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How a push for diversity is changing the look of design.

How a push for diversity is changing the look of design.

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    Helen C. Maybell Anglin outside her home in the Chatham Park neighborhood in Chicago, circa 1974. The house remained under family ownership until last year.
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    The Interior Lives of Black Homes

    A new wave of books, exhibitions and archival projects work to tell a more complete story of spaces designed for and by Black homeowners.

     By Alexandra Lange

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    Tione Trice in his Rockefeller Center store, Of the Cloth.
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    Putting Black Design in a Spotlight

    How tastemakers in three world capitals are driving appreciation for Black creators and collectibles.

     By Charlene Prempeh

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    A detail from Victor Glemaud’s Toussaint toile fabric. In the design, Mr. Glemaud aimed to humanize Toussaint Louverture, left, the Haitian revolutionary leader, showing him “in moments of repose, of relaxation, of adoration.”
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    When Pretty Walls Tell a Deeper Story

    How contemporary designers are using patterns and historical motifs to reframe — and reclaim — cultural narratives in home décor.

     By Aileen Kwun

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    Shalini Misra’s 38th floor apartment. Ms. Misra designed the interiors in a way that celebrates the altitude, with a custom cloud-pattern rug from Joseph Carini Carpets and a Jim Zivic-designed hammock.
    CreditMel Yates

    An Interior Designer’s Love Letter to the Sky

    Shalini Misra designed her Lexington Avenue apartment as an aerie filled with treasures that celebrates the feeling of “floating in the clouds.”

     By Stephen Treffinger

  1. A Panorama of Design

    A look at design-world events, products and people.

    By The New York Times

     

  2. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments

    New reading relates the history of mirrors, patchwork and a monumental teahouse, plus the struggle to make design more just.

    By Eve M. Kahn

     

  3. Celebrating Creators of Design

    A look at the international creative talent showcased at Paris Design Week and the London Design Festival.

     

  4. Behind the Wheel in L.A., With a New Destination

    Once the head of women’s wear for Stella McCartney and Jil Sander, Leena Similu has taken a 180-degree turn into ceramics.

    By Lauren Messman

     

  5. How to Decorate an Empty Space

    Questions on filling a home, carving out guest quarters, deciding whether to choose marble and finding a decent-looking light switch.

    By Stephen Treffinger

     

  6. The Man Who Amassed 10,000 Vintage Scarves (and Wrote a Book About It)

    “It’s a bit of fashion, a bit of design, but I see it more like a book about paintings,” said the author, Benoit Pierre Emery.

    By Susanne Fowler

     

  7. Household Goods That Wear Their Fashion Influences on Their Sleeves

    It can be a short step from a runway look to a home furnishing — especially if the designer has a foot in both worlds.

    By Julie Lasky

     

  8. From Ralph Lauren to Louis Vuitton, Who Dressed Your Living Room?

    For three-quarters of a century, the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry has found opportunity in home furnishings.

    By Arlene Hirst

     

  9. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest

    New books on gnarly trees with pedigrees, lost Miami buildings and vintage construction toys, along with a deep dive into African textiles.

    By Eve M. Kahn

     

  10. An American in Milan With a Taste for ‘Sprezzatura’

    Eric Egan’s interior design studio upholds couture traditions with exquisite — but far from stodgy — details for the home.

    By Stephen Treffinger