Craig Kellogg

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Craig Kellogg

NEW YORK – Thirty years ago, a New Yorker with a sharp eye and a strong back could still find and rescue an Eames chair from a midtown dumpster. Those with greater means, and less patience, might buy marble pedestal tables and Swedish flat-woven rugs at furniture dealers, like Lin-Weinberg Gallery and Wyeth, that were wedged between ice cream shops and eyewear boutiques in the city’s walkable neighbourhoods.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Craig Kellogg |Ashok Sinha

The city's new designer décor showrooms are hidden away from foot traffic, making shopping for furniture feel like visiting a speakeasy. Lawson-Fenning, a Los Angeles furniture maker, opened a New York location in a loft space this year. The city's new designer décor showrooms are hidden away from foot traffic, making shopping for furniture feel like visiting a speakeasy. Lawson-Fenning, a Los Angeles furniture maker, opened a New York location in a loft space this year. Credit...

Dec 12, 2024 | nytimes.com | Craig Kellogg |Ashok Sinha

Each year, Emily Eerdmans, a design historian, and her husband, Andrew McKeon, an environmentalist, transform their rented Manhattan duplex apartment into a freewheeling holiday bazaar. The chandelier's blinking disco bulbs cast colored light on a 13-foot Christmas tree and metallic balloons in the parlor gallery of Eerdmans Fine Art, in Greenwich Village. Credit...

Nov 27, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Craig Kellogg

During her childhood in Kolkata, India, it was customary for Divya Saraf to dive straight into some of the stickiest foods with her fingers. That was the culinary tradition; she would never have asked for utensils. But as a design curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Saraf admires the growing global cadre of architects and artisans who satisfy diners as hungry for stunning tableware as they are for gourmet cuisine.

Nov 26, 2024 | startribune.com | Craig Kellogg

Beach modernism style offers sand, sea and soulAn architectural firm uses the sky, the ocean and dunes as muses for clients in the Hamptons. The New York TimesNovember 26, 2024 at 5:12PMA view of Mecox Bay behind a home in Water Mill, N.Y, in May 2024. (ASHOK SINHA/The New York Times)In 1980s Sagaponack, a village in the Hamptons, new houses were awash in shingles and classical columns, to the dismay of the architect Fred Stelle. “It was raging postmodernism,” he said, still sounding bewildered.