Fred A. Bernstein

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

View 4 PhotosDespite being in their 80s and 90s, many of the trailblazing architect’s clients never gave up on the dream. View 4 PhotosAs a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s November 2006 issue. In West Lafayette, Indiana, John Christian is preparing to give 83 kindergartners a tour of his house, in which triangles appear in one unusual detail after another.

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

Despite being in their 80s and 90s, many of the trailblazing architect’s clients never gave up on the dream. As a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s November 2006 issue. In West Lafayette, Indiana, John Christian is preparing to give 83 kindergartners a tour of his house, in which triangles appear in one unusual detail after another.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.