A Very Chill Catskills Farmhouse

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 great rooms [A Picnic in the Country]( Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer, founders of Cold Picnic, have decked out their Delaware County farmhouse in warm designs. Photo: Annie Schlechter Afarmhouse was always Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer’s dream. But more than that: “We wanted land and space that our children could continue to return to for the rest of their lives,” Sung says. That got harder, but also felt more necessary, when the pandemic hit and they were holed up at home in Ridgewood, Queens, with a young child, dogs, and an ongoing plague of roaches. Sung and Buer are designers of whimsical home goods, including textiles, rugs, and wallpaper. The ­couple met in Boston while studying art in 2006. They worked together in fashion there, Sung as an apparel designer and Buer as a print designer, and made ­jewelry on the side. Then they moved to New York and learned how to macramé and hook rugs to make wall hangings, which led to the creation of their company, [Cold Picnic](, in 2010. Their Private Parts collection of Boob bath mats became a cult hit. “It was just, like, boobs were weirdly showing up in our designs,” Buer explains. “We were ­doing a lot of circles, and we’d say, ‘Oh, we can’t do that; it just looks like a boob,’ and then there was a point where we just owned it. Who knew so many people wanted it?” He laughs. [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 [A West Village One-Bedroom With Exposed Brick for Under a Million Plus a four-bedroom Colonial house with a big backyard on City Island.]( By Clio Chang [Charlotte Shane Had an Aesthetic Crisis in a Midtown Old Navy The author on getting tricked into renting in Tribeca and her early days in New York City.]( As told to Clio Chang [Everyone Knew About the A-Team How did the Alexander brothers become real-estate elites while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women?]( By Bridget Read and James D. Walsh [I Went Swimming in the Seine What the cleaned-up river was like, for Olympic athletes and me.]( By John Surico [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