CATEGORIES

Balancing novelty and understated luxury is key to what les vacances mean now.

Designer Luc Berger is a soft-spoken 30-something with an unassuming demeanor that belies his accomplishments: We are, after all, taking coffee at Le Meurice, a hotel that is at least partly his own design.

The Cat's Pajamas

A legacy of feline inspirations animates this covetable new collection of hauts bijoux.

The Kids Are All Right

Designer Christine Gachot delights in an image of a room by André Arbus that, with its sophisticated lines and Jack-in-the-Beanstalk design, is in regular rotation on her mood boards.

Carrying on

A brother and sister take their mother's design lessons to heart.

Social Study

In the Harlem townhouse they lovingly restored, an intellectual couple has created a dramatic environment for entertaining their friends and neighbors.

Bless This Mess

Raised as a hoarder, one writer finds beauty—and family connection in the knickknack chaos in her home.

His Next Act

In both his Manhattan apartment and his newly refreshed design studio, Apparatus's Gabriel Hendifar shows the audacity and theatricality of his vision.

What's in a Name?

When it comes to the difference between decorator and interior designer, maybe everything.

ROCK CANDY

A jewelry designer brings her boundless curiosity to pieces inspired by the arts and the earth.

MAKING MISCHIEF

At her rural Pennsylvania getaway, designer Ghislaine Viñas has created the ultimate fun house.

Second Shift

A doctor's family legacy informs his burgeoning design practica in Milan.

HERE TODAY HERE TOMORROW

A forward-thinking Italian design duo unveil a new shelving system that's sure to stand the test of time.

Drama Down Under

In Sydney, a meticulously restored historic home sets the stage for interventions that are as fashionable as they are theatrical.

Let's Get Personal Cliff's Notes

From vintage furniture to a koi pond and orchid garden, designer Cliff Fong's Los Angeles home checks all the boxes.

Ile De Reve

Off the Atlantic coast of France, Jean-Louis Deniot brings mainland flair and charm to his family's dreamy holiday refuge.

EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN

More homeowners are opting to live (and build) sustainablya crucial step in curbing climate change.

CULT OF CULTIVATION

How one flower's legacy as a hot commodity inspired a collection of today's most coveted gems.

IT'S ALL RELATIVE

In the center of Milan, the city's quintessential design clan shares a centuries-old palazzo renovated by their forebear, the legendary architect Piero Portaluppi.

THE FAMILY STONE

In France's picturesque Luberon region, Lorraine and Patrick Frey, scion of a renowned textiles empire, have refreshed an 18th-century farmhouse and turned it into a warm and welcoming retreat.

KITH AND KIN

Moving full-time into an 18th-century house in Dutchess County, New York, deepened one ex-Brooklynite's sense of community.

FRONT AND CENTER

A Hamptons house with an art-world legacy is reborn as a gathering and exhibition space for creatives.