Kurt Soller

Sep 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller |Chris Mottalini

THERE'S A COMMON belief among many longtime New Yorkers that, in order to love the city, you have to leave it regularly. For the minimalist residential and commercial architect Robert Finger, 57, that's long meant escaping to his family's Cape Cod cottage, built circa 1918 in the dunes along the Atlantic Ocean in Wellfleet, Mass., which he first visited when he was a month old.

Sep 13, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller

After years of pandemic delays and Hollywood strikes, the Toronto International Film Festival, which concludes on Sunday, felt particularly alive this year. Unlike recent years, there was no surefire hit like "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022) or "Oppenheimer" (2023) that premiered in the spring or summer, which added excitement and uncertainty going into awards season.

Aug 22, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller

How a couple transformed a tumbledown shepherd's hut into a spare but functional retreat with views of the Balearic Sea. In the stone shed that Tyson Strang and Tatiana Baibabaeva refurbished outside Sóller, a village on the Spanish island of Majorca, a vintage bed with Society Limonta linens overlooking an outdoor sitting area and olive grove. Credit...

Jul 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller

Unlike, say, Milan or New York, Paris isn't a city that hides its beauty behind closed doors. Most of the French capital's grand boulevards are, of course, lined with Haussmannian buildings, their stone facades and wrought-iron balconies as elegant as the herringbone parquet floors and marble fireplaces inside.

May 13, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller

Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared at a JW Anderson runway show. The textile artist Patrick Carroll, photographed at his Los Angeles studio on Feb. 21, 2024, surrounded by some of his pieces. Credit... Abdi Ibrahim Four years ago, the writer and textile artist Patrick Carroll helped his father, who'd developed a neurodegenerative disorder, to arrange his physician-assisted suicide in California.