L I L A

This week, spend a day in Stone Ridge, NY with Lila Allen (@lilerr ), a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of @wrong__house , a new design publication covering interiors, architecture, product, and culture. As the former associate director for @archdigestpro , Architectural Digest’s trade vertical, and managing editor for @metropolismag , she has spent years overseeing strategy and execution of content for the design industry. In addition to editing Wrong House, she is an active contributor to publications including @archpaper and @interiordesignmag , as well as a consultant for designers and agencies on content and brand strategy. Her day involves beekeeping, tarot, and visiting the @freakout.spot . Link in our stories! Pictured here: 1. Lila Allen by @lizziesoufleris 2. Lila at home by Rob Davis. 3. Freakout Spot by @toddmidler 4. Beehive, courtesy of Lila Allen. 5. Tarot evening, courtesy of Lila Allen. #madamearchitect #dayswith #wronghouse #lilaallen #dayinthelife #design #designwriter #designjournalism

Deep Cuts is here! We’ve launched our inaugural insider guide to New York City’s design districts. Our first-ever guide to our hometown’s design hotspots includes showrooms, restaurants, bars, buildings, and art, plus tips from neighborhood locals. Guest edited by Lila Allen (@lilerr ), this print publication was designed by Studio Loutsis (@studio_loutsis ), art director of AN Interior. Available for free at local stockists and participating showrooms, this is your perfect companion for design week. In addition to our pop-up bookstore at Afternoon Light (@afternoonlight ) with do you read me?! nyc (@doyoureadme_nyc ), find the design guide here: @rimadesio @rimadesio_newyork @robinreigimaterials @tilebar @maderasurfaces @nydc @adbuilding @fisherpaykel @glosterfurniture @poliform_official @eggersmann_usa @fergusonhomeofficial @juniperdesigngroup @dom.interiors @usmmodularfurniture @kvadrattextiles @headhi_ny @a83_inst @casamagazines @iconicmagazines @centerforarch Not in New York? Or just want to read it online? See it on our website, link in bio. #architecture #aninterior #nycxdesign #nyc #design

From her home in Warwick, New York, @audreylouisereynolds grows, forages, builds, and brews batches of color, testing them on her walls and anything else she can get her hands on. For the past two decades, Audrey has been brewing bespoke artisanal dyes from natural ingredients like flowers, fungus, and bark, and helping others do the same through consulting work. Learn more about her work and process in “Foraging for Color,” a Q&A with Issue 08’s cover artist.  ✏️: @lilerr 📸: @audreylouisereynolds

We came. We saw. We schlepped. This week, Wrong House interviewed designers, writers, photographers, and other chic people in town for Milan Design Week to suss out the footwear that saw them through it all. Read The Shoe Report in full at the link in bio. ✏️: @lilerr

Season 2 of your favorite show is on

In search of peace and seclusion in Upstate New York... Encompassing all the state north of New York City – 90% of its landmass – Upstate runs from the dramatic vistas of the Hudson river valley to the peaks of the Catskill mountains, the edges of the frigid Finger Lakes and the more industrial, workaday towns of Syracuse, Albany and Buffalo. “Upstate” is mostly defined by what it is not – which is the frenetic energy of New York City itself. So when a New Yorker heads Upstate, it’s often on a mission for peace, quiet and wilderness. This appetite for isolation took hold in America and around the world during Covid and it continues to grow, leading to the rise of remote retreats. Airbnb played its part in opening up access to unusual places to stay, and now a second wave of unique properties have become available to book. It’s exactly this experience that visitors will find at @vipp Pavilion, a new stucco slab of a guesthouse in Pond Eddy, a hamlet on the Pennsylvania border two hours’ drive northwest of Manhattan, where the population sits around 500, and mobile phone service is minimal. Read more as @lilerr speaks to Vipp's co-owner and third-generation member of the family-run business, Sofie Christensen Egelund. 📸 @piawinther

LAST DAY OF WINTER.

Surviving winter with @editionfarm donkeys, @part_time_rob snow flips, flaming torches (with @mallory_anita ), and—as always—a lot of records.

This month is my 10-year anniversary of working in design! Tremendously grateful to my mentors—and everyone who’s ever given me a shot. To Molly, Joan, David, Avi, Sarah, Amy, Allie, and Meggie for the coaching and employment during that decade. Thanks, too, to all of the writers, editors, designers, and publicists who I’ve worked with and learned from over the years (and had a pretty fun time with, also). I love our weird little fraternity. ♥️

Part 2 of 2025, a year when I threw a lot of my life—job, structure, certainty—up into the air. Now it’s floating down around me. What a moving thing it is to watch it land.

Core memories from the first half of 2025. ♥️

Anyway, I’ll be right here if you need me for anything.