After 20 years, the view from the Kona Coast remained spectacular. It was the inside of the home that needed a refresh. That was the confession an elegant couple, well-traveled art collectors, shared with the interior designer Michael S. Smith about their spread in Kailua-Kona, originally conceived by the San Francisco architect Sandy Walker in 2001.
“It was still a gorgeous house, but a bit like a beautiful bespoke suit made for somebody else,” Smith tells T&C. The designer, who has something of a couturier’s touch, knew just how to correct the fit. He’d start, as any alum of the Obama White House would, with history, the area itself and that of its colorful residents over the years. There was Shangri La, of course, which Doris Duke conjured after her travels in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and also Geoffrey Beene’s modernist oasis in Honolulu.
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For Your Eyes Only
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Anatomy of a Classic
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It's the Capital Gains Tax, Stupid
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I'll Have What She's Wearing
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Isn't That RICH?
If fragrance is invisible jewelry, how do you smell as if you're wearing diamonds, not cubic zirconia?
THE MACKENZIE EFFECT
A $36 billion fortune made MacKenzie Scott one of the richest women in the world. How shes giving it away makes her fascinating.
Her Roman Empire
Seventeen floors up, across from the Vegas behemoth that bears her name, Elaine Wynn is charting a major cultural future for America's casino capital, and she's doing it from a Michael Smith-designed oasis in the middle of the neon desert.
Are You There, God? I'm at Harvard
Why on earth are a bunch of successful midcareer professionals quitting their jobs and applying to Harvard Divinity School? Hint: It has nothing to do with heaven.
Bryan Stevenson
He has dedicated his life to defending the unfairly incarcerated and condemned. But his vision for racial justice has always been about more than winning in court.
Emma Heming Willis
Once best known as a model and entrepreneur, today shes an advocate for patients and caretakers dealing with an incurable disease—one that hits very close to home. Here, she speaks with Katie Couric about her mission.
