Design Hunting - A Beach House in Winter

Growing up, Julia Gruen, now a trustee of the Keith Haring Foundation, was always surrounded by her parents’ — writer John Jonas Gruen and artist Jane Wilson — circle of literary, theater, and artist friends, including Leonard Bernstein, Larry Rivers, Willem de Kooning, and Frank O’Hara, to name but a few. They gathered during the summers in the Gruens’ renovated carriage house in Water Mill, where to this day Julia keeps her parents’ legacy alive, as she fills the house with her own circle of friends and two very vigilant dachshunds.

Also this week on Curbed: An investigation into why it’s so hard to create a good can opener; and another into why nobody has bought this rare William Lescaze–designed townhouse.

Yours,
Wendy Goodman

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Register for an online conversation between the writer Marjon Carlos and artist Dannielle Bowman, hosted by Aperture. The two will discuss Bowman’s project “What Had Happened,” currently on display at the Camera Club of New York.

Go visit the newly revealed Moynihan Train Hall, and read about the Public Art Fund’s three installations inside the building, including pieces by Kehinde Wiley and Stan Douglas.

Be sure to get timed tickets to see the Costume Institute’s 2020 exhibition “About Time: Fashion and Duration” at the Met before it closes on February 7.

Browse West Elm’s newly released, very sleek, very luxe spring 2021 collection.

47 of the best rent deals in New York, including a grand floor-through in Fort Greene with a clawfoot tub.

A lofty one-bedroom in a converted Cobble Hill schoolhouse and other apartments for under $1 million.

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