Follow the Red Door Through the Trees

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: William Abranowicz In the introduction to his book Country Life, photographer William Abranowicz remembers first visiting upstate New York when he was a child living in Bayonne, New Jersey. Years later, he and his wife, Andrea, started renting upstate themselves. Today, they live in a mountainside house outside Margaretville, a village bordering the Catskill Park; this 700,000-acre swath of land was deeded in 1904 to remain “forever wild” because it is a watershed for the city. Country Life, written by Will’s son Zander based on their notes and conversations, profiles upstate houses and their owners, including the Saugerties home of Jessica Piazza and Tim Unich, excerpted here. It might just make you want to move upstate yourself. After all, as Zander shares, “Whether it’s those brutal winters or the isolation enforced by such rugged topography, upstate living can take on a certain survivalist strain: chopping wood, prepping for blizzards, growing food. In the event of an apocalypse, you could do worse than find your way to Piazza and Unich’s pastoral compound: Just follow the red door through the trees.” [Take a tour]( Best, Wendy Goodman Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [The Ultimate Start-up Office Is for Sale Kickstarter’s 29,000-square-foot Greenpoint space is a fossil of how we once worked.]( 2. [The 8 Best New Design, Architecture, and Urbanism Books Out This Summer Including a look at Isamu Noguchi’s affinity for Greece and David Adjaye’s tactile architecture.]( 3. [The Look Book Goes to the Yayoi Kusama Opening We stopped by the artist’s new exhibit at David Zwirner gallery.]( 4. [Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean Restoration Precisely reproducing its opening-day sheen. Next up: the Waldorf.]( 5. [Steal My Noguchi 41 Akari lamps of all shapes and sizes as seen glowing in their passionate owners’ homes.]( [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]( | [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 © 2023, All rights reserved