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This article discusses three different topics related to travel and exploration. The first section focuses on a person's obsession with topiary and their annual trip to Belgium to find impressive specimens for their clients' gardens. The second section follows a wine director who travels to Bordeaux to purchase a rare collection of Château d'Yquem wine for a luxury resort in California. The final section describes a trip to Munich to visit the Alte Pinakothek museum and explore its collection of Old Master paintings. [Extracted from the article]

This article from Elle Decor highlights the design of a sun-filled family retreat in Wainscott, New York. The house, decorated by Eve Robinson, is a simple and inviting space that prioritizes relaxation and comfort. The structure, designed by James Merrell, is an eco-friendly home with solar panels, geothermal wells, and a green roof. The interior features a soft palette of grays and beiges, with pops of color through artwork and furniture. Overall, the house provides a luxurious and uncluttered space for the family to enjoy. [Extracted from the article]

At 87, you are a longtime Paris resident and an unstoppable maker who basically invented her own category of fiber art. Now you have a big solo exhibition, 'Sheila Hicks: [...]

On the drive from Los Cabos International Airport to the famed stretch of Mexican beach resorts known as the Corridor, evidence of the devastating effects of 2014's Hurricane Odile is [...]

The headboard in the primary bedroom is a green raw silk affair of Todd's own design; to enrich it, he had some vintage ikat fabric stitched along each side. "I was looking for a weekender", Todd says of the sprawling 5,000-square-foot, 18th-century house, which also has an adjacent one-bedroom cottage that dates to the 1920s. Todd's own designs populate the living room, including a cozy armless sofa in blue linen and slipper chairs in cinnamon suede. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the Pacific Standard Time (PST) art exhibition in Los Angeles, which is organized by the Getty Foundation. The exhibition aims to showcase the history of modern art in Southern California from 1945 to 1980. The first PST exhibition in 2011 was a collaborative effort involving multiple museums, and it has since grown in size and scope. The current edition, PST Art: Art & Science Collide, explores the intersection of art and science in Southern California. The article also highlights the positive impact of PST on the Los Angeles art scene and its ability to engage audiences in important issues such as climate change. [Extracted from the article]

FEATURES WITHIN OUR DINING culture, we have evolved our habits to drink big red wines with meat. Independent wine critic Jeb Dunnuck, who reviews wines for a worldwide audience of aficionados on his eponymous website, is another meat-eater with strong opinions on vegetable matching. And as Laura Fiorvanti, the owner of New York's wine-centric Corkbuzz restaurants, puts it, "vegetables are, on their own, the hardest thing to pair with wine." ELEVEN MADISON is hardly the only place where the issue has recently come to the fore, and to tackle the topic of big red wines and vegetable-forward food, you have to get into the details of astutely selecting accompaniments. [Extracted from the article]

RARELYIIASTHERK BEEN A MORE unprepossessing lot for an extensive residential landscaping project: a scrubby two-acre parcel shaped like a pie slice and dominated by a steep hill bordering a busy [...]

FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, the country's most archetypally Modernist garden has been hidden behind a tight row of arborvitae hedges along Washington Street in Columbus, Indiana, a city of [...]

The article presents the discussion on Marcel Breuer's 1970 Connecticut headquarters for Armstrong Rubber Company re-emerging as the Hotel Marcel New Haven including concrete grays and caramels.

The redo of Errol Flynn's kitchen is described.

The word Tudor sounds prim, proper, and vaguely inflexible. But Tudor houses--distinguished by half-timbering, dark wood trim, and outsize chimneys--are more versatile than you might think, if you have the […]

THINK OF IT AS A MODERN BACHELOR PAD--but one that lacks a bachelor. Hank Perlman's apartment in New York's Greenwich Village is decorated in masculine blues, has a huge plasma […]

DON'T TELL MARIO BUATTA, the renowned Prince of Chintz, but sometimes removing that famously busy fabric does the trick. Designer Libby Moulton had already picked out the perfect chintz for […]

WHEN YOU'RE DESIGNING the former carriage house of President Woodrow Wilson, a little respect for history is helpful. But too much respect would make it more museum than home. Designer […]

Recipes for different kinds of Spanish deserts are presented.

DESIGNER KEITH IRVINE had known J. Seward and Joyce Johnson for many years, and had designed multiple houses for them. But they had been out of touch for awhile when […]

AMANDA BENCHLEY ALWAYS KNEW she had terrific friends. But she never knew that she also had at least one Superfriend, a seemingly mild-mannered type who had the ability to transform […]

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO. And to decorate--a designer's not much without a client. Even when both halves of the partnership are represented, however, there's no guarantee that they will […]

IF YOUR LAST NAME IS FORD--as in the venerable auto-making family--you are born prepared to bit the road when the moment is right. Anne Ford, an author and the daughter […]

FROM THE GREATEST GENERATION to Generation X, the media love to lump Americans into groups. But most people don't fit neatly under one label--they often straddle more than one generation, […]

The move from a downtown apartment to a specially designed 7,500 sq. ft. shingle-style residence to house visiting children and grandchildren reduces the pangs generated by the empty nest syndrome. The colors red, green and cream are utilized through the house resulting in a soothing but hardy interior.

HIGH SCHOOL IS NOT USUALLY the place where people meet their interior designer. But that's exactly how Gary and Nada Safady found David McCauley for their brand-new house in the […]

A GOOD DESIGNER can be inspired by anything, no matter how small--the curve of a chair splat, say, or the grain in a hardwood floor. So when Atlanta-based designer Sherrill […]

WHEN INTERIOR DESIGNER Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz tells you he's definitely planning on a white Chistmas this year, he's not under the illusion that he can control the weather. Snow or no […]

AN EASY, COMFORTABLE GLAMOUR permeates every room of this historic shingle-style house in the Hamptons on Long Island. It looks like a roaring fire has been set to welcome family […]

Elia and Mariana Zois inherited some friendly ghosts when they bought their large loft on the second floor of 420 West Broadway. If friendly ghosts sound like something out of […]

THE POET PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY called Italy a "paradise of exiles," and its lure has always been especially strong for British and Americans who want to surrender to a more […]

WHEN JACKSON BROWNE wrote his 1980s satirical ode "Lawyers in Love," he poked fun at a world where designer jeans were de rigueur. Luckily, he never mentioned interior designers. It […]

WHEN TIM NETT AND Megan Derry first saw their Los Angeles home, it didn't have a sign saying, "Harrison Ford Slept Here." But the Cape Cod--style house is indeed the […]

ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY. That's how Maggie DiStefano felt after a run-in with a decorator who left much to be desired. "I had just finished doing a townhouse in New […]

THE HAMPTONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN one of the most eastern parts of the country, and not just in terms of geography. The land of hydrangeas and cedar shingles has often […]

DECORATOR SCOTT SALVATOR has a motto when it comes to clients: "People either have style or they have taste," he says. "Good taste is just taste you agree with. So […]

EVEN THE NAMES of the patterns in the Oscar de la Renta Decorative Fabrics Collection evoke a languid tropical grandeur: Checkered Lotus, Jaipur Crest, Indian Summer. The cottons and silks […]

WHEN LOS ANGELES-based designer Jeffrey Marks first saw the house that he would eventually buy, he felt transported to the golden era of silver screen musicals. "When I walked into […]

Naples, Florida, is a sedate haven on the Gulf of Mexico. Understated Midwestern-style affluence reigns over manicured lawns and pristine beaches touched by a gentle surf. One Saturday last February, […]

THE AMERICAN WEST IS A MYTHIC CONCEPT that exerts a powerful, though not always positive, force on designers. It has made them throw Navajo blankets with abandon and mount antlers […]

"I'M A NURTURER," SAYS JAN RODEN, A DESIGNER and shop owner in Virginia. Not only does she coddle her decorating clients, but she also moved from northern Virginia down to […]

For thirty years, Evelyn and Lawrence Brandt have lived in an elegant brick house in Washington, D.C. Lawrence, a successful developer and the son of an architect, built himself, and […]

A brief description on seven sommeliers with respect to the changes and revolution they have bought in the wine service is presented. Some of them are Larry Stone, Andrea Immer, and Daniel Johnnes.

ANN AND LOU STRAWN'S HOME SITS ATOP A SMALL hill in an exclusive Dallas neighborhood. Surrounded by trees, the brick-faced, Edwardian-style house looks from the outside like a sheltered English […]

THE VERY LAST PEOPLE YOU'D expect to buy an undistinguished 1970s-era A-frame house are Leonard and Evelyn Lauder. After all, as chairman and senior corporate vice president of the Estee […]

AS THE SAYING GOES, YOU HAVE to lead, follow, or get out of the way. Apparently the acknowledged doyen of American interior design, Albert Hadley, never got the message, for […]

THE OWNERS OF LONGLEAF Plantation, a new vacation house that stands beside a surging creek in a Mississippi woodland, live only half an hour's drive away in what their decorator, […]

L'Impero is only six months old, but it seems to have been around forever. Such timelessness is difficult for any restaurant to achieve, although the most shocking thing about L'Impero […]

You'd think that designer Oscar de la Renta would have his feet up on a sofa at this point in his career. But one night last fall at the High […]

ON NEW YORK'S PARK AVENUE, ALL THOSE LIMESTONE and marble facades can be a challenge to a designer: how to see past the neighborhood's formality to create a look that's […]

The denizens of the wine world are often long on opinions but short on personality. Not so Serena Sutcliffe, head of Sotheby's international wine department. Nearly six feet tall, with […]

Manhattan's famous skyline is the ultimate work in progress--older buildings are perpetually making way for bigger, taller (and sometimes even better) ones. While the world has recently seen landmarks tragically […]