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Andrew Myers
Born to the posh with a golden Rolodex (or its high-tech equivalent), an actor's looks, a soldier's discipline and a commoner's ambition, Ben Elliot is the general of an army of Jeeveses. Or in other words, he's a co-founder of Quintessentially, the London-based concierge service that launched in 2000 and has since gone global – with 44 offices worldwide (and ticking...on a vintage Rolex no less). |
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Marcia Sherrill
Chicago-based Kara Mann is one of design's new novas whose interior design firm has performed with a vertiginous trajectory ever since its 2005 inception. |
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Reviewed by Erika Heet
Highly anticipated, deliciously sized and packed with intrigue, design team Yabu Pushelberg's first monograph is 268 pages of no-holds-barred decorative bliss. |
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Susanna Salk
Sebastian + Barquet has presented more than a dozen eclectic exhibitions in the last four years, focusing on design legends such as Gio Ponti and George Nakashima. Now the gallery is presenting Donald Judd: Furniture, an exhibition of the famed minimalist's furniture designs, through the end of the year. |
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Reviewed by Andrew Myers
Originally published ten years ago, weighing in at 77.9 pounds and billed as the biggest and most expensive book of the 20th century, Helmut Newton's SUMO (prices at "used" ranging from $6,250 to $19,000) is back in a more economic edition, but as power-packed as its leviathan progenitor. |
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Waters Roeck
In a gritty section of downtown Portland, Oregon, a whimsical building stands out amid the nearby overgrown lots and rusting industrial warehouses. The ReBuilding Center is an oddity with its mismatched wood and windows – not to mention its fantastical entrance, which looks like a fairytale forest inhabited by creatures made of screwdrivers, plumbing valves, hammers, and bells. |
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Erika Heet
Peter Som is inspired by almost everything around him – art, furniture, big cities, cuisine, people – and is driven by his own instincts and "things that feel real." He calls fashion the merging of creativity and commerce, and, while balancing both, has brought his own signature to the runway.
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Susanna Salk
Mississippi native and New Orleans shop owner, Ann Koerner is like many Southerners who are genteel, tasteful, and steely. She speaks with calm resolve about the restoration of her home damaged by Katrina, and of the joy of returning to her French Quarter store to find it and all her beloved objects completely unscathed. |
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Andrew Myers
For designer and manufacturer Dakota Jackson, magic comes in many forms. There's sleight of hand, feats of imagination and flexibility of mind, but never slight of craft, consideration or intention. |
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Windsor Smith
British-born, Los Angeles-based interior and textile designer, Kathryn M. Ireland is a champion horsewoman, skilled hunter, hilarious raconteur, loving mother, and shameless (but irresistible) flirt with a new book out about her brand and style. And who better to give us the skinny on Kathryn but her best friend, Windsor Smith.
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Reviewed by Caroline Rennolds Milbank
A captivating book by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs curator in chief, Pamela Golbin who escorts the reader through the maison de couture and collection of the legendary Madeleine Vionnet. |
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Anthony Barzilay Freund
Susan Grace Galassi, the Frick's elegant and eloquent senior curator, leads 1stdibs Introspective readers through a private tour of the museum's current jewel of an exhibition: a gathering of exquisite, seldom-seen French drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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Andrew Myers
After and apart from the Era of the Obvious and Ubiquitous Logos, there is Ralph Rucci. For over twenty-five years this paladin of craft and couture has wielded needle and thread, putting his soul into the clothes rather than his ego on them – offering fashion infinitely more than his initials. |
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Patricia Dobashi
In the wake of publisher Hachette Filipacchi's decision to shutter the 26-year-successful Metropolitan Home magazine, 1stdibs Introspective profiles Met Home's remarkable editor-in-chief, Donna Warner – who was with the magazine on its inaugural day to its closing, Monday, November 9th, 2009. |
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Reviewed by Patricia Dobashi
Commanding at the top of the Best Seller's list for over six months – designers, architects, historic preservationists, photographers – and gentle readers and weekend remodelers laud Villa. |
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Andrew Myers
Shakespeare would say, "Get thee to a furrier" or at least, "Dust off thy passport." It's time to plan your ritzy winter wonderland holiday and where better than the Belle Époque bastion and first dedicated palace hotel: Badrutt's Palace in St. Moritz. How does champagne served on a frozen lake by tuxedo-clad waiters on skates seem? As the Bard would say, "The hotel's the thing!" |
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Oh Canada! 1stdibs is excited to open our two newest markets: Toronto and Montreal. |
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It's not "big smoke" – but true. Shopping with 1stdibs reigns supreme in London. |
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Capital good news! Mr.Dibs goes to Washington.
Search our favorite Washington, D.C. dealers and watch for more to come. |
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View objects that sparkle from Seattle, the Emerald City of the Pacific Northwest on 1stdibs. |
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If you've only been to OC for the beach, plan a shopping trip for the antiques. We found a dozen stores we are excited about in Laguna Beach, Corona Del Mar and Newport Beach. Search our favorite South Coast dealers and watch for more to come. |
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Discover an oasis of design on 1stdibs Palm Springs. |
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