Stephen Treffinger

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Stephen Treffinger

"A lot of my work was making sure things felt like they could be in New York and still have Pedro's signature style," said Ms. Weinberg by phone. A great many modifications were made to the home, including repainting all the interior walls a warmer white, replacing all of the existing furniture and objects, covering the pale wood elements with slightly darker and warmer cladding - even landscaping the grounds to represent the American Northeast and to include some bright red flowers.

3 weeks ago | interiordesign.net | Stephen Treffinger

The art gallery ideal has long been a white box, but, for the Edes Building in Morgan Hill, California, KTGY was after something different. The two-story, 6,800-square-foot structure, which houses both Cura Contemporary, a gallery, and Véra, a wine bar and restaurant, leverages the visual and tactile warmth of wood to enhance the experience of viewing the artworks (and dining on the eatery’s New American dishes). KTGY sought for the mass-timber framework itself to be viewed as sculpture.

3 weeks ago | tablemagazine.com | Kylie Thomas |Stephen Treffinger

When a single person sits down to dinner, sometimes a fork is just a fork. Guest editor Stephen Treffinger reflects on the habits of a confirmed bachelor and recounts how to set a table for one. Were you to come to my home for dinner, you would find my place settings woefully limited or completely joyful, depending on your point of view. There would be no salad forks, no fish knives, no dessert spoons. Nor would your flatware, in all likelihood, match mine.

4 weeks ago | tablemagazine.com | Kylie Thomas |Stephen Treffinger

Designer Colleen Simonds works with a like-minded client to update a traditional New Jersey farmhouse while retaining its inherent charms. Working on a home’s interior design during the pandemic should have, in theory, been a nightmare for interior design Colleen Simonds. But the client who reached out had a similar background, working as an executive for a women’s fashion brand, a position Simonds had once had early in her career. “We have very much a shared language around color and pattern.

4 weeks ago | tablemagazine.com | Kylie Thomas |Stephen Treffinger

Betsy Wentz breathes new life into a historical house for a couple and their three children, introducing modern elements while also honoring the past. Designing a serious home for a young family is always a bit of a juggling act between livability and style. The house in question is a 1903 Pittsburgh landmark by MacClure and Spahr, who also built the Keystone and Union Nation Bank Buildings. Updating it meant deciding when to modify and when to maintain what was there.