Fred A. Bernstein

1 week ago | 1stdibs.com | Fred A. Bernstein

In 2007, when Adam Blackman and David Cruz moved their renowned design emporium, Blackman Cruz, from West Hollywood’s antiques district to Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the only other gallery nearby was JF Chen, owned by their competitor and friend Joel Chen. Eighteen years later, the neighborhood is full of design galleries. Blackman and Cruz, who thought of themselves as outsiders for decades, are now, at least geographically, mainstream.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Fred A. Bernstein

Steven Harris, a hugely successful architect of houses and apartments, and his husband Lucien Rees-Roberts, a prodigious interior designer, spend most weeknights in an elegantly appointed loft in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. For weekends they have a house, called Galloway Hill, in Kinderhook, New York; for vacations, there is a compound on an island in Croatia and a restored Midcentury Modern house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., eight miles southeast of Palm Springs.

1 month ago | 1stdibs.com | Fred A. Bernstein

New York–based interior designer Justin Charette is happy to give his clients what they want. But once he gets started on a project, he’s doesn’t go back to them with lots of questions. “People who hire me like someone who takes charge,” he explains.

1 month ago | 1stdibs.com | Fred A. Bernstein

It’s no wonder that every room designed by Los Angeles’s Julia Sobrepeña King reflects a range of influences. She began her career working for — and learning from — Southern Californian stalwarts Kelly Wearstler, Michael S. Smith and Waldo Fernandez. Then, she did stints with the hip L.A. firm Commune and the San Francisco master Charles de Lisle. By the time she opened Studio Roene, in 2021, she couldn’t imagine adopting just one style.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Fred A. Bernstein

Athol Fugard, an acclaimed South African playwright whose works explored the brutality of his country’s apartheid regime, using anger and empathy to protest the dehumanizing effects of racial segregation, died March 8 at his home in Stellenbosch, near Cape Town. He was 92. The cause was a heart incident, said his daughter, Lisa Fugard.