Golden Hours

ABOUT A YEAR AGO, design brand strategist Sean Yashar wrote an essay for his Sub-stack newsletter lamenting the disappearance of evening photography—images of atmospherically lit rooms—from design magazines like this one. There are several explanations for this, including a pivot away from the more glamorous, even disco-influenced aesthetic of the 1970s and '80s to a flatter, shadowless decorative point of view and, of course, the transformational evolution from analog to digital technology. Regardless of design preferences or technological advancements, our lives at home unfold across a wide range of light conditions, from dusk to dawn, with many of our domestic moments occurring after dark. It seemed a lost opportunity not to tell the stories of those “narrative-rich hours,” as Yashar called them, in VERANDA.

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So we accepted his challenge, and our first-ever night issue showcasing the romance, beauty, and drama of the evening was born. In the pages that follow, you'll find a cheeky return of true dinner party theater (p. 36), luxe textiles that shine with metallic threads (p. 44), the best new lighting fixtures for evening ambience (p. 52), radiant arrangements of nocturnal flowers (p. 58), and diamond jewelry for dazzling after dark (p. 64). We're al