Joni Mitchell, Meet Edith Wharton

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 Her room has a gas fireplace. Photo: Wendy Goodman Songwriter, poet, and fashion designer Chase Cohl splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. During the pandemic, she landed in a set of rooms in the Lafayette House, a throwback to the elegance of the Gilded Age where 19th-century bohemian New Yorkers would have been right at home; it’s where she wrote the songs for her upcoming album and where Edith Wharton would have found it lots of fun to go slumming so far downtown in rooms that were amply grand. [Take a tour]( Best, Wendy Goodman Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [Is There Still an Architectural Avant-Garde? If there is, it won’t look like a Zaha Hadid swoop.]( 2. [Death Masks, Dopamine Décor, Antiquarian Books, and More Design Finds Plus Julio Torres’s story about a plunger that just wants to be a vase.]( 3. [‘The World Was Ukrainian’ A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.]( 4. [A Basquiat Family Reunion The artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.]( 5. [The Look Book Goes to Herbert Von King Park On the first 70-degree day of the year, we joined sunbathers at the century-old Brooklyn park and community space.]( 6. [Suchi Reddy Lives Happily in Her 375-Square-Foot Micro-Apartment The architect and artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing [My Week in New York](: a brand-new newsletter from the editors. [Sign up]( to get the next edition this Saturday. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [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 email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved