Jennifer Laing

You and your pet live in a small NYC apartment, ergo the litter box is not tucked away in the basement; there's no mud room for toweling off the dog after walk in the rain; no backyard to double as your pet’s personal privy; and all the odors associated with these activities are trapped within your four walls. So what’s a pet-loving New Yorker to do? Here, Michael Farber, DVM, owner and chief of staff of West Chelsea Veterinary, shares his thoughts on controlling the stinkiest of pet-related smells.

When you rent in NYC at real-people price points, you really can't want for too much. But my standard issue 14.6-cubic-foot Hotpoint—such a counterintuitive name for a fridge—just wasn’t cutting it anymore. It was cramped, often packed to the gills with a not-inordinate amount of food to feed my family of four that items would spoil before I made use of them. The exterior wasn’t much better, scuffed and messy with the usual detritus of school schedules, emergency contact info, photographs and the like.

In the spirit of, as we often hear these days, an increasingly global world, one of the quickest and easiest ways to add non-cookie-cutter sophistication to our apartments is to add a signature design element from a foreign country of your choice. Here, some prime examples of the trend:

In honor of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (taking place now!), we’re dedicating this week’s Covet to apartments fit for (and in some cases in the same exact building as) our favorite New York City-based designers. While perusing the listings, make sure to imagine the spaces filled with furnishings—and a corresponding wardrobe—befitting each trendsetter’s unique style.