The Cold Picnic Couple Have a Very Chill Catskills Farmhouse

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [A Picnic in the Country]( Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer, founders of the home-goods company Cold Picnic, have decked out their Delaware County farmhouse in warm designs. The parlor. Photo: Annie Schlechter Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer started their whimsical home-goods 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?” Fast forward 11 years, living in Ridgewood, Queens, with a young daughter and another on the way, and they bought this 1910 farmhouse on a hill with a pond and 17 acres in Delaware County, which they decorated with a feast of Cold Picnic. — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo.]( 2. [Norman Mailer’s Old Apartment on the Promenade Is for Rent The shiplike $13,000-a-month two-bedroom sparked a bidding war last time it was available.]( 3. [The City Wants to Demolish a West Village Recreation Center The historic Tony Dapolito center with a Keith Haring mural is landmarked but the city says it’s too expensive to preserve.]( 4. [A Puddle Full of Goldfish in Bed-Stuy A Bed-Stuy native spruced up the block with goldfish under a trickling hydrant. Transplants concerned with the fish’s health wanted to get them out.]( 5. [A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High Line Please don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on 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