• Mercedes Kraus
  • Coaching
  • Writing

Mercedes Kraus

  • Mercedes Kraus
  • Coaching
  • Writing
 

SELECTED WRITING


From most recent:

The Panafold
Everyday Outré: In Los Angeles, jet-setting architect and cultural force Kulapat Yantrasast concretizes his vision

Elle Decor
Steven Gambrel and Tom Kligerman have made a guest retreat so good, visitors may never want to leave
Across interiors, architecture, furniture, decor, and urban planning, 15 firms that inspire us to live better—and more sustainably

HERE, The Line Hotel
Love, Peace and Spades: Welcome to game night

Adobe Creative Cloud
Bring flowers into focus with free Lightroom presets from Thais Varela
Mimic 3D rendering with this technique from photographer Hope Glassel
Create funky 3D shapes with this technique from designer Hoang Nguyen

Series: The Best of Nest, Curbed ↬ New York Magazine
Jim Drain on Providence’s art commune, Fort Thunder
Julie Verhoeven’s flat, a “a giant collage of precarious layers of stuff”
Andy Coolquitt’s Austin communal living experiment
Who lived in that Farrah Fawcett place?
Norwood Young of LA’s House of the Davids

Editor’s Notes, Curbed
Making It Up As I Go Along
Secondhand Is My First Choice
Reupholstered And It Feels So Good

Core 77
Colony on Canal: A Showroom for Designers, by Designers

Van Alen Institute
How Does the Brain Respond to the City?

Urban Omnibus
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts: Fort Greene, Brooklyn


VIDEO PROFILES

Curbed
Desus Nice and The Kid Mero in the Bronx

Architect
Brooklyn Waterfront Harbors a Design/Build Community: Meet Pelle