Los Angeles’ oldest restaurant is dipping out. Cole’s French Dip — a 117-year-old mainstay of downtown LA that claims to have originated the French dip sandwich — will shutter due to vandalism, ...

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The Helen Bernhard Bakery in Portland, Ore. refreshed its 97-year-old business with a new ceiling that was intended to have a vintage look. The business selected a sustainable thermoformed ceiling ...

Ceilings are often overlooked elements in our homes, but a little bit of texture or some color can really add a lot to a room. If pressed tin ceiling tiles are out of your budget, there are simpler ...

Robert Kobayashi, “White Sheet” (1997), ceiling tin, paint, nails on wood, 17 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (all images courtesy Susan Inglett Gallery) Yet, as much as the article is an ode to a part of ...

The ceiling — sometimes referred to as a room's fifth wall — often gets short shrift in decorating schemes. Walls and furnishings take center stage while the acreage overhead receives a coat of ...

New York’s mot beloved architectural innovation might be among its most overlooked: the humble tin ceiling. Today, people view the geometrically embossed covering with rosy nostalgia. But tin ceilings ...

In the late 1970s, Barbara Schiller and her husband bought a decaying brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, then in its early stages of gentrification. The house was structurally ...

Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. As Americans, we can feel patriotic when considering tin ceilings. It’s one of the few decorative elements found in the Victorian Age ...

Until recently, walking into a bar or restaurant in New York City with a decorative tin ceiling above meant entering one of the metropolis’s timeworn gathering places, such as the Old Town Bar & ...