Lighting designer Lindsey Adelman is proving that nostalgia can be cool through a pop-up store inspired by a store she would visit on the Upper East Side in the ’80s, called P.S. I Love You.

DDG has transformed a former hotel from the early 1900s into a luxury residential building. And the Townhouse is a hymn to eclecticism.

“The challenge was to create a bridge between the vibrancy of the art deco block building and the brutalism of the post-modern tower,” say Neri&Hu of the hotel’s entrance.

From Ansel Adams to Yayoi Kusama, from Boston to Seattle, galleries and museums are unveiling new shows and exhibitions. Here is a sampling.

“The seventh edition of The Salon continues to exceed expectations with galleries participating from all around the globe, continuing to push the boundaries between furniture, design, architecture and decorative art enhanced by blue-chip modern art,” said executive director Jill Bokor.

In Joe McMillan’s view, art has become more incorporated – literally – into new development. The lobby of 180 East 88th features a custom hand-sculpted plaster wall by German artist Jan Hooss. “It’s part of the fabric of the building,” the DDG Chairman and CEO said. “You want to have a permanence.”

Soaring, beamed ceilings are high on the list of features buyers like to keep when an industrial building is converted to residential. Eye-catching design details at 25 Wooster at XOCO 325 include restored Douglas fir wood beamed ceilings and exposed original brick walls and arches.

“We felt that using stone was a reference to the history of the neighborhood but we chose to use the stone in a more modern context,” explained Joe McMillan, CEO and Chairman of DDG. “We wanted to do something that was equally beautiful but different.”

ESPASSO + Motta is some 16 years in the making, a product of the intense working relationship between Motta and Junqueira, a relationship that chronicles ESPASSO’s existence—and, it could be argued, the very presence of Brazilian design in the U.S.

At 180 East 88th, Joe McMillan’s DDG partnered with German artisan Jan Hooss to create a spectacular custom installation for the building’s striking lobby. The 48 prewar-inspired residences include a remarkable 3,794 square foot, 38th floor duplex with four bedrooms. Perched almost 400 feet above the city, the residence will be among the highest on New York’s Upper East Side.

In Brooklyn Heights, The Standish has announced a yacht partnership of its own. The building’s developers, DDG and Westbrook Partners, have partnered with the boat valet at One°15 Brooklyn Marina, the city’s newest marina and sailing club.

With the start of the 2018 World Cup, developers are giving residents of every age the opportunity to perfect their game without leaving the comfort of their home. Here are some of the hottest luxury developments for the soccer star in all of us.

The first beachfront residential development to be built on Palm Beach Island in over a decade, 3550 South Ocean, has officially topped out.

The 7-story, 30-residence project by DDG is now topped off and ready for cladding. Located along the waterfront of Palm Beach, 3550 South Ocean is the first of its kind in the area in more than a decade.

Join the Children’s Museum of the Arts for this fun-filled day of art-making for the whole family on May 20. Create collaborative art projects throughout the Museum with renowned guest artists and CMA Teaching Artists. Take part in workshops suitable for children of different ages, including traditional fine arts, media / animation and photography.

CMA is pleased to announce Scale: Possibilities of Perspective, an exhibition that explores the notion of scale and its ability to alter our impressions of the universe and our existence inside it. The concept of scale is explored from multiple perspectives, drawing visitors in as they become mindful of the layered beauty, content and techniques of each piece.

Renovation and repurposing of many buildings formerly owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses are expected to be complete in the next few years. Luxury residences at one, a former hotel at 171 Columbia Heights called The Standish, set new price records.

“We are the only building in Brooklyn that offers townhouse square footage on a single floor. Our 5,000 square foot units give the buyer everything involved in owning a townhouse but with many more conveniences.”

“This is an amazing and historic day because we are inducting one of the largest classes in the history of the One Hundred Black Men of New York,” said Courtney A. Bennett, Executive Director of the One Hundred Black Men of New York. “It is a clear message that resourceful and unselfish men are ready to take a stand for social justice, quality education, mentoring for youth and fairness and equality in business at every level.”

New York designers Bec Brittain and John Hogan have worked together to update Brittain’s Aries lighting series with sculptural glass pieces, on show during this month’s NYCxDesign.

Gone are the days of boring beige model apartments. Over the past few years, top developers have turned to elite designers to outfit model units in New York’s most prestigious buildings. There was Kelly Behun’s art-filled aerie in Rafael Viñoly’s towering 432 Park, then Brad Ford’s “living showroom” at Shigeru Ban’s Cast Iron House, Matter’s hip apartment in DDG’s The Standish and many, many more.

NYCxDesign, the annual celebration of design, returns for its sixth edition from May 11 through May 23. Knitting together hundreds of events throughout the city, including trade shows, exhibitions, product launches and talks, it showcases the latest in furniture and product design, fashion, architecture and more. Here are some highlights.

Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award Winner Lynn Ahrens is at the podium herself, in Lynn Ahrens: A Lyric Life, an exceptional, fascinating and entertaining experience in the renowned Lyrics & Lyricists series at 92Y.

12 Warren is specifically designed with NYC Energy Code compliance and LEED certification in mind. Additional components include a green roof system, accommodating alternative transportation storage, storm water collection and reuse, reduction of heat island effect with concrete, light grey toned pavers and landscaping elements, construction waste management and secondary tenant-controlled heating elements to reduce overall energy and electrical output.

Spring weather has finally arrived in New York, and it’s just in time for the annual bonanza of contemporary art fairs. There are three art fairs running simultaneously this week in Manhattan and a bevy in Brooklyn, all of them vying for the attention of new collectors, as well as the veterans.

WNBA star Kym Hampton dropped by under-construction Upper East Side luxury condominium 180 East 88th, with the nonprofit Ladies Who Hoop, to unveil “what will be the future basketball court amenity space” in the building.

You just have to look to lighting designers Lindsey Adelman and Apparatus to discover the next new trend in fixtures.

Superstructure is close to topping out at 100 Franklin, the two-building residential development on a triangular shaped lot in Tribeca. Developed, designed, constructed and managed by DDG, the buildings will feature a red brick facade in keeping with the neighborhood’s palette of materials.

Investors looking for multifamily projects in Palm Beach County face a scarcity of development sites and properties for sale, according to a panel of real estate experts. “The biggest problem is finding sites,” said Joe McMillan., Chairman and CEO of DDG.

Neri&Hu worked with Bolon to create an installation showcasing the Swedish brand’s latest product range, a woven vinyl flooring collection called Elements. The stand design comprises a series of large suspended tubes wrapped with the new material, which features subtle, warm colors intended to evoke natural materials like stone and wood.

“With this series I wanted to strip down the visual vocabulary to its essence,” says Lindsey Adelman of Drop, a new lighting system comprised of custom brass tubing and hand-blown mini glass droplets. “I wanted to challenge myself to commit to a strict language: straight tubes and mold blown globes and find the wild, spirited drive through this process while playing with the forms.”

“That’s the opportunity here — there has been so little development on Palm Beach Island in a dozen years,” Joe McMillan, CEO and Chairman of DDG said. “On the island, most condos are 30 to 40 years old. There’s no new housing stock.” Palm Beach offers “a certain refined lifestyle that you can’t get anywhere else in South Florida.”

The month of May will bring a wide variety of art-and-design-related events throughout the world, from Sight Unseen’s survey of independent designers to a massive trade fair in Tokyo. Highlights include TEFAF, ICFF and WantedDesign (three of the most important events during NYCxDesign), the Venice Architecture Biennale and Clerkenwell Design Week in London’s creative hub, but don’t overlook design festivals in Austria, Prague and Bucharest.

The Financial Times selected highlights from the world’s biggest and most prestigious design fair, drawing visitors from more than 165 countries.

The one and only, incomparable Broadway legend, Chita Rivera, will perform her acclaimed solo concert event at the 92nd Street Y. The two-time Tony Award winner will recreate signature moments from her legendary career including numbers from West Side Story; Sweet Charity; Chicago; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Bye, Bye, Birdie, The Rink and The Visit.

12 Warren in Tribeca includes several sustainable elements including a storm-water collection and reuse system, and heat island effect reduction by using concrete, light grey toned pavers and landscaping elements.

New York–based designer Bec Brittain builds an artful assemblage of light and color in her Flags, composed of brass beams bearing LED fixtures and veils of tinted glass that sweep down to the floor like silken banners. The beams can be arranged singly or in multiples.

All eyes of the design world are trained firmly on Milan during Salone del Mobile 2018. From electrifying exhibitions and delectable pop-ups, to alluring launches and thrilling parties, team Wallpaper* hit the city’s creative districts to bring you unmissable highlights from the year’s most compelling design showcase as they happen.

Founded in Manhattan in 1994 by the estimable Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell, Moss revolutionized the concept of selling design. For nearly two decades, the gallery was routinely heralded in the press as the best design shop in America, or even the world. Beyond setting trends and championing talent, Moss made a compelling case for the value of great design — that it has the power to ennoble quotidian objects, that it has meaning, that it deserves respect.

Need a little exercise after spending the better part of three weeks glued to the screen for March Madness? Well, if you lived in these five condos, you could go shoot hoops like the pros — or try to — as more developers are starting to build space for basketball courts in high-end residential buildings.

Around the country, brackets are broken and hoop dreams have been dashed, but as the madness of college basketball’s postseason marches on, the NCAA isn’t the only one capitalizing on the excitement. Luxury housing developers throughout the city have used this year’s tournament as an opportunity to bring residents together and show off their substantial amenity offerings.

Peter Guthrie, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of DDG, was honored among leaders in the design and development field at Brownstoner’s inaugural RADD Awards on March 22 at the iconic Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene.

The Armory Show has space to stretch out — and it does, mostly in the commissioned projects. But in the taxi driveway outside Pier 94, the French artist JR, presented by Artsy and Jeffrey Deitch, has created giant cutout figures from historical photographs of immigrants passing through Ellis Island.

DDG has a very strong history of blending architecture and art and has formed many unique partnerships with artists over the years. DDG has also found that many buyers at their developments value and collect art, and so they’ve incorporated these sentiments into the very design of their homes.

Brownstones usually need years-long renovations to achieve the luxe finishes offered as turnkey in new developments, and don’t come with on-call staff. “This is the perfect hybrid: You can have a porter or doorman waiting to help you with your luggage without paying for a full-time butler.”

“We have three principles that we abide by,” says Christian A. Petersen, the seventh generation member of the Danish family behind Petersen Brick. “The customer is king; Der Kunde ist König and Le client est roi.” Multiple translations, but one ethos: to tailor brick production to any project, no matter how ambitious, or where it might be.

DDG has released time-lapse videos of its two newly-completed, avant-garde luxury condominiums, XOCO 325 and 12 Warren. Situated in Downtown Manhattan, both buildings offer a contrast to the glass and steel towers popping up across the city. Closings have commenced for both buildings and these time-lapse videos offer an incredible way to see these architecturally distinct buildings come from conception to reality in just one minute.

“Our goal is still the same—to present gallery-like vignettes in a residential setting so that our clients can have a more intimate, personal experience with the work on display.”

A luxury condo building that served as the home for Superman’s alter ego sold 85 percent of their apartments just more than a year after going on the market.

Neri&Hu has created a line of furniture for Chinese brand Stellar Works that pays homage to the art-deco architecture of Shanghai’s Bund area. Launched at IMM Cologne, the Bund collection comprises an armchair, a stool and a chair with timber bases and a range of softly curving upholstered seats.

“No one pair is the same,” says the designer Tull Price of a forthcoming collaboration between his cult-favorite, hand-assembled shoe line Feit and Tyler Hays’s boutique furniture house BDDW. “Actually, no half pair is the same.”

Nest Studio highlights some of DDG’s portfolio, including XOCO 325, 12 Warren, 180 East 88th and 41 Bond.

In Tribeca, 12 Warren Townhouse North has been furnished with a mix of mid-century modern Brazilian designs from Espasso.

As the worlds of art and design inch closer and closer toward each other, Design Miami — the function-forward offshoot of Art Basel that runs December 6 – 10 — has evolved from a small satellite fair into a must-see for many collectors. Here, the latest greats in blue-chip vintage sit with gutsy contemporary stars and a few totally unexpected surprises.

Neri&Hu has created a versatile, spherical glass lamp for Italian lighting brand Artemide that can be used as a table lamp or suspended as a wall lamp and was designed by the Shanghai-based firm to evoke traditional Chinese lanterns.

Welcome Cope: a new studio venture for Calico. Don’t call it a diffusion line; instead, Cope expands on Calico’s patterns, transposing them onto soft goods, starting with plush pillows and wispy drapery fabric. This month, Calico is taking on the job of unveiling the new wares at a $17.5 million penthouse inside XOCO 325, DDG’s Soho-located, Art Nouveau-inspired former-chocolate factory residence.

The Salon Art + Design is arguably more inclusive than other fairs at the Park Avenue Armory. Art, design and decorative arts can be found here, and the fair organizers stress that everything from high-ticket items to affordable objects for new collectors are on view. This year something new has been added: Digital art is a featured player.

12 Warren features a plethora of handcrafted and artisanal details, none more striking than the signature façade of rough-hewn bluestone quarried in upstate New York. The hand-laid façade is already an impressive addition to one of Manhattan’s most desired residential neighborhoods, creating an engaging contrast when seen among TriBeCa’s historic loft buildings and modern glass structures.

David Zwirner Gallery is showing concurrent exhibitions of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, including her iconic fully-mirrored rooms and spotty spaces, in Chelsea. The Festival of Life exhibition features iterations of some of the most recognisable work by Kusama, who is famous for her immersive installations created using mirrors, and her use of polka dots.

Swedish furniture company Hem has opened its first US shop in New York City, hoping to tap further into the American market with a pop-up in Soho. Hem – which is Swedish for “home” – set up its temporary retail space on the ground floor of XOCO 325 at 325 West Broadway, with the aim to broaden its customer base in the city.