
    Curbed’s Most-Read Great Rooms Stories of 2024From an Amagansett retreat with a children’s cottage to the Nashville artist living in the National Arts Club.
  47. great rooms
    Keeping It Simple on Lower FifthJack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro’s apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
  48. gift guide
    The Best New Books to Give Architecture and Design EnthusiastsFrom a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.
  49. great rooms
    Artist Vivian Reiss’s Murray Hill House of WhimsyA brownstone that’s pink inside.
  50. why this looks like that
    A Dutch Designer’s Grand Return to New YorkHella Jongerius’s first collaboration with Salon 94 features experimental textiles and a full cast of clay animals.
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