Sharon Krum

Ashlina Kaposta, Decorista, on apartment decor and design blunders

Zang Toi's New York apartment: Go inside with the designer

With 25 shops in the U.S. and one in London, potter and designer Jonathan Adler has taken the playful, color-loving, witty aesthetic that he calls "happy chic" to a global audience. But home is New York, where he lives with his husband, Barneys creative ambassador and author Simon Doonan, and their Norwich Terrier, Liberace. Below, Adler dishes on his neighborhood faves and how to look younger, thinner and richer in a small apartment.

Colin Rath doesn’t do understated. Take the condo duplex he built at 121 West 15th Street in Chelsea with a scale replica of the Yangtze river in the living room and a ceiling constructed of thousands of marbles (currently on the market), to the fallout from his buying, developing and going millions into debt and finally foreclosure of the brownstone next door.