Apartment Flippers With Impeccable Taste

06.08.11 A Flea Favorite Puts Down Roots Furniture company and Brooklyn Flea fixture Nightwood gets a permanent home this weekend with a storefront on Grand Street in Williamsburg. More  › Sotheby’s for Free Whether or not you’ll ever wave around an auction paddle, you can still ogle the items up for bid at Sotheby’s Important 20th Century Design sale, taking place June 15 at its York Avenue gallery. More  › Hello Again, High Line The new section of the High Line opens today, and among the many highlights, you’ll find Sarah Sze’s stainless-steel arbor, a wildflower field, ice pops, and more. More  › space of the week Apartment Flippers With Impeccable Taste I recently visited a couple of new projects by the Brooklyn Home Company, which is known for discovering, purchasing, gutting, and transforming diamond-in-the-rough properties, which are then sold to design-savvy apartment hunters. Slideshow  › The kitchen counter is made of African sapele wood. One of the bedrooms reflects the company ethos of clean elegance. This pint-size studio in the same building is my favorite. The Best Bet Skagerak’s Hybrid-Grill Skagerak’s fire-pit-grill hybrid clocks in at under two feet wide but has the heft of a grill double its size. More Info › first look Far From Madison, But Still Mad Enter the Noho offices of advertising-branding agency MKG, and you are deep in the mind space of a new generation of Mad Men and Women. Slideshow  › Coinciding with the new show “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities,” the Museum of Arts and Design is offering Design Hunting readers 20 percent off anything in its gift shop—including an array of Alessi miniatures, tiny versions of the company’s iconic designs (normally from $24). Just mention the newsletter at checkout from now until June 30.