“I often think back on what took place in this room,” Loya says. “It was a public space. It was a home. A lot of tears were shed here. So many people were healed here. It’s got such spirit; it just feels alive in here.”

After co-founding Tula, Christan Summers and Ivan Martinez have taken their passion for bringing plants to people on the road, building a first-of-its-kind mobile greenhouse. The truck fits as many plants as possible while allowing people to come inside, shop, and experience what it’s like to stand in a mobile greenhouse — checking out the plants, planters made in collaboration with local potters, and loads of plant accessories.

Rachel and Nick Cope, the 30-something couple behind Calico Wallpaper, had wanted to make textile versions of their mural-style wallpapers since they founded their company in 2013. Now, fans of Calico can finally decorate their pillows and windows in Rachel’s ‘‘asymmetrical, organic’’ patterns — which she prints and paints in her studio before they’re transferred digitally — with fabrics from their sister line, Cope.

In the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Dioramas’ exhibition is a dystopian scene of animals pecking at trash in the early hours, out of sight of human beings. Created from graffiti, posters, trash and taxidermied animals, the specially-commissioned piece is a ‘mobile diorama’ housed in crates on wheels featuring work by Richard Barnes.

“Autophoto,” is a new exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris that explores the myriad ways cars have become entwined in our lives. The vast range of images on display (500 images from 100 photographers) include Jacques Henri Lartigue’s seminal early photography and Jacqueline Hassink’s “Car Girls.”

180 East 88th: Featuring 48 private residences ranging from lofts to five-bedrooms, full floor to duplex units, and a gracious triplex penthouse, you’ll find unique design accents throughout each home at 180 East 88th, including a formal entry gallery appointed with herringbone flooring, custom wainscoting, and plaster ceiling details.

Paul Kremer was born in 1971 and is an American artist who lives and works in Houston, Texas. His style can be described as a graphical interpretation of Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s; and Minimalism, which has its origins in various art and design movements.

Yayoi Kusama is set to open her own museum, dedicated to her provocative, avant-garde work, in Tokyo. The Yayoi Kusama Museum’s first exhibition is titled Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art, featuring her recent paintings of eyes, faces and other organic forms from the series My Eternal Soul.

“I see my work as a concept that is to be played with,” says lighting designer Bec Brittain. Anyone familiar with the SHY Light series can attest. Since establishing her firm in 2011, the designer’s signature sculptural and flexible lighting system has brought her to the forefront of innovation in her field.

“There is an amazing community of independent designers in the U.S. now focused on creating unique designs and well-made product. The idea of the show is to take our strong community and create a space that is more true to our brands. With this, we can share our collections with the trade and create a more intimate, authentic and enjoyable experience for all.”

Four years ago, Massimo Sola saw a chef tossing pasta and sauce in a wok, and immediately he understood how effective the Chinese cooking utensil could be for the task. So now, at his pasta restaurant in SoHo, he’s using woks.

A trio of developers in South Florida are unveiling fresh renderings of their luxury condo developments in Sunny Isles Beach, Sunrise and Palm Beach.

From surreal sculptures to multi-colored murals, Wallpaper Magazine brings you the best of the world’s installation en plein air…

Anita Durst’s art nonprofit Chashama hosted its annual gala early last month. Joe McMillan, Chairman and CEO of DDG, was honored for donating exhibition space at his firm’s XOCO 325 building in Soho to Chashama’s artists last year.

A home wet bar has the opportunity to be so much more than just running water and booze. With the incorporation of a few thoughtful design elements – a well-appointed wet bar can totally up your entertaining game.

“I think my studio was really founded around time,” says lighting designer Lindsey Adelman. It makes sense, considering that the in-demand Adelman is best known for her sculptural, blown-glass-and-brass Branching Bubble chandeliers, which take up to 24 weeks to complete. As clients will tell you, they’re well worth the wait.

Construction is wrapping up on the façade restoration at The Standish, a 12-story condo conversion in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Now, DDG and Westbrook Partners are in the process of converting the rentals to 31 condo apartments ranging in size from one- to five-bedrooms.

DDG broke ground Wednesday on its condo project 3550 South Ocean, marking the first new luxury beachfront residential building to be built in Palm Beach in more than a decade.

While new construction reigns supreme in many cities with robust luxury markets, there are also
plenty of gut renovations in the works in New York and London, resulting in high-end
condominium sales in historic buildings.

Sales veteran Dan Tubb has been tapped to lead the Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group
(CSMG) team heading up sales for DDG’s Upper East Side condominium, 180 East 88th.

Public spaces in the city are filled with sculpture and other artworks that reward the attentive viewer. Here’s one critic’s summertime tour.

Perched on a slope above Sunset Boulevard, Casa Perfect is both a home and a 3,000 sq ft showroom for The Future Perfect. Founder David Alhadeff lives in the house whenever he’s in town and he has filled the place with works by some of the best artists and designers from LA, New York and around the globe. Everything in the house is for sale, and this tension between domesticity and retail is central to the experience.

Also in contract on the Upper East Side this week is this pad at 180 East 88th, a new development
by DDG. It was last asking $8.45 million and comes with four bedrooms, Central Park views and
access to eight floors of amenities including a soccer pitch, fitness studio and game room.

Over the last seven years, development, design, construction and property management firm DDG has racked up an envious collection of high-quality residential buildings that would put most developers to shame. From their Gaudi-esque 180 East 88th to their flora-infused 345meatpacking, the young Joe McMillan-led firm has already shaped projects in a variety of scales and neighborhoods.

Ines Leong is a California-trained photographer who has since turned her lens on a variety of New York landscapes, from the sinuous façade of DDG’s XOCO 325 to the grieving grounds of the 9/11 Memorial. Architizer sat down with Leong to discuss the qualities of light in architectural photography and the challenge of achieving legibility in two-dimensional media.

400 Grove — a formerly vacant parcel that is now a 34-unit market-rate development by Fougeron Architects for DDG in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley — boasts a facade on Gough Street articulated by exaggerated bays along its uppermost floors, and pierced by a zigzagging, five-story-tall opening.

The idea of locality inspired DDG for one of its amenity offerings at The Standish, its anticipated 29-unit condo conversion within Brooklyn Height’s former Standish Arms hotel. Residents of the building will have access to a “boat valet,” through the One°15 Brooklyn Marina in Brooklyn Bridge Park, who can arrange for sailing lessons and other “private boat experiences” along the East River.

New York studio Fort Standard has launched a set of easy-to-assemble metal furniture, including a raw brass side table and a white powder-coated shelving unit. The Strata collection, featuring a coffee table, side table and low shelf, launched as part of the Fort Standard’s Moments of Discovery exhibition at New York design store Colony earlier this month.

The 5th Annual Collective Design Fair opened its doors on Tuesday, kicking off the expanded roster of NYCxDESIGN festivities taking place around New York City in May. Founded by architect Steven Learner, Collective showcases a treasure trove of design objects, installations, and vintage and contemporary furnishings.

A Mano, the latest San Francisco restaurant from prolific restaurateur Adriano Paganini, will open for dinner service today in Hayes Valley in DDG’s 450 Hayes. In many ways, A Mano (which means “by hand” in Italian) follows a similar model as Paganini’s other recent restaurants. It’s accessible, both in its straightforward dishes and its price point.

The Future Perfect kicked off Frieze New York and NYCxDesign with two collections: ‘Alchemy Turning into Gold’ by Tbilisi – based Rooms, and a new series of glass furniture and objects by Seattle artist John Hogan.

Brittain explains, “I was making a minimal structure. I needed it to be beautiful, but not let that get in the way of the bright points of light. They would be the star of the whole thing. The rest would be the support player.”

“I think the main selling point of the building is the product itself. It is oceanfront, it has a very robust amenity package with private plunge pools on all the penthouses. Every unit has a view of the ocean with floor-to-ceiling windows, direct elevator access, a fitness center, two private parking spaces, gated security and 24-hour concierge. The amenities of the building are really what is selling the building.”

Introducing yourself to a new crowd tends to be awkward at times, but Australian furniture brand SP01 makes it look easy with the launch of an elegant concept shop in New York, designed by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio. The label’s US debut, wittily named ‘Over/Under’, is located on the ground floor of DDG’s XOCO 325 in the heart of SoHo.

NYCxDesign, the citywide celebration of design, fashion, architecture and art, officially runs from May 3 to 24. But throughout the month, galleries, showrooms, museums and trade fairs will host exhibitions, tours and conversations. Here are some standouts.

Opening today, one of our favorite design duos, Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, will be launching a concept shop in SoHo at XOCO 325 for the month of May, showcasing the new Australian design brand SP01. Over/Under, as the project is called, presents a leap for L&G beyond objects like lighting, furniture, and jewelry, and into a holistic interiors experience.

Dale Chihuly’s otherworldly glass sculptures adorn some of the world’s most prominent hotels, museums, and transportation hubs, commanding awe with their impressive scale and inimitable hues. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, the artist will debut a major outdoor exhibition in New York, at the city’s landmark Botanical Garden.

Real estate firm DDG announced the appointment of Michael K. Ferry as Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, Mr. Ferry will oversee strategy implementation and execution across DDG’s business platforms with responsibility for maintaining the company’s continued growth, success and efficiency.

The New York store-turned-furniture line MatterMade released its new collection to the European market in a series of color-coordinated vignettes containing works both skinny (Philippe Malouin’s chandelier, Pedro Paulo Venzon’s chairs) and fat (Faye Toogood’s fiberglass lamps, Ana Kras’s marble dining table).

All eyes of the design world are trained firmly on Milan ahead of Salone del Mobile. From furniture and product launches in the overflowing Rho fairground, to alluring exhibitions and installations, thrilling pop-ups and parties, Wallpaper* is hitting the city’s creative districts to bring you highlights from the year’s most compelling design showcase.

Takeda started her career in Japan, where she learned the Mingei style of domestic textile weaving in Kyoto. “It wasn’t art; it was more functional,” she says. “I learned how to emphasize the material and make something beautiful and useful.”

“There’s a palpable amount of love in the air here,” Finley says from the exhibition’s SoHo venue, where more than 220 works by some 160 artists hang salon-style to make the most of XOCO 325’s retail space by DDG.

San Francisco king restaurateur Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Lolinda, Super Duper) can’t stop, won’t stop opening restaurants. Next up is his previously under-wraps Hayes Valley project, which he has now revealed to be a handmade pasta restaurant called A Mano at DDG’s 450 Hayes.

Organized by the artist and curator Christine “C.” Finley, The Whitney Houston Biennial has doubled in size since its first edition in 2014, and this time around is showcasing everyone from Justin Vivian Bond and Spring/Break organizer Ambre Kelly to dozens and dozens of various emerging artists, in the vein of the biennial’s namesake song: “I’m Every Woman.”

Last week, The Future Perfect debuted a furniture line by Marta Sala Editions out of Milan and a new collection by Brooklyn-based ceramicist Monty Mattison.

Everything had to be reinvented for the 2017 Whitney Biennial — the first to take place in the new riverside home of the Whitney Museum. But then, this leading showcase of contemporary American art feels refreshed in other ways, too.

Strong political art is hard to make. So when it turns up, it’s worth a look. In an era of “great, great walls” and “bad hombres,” an exhibition called “State of Exception/Estado de Excepción” created by Richard Barnes at Parsons School of Design fills the bill.

How are you feeling? Brian Thoreen’s response to this quotidian question from a friend ended up inspiring his latest body of work. “My answer was ‘unsettled,’” explains the Los Angeles-based designer. “It was as if a light bulb went off as I was saying it, and the ideas of feeling or being unsettled became the focus.”

Drybar and a plethora of other retail spaces have recently moved into the traditionally residential-exclusive neighborhood. The reason? What may be Manhattan’s most significant infrastructural change of this century: the Second Avenue subway.

DDG’s latest condo, 12 Warren, is wrapping up in the Tribeca neighborhood. Occupying a mid-block site that faces south on Warren Street, the developer/architects’ 12-story building is a conversion of a former factory at its lower floors with a new addition on top.

Our guide to new art shows — and some that will be closing soon.

Jamie Gray runs furniture gallery and showroom Matter in SoHo, which features a collection of contemporary masterpieces alongside in-house line MatterMade, and serves as a barometer of tastes and trends in the ever-evolving field of design.

In February 2017 — with the building nearly complete — images revealed XOCO 325’s enormous Penthouse West for the first time. The luxury dwelling is 4,406 square feet in size and includes a private 718 square foot terrace.

12 Warren is located in Southeastern Tribeca. It is a 13-unit condominium offering of full-floor, duplex, and triplex residences consisting of two to four bedrooms. There is something for everyone at 12 Warren.

In their two-artist show at Mrs. Gallery, Sarah Bedford and Tracy Miller offer complementary approaches to bringing the historically devalued genre of still life painting into the 21st century.

If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably allowed yourself to dream about one day having a home where you might be able to show off your Calico wallpaper, your Michael Anastassiades lights, your terrazzo Rooms tables, your Ben & Aja Blanc mirrors, and your perfect, rust-colored, velvet De La Espada chairs.