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Much like the Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip, The Hotel Georgian was the place to see and be seen, except outside the front door, there were rolling waves, golden sand, and mountain views.
The latest batch of stylish places to stay is driven by a renewed interest in the city’s historic mid-century architecture.
“It’s like a cabinet of curiosities,” sculptor Simone Bodmer-Turner says of her one-bedroom Brooklyn home.
Hotel Ampara was inspired by owner Mariana Barran de Goodall’s grandmother, but the personal family details don't stop there.
For six years and counting, Cassandra Rhodin has been renovating her big red house in the Swedish countryside while simultaneously growing her cult-favorite children’s brand, Mini Rodini.
From side tables made with design books to plenty of Prouvé.
It’s easy being green. How London-based fashion creative Deborah Brett created her Holland Park dream kitchen.
In London, fashion creative Deborah Brett gives her family home a lush refresh with a garden’s worth of greens.
Don’t let the winter chill halt your plans for spring. Sophia Moreno-Bunge of Isa Floral shares how to bring spring decor inside.
Each of the nine individually-designed suites at the new Firehouse Hotel has its own singular layout and color scheme, and is a dreamy mix of the elegant and bizarre.
The designers behind Le Coucou, Chicago Athletic Association, and Top of the Standard share their secrets.
The extraordinary journey of interior designer Kathryn M. Ireland.
If spartan rooms and neutral hues leave you cold, a new line of maximalist wallpapers by designer Chris Benz and Wallshoppe may be the perfect antidote.
On a recent visit to the area, the villa that most captured my wild imagination was a very grand mansion on the Riviera della Tremezzina.
“Minimalism to me is quite boring,” Selby readily admits. “When I started shooting people and their spaces in the early 2000s, that super-clean look was the dominant aesthetic. What I did was so embracing of maximalism and real life and messiness, it was a slap in the face to that whole thing.”
“They said they liked my personal interior style and wanted to create something which felt like an intimate gentlemen’s club—dark and intimate and a little bit sexy,” the designer explains.
The designer was adamant about maintaining the integrity of her new home. Thus, the original stone fireplaces, the tin ceilings, and even the clawfoot bathtub in the second-floor bathroom remained.
A cozy, contemporary home filled with custom-built California furniture, artworks created by family and friends, and vintage finds.
When Brynn Jones and her fiancé, Ness Saban, first set foot inside their Hollywood Hills house, they felt like they were stepping into another era.
To wander through a deserted place is to confront a past that is forgotten but not gone, to touch something that is alive and dead at the same time.
Copenhagen’s famed restaurant, Noma, has had an outsize influence on interior design.
It’s far cry from the formal dining scene and jet-set aestheticusually associated with towns like Monaco, Nice, or St. Tropez—which is exactly what event designer Imogen Bailey intended.
Surfer or not, you’ve probably found yourself enchanted at one time or another by the thought of living by the ocean.
“It’s kind of a cautionary tale of overconsumption.”