CONTENTS
BROWNSTONER SPRING/SUMMER 2018
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FEATURES RENOVATOR’S TOOLBOX
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Maximum Glamour
Designer Glenn Gissler Fills His
Heights Haven With Art and
Antiques
Creative Soul
Designer Delia Kenza Brennan
Conjures a Playful Family Home
Inside Bed Stuy
Documentarian Charles Hobson
Recalls a Unique TV Show That
Countered Stereotypes
A Guide to Encaustic Tile
The Right Way to Skim Coat
Venice in the Park
Park Slope’s Singular Montauk
Club Is a Fanciful Venetian
Gothic Palace With American
Motifs
Art Space
Artist Leigh Ruple Mines East
Williamsburg for Fantastical
Narratives
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Clockwise from top left, a mural by Moosh enlivens a hallway in a Clinton Hill brownstone. Photo by David A. Land.
The Montauk Club on Plaza Street West circa 1904. Photo by Detroit Photographic Co. via Library of Congress.
Untitled (self-portrait with square) by Liliana Porter. Image courtesy of the artist.