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gaining

To update an underutilized landscape at Dia Beacon, Sara Zewde is digging into history, championing resiliency, and leaning into beauty

LIVING THE DREAM

In a historic London house, a stylish couple turn to Veere Grenney to help bring their vision to life

LION'S DEN

In Manhattan's West Village, painter Walton Ford lovingly touches up a historic town house and reveals his true colors

Ahead of the Curves

A sinuous house by Snøhetta and Nicole Hollis dares to be different

Green Acres

At Longwood Gardens, a bold update unearths wisdom old and new

Raising the Bar

With Italian homages and glamour galore, The Manner ushers in a new era of high-end hospitality

Starting From Scratch

At the Manhattan home of designer Shawn Henderson, a blank slate gives way to a masterful mix of marvels, textures, and moods

STYLE SUMMIT

Lauren Santo Domingo enlists Andre Mellone to help fashion a sophisticated ski retreat that defies tired decorative tropes

ICONS ONLY

In Bridgehampton, artist Daniel Arsham finds his groove within a rectilinear home designed by Jack Ceglic

kamp kenny

The singular vision of Kenny Scharf comes alive in the artist's ecstatic LA garden

LABOR OF LOVE

With heroic help from around the world and an army of outstanding artisans, engineers, and architects, Notre-Dame de Paris prepares to reopen its doors TEXT

Top of the Heap

Putting stone scraps to fresh use, Studio Raw Material mines the rich traditions of India’s western plains

Wood Works - How eco-friendly timber is enabling the rise of “ply-scrapers” around the world

Anyone considering future-proof career options—a data scientist, perhaps, or an AI engineer—may want to add woodworker or even lumberjack to their list. This is not in case we all suddenly find ourselves, in some postapocalypse scenario, in need of log cabins to live in. Rather, it is because a growing number of architects, working with new high-tech engineered wood products as strong as steel and concrete, are already imagining tomorrow’s cities with towering timber skylines.

HELLA, YES

Thirty years into her career, Dutch design star Hella Jongerius proves the best ideas-and objects are those that grow and transform along with us

CHARM SCHOOL

In the hands of Ashe Leandro, a historic New York City house gets a delightful makeover

Changed for Good

Blending architectural styles, the new movie Wicked ventures off the beaten yellow-brick path

Staying Present

At his Manhattan apartment, Queer Eye star and first-time homeowner Antoni Porowski leans into the moment

Going Big

From her vast new studio in the South of France, ceramist Olivia Cognet ups the ante

Table Talk

Gae Aulenti's 1965 marble Jumbo table still has outsize appeal

Earth Tone

In Mexico's Valle de Guadalupe, a new wellness resort looks to the land

shades of eden

In her magical LA garden, artist Mimi Lauter contemplates the cycle of life and the rapturous power of color

mother nature

Taking inspiration from her own childhood memories, Jennifer Garner crafts a cozy California home and garden where she and her family can put down roots

BOTH SIDES NOW

Celebrated for his fantastical, genderfluid fashions, designer Harris Reed brings the same rule-flouting approach to a petite London apartment

Finnish Lines

Resurfaced by Hem, a postmodern Nordic icon is back on the shelves

GREEN GODDESS

From her perch in Lloyd Wright's 1927 home and studio in West Hollywood, Vicki von Holzhausen is spreading the gospel-and refining the science—of eco-friendly, plant-based materials

SEA CHANGE

Trading Manhattan for Brooklyn, designer Robert Stilin soaks up new scenery indoors and out

Vibe Shift- With confident vision, designer and activist Aurora James takes an ever-evolving approach to making a vintage LA house her very own

Aurora James has a strong sense of intuition, and it often pays off. In July 2020, James-who counts footwear designer, activist, and investor among her myriad of titles-was gearing up to make an offer on the first house she ever toured in Los Angeles. After scouting the listing on Zillow, she scheduled a viewing and hopped on a plane from New York. It was hard to resist the sweet Laurel Canyon cottage with a towering redwood out front, tucked away off a winding wooded road. For James, it was immediately a yes, though the friend she had brought along begged her not to pull the trigger so quickly, even calling the place a "tragic disaster." But James, as usual, trusted her instinct and bought it. "I think I always see potential in things," she explains. "I just saw that there were some easy tweaks that could make it better, and I felt at home."

Pride of Place - Lucía Echavarría puts age-old Colombian craft to bold use

Echavarría explains over Zoom from her Bogotá studio as she holds up a striped werregue bowl, its fibers entwined so tightly the vessel could carry water. Her varied work (now realized with the help of more than 80 artisans) puts a contemporary spin on that and other timeless techniques while preserving the traditional colors, motifs, and construction methods. At Milan's Alcova fair, this past April, Echavarría filled the living room at Villa Borsani with slipper chairs upholstered in hammock fabrics, tables topped with eye-popping beadwork, and svelte side chairs sheathed in woven estera. Her solo exhibition, on view at London's Lamb gallery through November, showcases 12 methods practiced across 10 regions.

Elements of Style - Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry celebrate 10 years of artistic exploration at Hermès

Last March, Hermès brought its home universe to life in eye-popping fashion at a one-night-only extravaganza staged at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The lavish performance featured dozens of dancers showcasing the French luxury house's furniture, tableware, textiles, and decorative objects in elaborately choreographed vignettes that seemed to riff on the unboxing ritual so popular on social media-a supersized spectacle of conjuring magic from ordinary crates. The event also coincided with the 10th anniversary of Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry's tenure as artistic directors of the Hermès home division.

Bare Bones

Elsa Peretti's candlesticks, a nod to simple, organic forms, still light our fire