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One young couple on the cutting edge of the nineteenth century.

Interior designer Rita Konig’s trick for her Manhattan one-bedroom: Make it seem like it’s part of a much older, much grander British estate.

Some people make Park Avenue apartments look like lofts. Downtown, Stephen Knoll has done just the reverse.

Hervé Pierre grew up in France. And each night, he needs to return there.

Never mind their aristocratic pedigrees (the Louis XV settee, the Windsor chair, the marble bust); these 21 design objects mirror their makers’ fierce independent streaks.

a windsor chair in hot-molded plastic. A glass skull used as an olive-oil container. A lounger made from the Coney Island boardwalk. At first, it would seem these things have little in common. But each represents an attempt to reimagine the past.

Architect Joel Sanders creates an incandescent East Village pied-à-terre where the colors are constantly changing.

In artist-collector Hunt Slonem’s world, clutter is comfort.

When two designers realized their Craigslist apartment used to be Keith Haring’s, they made him the design inspiration.

Christopher Coleman’s bright Williamsburg one-bedroom shows what can be done when cheap materials (patent leather, acrylic, parachute fabric) meet ingenuity.