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 […]

When you think of modern design, you don’t necessarily think of nature. But the Elm Branch dresser from Ralph Pucci, part of the “After the Storm” collection by designers Chris Lehrecke and Gabriella Kiss, blends those two concepts beautifully. Bronze “mushroom” drawer pulls look like they are growing right out of the acid-ebonized white oak, […]