10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Kitchen Workstations
Some of us are heading indoors for the coming season; others are able to entertain outside for months to come, particularly those living in southern climates. So it's no wonder that when it comes to...
View ArticleFioraio Bianchi Caffè: Food and Flowers from Milan's Poet Florist
There is only one restaurant inside a flower shop in Milan—or maybe the flower shop is inside the restaurant? This much is known about Fioraio Bianchi Caffè: order the fresh pasta with clams (and...
View ArticleLandscape Architect Visit: A Hazy Dreamscape in Northern Italy by Cristiana...
A native of northern Italy, Turin-based landscape architect Cristiana Ruspa of Giardino Segreto creates the sorts of gardens you see in a dream, with hazy swaths of color against a distant horizon. In...
View ArticleMade in Milan: Outdoor Furniture from Paola Lenti
Milan-based design house Paola Lenti's outdoor furnishings are known for clean, simple lines and comfortable proportions. We particularly like the new 2015 collection: Above: Two Rams daybeds sit side...
View ArticleGardening 101: How to Prevent Cracks in Terra Cotta Planters
Clay pots are as classic a garden feature as they come. (See our favorites in 10 Easy Pieces: Terra Cotta Planters). The best ones aren't the little machine-made pots that run a dime a dozen. We like...
View ArticleFrom Italy With Love: The World's Best View From a Terrace
In the northern Italian city of Mantova, Diego Cisi and Stefano Gorni Silvestri of Archiplan Studio designed a streamlined terrace on the top floor of a family home originally built in the 1600s. The...
View ArticleHardscaping 101: Bocce Courts
Yes, there is a United States Bocce Federation and that is where you can find the definitive answer to any question you have about the traditional Italian lawn bowling game. For example, "Question:...
View ArticleSteal This Look: An Industrial Greenhouse Kitchen
Turin-based landscape architect studio Giardino Segreto installed a fully equipped kitchen inside a steel and glass greenhouse. The result is our dream kitchen. We're inspired by how it elegantly...
View ArticleOutbuilding of the Week: A Tuscan Cliffside Aerie
Argentario is a promontory on Italy's west coast, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is also the name of an estate with wooded hills disguising some fine minimalist architecture, including this...
View ArticleGarden Visit: An Italian Terrace
This summer, I quietly decamped to Italy for three weeks. It was every bit the Mediterranean idyll I'd wanted, but I still insisted on keeping a work-worthy camera in tow. I'm glad I did, for occasions...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: The New Glamour
This week, Julie and the Remodelista editors explored a new language of Italian glamour, took a virtual trip to Milan to visit an artist's small apartment, and shared the best of Italian kitchenware....
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: October Sky
Read on to see what we loved this week: Above: The Telegraph rounds up the best of fall foliage. Photograph by Jonathan Buckley. Three ways to preserve herbs. Above: We're eyeing Terrain's lineup of...
View ArticleTop 5 in Garden News: Keep Composting, Stress on Sugar Maples, and the...
This week in the world of gardening and landscape design: your eco-actions are making a difference, green design hopes to help birds in London, and visit a laboratory for the world's first underground...
View ArticleTable of Contents: Spring Forward 2016
Are you looking forward to a bountiful spring harvest? So are we. Join us this week as we lay down the roots for spring 2016. Above: Photograph by Jamie Beck from Garden Visit: Fashion Designer...
View ArticleExpert Advice from Old House Gardens: 10 Ideas for Planning a Spring Bulb Garden
In Chicago, where I grew up, tulips were pretty much the only thing that kept us going through the winter. You can survive snow, and you can survive ice, and you can even survive the razor winds that...
View ArticleA Jewel Box Townhouse Garden
The typical city lot in San Francisco is 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep. Put a townhouse on this. How much space is left for a garden? "You have to design every inch," says Scott Lewis, of San...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Rooftop Outdoor Kitchen in São Paulo
At Casa Lara, a multi-story house opens out to the urban landscape of São Paulo, Brazil with a garden on three sides of the home. On the rooftop, architect Felipe Hess built a central kitchen and...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Bulb Planters
Squirrels make it look so easy. But digging a deep narrow hole to plant bulbs can be a challenge. Make the job easier this fall with a bulb planter. Here are ten of our favorites: Above: A vintage bulb...
View Article10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Belgium
There is a painterly quality to nearly everything that comes from Belgium. It's a region that for centuries has felt the influence of its opinionated neighbors. In almost any Belgian garden there is...
View ArticleBest Bulbs: New Releases for 2016
As hydrangea petals thin and brown, grasses turn ochre, and blooms die back, we're already imaging our garden next spring. We're planting ahead for a sea of color so alluring that the depth and...
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