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October 15, 2008

NY Mag Tackles Home Design

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Fort Greene backyards, Williamsburg roof havens — NY Mag's home design issue finds enviable outdoor and indoor spots in Brooklyn to profile. Check out this slideshow of a Fort Greene duplex, purchased and made over by a reluctant-to-leave-Manhattan resident; he created a backyard "built for entertaining" and "made the space an extension of his living room with a big dining table and a chair that hangs from a tree limb (only to be used by very lightweight visitors)." The Williamsburg roof, however, is actually home to the pigeons.
The Country in the City [NY Mag]
Photo by kevinbondelli.




Posted by lisa at 9:33 AM | Comments (5)
Categories: Architecture, Interiors

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Love that hanging chair - saw it in a movie once around 1979......

Posted by: fsrg at October 15, 2008 11:24 AM

Btw - notwithstanding the very hot chair - since when did clutter count for design - the inside looks like it was designed by the Collyer Brothers and the outside is totally stark and uncomfortable and actually looks horrible for entertaining -

Posted by: fsrg at October 15, 2008 11:28 AM

I'd like to know how he controls the mosquitos in his Fort Greene backyard to even entertain anybody.

Posted by: Lisa FG at October 15, 2008 11:49 AM

I love it. I am leaving now to buy New York magazine so I can oogle it some more.

Posted by: boroughbred at October 15, 2008 12:05 PM

funny that he left manhattan to the greener pastures of brooklyn to have a back yard covered in gravel. seems like a waste.

Posted by: amt230 at October 15, 2008 12:55 PM

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