High-end Furniture Design to Create a Sophisticated Atmosphere this Winter
If all the world’s a stage and we are merely players, then the furniture and objects that surround us are everything in between. They set the tone, build context, and give meaning to the everyday. In a...
View ArticleWinter Style Accessories Channel the Season’s Drama
The elements of winter are harsh, but beautiful—black ice, sharp winds, flickering fires. Each instills a physical sense of time and place. Likewise, the elements of style jolt a person into the...
View ArticleArtist Frances Wilks Creates a World Around Skin Prickling Topics
Frances Wilks is sitting on her couch staring at a tuft of pubic hair bursting from a woman’s hips. It occupies a full spread in Masterpieces of Erotic Photography, which Frances is fake-reading while...
View ArticleNicole Hollis Breathes Luxury into Living Spaces
Nicole Hollis knows luxury. After beginning her career in New York designing hospitality and retail spaces for brands like Valentino and Armani, the interior designer settled in San Francisco, founding...
View ArticleThis Designer’s Copenhagen Apartment is Full of Life
Rose Hermansen sits at her dining table, a gallery of artworks framed in oak on the wall behind her. The Danish designer, who co-founded the cross-disciplinary studio Atelier Axo with her childhood...
View ArticleAtelier Davis Designs Robust, Kaleidoscopic Spaces Full of Life
Designer Jessica Davis is a master at spinning webs of carefully selected details in interiors. Her background in art history, product placement, hospitality design, and hardware design gives her a...
View ArticleHandmade Design Objects Prove the Power of Craft
Handmade design objects offer a glimpse into how each is made: the cultural traditions and makers that breathe life into every detail. Exploring the enhanced style and personality of the designs...
View ArticleLizee-Hugot Brings a Characteristic French Touch to Interior Design
Interior designers Stéphanie Lizée and Raphaël Hugot met working with Olivier Lempereur’s studio in Paris. Now under their own firm, Stéphanie and Raphaël create beautiful spaces in Paris full of...
View ArticleA New Photobook Casts the Spell of an Ancient Festival
Every January 13 and 14, western Ukraine erupts with color, music, pranks, and plays. People dance and roam door to door, dressed in wild, ornate masks and costumes depicting bears, goats, and nurses...
View ArticleCharlotte Taylor Returns Home to Build an Architecture Practice
Rifling through the meticulous architectural drawings of her father, a lighting designer, young Charlotte Taylor was entranced. From childhood the designer nurtured a love for design and architecture...
View ArticleRide in Tranquil Silence—or Uproarious Surround Sound—in the New All-Electric...
“Don’t blow it up,” echoed through my mind as I sat behind the wheel of the brand new EX90, Volvo’s flagship, all-electric SUV. I wasn’t actually worried about exploding the car—though it wouldn’t be...
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