How to Build a Kitchen for Miranda July

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 interiors [How to Build a Kitchen for Miranda July]( Talking to artist and contractor Nico B. Young about making July’s butter-yellow cabinetry. Photo: Nico B. Young Like her narrator in All Fours, Miranda July [is renovating](. She’s been documenting the build-out of her home in Echo Park, Los Angeles, a two-bedroom house directly behind the writing studio she has been renting for decades, since moving in late last year. “Sort of a new life but built on to a very sturdy part of my old life (the art part),” she wrote in January. “I guess the art part is taking the place, structurally, of what used to be the marriage.” And it’s perhaps because of this doubling of her personal and artistic lives that her new home has become a character in the stories about her new novel: “She wouldn’t ask her landlord for permission; she would be her own neighbor, her artistic and domestic lives arranged side by side,” The New Yorker [wrote](. A trip to retrieve a rug July found on Facebook Marketplace was the animating premise of a New York Times [profile](. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Is Someone Trying to Steal Graceland? Elvis Presley’s estate and his granddaughter Riley Keough say the attempted foreclosure is a massive case of deed theft.]( By Kim Velsey [Fiberglass Chairs, Rodeo-Inspired Lamps, and More From Jonalddudd’s 2024 Show The independent design show included robotic lamps and a chair composed of interlocking apple-shaped slices.]( By Morgan Meier [Nobody Wants to Mow the Lawn at the Beach Breck and Georgia Eisner’s Amagansett retreat gives the children a cottage of their own.]( By Wendy Goodman [A Startlingly Well-Priced Fieldston One-Bedroom And a picturesque little studio on Jane Street for $450,000.]( By Curbed Staff [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved