Rebuilding Connection

Do old buildings hold the keys to reviving community? Carol Quillen, president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, champions the untapped power of place in linking us to one another.

Follow in the Footsteps of Egypt's Kings and Queens

I MEET, AT LONG LAST, CLEOPATRA.

GOING for the GUSTO

A Dallas couple topples the notion that later-in-life house revamps must take away, scale back, hush. Here, Miles Redd and David Kaihoi dream up a glamorous fresh start for their International-style home.

The BUILDING STANDS

A Pacific Palisades temple miraculously survived the wildfires that torched much of the surrounding area. With his own residence destroyed, Associate Rabbi Daniel Sher contemplates the meaning of home, the significance of \"stuff,\" and the resilience rising from the ashes.

Journey Into the Unspoiled Villages of Laos

I AM NOT PREPARED FOR THE WILDNESS.

GROWING A LEGACY

At Highgrove House, King Charles III has planted the seeds for a future of sustainability and original artistry. But how to preserve the essence of the garden itself? English home furnishings firm Sanderson immortalizes his vision in a new collection of fabrics and wallpapers, created in close collaboration with His Royal Highness's estate.

Explore India's Architectural Riches

THERE IS NO SUNRISE MORE mystical than one on India’s Ganges river. It begins with the morning mist, which hangs so low and often so dense it diffuses the rising sun into an otherworldly scrim of mauves, oranges, and yellows.

GOD SAVE THE Queen Anne

...and other historic neighborhood beauties, advises designer Markham Roberts, who wrote the rules of rescue and restraint in updating them for modern families.

Belle of the Boulevard

Amid a flurry of historic-house teardowns in Nashville, a 1926 Greek Revival rediscovers its vitality at the hands of three local design powerhouses.

PAPER SCISSORS

A pilgrimage into the Alpine origins of Swiss paper cutting reveals a resurgence of the high craft at the hands of a fresh generation of artists.

Crossing the Threshold

What is the future of the AMERICAN HOUSE MUSEUM? Today's stewards set out to ensure that the nation's most influential properties thrive in the decades to come.

SPIRIT of SEVILLE

Sun-baked color meets British textile exuberance in an 18th-century pied-àterre reimagined by designer Amaro Sánchez de Moya.

ENDURING IDYLL

Innovative decking from TimberTech turns outdoor spaces into welcoming living rooms built for a lifetime of leisure.

MIRROR, MIRROR

With artful bravura, a new Cartier timepiece casts glimmering reflections of its deftly hidden dial.

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.

Social Study

In the Chicago suburbs, a convivial family home is reimagined with intoxicating color, wild florals, and a sweeping two-story library-secret doors included.

Building DRAMA

IN A STORIED UPPER EAST SIDE APARTMENT, CHAIRISH COFOUNDER ANNA BROCKWAY TURNS UP THE HEAT WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE COLOR AND AN ULTRACHIC VINTAGE HAUL.

STORYTELLERS in Residence

Interior designer Stephanie Sabbe pens a new chapter for a Nashville author's guesthouse, creating a writer's cabin with muses stretching over centuries.

ELECTRIC REGENCY

Glamour, symmetry, and a bookish emerald study: In Richmond, Suzanne Kasler and Carter Skinner usher in a new era of bravado for so-called neutrals.

A Bold REWRITE

Designer Guy Oliver changes the narrative of a late 19th-century London townhouse to showcase exquisite art and literature and exude an ageless sense of comfort.

Handwriting HISTORY

WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW IMMERSIVE MUSEUM IN GERMANY, MONTBLANC CELEBRATES THE ART OF PENMANSHIP ACROSS TIME AND CULTURE.