Thursday, February 18, 2010

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The Spotless Garden

By MICHAEL TORTORELLO
A system in Colorado uses wastewater from tilapia to nourish tomatoes. The tilapia are also food.
Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times

A system in Colorado uses wastewater from tilapia to nourish tomatoes. The tilapia are also food.

Aquaponic gardens use fish, water and no soil — and may be the future of food growing.

Kae Burke performs at a House of Yes party in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Decorating the Night in Brooklyn

By PENELOPE GREEN

Armed with glitter and glue guns, impresarios have created an alternate night life in lofts across the borough.

On Location
Don and Sylvie Murphy built their house in the suburbs of Amsterdam for around $1.4 million, creating a structure “that looked as monolithic as possible,” Mr. Murphy said.

A Dutch Home With Some Serious Whimsy

By GISELA WILLIAMS

Don and Sylvie Murphy live in a futuristic bunker-like structure on the suburban edges of Amsterdam.

Shopping With Martí Guixé
Martí Guixé, a Catalan designer, examines glassware at Moss in SoHo.

Resetting the Table

By JULIE SCELFO

The Catalan designer Martí Guixé shopped for interesting dining accessories that still say, ‘“Let’s Eat.”

Seen
Mattia Bonetti, second from right, during his exhibition

Mattia Bonetti’s Loud Furniture

By PENELOPE GREEN

The soft-spoken, Swiss-born, Paris-dwelling designer’s fete at a Chelsea gallery.

Currents
Furniture

The Sectional as Sexy Sculpture

By STEPHEN MILIOTI

The designer Patrick Jouin elegantly reimagines the often not-so-stylish sofa genre.

Shows

View the Print, Own a Copy

By ELAINE LOUIE

Thirty-six prints from “Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection” at the Japan Society will be for sale.

Décor

Jonathan Adler Designs for Junior

By RIMA SUQI

The designer recently introduced his first official collection for children, Jonathan Adler Junior.

Tableware

Architecture in Dinnerware

By RIMA SUQI

Seletti’s solution for hiding dinnerware in plain sight: creating “buildings” out of stacks of porcelain plates and bowls.

Deals

Bundle Up for a Bargain

By MARIANNE ROHRLICH

Sales at the Company Store, Frederick P. Victoria & Son and the Web site Lux Finds.

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Property Values
A one-bedroom houseboat in a marina on Alameda, an island of about 72,000 residents off Oakland, is on the market for $350,000.

What You Get for ... $350,000

By MIKE POWELL

A houseboat in Oakland's Inner Harbor, a condo in Cambridge, Mass., and a home in Little Rock, Ark.

International Real Estate
Running the length of the apartment are windows and sliding doors leading to a 30-by-10-foot patio.

House Hunting in ... Toronto

By JEFF VANDAM

In stark contrast to the sagging residential markets of most cities, the Toronto skyline is a gallery of giant cranes in action.

Multimedia
Interactive Feature
Shopping With Martí Guixé

A Catalan designer sought out tableware with character.

Slide Show
Crafting a Party

The warehouse parties that have roved Brooklyn for more than a decade have become ever-more-refined environments.

Slide Show
Modern and Quirky

Monolithic from the outside, a Dutch dream home contains lots of quirkiness.

Slide Show
Aquaponics 101

A form of sustainable agriculture that has attracted gardeners, tinkerers and futurists.

Slide Show
Niche Design

A tiny studio apartment proves that the more (artfully arranged) stuff you put in a room, the bigger it seems.

Letters

Readers' Dog Photos

Dogs of all breeds and sizes are represented in this album of photos submitted by readers.

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