PLAYING to the GALLERY

NEW YORK REAL ESTATE STAR MICHAEL LORBER BRINGS A CACHE OF CHERISHED ANTIQUES TO HIS PARK AVENUE APARTMENT, MASTERFULLY COMPOSED BY LONGTIME DESIGNER NICK OLSEN.

SCENT & SENSIBILITY

From tantalizing florals to heady spices, fragrant arrangements inspired by California perfumer Mandy Aftel rouse a stirring sense of emotion.

Romancing the Stone

Jewelry designer Nicholas Varney takes his father's love of color to earthy Deco depths with semiprecious agate.

EGYPTIAN RHAPSODY

The hieroglyphics are on the wall: A flurry of new collections recasts Pharaonic, Roman, and naturalistic imagery for dashing modernity.

Ιnto the Woods

On the shores of Michigan, a family of five opts for authenticity over lakeside grandeur with a quiet vacation cabin to pass through generations.

Block Island

Miles Redd and Gil Schafer reimagine a 19th-century farm for a family of six, prioritizing sunlight, salt air, and a landmark of summers past.

A Rousing Entrance

VERANDA contributor JOY MOYLER on the Alabama artist turning up the heat in the world of metalworking with a debut collection of hand-sculpted door knockers

CASTLE in the CLOUDS

High atop an Umbrian hill, a family of design-minded aristocrats has turned its nearly 1,000-year-old Castello di Reschio into Italy's most extraordinary new hotel.

BEST NEW DRAMA

For a Naples, Florida, rebuild, Bobby McAlpine and Susan Ferrier join forces to create a sublime study in theatrical elegance.

ESCAPE to the VINEYARD

In a historic shingled retreat on Martha's Vineyard, Markham Roberts mixes mellow beach house funk with the collected familiarity of home.

The Power of Two

Birmingham, Alabama, duo Hundley Hilton reimagines one of their homes with yin-yang strokes of genius as beautifully choreographed as their shared dinner parties.

A Love Letter to My Roses

Charlotte Moss lays bare her long-running romance with the garden megastar and the cache of secrets and stories hidden in its delicate layers.

A Toast to the Hunt

The road to roundtop goes through Jan Showers’s Hillsboro, Texas, home, with a spring luncheon for fair-bound friends.

A New Dawn in the Delta

Interior designer Heather Chadduck hillegas awakens an ancestral arkansas farmhouse with a flourish of pattern, verdant color, and youthful gusto.

A Gilded Revival

In its recent reimagining, The Vanderbilt offers a seductive time hop into Newport’s famed turn-of-the-20th-century opulence.

ESTATE of GRACE

On the heels of her new collection of garden-inspired tableware, Zoë de Givenchy welcomes guests in the warm tradition of Le Jonchet, her family's 16th-century manor house in the French countryside.

Dazzling Reflections

When the day is done, what treasures does the jeweler keep at arm's reach? Here, a trio of vanities offers an intimate glimpse at the personal style of three exceptional designers.

PRESSING MATTERS

Vivid, graphic, and wildly innovative: Today's herbaria artisans are shifting color, scale, and silhouette to create modern botanical paper craft that's anything but old-school.

FLIGHT of FANCY

Pragmatism and whimsy combine as designer Summer Thornton and her husband, Josh, transform a 19th-century Chicago townhouse into a theatrical wonderland for their family.

THE AGE OF EXUBERANCE

Manhattanite Garrow Kedigian bestows his high-gloss brand of wizardry on his apartment in the legendary Carlyle, and the results are a triumph of color and light.

The Belle of Bel Air

Fresh, radiant color bursts from an Italianate estate, returned to its 1920s grandeur by owner and designer Renvy Graves Pittman.

Best of Outdoor Living 2022

Meet the winners of our third annual landscape design competition. Plus: five top garden visionaries

Soulful Settings

A Loving Table unlocks the stories behind top hostesses’ treasured family traditions.

Stepping into the Sunshine

In a vibrant salute to Palm Beach’s historic architecture, jewelry designer Mish Tworkowski and decorator Katie Ridder polish up a 1920s treasure.

The Book of Esther

Shades of Lancaster and English aristocracy ripple through Esther Cayzer-Colvin’s redo of a centuries-old Wiltshire estate. But it’s her easygoing, singular style that proves a most powerful pedigree.

Shape, Snip, Prune, Repeat

Famed British garden designer Arne Maynard trumpets the ornamental majesty of the topiary. Plus, a look at the showstopping forms throughout history and the master topiarists behind them all

Mediterranean Reverie

BROOKE AND STEVE GIANNETTI CHANNEL SOUTH OF FRANCE ROMANCE IN AN OPEN, GARDEN-FACING HAVEN IN LOS ANGELES.