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Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor has created a stunning home in Mumbai that showcases her passion for Indian design and decorative arts. Kapoor's home is a celebration of her family's love for craftsmanship and detail, with each room filled with treasures she has collected over the years. Collaborating with her aunt, Kapoor sought out artisans and designers from across India to bring her vision to life. The result is a space that pays homage to Indian craftsmanship and serves as a personal sanctuary for Kapoor and her family. [Extracted from the article]

In the kitchen, Furth and Yashar experimented with materiality by juxtaposing the laminate patchwork cabinetry with warm walnut paneling and gray terrazzo-like stone counters. Perhaps it's the 1960s Jansen Louis XVI - style lyre-back chairs admiring their own comely reflections in the louche-glam 1970s mirrored dining table. Or maybe it's the antique Louis XV fauteuil upholstered ever so daintily in the same Sister Parish linen that covers the walls and daybed of the sitting room. [Extracted from the article]

Louis Vuitton's workshop and family home in Asnières-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, has been a hub of creation for the past 150 years. The workshop, which is still in operation today, employs 250 craftsmen who use traditional methods and tools to create luxury trunks and other leather goods. The adjacent family home, built in the Art Nouveau style, can be visited by top clients for a guided tour. The property also includes a museum, La Galerie Louis Vuitton, which hosts annual exhibitions and is open to the public. [Extracted from the article]

The first thing you see upon entering Stacey Bendet's home is a stupendous portrait of her three daughters, painted by family friend Julian Schnabel. STACEY BENDET (WEARING ALICE + OLIVIA) AND DAUGHTER ATHENA BELLE IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THEIR NYC APARTMENT, WHERE A FRANCESCO CLEMENTE TRIPTYCH DOMINATES ONE WALL. - Stacey Bendet OPPOSITE BENDET (WEARING ALICE + OLIVIA) CLIMBS A BESPOKE PAINTED LADDER TO DUST OFF THE 1950s VENETIAN CHANDELIER IN THE PRIMARY BEDROOM. [Extracted from the article]

There's an element of spectacle and obsession, perhaps even a bit of madness, in the work of Astrid and Eddy Sykes, founders of the multidisciplinary Mexico City - based firm wrinkleMX. A WRINKLEMX CEILING FIXTURE HANGS ABOVE A LUTECA DINING TABLE WITH THE CLIENTS' OWN CHAIRS AND AN ARTE ANANÅS VASE. OPPOSITE THE KITCHEN'S BRASS CEILING, MARBLE ISLAND, AND BRASS PANTRY WERE DESIGNED BY WRINKLEMX AND FABRICATED, RESPECTIVELY, BY MATERIAM, TALLER FRAGA, AND HERRERÍA ROJAS. [Extracted from the article]

And in an awkward leftover space between the kitchen and sitting room, she devised a flower-arranging room for me, reusing an old soapstone sink that Dave had found at an antiques fair for the original kitchen remodel. Before Rita came on the scene, we had already decided to move the kitchen into the Brady Bunch room, add a large sitting room giving onto a screened-in porch, and a new primary bedroom above it. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIGUEL FLORES-VIANNA STYLED BY MIEKE TEN HAVE People often say that it's best to decorate a house over time, rather than in one massive, professionally designed swoop - although the transformational power of "installation day" has always been a great fantasy of mine. Rita covered the walls in a warm, delicate-patterned wallpaper from Robert Kime and the floor with a striped woven carpet from Tim Page, and painted the trim in a slightly murky putty that drew them peaceably together. [Extracted from the article]

From $350; terrestrehotel.com The Twenty Two LONDON Drawing on Napoleonic architecture and French decorative arts, designer Natalia Miyar whipped up seven distinct, joyfully maximalist moods for the rooms at this hotel and members club, set inside an Edwardian edifice overlooking Grosvenor Square. From $725; pendry.com Piaule CATSKILL, NEW YORK Dotted with modernist cabins conceived in partnership with Garrison Architects, this 50-acre getaway has helped usher in a hospitality renaissance on the west side of the Hudson River, luring design lovers and wellness seekers alike. AD 2022 HOTELS GREAT DESIGN AWARDS Ace Hotel Sydney SYDNEY For the brand's first location on the Australian continent, Atelier Ace teamed up with national treasure (and AD100 firm) Flack Studio to transform a former factory into a quintessentially Down Under destination, with materials and colors that celebrate the region. [Extracted from the article]

"[AD100 decorator] Robert Kime told me that he always advises clients to put the kitchen in the best room of the house", Kemp notes of the space, where custom-made cabinets follow the curved walls. A TORD BOONTJE CHANDELIER HANGS ABOVE THE OAK DINING TABLE WITH CHAIRS BY KIT KEMP; ANTIQUE TURKISH RUG. THEODORE ALEXANDER.COM WEST TIMBER TUB CHAIR BY KIT KEMP IN OVER THE MOON FABRIC BY KIT KEMP FOR ANDREW MARTIN; $3,500. [Extracted from the article]

Casiraghi likes to fresco his walls and ceilings. In the kitchen, for instance, Casiraghi proposed a brick-colored terrazzo tile floor. Terrazzo has been basic Milanese vernacular for a long time - Casiraghi's grandmother's house had terrazzo floors. [Extracted from the article]

British writer and video-game developer Dan Houser had been on many camping trips along the Saranac Lakes in the Adirondacks when he finally invited his wife and children to join him in the wild three summers ago. FOR THAT KRYSTYNA turned to Miles Redd of the AD100 firm Redd Kaihoi. KRYSTYNA AND HER CHILDREN - WITH GERMAN SHEPHERD IGGY - PLAY TABLE TENNIS IN THE REC ROOM. THE CUSTOM HEADBOARD BY MILES REDD FOR BALLARD DESIGNS WEARS A PLAID BY SUZANNE KASLER FOR BALLARD DESIGNS; WALLPAPER BY JASPER. [Extracted from the article]

Although his career has spanned more than half a century, artist Guy de Rougemont remains something of an enigma. When de Rougemont and his wife, actress Anne-Marie Deschodt, who passed away in 2014, first found the small compound of 18th-century buildings in the little village of Marsillargues, it was nothing special. A large portrait of de Rougemont and Deschodt by one of his great friends, Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo, anchors one wall. [Extracted from the article]

"I brought so much stuff up here", says interior decorator Bunny Williams - first named to the AD100 in 1995 and elevated to its Hall of Fame three years ago - of the Manhattan apartment that she shares with her husband, John Rosselli, the legendary antiques dealer and home-furnishings maestro. OVER MANTEL, 19TH-CENTURY GILDED FAUX-BOIS MIRROR; ANTIQUE ENGLISH STOOLS AND THEATER CHAIRS; CUSTOM ARMCHAIR BY SCHNELLER IN A CLAREMONT FABRIC; RUG FROM DORIS LESLIE BLAU. THE CHAIR AND OTTOMAN BY BUNNY WILLIAMS HOME ARE CLAD IN FABRICS BY CLARENCE HOUSE AND SCHUMACHER; 19TH-CENTURY BOOKCASE. SOFA BY BUNNY WILLIAMS HOME IN PIERRE FREY FABRIC AND CLAREMONT TRIM. [Extracted from the article]

It's a sunny summer afternoon in Ohio, and our host, a house-proud art collector, has taken to the fields. PHOTO (COLOR): AMONG APPROXIMATELY 35 SCULPTURES ON THE GROUNDS ARE PSYCHE, 2015, BY SAINT CLAIR CEMIN, DISPLAYED IN A CUSTOM PAVILION REALIZED WITH PETER PENNOYER ARCHITECTS, AND A 2018 SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION BY RICHARD SERRA (FAR RIGHT). PHOTO (COLOR): IN THE OAK-PANELED LIBRARY, THE CEILING AND MANTELPIECE RIFF ON CZECH CUBIST FORMS WHILE MECHANIZED STUDIO DRIFT SHYLIGHTS FLUTTER OVERHEAD; PORTRAIT AND EQUESTRIAN PAINTING BY MICHAËL BORREMANS, GRANDFATHER CLOCK BY MAARTEN BAAS, AND CONSOLE TABLE BY INGRID DONAT. [Extracted from the article]

At the time designers Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht arrived in Los Angeles - in 1998 and 2002, respectively - the city was still a relatively sleepy industry town, however high-profile its industry. PHOTO (COLOR): BELOW IN JOHANKNECHT'S MASTER BEDROOM, GEORGE NELSON SIDE TABLES EDGE A CHERRYWOOD BED. PHOTO (COLOR): ABOVE THE CUSTOM ADAM POGUE CURTAINS WERE MADE OF VINTAGE FABRICS COLLECTED BY ALONSO. [Extracted from the article]

"That white marble comes from a sink in an Athenian apartment", Lambridis says of the hunk embedded in the base. We treat everything here with the same respect - or lack of respect", says Kostas Lambridis, describing the assorted stuff filling his Athens studio. In that feat, Lambridis riffed on the legendary Badminton cabinet, an 18th-century treasure that broke auction records for a work of decorative art when it sold for $36.6 million at Christie's in 2004. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on works of art collector Jayne Wrightsman. Topics discussed include interest of Wrightsman in the French decorative arts; interest of Wrightsman in art collecting and act as fabled enricher of the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and art auctions by auction house Sotheby's with the art objects from Wrightsman's art collection.

The installation serves as an immersive calling card for the brand's new collection of wall and ceiling treatments, handmade by its team of expert craftspeople in Mexico. There, proprietors Cris Briger and her sons, Charles Peed and Augie Briger, have transformed a tiny room into a spellbinding feat of artisanal genius, its tiled ceiling, paneled walls, and pomegranate relief all realized in nothing more than papier-mâché. Those three simple ingredients - whipped into papier-mâché and molded into ornamental forms - have done wonders throughout the history of the decorative arts, stepping in as a lightweight and low-cost fix when other materials wouldn't do. [Extracted from the article]

After graduating, Paige found himself at the center of Chicago's Black Arts Movement, helping to create a new Black design aesthetic that links to many spheres of art and cultural production today. Titled "Power to the People", the exhibition is curated by the noted Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu, who was captivated by the experimentation, creativity, and political activism of Paige's work. Robert Earl Paige calls himself "an artist against ugliness.". [Extracted from the article]

The article offers a tour of the art collection of Tina Knowles Lawson at her Hollywood home in California. Topics discussed include the personal life of Lawson, the art pieces she collected from different artists like Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett and Henry Ossawa Tanner, her passion for art, and her care of her art collections.

In this article painter Ivy Getty talks about her relationship with photographer Toby Engel. Topics include considered that the couple will marry at the San Francisco manse that once belonged to her grandmother Ann that is an antiquarian who filled the home with 18th-century furnishings and Chinese-export porcelain.

Xigera's history dates back to the 1980s; it was the very first camp opened by legendary safari operator Wilderness Safaris. When the Tollmans, who were longtime Wilderness board members, parted ways with the company in 2018, they took Xigera with them. The reborn Xigera represents the next chapter in Botswana's story. [Extracted from the article]

The Tribeca gallery, named HB381 after its location at 381 Broadway, is dedicated entirely to sculpture and ceramics, making Pontoppidan Pedersen's work a perfect fit for the program. Pedersen is channeling that meandering, speculative approach into "Tentacular Thinking", a solo show of freshly fired work that will inaugurate the new Tribeca outpost of the Manhattan gallery Hostler Burrows on April 28. ART SCENE Lately I've been thinking about how to sculpt in a feminist way", says the Danish artist Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, who has been mining the work of scholar Donna J. Haraway for inspiration. [Extracted from the article]

"He loved green", Zoë de Givenchy recalls of her late uncle-in-law, Hubert de Givenchy. Zoë describes Hubert as an encyclopedia of the decorative arts; he traveled to remote locales like the tiny French village Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, famed for its ceramics, and encouraged his deep-pocketed society swans to follow. But Hubert also brought the hue to his table, using it in a pattern called Camaïeu that adorned a set of glazed ceramic dinnerware he commissioned for his country home two hours from Paris, Le Jonchet. [Extracted from the article]

I was interested in a time when there was a greater sense of wonder and optimism about the future", Apparatus creative director Gabriel Hendifar explained at the brand's Manhattan headquarters last February. When Hendifar and his now-husband, Jeremy Anderson, founded the company in 2011, they were focused on more immediate needs. GABRIEL HENDIFAR, THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF APPARATUS, WITH LIGHTING, FURNITURE, AND RUGS FROM THE STUDIO'S NEW COLLECTION, ACT IV (APPARATUSSTUDIO.COM). [Extracted from the article]

MM..FOOD BY MF DOOM Salvant calls the artist's "wit, humor, irreverence, creativity, casual virtuosity", and dizzying references - on this 2004 album and always - "a forever inspiration." Vanities After years charting the upstairs/downstairs drama at Downton Abbey, creator Julian Fellowes moves Stateside for another glitzy period melodrama - starring Louisa Jacobson as a penniless ingenue who's thrust abruptly into Fifth Avenue society. A HUGE FAN of Downton Abbey, Jacobson had a Sunday ritual of watching the show with a friend, comedian Tracey Ullman. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on several high end interior decoration accessories, pieces of furniture and other items, including a $2,790 turquoise necklace from jeweler Suzanne Felson $128 decoupage plates from John Derian and a $7,200 Dalton table from decorator James Huniford. Purchasing information for each of the items is presented.

The article discusses high end furniture and interior decoration accessories that are available for purchase from shops and galleries from across the globe. Purchasing and pricing information for the items, which include a $2,125 mobile from Paul Marra Design a $425 wine rack from Irwin Feld Design and a $$35,200 wrist watch from Breguet, is presented.

The article presents information on a variety of interior decorating accessories and antiques that are available to consumers. A discussion of the history and prices of the pieces, which include a $23,000 top hat available from American Garage in Los Angeles, California and a $35,000 carved wood and water gilded plaque from Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques is presented.

There's nothing quite like the calm and satisfaction that comes from simply having a clean, clutter-free space to move and breathe in--and the best organization gifts can help even the most clutter-prone get there. $34 AT AMAZON 29 Hay Trinket Trays (Set of 3) These powder-coated trinket baskets from Danish design house Hay would do well on top of a desk, filled with paperclips, sticky notes, and erasers, or, for containing spare rubber bands and chip clips in your kitchen drawer. $72 AT WAYFAIR 3 Open Spaces Entryway Rack Open Spaces is a brand devoted to creating stylish storage solutions for some of the most unsightly organizers, from shoe racks to under-the-bed storage. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles high end antiques that are available for sale at antique dealers across the globe. Included in the collection of profiled antiques are a lamp that is available from 20th Century Objects, life size ceramic heads of Charlie Chaplin and Clark Gable that are available from Fears and Kahn, and a camera that is available from Southampton Antiques.

The article profiles different pieces of furniture and home accessories that are available at exclusive furniture and antique dealers. A discussion of the prices and dates of the pieces, including a pair of Kittinger dressers with Greek key pattern drawer pulls that are available at Capitol Furnishings in New York for $14,500, is presented.

This article presents several unique interior design elements. These include bronze butterflies designed by Ted Muehling, available at E.R. Butler & Co.; a $7,000 wrought iron mirror from Ed Hardy; and prewar Czech avant-garde furniture at Prague Kolektiv in Brooklyn, New York. Also highlighted are linen & cotton fabrics from Cowtan & Trout, inspired by Japanese prints; the artisanal foundry Ola Voyna; and Ann Koerner Antiques in New Orleans, Louisiana, which features a $12,000 19th century Japanese desk.

The article features the house of Gary Cosay and Healy Cosay situated in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The 11,000 square feet Shingle Style house, designed by Nantucket Architecture Group, offers views of the sound from every room. The interior decoration of the house which include various decorative arts was introduced.

The article talks about the visit of interior designer Elissa Cullman to the upscale American Antiques Show and the Stella Americana Pier Show, the trade shows which are part of the annual Americana Week in New York. Cullman, who was a curator at the American Folk Art Museum for five years before becoming a designer and has collected folk art for decades, is a folk art expert. According to Cullman, there is a need to go to shows of all levels to realize the entire design project.

The article presents a selection of decorative art pieces available in the United States. They include: a 1930s wrought iron window gates designed by Edgar Brandt, an array of Scandinavian ceramics and vintage Murano glass from the shop of Mary Ann Lembo, the Arabesque wallpaper at Scalamandre, a 19th-century French turreted metal and wood bird cage from Balsamo Antiquities.

The article focuses on the summer Olympia antiques fair with New York interior designer Joanne de Guardiola in London, England. The antique fair has grown into one of the city's most prominent fairs, and has become a favorite of de Guardiola. It has been hosting about 300 or so dealers in a space that could accommodate a half-dozen passenger trains.

The article presents the perspectives of several people who are influential in the art industry regarding how its multi-billion-dollar status impacts working artists. Respondents include Jeffrey Deitch, a consultant for private and corporate collectors and the owner of the Deitch Projects galleries, in New York City, Tobias Meyer, the worldwide head of contemporary art at Sotheby's in New York City, and Francesco Vezzoli, a Milan (Italy) based artist.

The article features several small collectible art and decorative objects. The Chinese snuff bottles were made of various materials such as jade, porcelain and enameled metal. The etuis held various items such as toothpicks, tweezers and nail file. The turned ivory items are displayed in museums such as the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy and in Green Vault in Dresden, Germany.

The article presents a comparison of jewelry including Bulgari flower pin from the designer by Nicola Bulgari, fire opal with pale rose quartz earings and bold amethyst with turquoise necklace which was designed by James Taffin de Givenchy, and the combined stones bracelet from the designer Kristen Thompson and offers information about designs, colors and other key features.

The article features a collection of traditional folk and visionary vernacular art by dealer Frank Maresca in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. Found in his living room are hanged collections of late-19th-to early-20th-century American carnival heads. Included in his collections are a carved wood sculpture of Eve with the serpent and a bowler-hatted man sitting with his legs crossed.

The article features some of the finest architectural, furnishing, and fashion designs from France. They include the Château de Haroué in the Lorraine region, the Poissons vase designed by glassmaker René Lalique, the Sèvres porcelain enameled neoclassical vase, the 1900 Neo-Baroque Grand Palais, and the 18-karat gold Love bracelet from Cartier.

Presents tips and advisories on creative ideas by women to make the interior design of one's home more beautiful and personalized.

Features the apartment of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg in Paris, France. Description of the furniture in her home; Personality traits of von Furstenberg, according to designer François Catroux; Identification of her favorite things.

Features various jewels and ornaments from jewelry designers in the U.S. Designs of the jewelry; Color; Cut/Shape.

Features various decorative art tiles that were made in Southern California. History behind the art tiles; Colors of the tiles; Designs.

Features various art works and antique collections for interior designers in the U.S. Examples of authentic rustic antiques; Furniture with distinct designs; Specialization in American folk art.