Barbie's Late '70s Dream

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 Photo: Evelyn Pustka “So much has been written about Barbie, but there hasn’t been a comprehensive analysis of the architecture and design created around her,” says Felix Burrichter, editor of the playfully intellectual magazine [Pin-Up](. But now there’s Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey, a 152 page book which Burrichter, along with Whitney Mallet, and designer Ben Ganz, have produced with the blessing of Barbie’s bosses at Mattel. “Barbie’s a plastic icon of artifice and self-invention,” says Mallet. As they note in the introduction, “It’s been 60 years since Barbie first had a room of her own, the original Dreamhouse hitting toy store shelves in 1962, only three years after the phenomenon that is Barbie was born…Since then, her homes have transformed and evolved, but Barbie’s independence has remained a constant throughout, her subjectivity performed through each era’s vision of aspirational architecture.” Of course, some eras are groovier than others, so here we excerpt the grooviest: 1979 Dreamhouse. [Take a tour]( Best, Wendy Goodman Holiday Sale: [Save up to 70% and get two exclusive gifts]( with an annual subscription to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [Julius’, the Gay-Elder Dive Bar of the Village, Gets Landmarked Just as the TikTok twinks have discovered its charms.]( 2. [The Best Gifts for Design-Minded Kids From a Keith Haring play mat for babies to a highly adaptable jumpsuit for teens.]( 3. [New St. Nick: The Glowed-up Greek Church at Ground Zero The tiny marble Greek Orthodox church next to the World Trade Center finally opens, 21 years after its predecessor was destroyed.]( 4. [39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now Every time it’s been confronted, New York has returned, more impossibly and unpredictably itself than ever, because we wanted it to.]( [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