Sarah Gordon Drake Architect

Six Architects on their Dream Desks Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it might be an architect’s own design for desk. The sheet set off a flurry of chatter about the platonic spa...

How Many Books Does It Take to Make a Place Feel Like Home? There’s a reason that some people won’t let go of their physical books — and a new term for it: ‘book-wrapt.’

Tour the Houses of Stanford White with the Revered Architect’s Great-Grandson By the time he died, in 1906, the great American architect Stanford White was well-known for his public buildings in New York and other East Coast cities. But the McKim, Mead & White partner also designed more than 100 residences, including some of the great shingle-style mansions of Long Island and...

17 Virtual Tours of New York City Pick a neighborhood and let The Times’s architecture critic guide you through its notable sites.