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Could this home have been incanted? Invoked with charged carnelian and a smudge of ember? With its interior afterglow, the Mexico City home of Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman has [...]

SMOOTH, SULTRY BLUES and a sweep of groovy greens: These aren't the zesty citrus hues of your great-aunt's Palm Beach (she'd approve nevertheless). They're moodier, deeper shades of emerald, turquoise, [...]

If a house could share stories, designer RAUL CABRA'S 'ex-hacienda' in Oaxaca would be a raconteur for the ages, telling tales of the Aztecs, Herman Miller, a pig farm, and [...]

DECORATORS OFTEN DECIDE ON A 'HOUSE WHITE,'' says Chicago-based interior designer Summer Thornton. It's typically the color of the trim, doors, and ceiling, she notes--a neutral equalizer. But in the [...]

A MID 60 ACRES OF JUNGLE stood a stately, crumbling hacienda, a portico of Moorish arches stretching out 120 feet. When the new owners closed their eyes, they could see [...]

WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE?' asked Michelle Nussbaumer, pointing to a 'giant crumbling thing' across from a property her real estate broker had been showing her in San Miguel de Allende. [...]

THE NEXT-GEN NATURALIST FERNANDO LAPOSSE FURNITURE DESIGN SHOULD be much more than simple decoration,' says Fernando Laposse. 'Furniture is language and I want my pieces to carry powerful messages.' And [...]

BREEZY SAVOIR FAIRE IN CABO SAN LUCAS Basket weave openwork, embroidery-like stripes, and rosy fringe bring all the couture details. Mendoza fabric, Elitis. * Paseo Regency-style umbrella, Santa Barbara Designs. [...]

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo remarked, 'What would my country be without color!' Here, three palettes evocative of her homeland in new furniture, textiles, lighting, and more Sun Drenched Marigold & [...]

SURREAL MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE Marjorie Skouras (opposite), a fourth-generation Californian and home furnishings designer, who lives like a modern Isak Dinesen in the Mexican Yucatan. When she and Bruno Bardavid [...]

What you thought you knew about in-ceiling speakers yesterday is not what you know about in-ceiling speakers today. The hybrid world--whether it is solutions (like videobars) or features (like AI)--continues [...]

LIKE A VIVID MIRAGE, Jan Salta's first memories of Palm Springs in the late 1960s flash in Technicolor. Arriving in Southern California as a flight attendant, the native midwesterner joined [...]

TRADITIONAL, BUT NOTHING STUFFY or dull.' Such was the mandate given to architect Stan Dixon by his clients, a young couple who'd purchased a 27-acre parcel of land on John's [...]

LONDON DECORATOR PHILIP VERGEYLEN'S CAREER has taken him to some of the world's most spectacular properties and landed him and partner Paolo Moschino on every best designer list there is. [...]

FAR FROM THE TROPICAL CLIME of Bali or Brazil, it's not very common-let alone practical-to build a home in the United States in which the barriers between indoors and outdoors [...]

JAME COMES IN MANY FLAVORS, from veneration to scandal, and can accrue to houses as much as to people. Atlanta's Villa Juanita has long been the kind of It girl [...]

A pair of immersive journeys--aboard luxury rail coaches on a historic Canadian passage and a refitted 1960s survey vessel tracing an Indonesian archipelago--brings travelers deep into the wilderness. EVERYONE IS [...]

SCALING VINES Twisted, and never timid, herbaceous ivy and climbing flowers arrive in sweeping, all-over pattern. Playful shades of blue, green, and yellow (as in Sanderson's Sycamore and Oak hand-painted [...]

VERANDA World's Most Beautiful GARDENS 2024 A Triumph of Tropicalia Fanciful objets d'art and lush, leafy 'walls' animate a sunken California hideaway into a playground of discovery. IN AN ART [...]

FOGO ISLAND IS A WINDY PLACE. There's muscle to the gusts that sweep across the island in Newfoundland along the easternmost coast of Canada and in fact North America. So [...]

With its congregation expanding rapidly over its 30 years of service, Cottonwood Creek Church, located in Allen, TX, was looking for a more comprehensive approach to connecting with its worshipers, [...]

Projector manufacturers invite teachers to get closer to the action--or at least the lesson plan--with short-throw projectors. As the product category implies, short-throw projectors are positioned closer to the screen [...]

We CONSIDER THE HOUSE AND the garden to be one and the same thing,' says the celebrated and highly influential Mexican architect Alberto Kalach. In his work, there is a [...]

TWO HANDWOVEN BASKETS, with handles of emerald green, are examples of tejido de palma (palm weaving), a living Oaxacan tradition dating back a millennium. Maestro (master) artisan Juan Garcia Mendoza, [...]

FIT FOR A QUEEN Historically, carved turquoise was used for sacred and decorative objects; here, a mix of emeralds, enamel, and diamonds elevates the vivid stones to high jewelry. Arrowhead [...]

The hybrid world keeps turning and meeting equity has been a major focus. Originally, the concept was to get videoconferencing just right with multiple pieces of Pro AV gear--like PTZ [...]

WHEN I SEE HER IN MY HOUSE, I start yelling, Get out! Go! I'm not paying!'' And thus with mock and affectionate outrage begins an irreverent and often hilarious conversation [...]

AMONG THE UNDULATING FELLS of northern Lancashire, sheep grazing peacefully all around, sits Whittington Hall, the castellated Jacobeanstyle home of the 15th Lord Reay (pronounced 'Ray'), Aeneas, and Lady Reay, [...]

I NEVER WANT ANYONE to walk into one of my rooms and think, Wow,' says Darren Henault. 'That wow is a four-second, two-dimensional response, and if there's anything in my [...]

IT WAS IN THE GILDED AGE salons of late 19th-century New York that Charles Lewis Tiffany established his name. Moving amid the lavish spaces and glittering company of Astors and [...]

GATHERING is one of those overachieving words, pulling double duty as both verb and noun, and like the remarkable achiever she is (mother of five, hospitality entrepreneur, successful businesswoman), Mary [...]

TECHNOLOGY MIGHT HAVE given us the smart home, but it takes a human being to develop a home that's wise. Consider the residence of designer Jane Schwab and her husband, [...]

Crouching on a hillside by the edge of a rice field in southern Japan, I hold the arrival of spring in the palm of my hand. The messenger is a [...]

Rockefeller's Anglo-Asian Odyssey At her Seal Harbor, Maine, estate, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and landscape architect Beatrix Farrand juxtaposed Eastern travel mementos--a Chinese moon gate, a Buddha statue, and coping tiles [...]

Nicky Haslam's THEATRICAL REVEAL English designer and consummate bon vivant Nicky Haslam's imaginative collection feels like a long anticipated cabaret--clever, electrifying, and with a killer ensemble cast. His former creative [...]

THE METICULOUSLY HAND-TURNED pearwood initially caught her eye, curiously shaped orbs and pieces--a set of magician's tricks from the 19th century. Today the gorgeous wood figures grace a shelf by [...]

English designer David Hicks was the maestro of the tablescape, a term he coined in the 1960s, long before it became a buzzword for party hosts. Here, four fresh renditions [...]

In 2024, SCN adds eight individuals to our Hall of Fame ranks, as we recognize their achievements in Pro AV. From business leaders and technological pioneers to instructors and advocates, [...]

NOT EVERY HOME JUMPS OFF THE CURB to embrace you. But the Branford-Horry House, with its sidewalk-hugging columns outstretched to the edge of Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, has [...]

LIKE A PARENT REFUSING TO NAME A FAVORITE child, some artists refuse to choose a favorite work. Architect Maurice Fatio was not so squeamish. He called his Casa della Porta [...]

The words storybook house generally refer to an abode lifted from a fairy tale. But imagine instead an Edith Wharton novel set on a sci-fi spaceship following a collision with [...]

Each year the nation's oldest fox hunt, the Piedmont Hunt (dating to 1840), goes off from the Upperville, Virginia, property of Alex and Jill Holtzman Vogel and their family of [...]

PEONIES' OFF-PEAK ROMANCE Influenced by 17th-century Dutch paintings, a portrait of a midsummer cutting garden comes alive with itoh and common peonies--from bud to full bloom--mixed with dried tulips, snapdragons, [...]

THE VASTNESS of the walled garden at Gordon Castle, 50 miles east of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland, is breathtaking; one can hardly see the wall at the other [...]

The buildings are speaking. Brent Leggs hears them--the churches in Philadelphia and Charlotte, the municipal poolhouse in Wichita, the community center in South L.A.'s Watts neighborhood. He hears stories of [...]

Le Crin's Haircloth Artistry Prized by designers from Hepplewhite to Lutyens, the practice of handweaving horsehair into textiles lives on at one factory in the world: in Challes, France, on [...]

Wambui Ippolito's Window of Wonder THE NEW YORK LANDSCAPE DESIGNER'S KENYAN BEDROOM BRIDGED AFRICA WITH THE WEST, OUTDOORS TO IN. From her childhood bedroom in her family's maisonette in Nairobi, [...]

THERE IS INHERENT DRAMA IN THE 'NEW.' The visionaries behind the International Exposition of Modern Decorative & Industrial Art must have known this in 1925 with their stipulation that whatever [...]

In a world where customers expect their AV systems to be always available, managed services make sense. Often provided by the integrator who installed their equipment, managed services mean 24/7 [...]

SCN: Before Key Digital, you created some rather significant technologies for the video industry. Which of your contributions would you say have been the most significant? Mike Tsinberg: I think [...]