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Celeb Stylist Kate Young Renovates Her Upstate New York Home

July 27, 2022 admin

I get very mood-board-y,” muses fashion stylist Kate Young, reflecting on her approach to designing her own homes. The same, she explains, is true when it comes to devising red-carpet ensembles for the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, and Dakota Johnson.

“I like to study, pick pieces, and mix it all together.” So one might say that her own personal Oscars has been the circa 1945 Bauhaus-style house in Woodstock, New York, that she shares with her husband, record executive Keith Abrahamsson, and their two sons, Stellan and Leif. Armed with modernist William Muschenheim’s original plans (sleuthed from Columbia

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Inside a Celebrity Stylist’s Country Retreat in Westchester, New York | Architectural Digest

July 21, 2022 admin

When Leslie Fremar walked into her 18th-century Katonah, New York, farmhouse for the first time, “I just knew that it was meant to be mine,” she says. Fremar is a powerhouse fashion stylist who counts Charlize Theron, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Connelly, Nicola Peltz, and more A-listers among her clients. Fittingly, this home was in desperate need of a makeover. “It was kind of a disaster, but I fell in love with it. It just had good vibes.”

After asking Moore—a design aficionado whose own self-decorated New York City town house graced the November 2017 cover of AD—to help her

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HAVENLY DEBUTS FIRST NEW YORK CITY POP-UP SHOWROOM AND DESIGN CENTER

July 19, 2022 admin

Havenly storefront will include in-person design consultations and access to shop best selling collections

DENVER, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Havenly, the largest nationwide interior design business, announced today the opening of their first ever New York pop-up showroom and design center. New Yorkers will be able to visit the Havenly showroom to see exclusive collections, purchase decor items, and experience Havenly’s newly launched in-person design services with Havenly expert designers. Experiencing significant growth, including a national expansion to in-person design, the acquisition of fast growing direct-to-consumer home furnishings brand The Inside, the announcement of a multi-year

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A New York Home Is No Longer a Dream For Many Chinese Buyers

September 6, 2021 admin

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Not long before the COVID-19 pandemic began savaging the world in March 2020, Steven Jiang, who lives in Ningbo, a coastal city in Southeast China, was thinking of buying a house in New York City. The father of two, who made a good living as the owner of a transportation company, wanted to do what many upper-class Chinese parents have: He planned to move his family to the U.S. in a few years so his preteen daughters could attend American boarding schools. So he contacted a New York City broker whom a friend had introduced him to

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A New York City Home for Less Than $350,000

August 5, 2021 admin

But there may be workarounds, like Concord Village, a seven-building complex along Adams Street, near the Brooklyn Bridge and close to Brooklyn Heights. The monolithic red brick co-op, which began life in the urban renewal era as a rental, offers apartments like 225 Adams Street, No. 10B, a studio with a windowed kitchen and a walled-in sleeping area for $330,000.

Far more options, though, exist in neighborhoods further south, like Sheepshead Bay, where subway access is limited and cars are common. A one-bedroom prewar co-op at 2241 Plumb First Street, No. 5K, on the border with Gerristen Beach,

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