Sarah Medford

New York, United States

Contributing Editor at The Wall Street Journal

Contributor at Freelance

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On plummy Madison Avenue, Amanda Ross Bacon’s apartment is perfectly Parisian

2 weeks ago | worldofinteriors.com | Sarah Medford |Ngoc Minh Ngo

With a tank full of gas and a trunk as empty as the sky over the Intracoastal Waterway, Amanda Ross Bacon, driving a black SUV, left the rental car terminal at Palm Beach airport and headed east. Beside her, fitfully punching addresses into the GPS, was Muriel Brandolini, ready to start shopping for the apartment her friend had just acquired on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From Botticelli to Basquiat, Casalta Makes a Home for Art

2 weeks ago | sothebys.com | Sarah Medford

It was an odd painting, no question about it. Jan Sanders van Hemessen’s “Christ as Triumphant Redeemer,” dating from the mid-1540s, had unusual looks and a twisted backstory, both intriguing to Catherine and Nathan Bruckner when they spotted the work in the winter of 2019 at a Sotheby’s Old Master preview in New York.
The Rebirth of the Palisades Through the Eyes of a Decorator

1 month ago | wsj.com | Sarah Medford

By Sarah Medford | Photography by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson for WSJ. Magazine Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:45This article is in your queue. For as long as she can remember, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been living inside Peter Dunham’s head—or at least inside the handcrafted, multicolor world the interior designer conjured for her, down to the pottery on her nightstand and the nightstand itself. “Peter understands the psychology of home,” Louis-Dreyfus says.
How Lee Krasner Became a Fashion Muse

Feb 13, 2025 | sothebys.com | Sarah Medford

Long overshadowed by her male peers—especially her husband Jackson Pollock—the abstract expressionist is slowly getting the recognition she deserves. Fashion designer Ulla Johnson celebrates Krasner’s exuberant, exacting work in a new collection for spring.
Interior Designer Rose Uniacke Is Behind New York’s Most Anticipated Club

Feb 13, 2025 | wsj.com | Sarah Medford

By | Photography by Simon Upton for WSJ. Magazine Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:57This article is in your queue. One Friday night last November, the British interior designer Rose Uniacke was standing on a sidewalk outside 36 Dover Street, the London flagship boutique of fashion designer Victoria Beckham, thinking about concrete. Inside, a glacial array of white walls, mirrored columns, a diamond-gridded concrete ceiling and staircase awaited like a primed canvas.
Visiting Gloria Steinem in Her Longtime Manhattan Brownstone

Dec 12, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Sarah Medford |William Abranowicz

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. After moving to New York City in her mid-20s, Gloria Steinem made a list of the things about it that scared her. One of those things was dining—specifically, the fact that people in New York tended to sit down for meals rather than stand in front of an open refrigerator.
Inside Painter Walton Ford’s Revived West Village Town House

Nov 14, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Sarah Medford |Michael Turek

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Walton Ford’s town house, in the meandering heart of Greenwich Village, is the one with the lion’s-head knocker on its front door. Of course it is: For decades now the artist has made a subject of animals, the more ferocious-looking the better, the ones people go on safari to ogle through binoculars.
Inside Painter Walton Ford’s Revived West Village Town House

Nov 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sarah Medford

The façade of the 1830 house. A Joe Andoe painting of a horse hangs with other artworks in the hallway. Ford in the living room. Luctus, a 2024 work on paper by Ford. Art: © Walton Ford/Kasmin, New York. A vintage bed is tucked into an alcove to create a guest room on the top floor. Walls in Pale Moon and Oceanic Teal by Benjamin Moore. Another view of the cozy primary bedroom. Schoolhouse sconces; Custom-made curtains of Schumacher’s Sinhala linen.
A Star Designer’s Glorious Home on Mallorca

Nov 4, 2024 | sothebys.com | Sarah Medford

Pedaling to fourth grade homeroom through Newport Beach, California, Michael Smith would stop his bike on a steep hill and find himself engulfed in fog and the heady smell of eucalyptus. He recently experienced the combination on Mallorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands. “The heat and fragrance and ocean—that’s what Mallorca is like too,” Smith says, conjuring the moment of freedom of being nine years old, at the helm of a bike. “It’s a paradisiacal version of California.
Hidden in the Dunes

Sep 11, 2024 | sothebys.com | Sarah Medford

Reed and Delphine Krakoff have lived in some enviable houses in their 25 years together. They have shared a seven-story town house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side; a Connecticut estate built by copper heiress Huguette Clark; a Parisian hôtel particulier; and Lasata, once the East Hampton, New York, summer home of the young Jacqueline Bouvier, which they sold in 2018.