The Felt and Foam Apartment

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 The felt apartment on Search Party.    Photo: Courtesy of HBO Max / Photographed by Jon Pack   Waking up from a nightmare is an experience all of us have had, right? But what if you’ve woken up to the familiarity of your apartment, and you’re still in the nightmare! This is just the scenario played out in season four of HBOMax’s Search Party, when [Alia Shawkat](’s character, Dory Sief, is kidnapped and held captive in a felt-and-foam replica of her apartment devised by a crazed obsessive. It was a daunting task to [re-create Dory’s apartment]( down to the food in the refrigerator, but production designer Danica Pantic worked with set designer Casey Adams and art director Cara Alpert to bring the nightmare to spine-tingling, delightful, life. [Take a tour]( Also on Curbed: Valeria Ricciulli [interviewed]( the woman who crawled through a hole in the wall behind her bathroom mirror into an empty apartment next door and made a viral TikTok about it; Jack Denton investigated an L.A. start-up that hopes to create [upscale flophouses]( in Brooklyn; and Diana Budds invites you to “like” Jolie Ngo’s “[post-internet” ceramics](. Best, Wendy Goodman     Never miss a detail: [Subscribe]( for unlimited access to New York.     Design Happenings Five things to check out this week.   Stop by the Head Hi bookstore and coffee shop in Fort Greene for the second part of its [second annual Lamp Show](: an exhibition of unique, handmade lamps by designers and artists of all levels. Mark your calendars for 10 a.m. on March 16, when tickets will go on sale to the public for the New York Botanical Garden’s [Yayoi Kusama show](. [Register now]( for a March 18 virtual walk-through of the new Amy Sherald exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, with a conversation between the artist and Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Celebrate International Women’s Day with West Elm’s gorgeous [upcycled shower curtains]( designed by eight female artists. 50 percent of the purchase price benefits HERproject™. Starting on Thursday, join in on a weeklong celebration of Asian art with [Asia Week New York](, this year happening online with by-appointment gallery exhibitions and auction previews in New York.     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...](     Curbed Open House Some apartments and homes on the market for you to peruse.   The [45 best rent deals]( right now. What you can buy right now for [under a million dollars](.     Who Doesn’t Need a Personal Online Shopper? Some picks from the Strategist.   Photo-Illustration: retailers [27 great-smelling candles]( from Black-owned businesses. [Scott Sternberg’s favorite travel alarm clock](. Photo: Retailers 11 items that give (almost) all proceeds to [organizations supporting the AAPI community](.     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Getunlimited access]( more great stories from New York, home of Curbed, Intelligencer, the Cut, Vulture, Grub Street, and the Strategist. [SUBSCRIBE NOW](     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=dh)   |   [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 e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved