HOW TO MAKE AN ENTRANCE

Want a more fabulous foyer? Here's some advice from the experts.

SCENE SETTERS

What's shaping our tastes and topping our to-do lists from sunny Portugal to downtown Manhattan.

THE HOUSE THAT DREAMS BUILT!

After fantasizing for years about the perfect family sanctuary, TV powerhouses Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil achieve their vision with the help of designer Tiffany Howell.

NOVEL APPROACH

Miles Redd and David Kaihoi channel Gothic fiction and Gilded Age decadence in a historic New York state home.

NEW ALTITUDE

How Studio Shamshiri's elevated revamp of a midcentury house in Southern California became a dialogue with a 20th-century architectural icon.

A Bigger Splash

These days, having a pool should be as much about artful personal expression as keeping cool.

Bom Dia, Bonita!

On Portugal's Comporta coast, Jacques Grange fashions a relaxed getaway for his effervescent friend Florence Grinda.

Arcadian Rhythms

For Thomas Woltz, a visionary architect of public landscapes, home is a Queen Anne in Virginia with an intimate garden of his own making.

The Dream Is On

An all-star team creates a bayside home where art, design, and landscape are perfectly aligned.

THIS IS PARK AVENUE

Ashe Leandro brings downtown cool all the way uptown.

The Words Will Come to Me

A novelist on deadline seeks solitude in a vacation rental but finds she can't keep it all to herself for long.

PERFECT CIRCLE

Ishka Designs bridges history and heritage to forge a harmonious Brooklyn brownstone.

New Age d'Or

Ascendant French design star Hugo Toro's youthful exuberance adds high drama to a Paris pied-à-terre.

HERE SHE GROWS

An Ivy League-trained lawyer pivots to garden designs that feed the eye and nourish the soul.

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.