| Once/Again: Remaking the Scene |
| Allen B. Schwartz, founder of the A.B.S. clothing line, was a “master of the trend” in his heyday, and now his 1,200-square-foot apartment on East 52nd Street gets a makeover. |
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| Living Together: Beloved Pets Everlasting? |
| Living with the clones of a dead dog has its surprises. The DNA may be the same but the behavior is another story. |
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| On the Cheap: Letting a Space Show Its Bones |
| Koray Duman, a young architect from Turkey, transformed his East Village apartment for $25,000. |
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| In The Garden: In Harmony With Earth, Wind and Fire |
| A naturalistic hilltop garden above Napa Valley has been carefully designed not to look designed at all. |
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| Shopping With Alex Calderwood and Robin Standefer: Beauty in the Everyday |
| Alex Calderwood and Robin Standerfer, the creative minds behind Ace Hotels, bring out the beauty in everyday objects. |
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| The Fix: How to Put Away Winter’s Blanket |
| Experts weigh in on something many homeowners from the Northwest to the Northeast may have on their minds: snow. |
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| Currents | Walls: From Idle Days, Patterns Emerge |
| The New York decorator Katie Ridder spends Augusts in Mishaum Point, Mass., a seaside town with not a lot of action, she said. So each year she and her children find a project: one summer, they quilted; another, they made shell necklaces. Two years ago, they began to design wallpaper, an ambitious endeavor that stretched beyond the summer vacation. “It was a very slow process,” Ms. Ridder said, “because I’m not an artist.” (Some would dispute that: her painterly interiors have an exotic Moorish flavor with many handmade elements, like stenciled walls and block-print fabrics.). |
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| Currents | Rooms: A Hotel Not Afraid to Show Its Age |
| Rather than gutting the early 19th-century Georgian building that houses the new Rough Luxe hotel in London, or glossing over its imperfections, Rabih Hage, the architect and designer, practiced a different kind of minimalism. He decided “to do the least construction work possible — to change only two doors and add only one door,” Mr. Hage said. |
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| Currents | Tools: Count the Reasons to Hug a Tree |
| It’s not a mystery that trees are good for the environment, and the Forest Service’s Center for Urban Forest Research has a software program to compute that benefit. The Tree Carbon Calculator uses data like a tree’s age and location to see how much carbon dioxide it captures from the atmosphere and how much its shade reduces the energy needed for cooling. The program, equipped for California but to be updated nationwide by summer, was created to guide cities, utilities and schools that want to plant trees, said Greg McPherson, the center’s director. But homeowners can use it, too. He entered data about the London plane tree outside his office in Davis, Calif., and learned that each year it captures 113 pounds of carbon and saves his building 162 kilowatt-hours in energy, “relatively good numbers.” The calculator can be downloaded at www.fs.fed.us/psw. To understand your results, comparative data is at www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications under the first “Publication List.” STEVEN KURUTZ. |
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| Currents | Deals: Arguments Against E-Mail |
| Dempsey & Carroll, the 130-year-old company known for stylized cards and papers, is having a sale. |
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| Currents | Goods: The Hand Points the Way |
| The furniture maker Thos. Moser has come out with a lounge chair and matching ottoman that are as much sculpture as seating. |
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| Seven 'deadly' sins, seven great trips |
| Envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth and wrath -- here are vacation ideas with all the decadence and none of the guilt. |
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| Malmo, Sweden's modern renaissance |
| On Malmo's waterfront, once the heart of the city's industrial base, an eye-popping 57-story apartment tower rises spectacularly, dominating the skyline. |
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| Six secrets for getting your way |
| I admit, I have an unfair advantage. |
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| Save big at ski resorts this winter |
| Savvy skiers, listen up: This could just be your year to find great deals at some of America's best resorts. Because of the softening economy, bookings are down 20 percent, and this is spurring the mountains to create irresistible ski deals. |
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| Muslim family remains at odds with airline |
| A day after a Muslim family was removed from a flight at Reagan National Airport near Washington, officials of AirTran Airways and the family stood their ground Friday, each accusing the other of misconduct. |
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| Obamas checking into historical hotel |
| The hotel that will be home to President-elect Barack Obama and his family for the next couple of weeks offers one of Washington's best views of their future home, the White House, and a past linked with political movers and shakers. |
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| No rental car, but they still have my money |
| Kay Rihn reserves a nonrefundable rental car through Hotwire and uses a payment system that allows her to send a check. When she doesn't receive a confirmation from the online agency, she mails a check anyway. Turns out she doesn't have a reservation. But her money? It's gone. |
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| Paid for a permit that's no good |
| His travel agent sells him an International Driving Permit, but when Michael Elliott arrives in Grenada, he's told he needs to buy a local permit. Should his agency refund the money he spent on the first permit? And what's the deal with International Driving Permits, anyway? |
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