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06.25.25

Interiors

Nick Spain Designed This Massachusetts Lake House After Encouraging His Clients to Forget Everything They Thought a Lake House Ought to Be

Interior and landscape designer Nick Spain creates spaces that feel evocative of a certain period and yet out of time, never bound to an era in a retro or kitschy way. For a 1960s lakehouse in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Spain — based in the Berkshires and Brooklyn — recently combined various references that nod to the past but live fully in the present. It’s more challenging than it looks, of course, and we wanted to know how he pulls it off.
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06.23.26

The Weekly

I Expected to Love My First 3Days of Design in Copenhagen. But I Could Never Have Anticipated What Would Make It So Great.

If you can believe it, this was my first year attending 3DaysofDesign in Copenhagen, and I went to the fair, now in its 10th year, armed with absurdly high expectations. I knew that just existing in Copenhagen in early June — using Lime bikes to cycle around, drinking natural wine, eating smørrebrød — would set a good baseline for fun. But after my experience at Salone, which I wrote about here, I felt increasingly desperate for Copenhagen to mean something. I told people I was going because, as a chronicler of design fair culture, I felt compelled to see one that had become such a word-of-mouth success. But on a personal level, it’s like I needed Copenhagen to prove to me that design fairs were still worth attending. As hesitant as I am to say this — lest everyone frantically start planning their show next year in Denmark, which is simply not the right move for everyone — Copenhagen actually exceeded my expectations.
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