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.

IMMERSIVE THEATER

A FASHION DESIGNER MOVED INTO A LAW OFFICE IN PARIS, THEN ENLISTED UCHRONIA TO REIMAGINE IT FROM TOP TO PALETTE. FROM THERE, THE PLOT THICKENS.

HERE'S THE PLAN

A FLORIDA COUPLE COMMISSIONS ROBERT A.M. STERN TO BUILD A MODERNIST HOUSE, THEN ENLISTS ELLIE CULLMAN TO DESIGN IT. FINAL TOUCH: MAJOR ART, FIT FOR A MASTERPIECE.

WELCOME to the MUNIZVERSE

FROM A GATHERING SPACE TO HIS ART STUDIO AND THE COCKTAIL BAR OF HIS DREAMS, BRAZILIAN CONCEPTUALIST VIK MUNIZ IS CREATING A CULTURAL HUB IN THE COLOR-DRENCHED CAPITAL OF BAHIA.

SHOULD THE MATISSE MATCH THE DRAPES?

In her new column, Rita Konig tackles modern design dilemmas, both practical and philosophical. To begin: the art of hanging art.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

ARTISTS SHANIQWA JARVIS AND RAJ DEBAH FIND A SAFE CREATIVE HAVEN WITH THE HELP OF OFFICE OF BC.

ROOM SERVICE

Inside a sleek new Houston hotel inspired by famed benefactors Dominique and John de Menil.

SARGENT AT ARMS

Ten years in Paris showed John Singer Sargent how to live. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shares his lessons.

BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM

BE IT VIA GOSSIP GIRL, SEX AND THE CITY, OR REAR WINDOW, we all have our fantasy versions of New York City.

SNOW in Every WINDOW

IN MONTANA'S EXCLUSIVE YELLOWSTONE CLUB, COMMUNE DELIVERS A WEST COAST GROOVE TO A HOME WITH PRISTINE VIEWS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY.

VIENNA WAITS FOR YOU

DESIGNER BEN PENTREATH RECOUNTS HOW HE BROUGHT A VIBRANT ENGLISH SENSIBILITY TO A QUINTESSENTIAL AUSTRIAN TOWNHOUSE.

IT'S HUMAN NATURE

SHEILA BRIDGES DRAWS FROM VERMONT'S HISTORY AND WILDERNESS TO BRING LIFE AND CHARACTER TO A SPRAWLING NEW HOME.

MIAMI? MINIMAL.

DESIGNER MARTIN BRÛLÉ MAKES FABULOUS UNFUSSY IN A SOUTH FLORIDA PIED-À-TERRE.

ALESSIA in WONDERLAND

IN THE ITALIAN SKI RESORT OF CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, A MILANESE HOMEOWNER TAPS HER ARCHITECT SISTER TO BUILD AN ALPINE CHALET WITH FANTASTICAL FLAIR.