Tag: Green Style | Apartment Therapy

Green Style: Roger Dean's Willowater

Roger Dean, the talent behind all those 70's Yes album covers, has also been designing a green architectural village. Titled "Willowater" or the "Home for Life," these are just a few pictures of t...

Green Style: Margaret Roach's Garden (first pics!)

Margaret Roach has become a friend since we met her a few years back at Martha Stewart Living, where she was the editorial director for many years. Here, she's just released pics of her garden in u...

Green Style: LED Luma Lamp by UM

If you saw the story in the NYTimes on Friday about the rise of LED lights, you know how powerful the promise is that these things hold. Above is a swanky new lamp that we spotted at Brooklyn Desig...

Green Style: Luximo LED Task Light

We saw this new task light at ICFF and had to stop and take a pic. it's slim, it's elegant, it's bright and it's part of the leading edge in LED design. Winning the 2008 Lighting for Tomorrow award...

Green Style: BDDW's Phila Audio Stereo Systems

Tyler Hays from BDDW has been experimenting more and more with analog audio systems combined with the style furniture he's known for: handmade, high quality ingredients and playful juxtapositions. ...

Green Style: Hearst Tower

We were just here today, on the fortieth floor, where the views go out for miles in all directions. It's really a lovely and unconventional building - much more European in feel that you'd expect fr...

Green Style: David Alhadeff's Office

This is a pic that we took for our new book at David Alhadeff's house in Williamsburg. His style is decidedly mixed, between new design, vintage and stuff he's found, but all of it is low impact an...

Green Style: Jeanine's Dining Room

When we first saw Jeanine's dining room, we loved her creative reuse of chairs and the way she made the old look new again: "Most everything in our house is from yard sales, flea markets, and craigs...

Green Style: Shaker House Tour

>> Enter Gallery Tour Our friend's family have a house up in the Berkshires, and we feel lucky to visit them each summer (Here are pics from last summer). The house is one of a small bunch which or...

Green Style: Mother's Garden Tulips

Over the weekend we visited our mother and she gave us an armful of tulips from her garden. We put them in a vase with water, and they lit up our house. We took lots of amazing pics in the sunlig...

Green Style: Smooth Wood Blocks in Our Living Room

How about velvet smooth wood blocks that last a lifetime? This is a pic of our living room floor, with an amazing set of blocks Ursula received from our friend who used to teach in nursery programs...

Green Style: Matthew McGregor Mento's Plant Wall

Cambria and I visited this wall this very morning. It's alive and you'll see the whole apartment soon in an upcoming tour. But check this out: Over 400 plants are planted here in 80 square feet an...

Green Style: The Goode's Nolita Penthouse

Urban green style! This rooftop home in Nolita is a fully planted green roof by Chris and Lisa Goode, who started Goode Green Roof Design. See more and read all about it here....

Green Style: Rammed Earth House by Rick Joy

Tuscon Mountain House by Rick Joy made out of rammed earth and winner of the 2004 Smithsonian Architecture Design Award. (pic: www.schoener-wohnen.de)...

Green Style: John Berg's Springs House

This house conserves energy, sequesters solar heat, pumps groundwater up to both heat and cool, is made of structural insulated panels (not convention framing), has a saline pool, sleeps a half doze...

Green Style: Ochre's Organic Modern

This comes from Ochre's inspiration gallery, and we love the soothing play of natural wood against crisp cotton stripes and cozy wool....

Green Style: J. Morgan Puett's Bedroom

This pic is from a post we ran last year that was an amazing bio of J. Morgan Puett's country home in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. (Pic: Phil Mansfield)...

Green Style: Branch Hat Rack

Branches are very versatile and actually quite stunning when incorporated into your home decor, as evidenced by this image. Playful and practical... a touch of the outdoors to ground the whimsy. ...

Green Style: Red Radish Place Setting

What a simple and lovely idea for a place setting. A small bunch of radishes are tied together with twine and placed upon a cloth napkin, creating a very organic (literally) yet modern table tableau...

Green Style: Olle Lundberg's Water Tank Pool

This is from Olle Lundberg's cabin: "Mr. Lundberg salvaged materials from other projects, including steel sash windows, an aluminum coffee table and a pool that was a livestock water tank and has re...

Green Style: Reading Place

This photo immediately appealed to us. The open book, the ledge lined with plants, the view out into the garden. Just add a cup of coffee and we'd never leave....