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  • The New AD 100 honored in New York

    Santa arrived in the Capital City early this year, not only to greet boys and girls at area malls and along parade routes, but to bring one prestigious gift to a group of local architects. READ MORE

  • DUMBO’s ClockTower Building gets Esquire ‘bachelor’ treatment

    Move over hipsters, there’s a new type of guy coming to Brooklyn. Billed as the “Ultimate Bachelor Pad,” the penthouse of the ClockTower Building in DUMBO has been decked out by Esquire Magazine and features cutting-edge design, fashion and technology. READ MORE

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  • Sir Spa - The Esquire Apartment

    This is not what I was going to share with you today. But when I ran across the Esquire Apartment, a collaboration between top designers & brands, I HAD to change course. You see, the Esquire Apartment is designed as the ultimate bachelor pad – but it also screams spa style! Cozy, whimsical and retro – it’s more like bachelor bliss! The only thing missing from these photos is the smell of cigars, tequila & musk. Enjoy and happy Friday! READ MORE

  • Recap of Fall Market Week at Design and Decoration Building

    As one magazine editor noted, she saw me running all over the Design and Decoration Building (DDB) during Fall Market Week. It was hard to miss me, as I was in a tuxedo all afternoon on Wednesday, in preparation for the Stars of Design Awardsdinner hosted by Charles S. Cohen! READ MORE

  • Inside Esquire’s very Bonkers Ultimate Bachelor Pad

    Any morning that starts with a tour of a $23.5M triplex—rather, quadruplex—with 360-degree views of NYC is unfailingly, indubitably, unquestionably, and most certainly going to be a mighty good morning. Thankfully, such a morning recently happened when the Hearst Magazines powers-that-be granted us a sneak peek of this year's Ultimate Bachelor Pad, Esquire's annual balls-to-the-wall version of a masculine showhouse. The setting? The penthouse of 1 Main Street (the Clocktower Building) in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, which first hit the market for $25M in 2009, pulled a disappearing act in summer 2010, and was re-listed for its current ask of $23.5M in April, at which time Curbed NY founding (and former) editor Joey Arak deemed it an "epic party pad." Prescience of a future Esquire takeover or stone-cold common sense? Who cares! Let's talk about that 3,000-square-foot great room! READ MORE

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