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Dubbed Best Rooftop Playroom for Adults, the outdoor ensemble atop this Manhattan high-rise features a dining pergola, hot tub, day bed and a wall of running water. It's one of the 100 spaces featured in "Design 100: The Last Word on Modern Interiors." Courtesy Filipacchi Publishing

by Bill Lahay

From its inception as Apartment Ideas magazine in 1969 to the December 2009 issue that marked the end of its run, Metropolitan Home underwent more than a few transformations. Its revenues waxed and waned, its publisher changed, and its audience matured and grew more affluent. Through it all, the magazine metamorphosed from a hip but humble journal for renters to an upscale champion of modernism in its many forms.

During that time, this sourcebook for modernist design developed a tradition of its own: an annual issue called the Design 100, which featured the editors’ favorite picks in residential architecture, decor and related disciplines.

Now Michael Lassell, a former features director for the magazine, has gathered with other former staffers to produce a hardcover book to extend that legacy.  “Design 100: The Last Word on Modern Interiors” focuses the same sharp lens on the 100 locations chosen here, but takes creative and sometimes whimsical liberties with the categories each represents (many of the homes featured appear under the MH banner for the first time, in order to avoid duplication of previously published material).

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