TOWARD the LIGHT

In the Mexican state of Oaxaca, Will and Kerstin Meyer have designed a vacation home that reflects its coastal setting along with the region's rich artisanal traditions.

HEY HEY MY MY

Canadian designer Montana Labelle brings a love of handcrafted interiors and a rock 'n' roll sensibility to her renovation of a house in Toronto.

PER MY LAST EMAIL

How an ambitious (and detailed) correspondence begot a refined yet fanciful forever home in Albany, New York, with interiors by Nicholas Obeid.

JEWELRY HOUSE

Following the Sputnik launch in 1957 and Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon 12 years later, jewelers looked to the sky for inspiration.

STUDIO VISIT

A sense of place and community informs the dynamic practice of Nigerian designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello.

BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM

Say the name Isamu Noguchi and the designer-artist’s iconic lanterns spring to mind.

WHEN TO SEE A SPECIALIST

In her new column, Rita Konig tackles modern design dilemmas, both practical and philosophical. Up next: the glory of the bespoke, when to resist it, and who to know.

ARCHITECTURE OF TIME

Flying high requires more than a plane ticket. Patek Philippe knows this better than anyone, as evidenced by the decades of cultish fervor surrounding its World Time watches.

LOOK UP! LOOK DOWN!

With painted ceilings and floors paved in marble, one historic Sicilian property stakes its claim to a dynamic vision for Italian design.

KNIVES OUT

How to make even a simple meal momentous? Decorative cutlery, an art that has taken its share of sharp turns, is back at the head of the table.

CRAFT-A-PALOOZA!

Two days in bucolic Ireland to debate art and design? Follow us. By INGRID ABRAMOVITCH

MOLTO MAISON

With a makeover by architect Peter Marino and an entire floor dedicated to home decor, Louis Vuitton's Milan flagship makes a striking statement in the global capital of design.

MATTER IN HAND

Explorations in material take on deeper meaning in the work of these four talented makers, whose collectible objects are as functional as they are covetable. We sat down with Chuma Maweni, Osanna Visconti, Simone Bodmer-Turner, and Ombia Studio founder Cristina Moreno to talk about unexpected sources of inspiration, pivotal career moments, and experiences that shaped who they are and how they create today. The South Africa—based ceramist has put his stamp on traditional Zulu and Xhosa techniques.

KEEPING UP with FRICKS

When robber baron Henry Clay Frick built his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1914, it set off a competitive frenzy among the era’s top decorators.

SÃO PAULO AT HIS FEET

Shoe designer Alexandre Birman worked with a local interior design team to weave Brazilian modernism, Art Deco flair, Roman hospitality, and his own peripatetic calendar into a serene apartment in the sky.

HIS EMPIRE STATE

They call him the King. In Manhattan, Giorgio Armani reigns from a recently renovated historic apartment with his signature sprezzatura and an only-in-New-York view.

THE WAY THE LIGHT HITS

In East Hampton, Julie Hillman creates a four-season house for her family that plays with sun and shadow—and finds her calling as an interior designer in the process.

BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM

When I was at boarding school in New Zealand, I had a photo of the Temple on the wall of my room,” Veere Grenney recalls.

THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD

Every house has that one spot that becomes its center of gravity, doesn't it? This month, designer Sheila Bridges shares the space that helps her enjoy the great outdoors, indoors.

Those Chic MILANESE

When Piero Portaluppi was your great-grandfather, everywhere in this city feels like home. But sometimes you need to leave the nest to make one of your own.

WOULD YOU WEAR THIS ROOM?

Fashion designer and serial renovator Amélie Dian brings her stylish eye to the design of an 18th-century apartment in the heart of Paris.

CONCRETE PLANS

In a historic Black community in Sag Harbor, Delia Kenza builds on her family's legacy to create a personal retreat filled with meaning and her own modern style.

LIVE HERE FIRST

When designer Ben Pentreath moved into a Georgian house on a remote island in Scotland, he did what he thinks everyone should do first: nothing.

MY CLIENT, MYSELF

In her new column, Rita Konig tackles modern design dilemmas, both practical and philosophical. Up next: the pleasure, and pain, of decorating for the decorator you know.

Architecture of Time

Surviving the gelid gusts and gales of winter takes more than a vicuña coat and shearling earmuffs, and the watch designers at Van Cleef & Arpels understand this well.

The Jewelry House

A marriage between two centers of Italian culture, history, and design, Milan and Venice, finding its purest expression in a jam jar? Stranger things have happened.

BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM

COULD A TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY MANSION BE THE CRADLE OF retail's next gilded age?

ON TERRA INCOGNITA

NEW YORK ARTIST CAMILLE HENROT AND HER COMPOSER HUSBAND MAURO HERTIG PURSUE A CREATIVE FAMILY LIFE WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECTED ITUPTOWN WITH HELP FROM DESIGNERS HUSBAND WIFE.

PORTRAIT of a HOUSE

THE ICONIC HOUSES OF LOS ANGELES ARE MORE PRECIOUS THAN EVER. IN LOS FELIZ, TWO COLLECTORS MAINTAIN THEIR RICHARD NEUTRA HOME WITH REVERENCE FOR ITS PAST, WHILE FILLING IT WITH CONTEMPORARY ART THAT SPEAKS TO ITS FUTURE.

WANTED: A CLEAN, WELL LIGHTED PLACE

They need rooms of their own to sculpt and paint. But how do you find such places with today's Manhattan rents? A look at the state of an industry legend: the New York artist studio.