Michael Mundy

1 month ago | curbed.com | Michael Mundy |Wendy Goodman

Nearly 40 years ago, Claude-Noëlle Toly noticed an ad for a third-floor walk-up in the window of a real-estate office in Greenwich Village. The initial listing wasn’t promising. The 275-square-foot studio had beat-up wooden floors and small windows, and what passed for a fireplace was a hole in the wall. There was no kitchen. Such a place used to be called a “handyman special.” No glamour; just nuts and bolts.

Oct 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Michael Mundy |Christina Binkley

Inside Elaine Wynn’s Las Vegas HomeMichael Mundy"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." ‘‘There’s nothing like a call from Elaine,” says Michael Govan. Elaine is Elaine Wynn, and Govan, CEO and executive director of the largest art museum in the west, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was reminiscing about the time some years ago when she called Senator Harry Reid to urge him to get behind a new national monument outside Las Vegas.

Dec 12, 2023 | architecturaldigest.com | Mitchell Owens |Michael Mundy |Dorcia Kelley

Once an iconic Manhattan apartment building enters the conversation, expect AD100 interior designer Michael S. Smith to fall into a swoon. Not literally, of course, but mentally. A recent project with such an effect was a duplex penthouse atop a soigné shaft of Art Deco limestone on the edge of the Upper East Side. “With the East River below, with its tugboats and pleasure craft, the building has a cinematic quality.