From Italy With Love: The World's Best View From a Terrace
In the northern Italian city of Mantova, Diego Cisi and Stefano Gorni Silvestri of Archiplan Studio designed a streamlined terrace on the top floor of a family home originally built in the 1600s. The...
View ArticleHardscaping 101: Bocce Courts
Yes, there is a United States Bocce Federation and that is where you can find the definitive answer to any question you have about the traditional Italian lawn bowling game. For example, "Question:...
View ArticleSteal This Look: An Industrial Greenhouse Kitchen
Turin-based landscape architect studio Giardino Segreto installed a fully equipped kitchen inside a steel and glass greenhouse. The result is our dream kitchen. We're inspired by how it elegantly...
View ArticleOutbuilding of the Week: A Tuscan Cliffside Aerie
Argentario is a promontory on Italy's west coast, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is also the name of an estate with wooded hills disguising some fine minimalist architecture, including this...
View ArticleGarden Visit: An Italian Terrace
This summer, I quietly decamped to Italy for three weeks. It was every bit the Mediterranean idyll I'd wanted, but I still insisted on keeping a work-worthy camera in tow. I'm glad I did, for occasions...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: The New Glamour
This week, Julie and the Remodelista editors explored a new language of Italian glamour, took a virtual trip to Milan to visit an artist's small apartment, and shared the best of Italian kitchenware....
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: October Sky
Read on to see what we loved this week: Above: The Telegraph rounds up the best of fall foliage. Photograph by Jonathan Buckley. Â Three ways to preserve herbs. Above: We're eyeing Terrain's lineup of...
View ArticleTop 5 in Garden News: Keep Composting, Stress on Sugar Maples, and the...
This week in the world of gardening and landscape design: your eco-actions are making a difference, green design hopes to help birds in London, and visit a laboratory for the world's first underground...
View ArticleTable of Contents: Spring Forward 2016
Are you looking forward to a bountiful spring harvest? So are we. Join us this week as we lay down the roots for spring 2016. Above: Photograph by Jamie Beck from Garden Visit: Fashion Designer...
View ArticleExpert Advice from Old House Gardens: 10 Ideas for Planning a Spring Bulb Garden
In Chicago, where I grew up, tulips were pretty much the only thing that kept us going through the winter. You can survive snow, and you can survive ice, and you can even survive the razor winds that...
View ArticleA Jewel Box Townhouse Garden
The typical city lot in San Francisco is 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep. Put a townhouse on this. How much space is left for a garden? "You have to design every inch," says Scott Lewis, of San...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Rooftop Outdoor Kitchen in São Paulo
At Casa Lara, a multi-story house opens out to the urban landscape of São Paulo, Brazil with a garden on three sides of the home. On the rooftop, architect Felipe Hess built a central kitchen and...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Bulb Planters
Squirrels make it look so easy. But digging a deep narrow hole to plant bulbs can be a challenge. Make the job easier this fall with a bulb planter. Here are ten of our favorites: Above: A vintage bulb...
View Article10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Belgium
There is a painterly quality to nearly everything that comes from Belgium. It's a region that for centuries has felt the influence of its opinionated neighbors. In almost any Belgian garden there is...
View ArticleBest Bulbs: New Releases for 2016
As hydrangea petals thin and brown, grasses turn ochre, and blooms die back, we're already imaging our garden next spring. We're planting ahead for a sea of color so alluring that the depth and...
View ArticleGarden Visit: At Home with Rosie Bose of Glendon Hall
In a more relaxed age, it was possible to buy a tired old manor in Northamptonshire and divide it among friends. If one of them happened to be an architect, all the better. Glendon Hall was acquired...
View ArticleExpert Advice: 10 Tips for Baking on the Wild Side with Claire Ptak of Violet...
A gluten-free cookbook is not one I would buy. Nor is one on vegan baking, alternative sugars, foraged ingredients, or whole-grain pastry. Why? Because putting time and money into a recipe—and eating...
View ArticleGarden Visit: At Home with Designer Julie Weiss in Manhattan
After more than 10 years of living with a shared rooftop garden in lower Manhattan, designer Julie Weiss decided to let the plants win. "I love the wild, overgrown feel," says Weiss, who was Vanity...
View ArticleGardening 101: How to Plant a Bulb
October is the month to plant spring-blooming bulbs. Which end goes up and how deep should you plant a tulip? In our Gardening 101 series, we explain the basics: Photography by John Merkl for...
View ArticleShisito Cocktail: October in a Glass
By late October my potted shiso plants are several feet tall. Their ruffled green and purple leaves are sprinkled with flower spikes. As the nights grow longer, I begin to eat the leaves faster,...
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