The plant is known for bringing good fortune, but it also packs a design punch. For a more subtle touch of bamboo, try the Emma dresser by Worlds Away. Its four drawers are framed in trim featuring the strong wood. Hang around under the modern brass bamboo chandelier by F.IN.D.S., in a leafy shade of […]

The voice-activated personal home assistant has been hugely popular, with Amazon selling more than 3 million of its Echo in only two years. Google’s version, called Google Home, was released in November and has many of the same voice-controlled features—it plays music, gives you weather and traffic updates, relays an overview of your upcoming schedule, […]

There’s no doubt that midcentury modern design has been a perpetual favorite thanks to its hallmark clean lines and attention to detail. But if you go too far with it, your home could end up resembling a movie set, or worse, a furniture showroom. (Yes, we love Design Within Reach, but we wouldn’t want to […]

A massive new art space has opened in Newark, in the renovated Hahne’s building, which once housed the department store but has been closed since the 1980s. Express Newark is Rutgers University-Newark’s 50,000-square-foot arts incubator that includes spaces for artists in residence, a print shop, a 3D printing studio, video production and portrait studios, classrooms […]

A rare and largely unaltered survivor of “Millionaire’s Row”—Madison Avenue in Morris Township, where large and elegant estate homes were once owned by Gilded Age millionaires—will be open to the public when Alnwick Hall, known in recent years as “The Abbey,” opens for the designer showhouse “Mansion in May” this spring. Funds raised from the […]