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The NYT did a nice article recently (past 6 months?) on renovating small bathrooms. Perhaps you could get some ideas.

You need to look for dealers in "ephemera." These are people who deal in antique paper products -- maps, advertisements, tickets, sheet music... and Menus. This might be a good place to start:

Joe Joe Joe

Here's a great site for a collection of faded ads: http://www.frankjump.com/

The Brooklyn Seltzer man's name is Walter Beckerman and there are several nice articles about him on the web. I also found Gomberg Seltzer Works, 718-257-9369, and this lovely little article by th...

from How To: Make Soda Water at Home on July 31, 2007 04:00PM

Clean line modern. Comfy-looking but not bulky. Fabulous -- I agree. I found an old reference to a De Padova store on 49 Mercer street, opened in 2003, but can't find anything curren...

I've been hunting for the same thing. It looks like this site carries all the inexpensive "prefab" models out there http://www.kitchenislands.com/ -- t...

Yes indeed. Different products on the different sites.

from Manufactum on May 2, 2007 01:20PM

I work for a UK company with a UK based server's that automatically defaults to Google.co.uk. ANYWAY... on Google.uking "Manufactum International" I discovered they have several different website...

from Manufactum on May 2, 2007 01:15PM

Fish's Eddy online! http://www.fishseddy.com/

Yes, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort -- less baroque but just as insane as far as color and design go. Every single outfit, pair of shoes, building -- in every frame -- is perfectly coordinated in Mo...

My boyfriend uses his to house his stereo (yes, STEREO) system. It works beautifully.

from Working Your Non-working Fireplace on April 11, 2007 02:33PM

It's pretty? You like it? You can afford it? Buy it!

1) Double park. 2) Have extra person whose job is to sit in the truck cab just in case. 3) Unload EVERYTHING into the vestibule/downstairs hallway of your building as quickly as possibl...

oops. should read "... pre-code tenement that had been converted with a bathtub in the kitchen."

A friend of mine renovated a 19th century Manhattan carriage house and put her bathtub in the bedroom because that's where they put the bathtub in the 19th century -- right next to the fireplace. ...