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After starting in design journalism at House & Garden and CNN, Jamie runs the International Design Awards festival, which rewards visionary international design. One University of Southern California MFA later, she maintains a steady fiction and dramatic writing habit.

Sketches of Spain (and other Gehrys)
What is the purpose of the architectural sketch in the era of computer-assisted design? Is it creative discipline, exploration—or...
Om Sweet Home
There's a school of sustainable thought that champions vintage clothing as a marvelous method of maintaining environmental...
Trees Not Trash
I moved into a new apartment over the summer that came already inhabited by a split-leaf philodendron.
New from Nori Morimoto
Wind whispering through pines, birds serenading their young, and endless snowfall drifts courting banks of streams: these Vermont...
Scandinavia Graces the Catskills
New York's growing epicenter for design inspiration is less Meatpacking District or even Williamsburg as of late.
Jaime Hayon for Lladro
Most people think of their moms' off-limits china cabinets back in childhood days when they think of Lladro.
From Frocks to Fabrics
Proenza Schouler is a design duo more known for rocking the runway than the weaving loom: their ready-to-wear lines are...
Ada = Architecture in New York
Ada Louise Huxtable is the doyenne of architecture criticism in New York, if not the world: as architecture critic at the New...
Angel Investors
For over ten years, Angel Street Thrift Shop has attracted savvy Manhattanites to Chelsea–those with the bravery and general...
Reflecting on Kimonos
Sixteenth-century Japanese costuming and stainless steel don't typically have a lot in common.
Stray Dog
The story of a company often trumps its very goods or services.
Like White on White
To be copied, it seems, is the ultimate compliment.
Screech Owl Design
Anyone who names his or her company after backyard wildlife has got to be a good egg.
Moss and Moroso Sample Sale
Maybe call it a 401(k) in furniture: but two of Soho's most spectacular odes to modern design, Moss and Moroso, are gathering all...
Westernware
Fine china dinnerware is not exactly a common medium for photography, and it's less often a bedfellow of all things cowboys and...
Taschen Does Art & Architecture
Iconic photographer of mid-century modernism Julius Shulman may or may not have been a pack rat.
Calypso in Air
The Whitney Museum of American Art recently put on view a collection of Alexander Calder mobiles from 1926-1933, so it's perhaps...
Update: Studio Dror
Dror Benshetrit has developed a name for himself as a luxury design jack-of-all-trades, applying laws of physics to projects from...
Can't Get Enough Carbs—or Jonathan Adler
Calling all Upper West Siders: no longer any need to travel to Soho, the village or the Upper East Side to pay a visit to...
Times Square Theater
Often public architecture seems to happen in all the wrong places.
Of Scott's Grandmother and Reclaimed Wood
He lists his grandmother ("who recycled everything") as his inspiration. How can you not be smitten with Scott Raffaele?
The Secret Life of Kentucky Bourbon Barrels
There seems to be more reclaimed wood in Brooklyn than trees themselves.
Housing in Crisis Part 4: Lures Cast by Creative Developers
Fact: Urban areas, including those in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, have been experiencing exponential growth of inner-city...
Goth Girl Goes Metal
Christina Kozak describes herself as a goth girl.
Malcolm Gladwell on Design, Success and the Perception of Success
According to Malcolm Gladwell, 1930s-era bank buildings and the desk of his mathematician father are very much alike.
De La Espada Sale
Modernists and craftsmen are often seen as the guys who wear all black and the guys who wear flannels, respectively.
Michael Beirut at the Cooper-Hewitt
This week at the Cooper-Hewitt is National Design Week, designated by the museum as a week of focus on the ways design enriches...
Get Paid to Green Your Home
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs suggests that we only think about fancy needs like self-actualization once we've managed the basics...
Mc&Co
Gleaming from a white-washed box on North 6th Street is Corinne Gilbert's Mc&Co, a lovingly-curated shop of modern porcelain,...
Last Day for Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Today is the final day to venture through this well-received survey of the phenomenon that is the prefabricated home.
Zaha Hadid in Central Park
In time for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week is London-based architect Zaha Hadid's collaboration with Chanel's Karl...
Doshi Levien: Myth and Material
The Design Duo of Doshi Levien has succeeded again: the British design team has produced a compelling collection of work melding...
Ceramic Chic
There was a time when earthenware was unappreciated: once the 80s hit the world, handcrafts—as a vestige of a musty, dusty...
Housing in Crisis, Part II: Three Words for 'Boom"
The American house throughout the nation's history has represented grand concepts: success, strength of family unit, motivation...
Last Day: Waterfalls
Today—Monday, October 13—is the final day Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls will be flowing into the East River.
The Upper Rust
The pharmaceutical, industrial, institutional and educational: these areas have been mines as of late for industrial chic...
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