Catherine Hong

Hastings-on-Hudson

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Host at K-Pod

Articles

Here's What Happened When I Let A.I. Design My House

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

I Let A.I. Design My Home. Here's What Happened Courtesy of Rooms GPTThe other day my son found me in a frenzy of speed-tidying. I was hastily stashing appliances in cabinets, fluffing cushions, and muttering about coats left on chairs. Then I started snapping photos on my phone and fussing some more. “Move over — you're in my picture!” I barked, swatting him out of the frame. “What are you doing?” he asked. “I’m cleaning up for the AI!” I snapped.
Tour Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s Art Deco Home in New York

Dec 10, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Catherine Hong |Douglas Friedman |Anita Sarsidi

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There’s a glamorous chaise longue smack in the middle of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s bathroom. With its tufting and plush white upholstery, it’s the kind of piece you’d imagine a femme fatale lounging on in a 1940s MGM picture—and in fact that was sort of its inspiration.
Tour Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s Art Deco Home in New York

Dec 10, 2024 | msn.com | Catherine Hong
Tour Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s Art Deco Home in New York

Dec 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

Ripa, in a Guest in Residence sweater, Vince skirt, and Gianvito Rossi pumps, and Consuelos, wearing a Double RL sweater, Canali jeans, and Rolex watch, in the media lounge. Custom black lacquer folding screen in the manner of Eileen Gray; Francis Jourdain floor lamp from Fortuna Modernism; bespoke sleeper sofa upholstered in Dualoy leather; fiber optic cocktail table from Arts Du XX. Art: Jesse Alexander/Staley-Wise Gallery, New York.
Tour Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s Art Deco Home in New York

Dec 10, 2024 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

1 / 9Tour Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s Art Deco Home in New YorkRipa, in a Guest in Residence sweater, Vince skirt, and Gianvito Rossi pumps, and Consuelos, wearing a Double RL sweater, Canali jeans, and Rolex watch, in the media lounge. Custom black lacquer folding screen in the manner of Eileen Gray; Francis Jourdain floor lamp from Fortuna Modernism; bespoke sleeper sofa upholstered in Dualoy leather; fiber optic cocktail table from Arts Du XX.
Jessica Seinfeld Talks Social Change and Her New Cookbook

Nov 19, 2024 | yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

A Force for GoodMark Weinberg"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Not Too Sweet is the sixth publication from Jessica Seinfeld, the bestselling cookbook author and wife of Jerry Seinfeld. And with it, the author confesses she’s hit a bittersweet milestone. “It’s probably my last cookbook,” she says.
Children’s Search-and-Find Picture Books - The New York Times

Nov 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Catherine Hong

Perhaps the ultimate test is whether it merits a reread, even after all the objects have been found.
Does Your Apartment Have “Blank Slate” Problems?

Oct 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

Does Your Apartment Have “Blank Slate” Problems? Adrian GautNever underestimate the power of a niche. This is one lesson you learn upon exploring this coolly elegant Upper East Side residence with interior design and architecture by the firm of Nannette Brown. Take the vestibule, where a semicircular recessed seating area sheathed floor to ceiling in zellige tile offers a striking perch for changing shoes.
These Korean Women Are the Real Masters of Longevity

Oct 11, 2024 | yahoo.com | Catherine Hong

These Korean Women Are Masters of LongevityHasisi Park / Apple TV+They are often referred to as “Korea’s mermaids,” but documentarian Sue Kim prefers another characterization for the legendary deep-sea divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island. “They’re like an underwater secret girl gang,” she says.
‘You’re a girl?’ The duo taking on the male-dominated plastering world

Oct 9, 2024 | theguardian.com | Catherine Hong

If there was a low point in the history of Kamp Studios, it had to have been the day in 2010 when Kim Collins and Amy Morgenstern found themselves lugging every single quarter, dime, nickel and penny they had scrounged up from their apartment to pour into a coin-counting machine at a Brooklyn branch of TD Bank. The women, then partners in both work and life, were barely making rent while trying to keep their plastering business afloat.