Kelsey Keith
Design person with an editorial sensibility and a creative practice.
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A dozen years in design media spent running Curbed, a multi-platform brand under Vox Media; working on staff at Dwell magazine; founding the editorial division of a global architecture platform called Architizer; programming a couple of design conferences; freelancing as a writer for various outlets; and producing a chart-topping podcast about failed utopias. Selected work includes:
Newsletter
Ground Condition on Substack
Audio
Nice Try! seasons one (Utopian) and two (Interior)
Print
AN Interior: The Future of Vision, sauna essay
FOR_SCALE Issue 2
Elle Decor: Eichler renovation, the new wave of California landscape design, history of the powder room
New York Times: design advice column
Artforum: Charles Pollock obit
Dwell: Jack Lenor Larsen, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Sheila Hicks, and Lucia DeRespinis profiles; house features on modern dogtrot, Greenpoint rowhouse, the “floating” farmhouse
Digital
Herman Miller: Rolf and Mette Hay at the Eames House, Don Chadwick interview, Ray Wilkes profile
Curbed: An oral history of the Sea Ranch, Part I and Part II, 10 Streets That Define America, The United States of California and Texas, Reno Diary series on Brent Buck’s Prospect Heights brownstone, weekly editor’s note, numerous shopping guides
The Strategist: bookshelves, wedding registry, baby stuff, flatware, quilts
AIGA: Gold Medal essay on Alexander Girard
Good Hot saunas, photos by Aysia Stieb / Don Chadwick, photo by Laure Joliet for Herman Miller / Mette Hay at the Eames House, photo by Jake Stanger for Herman Miller / Land use map drawn by Lawrence Halprin / Sacramento for “Ten Streets” project, photo by Carlos Chavarria for Curbed / Terremoto project in LA, photo by Caitlin Atkinson via Elle Decor / Jack Lenor Larsen, photo by Jon Snyder for Dwell / Floating Farmhouse, photo by Mark Mahaney for Dwell