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SANCTUARIES of JOY

When does a closet become a portal to our passions? We teamed up with three top tastemakers to imagine their pie-in-the-sky storage spaces, from a china-filled entertaining lab to a winemaker's exuberant workshop.

You Are Cordially Invited to a SPIRITED HOLIDAY SOIREE

Join illustrator and bon vivant TUG RICE for a lively, piano-fueled cocktail party, where creatives mingle with whispers of artists past in his Sutton Place apartment.

Will Travel For

Who among us can resist a good treasure hunt? Especially when the prize is an object of singular curiosity. Here, three artful adventurers pursue their obsessions from California to north-central Europe.

THE LEGACY KEEPERS

Editor in chief Steele Thomas Marcoux explores how Charleston preservationists are harnessing the city's vernacular to reinterpret the past and forge a richer future.

Now Booking NEXT-LEVEL LUXURY

From estate revivals in Genoa and Baja to extravagant villas in Egypt and Bhutan, the year's top hotel debuts are raising the bar with bespoke craftsmanship, garden romance, and all-out escapism.

AMERICA'S ENGLISHMAN

From wide-eyed novice to decorating nobility: how Mario Buatta's journey to mad Anglophile draped a nation in chintz, silk, swags, and a legacy of humor and optimism

A PASTORAL PLAYGROUND

Out of an ancestral millhouse, designer MARY GRAHAM raises a new family home in the country, alive with checks, florals, and ruffles

LONDON CORDIAL

MIXMASTER LORENZO CASTILLO DECKS A CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE IN IMMERSIVE PRINTS, RADIANT SEATING, AND A WELCOMING SPIRIT THAT TIPS TO THE WILD SIDE

Minding the Manor

How are Ireland's old noble houses seeding their future? At Ballyfin Demesne, it glimmers in the forests, parklands, gardens, and a way of life that goes back centuries

Perennial Bloomsbury

The creative troupe that ruled the English countryside in the early 1900s had a muse wilder than its lifestyle: the Charleston garden, reborn here in four riotous arrangements.

CHASING THE FLOWER HUNTRESS

On holiday in the English countryside, Editor in Chief Steele Marcoux discovers the work of trailblazing botanical artist MARIANNE NORTH and traces the petals on a fanciful journey around the world

Welcome Addition

Reflections of the sea reign in this Newport Beach home artfully refreshed by Gil Schafer and the late Suzanne Rheinstein for convivial, crowd-friendly guesting.

Eternal Sunshine

Summer days in the Hamptons, school days in Palm Beach: Linens designer and shopowner JULIA AMORY fashions a pair of cottages as fresh-air idylls for her family, with no shortage of blooming florals, vivid checks, and nostalgic ease.

DRESSED UP DOWN EAST

EMERALD LACQUER, HADLEY-ESQUE PATTERN, AND UNABASHED GLAMOUR: DESIGNER MATTHEW CARTER DELIVERS BIG DECORATING SWAGGER TO A CLASSIC SUMMER RETREAT IN MAINE.

SHINING MOMENTS

A new generation of timepieces dazzles as jewelry, with vivid gemstones, feminine silhouettes, and nostalgic nods to the past.

POSTCARD from PROVENCE

Golden yellows, dusty blues, and soft purples evoke the ease and elegant joie de vivre of summers in the south of France.

NATURE'S RUNWAY

Forget Insta-fame: Our public gardens are the ultimate influencers, says New York landscape designer Wambui Ippolito. Just ask Lagerfeld, Menchari, and Valentino.

PRINTS of the LAKE

A fairy-tale spirit transforms a sleepy midwestern inn into an enchanting summer hideaway, rich in fanciful pattern and youthful color.

GALLERY of CURIOSITIES

ARTIST THOMAS BOOG FASHIONS AN IMAGINATIVE WEEKEND HAVEN IN THE LOIRE VALLEY, MINGLING RARITIES OF LAND AND SEA WITH ANTIQUES AND CONTEMPORARY CRAFT.

Worlds Away

Resort-inspired retreats abound at this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, transporting visitors to visionary waterside Edens.

SIX and the CITY

FOR A FAMILY WITH FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN, AN UPPER EAST SIDE TOWNHOUSE STIRS TO LIFE WITH GLOSSY COLOR, ELECTRIFYING ART, AND PLENTY OF URBAN ENERGY.

RENAISSANCE in the PINK

In Atlanta, Philip Trammell Shutze's famed Pink Palace returns to glory with a careful reclaiming of the architect's Venetian chapel-inspired vision.

Couturiers in BLOOM

ERIC GOUJOU of Paris ceramics boutique La Tuile à Loup conjures the legacies of four FRENCH FASHION GIANTS with floral tributes to their inimitable styles.

DETAIL THEROPY

Los Angeles designer Madeline Stuart chases Hispano Moresque patterning to its vibrant homelands-and returns with much more.

Hawaiian ODYSSEY

STACKING THE DECK The yacht's name, Halekai, means \"home on the sea,\" an ethos Fulk took to heart in ensuring the design felt both personal and deftly functional.

Empress of the Abaco

In Baker's Bay, Bahamas, a new Palladian-style estate rises like a youthful heiress to classical island tradition.

Chalet Americana

MARK D. SIKES SEIZES ON THE CAMPY PARLANCE OF A SUN VALLEY, IDAHO, CABIN, ELEVATING ITS RUGGED SENSIBILITY WITH COLORFUL FABRICS AND ALPINE WARMTH.

ARCHITECTURE & DECORATION

A GORGEOUS GLASS AND STONE MONTANA HIDEAWAY. OPEN-AIR ENTERTAINING AT KIT KEMP'S VIBRANT BARBADOS HOME. AN EXUBERANT SPIN ON COZY CABIN STYLE IN SUN VALLEY. PALLADIAN MAJESTY MEETS ISLAND EASE IN THE BAHAMAS HALEKAI, A LUXURY YACHT BY KEN FULK, SETS SAIL

GREAT ESCAPES

Eight of the most stunning hotels, villas, retreats, and camps around the globe, from Amalfi to India

Eternally English

Three smashing new collections lean on historic precedent to spark a renaissance in Anglophilic design.