CATEGORIES

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.

SEA CHANGE

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

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

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

BOTH SIDES NOW

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

shades of eden

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

CHARM SCHOOL

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

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

Finnish Lines

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

Changed for Good

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

Earth Tone

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

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

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.

Root Source

Dating back hundreds or thousands of years, old-growth trees are more than just specimens of majesty and mystery.

PASSION PROJECT

At her home in Mumbai, Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor composes an ode to the decorative arts of India

DREAM TEAM

For one lucky family, design stars Jeremiah Brent and Athena Calderone paired up to craft a chic beach retreat in Rhode Island

NARRATIVE VOICE

At England's historic Houghton Hall, a major commission marks an artistic departure for Dame Magdalene Odundo

happy place

With help from her friend landscape designer Miranda Brooks, novelist Plum Sykes creates a flower-filled oasis in the Cotswolds

DRAMA QUEEN

Studio Shamshiri conjures an unapologetically lavish, multifunctional Greenwich Village town house for a theatrical producer and patron of the arts

Calm, Cool, Collected

Designer Julie Hillman transforms her workspace in a Manhattan brownstone into a creative crucible

Driving Force

Channeling the beauty of cars, Ralph Lauren unveils furnishings for the fast lane

Travel Log

Banana Republic's updated Manhattan flagship celebrates the wider world

New Translation

Demisch Danant revisits wonders of postwar France at a historic Brooklyn home

Fortune Favors the Bold

For designer Alexis Tompkins of Chroma and her young family, an unlikely San Francisco listing was the key to indoor-outdoor bliss

Bare Bones

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

Figuring It Out

Barbora Zilinskaitė's biomorphic wonders ask us to rethink objects and how we relate to them

Bicoastal Living

California mainstay Nickey Kehoe plants its flag in the heart of New York City