LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY sometimes feels like a never-ending scavenger hunt, where everything from the latest restaurant to a brilliant new friend is a great discovery and days are infused with a sense of both urgency and play. Celebrity real estate broker Michael Lorber thrives on this exuberant intensity. "He's one of the most man-about town people I know," says interior designer Nick Olsen. "He's out to dinner nearly every night, and seems to know everybody on the street."
Surely home life would be an afterthought to such a cosmopolitan character. But Lorber is as passionate about how he lives as he is about the world beyond his front door. "I'm kind of a homebody," he admits.
"Serial homebody" might be a better moniker. He's owned two apartments and three successive weekend houses in the past decade-"an occupational hazard," he says-all designed by Olsen. He derives his sense of home from favorite things rather than the spaces in which they're arranged. "He is sentimental about what he loves," notes Olsen, who began his career as a protégé of renowned designer Miles Redd. "Whenever he moves, he wants to reuse his beautiful antiques and art, his custom upholstery, his carpets. We don't start with a clean slate.
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The BOLD and the BRILLIANT
Five indie design ateliers are cutting an innovative path for tomorrow's jewels, from novel geometries to 3D-printed botanicals.
What's the Correct Word...
Designers are split on curtains versus drapery.
Palm DYNASTY
PALM BEACH HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER OF POSH, but now its design lure has the luxury world buzzing louder than ever. With the BOOM IN DESIGN EVERYTHINGfrom shops to events to contemporary arts-could the SIZZLING ISLAND PLAYGROUND get any hotter?
Outside Voices
Art and nature converge in Ann and David Sutherland's Dallas home, where one-of a-kind furnishings and objects speak freely with the garden..
MR. WATSON'S OPUS
In his Upper West Side flat, Marshall Watson composes a symphony of exquisite blues, harmonizing lustrous textiles with auction finds and ancestral heirlooms.
THE PATTERN MAKERS
IN WEST LONDON, A HISTORIC WALLPAPER FACTORY STIRS TO LIFE, INVITING DESIGN DEVOTEES TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARTS AND CRAFTS TITANS.
Masterpiece Theater
Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin studio comes roaring back with the restoration of his concert hall and its fabled handsewn curtain.
LAKESIDE Reverie
On Alabama's Lake Martin, Bobby McAlpine and Blake Weeks mix this and thatfairy tales, Japanese techniques, Nordic mythology, and Gothic elements-to cast a soulful artists' hideaway.
FARM TO FABLE
Brooke and Steve Giannetti cultivate a storybook homestead in Tennessee, remodeling a circa-1850 log cabin as a warm centerpiece of a slower, more connected next chapter.
PATTERNS of NATURE
Fresh off the opening of her New York showroom, Texan Meredith Ellis brightens her Lenox Hill pied-à-terre in ultra-personal motifs and juiced-up color.
