Erin Knutson

CULTURED at Home is finally here. The new design publication from CULTURED, guest edited by @alexcunninghamcameron , “chases the impulse for abundant experience across ruined gardens, calamitous interiors, midnight listening parties, and sancta sanctorum,” to capture how artists and designers really live, mess and all. The inaugural issue is part resource—mapping landscapes of contemporary design culture—and part reverie—a collection of intimate looks into the homes of critics, novelists, filmmakers, and designers. Above all, ACC sees CULTURED at Home as an homage to the “intelligence each of us gains from a lifetime of sensory experience. To place a rose in a vase on the table just so is an opus. Only you can do it like that.” Head to the link in bio to snag your copy before they sell out. Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch Market Editor: Adam Charlap Hyman @adamcharlaphyman Kitchen and Bath Editor: Sam Chermayeff @samchermayeffoffice Gardens Editor: Precious Okoyomon @devilintraining_ Books Editor: Carson Chan @chan.carson Contributing Editors: Ruba Katrib, Lawrence Kumpf (@blankforms_ ), Cynthia Leung (@cyntheticpleasures ), Stella Roos (@stellarooss ), Jason Wigginton (@jason.wigg ) Cover photography: @oliverhelbig_ with creative direction by @samchermayeffoffice

Consider this: The same New York apartment that cost $171 a month in 1975, and $550 a month in 1988, could now go for $3,397—the median rent for a studio circa May 2025. Even after adjusting for inflation, that means median rents have tripled since the mid-1970s. “Of course, New York isn’t the only ever-inflating city, and artists aren’t the only people suffering from a dearth of affordable housing in these places,” writes @fifidunks for the inaugural issue of CULTURED at Home. “However, artists offer an interesting case study ... Both uniquely valued by society and also disproportionately at risk, existing mostly outside of the social safety net, the artist’s way is one of precarity.” For her deep dive into the intersecting worlds of art-making and real estate, Duncan spoke to the likes of @csopie and @amaliaulman to glean insight into a few pressing questions: How are contemporary artists contending with the affordable housing crisis? Have they found creative workarounds? “The more I researched this topic, the more depressed I became,” the writer observes. “In the end, the only thing that could get me out of it was to make a meme.” Read the full feature at the link in bio, and order your copy of the issue today. Words: @fifidunks Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: @e__knut Executive Editor: @maraveitch

The items in @carlooto ’s home are meant to be used. The Bronx apartment of the costume and set designer—who has worked with the likes of Solange, Shikeith, David Lang, and the late Robert Wilson—is filled with priceless historic artifacts. He eats off precious Shigaraki and Iga ware plates. He lights candles on Shaker-crafted stands. He dons Y. & Sons kimonos and Sudanese ivory bangles. “I either want an object to tell me a story or to disappear,” Soto tells Camille Okhio in the inaugural issue of CULTURED at Home. “My objects act as aide-memoires. They remind me to live.” Head to the link in bio to read more about @cokhio ’s journey through the designer’s expansive collection, and order your copy of CULTURED at Home today. Words: @cokhio Photography: @michaelavedon Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: @e__knut Executive Editor: @maraveitch

There’s no domestic space so humbling as the bathroom. We enter alone. We lock the door. We confront the facts that we spend so much of our time trying not to face. For CULTURED at Home, Kitchen and Bath editor @samchermayeffoffice pays tribute to the mysteries of the water closet by constructing one in Berlin’s Baugruppe Kurfürstenstraße—and setting himself, along with photographer @oliverhelbig_ —loose inside it. The resulting photographs scenario a series of familiar bathroom acts, and feature the most notorious toilet in design history: Luigi Colani’s 1973 Granny Smith Green, for Villeroy & Boch, which also graces the cover of the inaugural issue of CULTURED at Home. Experience the full feature at the link in bio, and get your copy of CULTURED at Home today. Kitchen and Bath Editor: Sam Chermayeff @samchermayeffoffice Photography: @oliverhelbig_ Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch

It’s a rare privilege to be invited to donate one’s archive. For Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, the opportunity came from Texas Tech University in Lubbock—the very town where the pair met at a school dance more than 70 years ago. The two artists have been together ever since, traveling the country and cultivating a celebrated oeuvre that includes music, painting, and avant-garde plays. Forty of those years were spent in Santa Fe, where the Allens live in a rambling adobe home facing the Sangre de Cristo mountains. There, ensconced in their adjoining art studios and surrounded by a lifetime’s worth of memories and mementos, the pair—now in their 80s—set to work pulling together a wealth of materials for Texas Tech: a trove which includes countless journals, scripts, audio recordings, and decades’ worth of letters. The project invited the couple to take stock of a lifetime spent making art side by side. For CULTURED at Home, the pair invited photographer @adraintbereal to capture their Santa Fe oasis. Link in bio to read the full feature. Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch Photography: @adraintbereal

“There has never been a retail experience more thrilling to me than a visit to a good hardware store,” writes @adamcharlaphyman . “Anyone who has found artistry in keeping house or soulfulness in home maintenance will know what I mean.” For the inaugural edition of CULTURED at Home, the designer and cofounder of @ch_herrero combed through the aisles of hardware stores across the world to gather more than a hundred objects—from egg-shaped porcelain doorknobs and lint rollers to sterling silver ice buckets and salt shakers—compiling his findings into a catalog tucked into the issue’s pages. Read the full story and get your own copy of HARDWARE (tucked inside every issue of CULTURED at Home) at the link in bio. Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch Market Editor: Adam Charlap Hyman @adamcharlaphyman

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, before algorithms choked the internet, a small group of RISD graduates coined an aesthetic language that would come to define much of material culture over the last decade and a half. Their work—willfully unpolished, borrowing unselfconsciously from history and pop kitsch, conflating white glove opulence, craftwork, and gutter scrap—has been copied widely and critiqued just as often: dismissed as dilettantish or opportunistic, or else flattened into trends with little regard for its internal logic. What gets noticed is the provocation; what gets overlooked is the material fluency and technical specificity that underpin the output. For CULTURED at Home, Sina Sohrab investigates the legacy of his RISD classmates, a cohort that includes Eckhaus Latta cofounders MIKE ECKHAUS (Sculpture 2010) and ZOE LATTA (Textiles 2010), Charlap Hyman & Herrero cofounders ADAM CHARLAP HYMAN (Furniture 2011) and ANDRE HERRERO, KATIE STOUT (Furniture 2012), MISHA KAHN (Furniture 2011), and F TAYLOR COLANTONIO (Furniture 2013), MARTINE GUTIERREZ (Printmaking 2012). Read the full piece at the link in bio. Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch Words: @sinasohrab

The Childs family purchased Coolwater, a large property near a small lake off one of Aaron Burr’s descendants in 1909. They have lived there ever since. Shortly after moving in, they tapped Alfredo Taylor, one of America’s first starchitects, to renovate the more than 100-year-old colonial farmhouse for more space and better insulation. The grand result revealed Taylor’s signature style—a dense interplay of turrets, Romanesque arches, intricate masonry, and sloping roofs that appeared to sag, conveying a sense of time-worn grandeur. “America was in its ascendancy,” writes @thessaly , who visited the Childses and their Norfolk, Connecticut compound for CULTURED at Home’s inaugural issue. “Taylor understood how to give a new building an aura of history that appealed to a generation in the early half of the last century who had taken up the project of nation-building.” The estate—photographed and creative directed by @adriangaut and @akariendogaut for the issue—includes a main house laced with sleeping porches, a monumental Sport House, and a swimming lake. “Like a Roman coin,” it has the kind of dilapidated, covetable patina that only time can conjure (fashion designer @bode occasionally photographs her American sportswear-inspired collections against the faded walls of the Sport House’s fives court). “A single wall, or bookshelf, or reading nook conveys vast annals of time and emotion,” La Force continues. “There is feeling here.” Head to the link in bio to read more about the storied New England property, and order your copy of CULTURED at Home today. Editor in Chief: @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: @e__knut Executive Editor: @maraveitch Photography: @a_gaut Creative Direction: @akariendogaut Deep thanks to the Childs family

For CULTURED at Home, @seeing_itself captured a @johnstonmarklee homage to Kyoto’s waterway vernacular, with views to Mount Daimonji-yama. The Canal House sits on one of the city’s centuries-old cherry-tree-lined canals. Completed in 2021, it embodies the fluid convergence of American and Japanese architectural traditions: where neighboring homes are made with a reverence for wood, the Canal House is built from concrete. Single Yoshino-style windows float below its terraced eaves like moons, each tier buttressed by concrete struts instead of traditional bamboo ones. Inside, the house revels in itself: each level looks onto a glass-enclosed inner courtyard studded with mossy rocks, while cantilever staircases offer a glimpse at above from below. Link in bio to look inside, and order your copy of the inaugural CULTURED at Home issue today.

It’s hard to remember American political culture before the doom loop of the 21st century. Was it ever… fun? Probably not. But it certainly involved a lot of entertaining.  “You have to have nerves of steel to host parties in DC,” recalls Sally Quinn, the journalist, socialite, and legendary party host. Now 84, Quinn “is relatively unchanged since the days when she welcomed everyone from Barry Goldwater to Lauren Bacall into her home,” writes @arnoldfriend6 in the inaugural issue of CULTURED at Home.  Renowned for her masterful seating charts, potent guest lists, and formidable real estate portfolio—including the infamous Grey Gardens mansion in the Hamptons and a Georgetown townhouse—Quinn embodies a bygone era (not to mention a splashy, glamorous one) when partisan disputes and cultural rifts could be addressed over canapes. These days, that sounds an awful lot like a pipe dream. But for Bennett, Quinn is a sort of model for how we might approach our current circumstances. As Quinn puts it, “There’s nothing like a party to deliver people from their troubles.” Read the full profile at the link in bio and get your copy of CULTURED at Home before it sells out. Words: Alissa Bennett Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch

Come home with us! It takes a village to make a magazine, and our stacked list of ‘CULTURED at Home’ contributors were game to let us into the corners and cobwebs of their homes and their minds. From @jarrettearnest ’s bedroom confessions to @fifidunks ’s journey through housing hell and back, the new issue is packed with stories that relish in the mess that makes up our lives. Link in bio to order your copy today. Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch

Ruba Katrib and Lawrence Kumpf know how to throw a party. In their work, the @momaps1 Chief Curator and @blankforms_ founder are constantly bringing people together for live encounters with art. But back at home, surrounded by a creative community of musicians, writers, filmmakers, and artists—not to mention their two cats and an unparalleled sound system—hosting becomes an art form in itself. For CULTURED at Home, the pair documented a few gatherings this fall—early dinners that turned into all-nighters, listening parties, anniversary bashes, and everything in between—and share the recipes and songs that accompanied them. Head to the link in bio to dive in, and order your copy of the issue before it sells out. Photography and text: Ruba Katrib and Lawrence Kumpf Editor in Chief: Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson Guest Editor: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron @alexcunninghamcameron Creative Director: Erin Knutson @e__knut Executive Editor: Mara Veitch @maraveitch