The kitchen… space is arguably the hardest area of a house to design, one that relies on a balanced approach to utility and aesthetics. Within a luxury bespoke kitchen, the intricate planning that precedes material selection is often taken for granted. This preparation focuses on essential aspects such as spacing guidelines, innovative storage solutions, and...

Austin-based… interior designer Christina Cole believes that furniture and accessories should be able to ‘breathe’ within a space, so that points of interest are equally distributed between furnishings, objets d’art, and architectural structures for a feeling of cohesiveness, security, and openness. Her eponymous practice dedicates itself to crafting visually balanced and volumetrically optimized spaces using...

Obumex… is a luxury Belgian-based kitchen design studio that reflects deeply on the visual language of a space and how this vocabulary translates into a bigger statement about the unified character of a home. Its kitchens are strong architectural statements in their own right, designed to be evocative, imaginative, and escapist. It’s a different way...

Known for… its manicured lawns, geometrically set gravel pathways, 400-year-old Medici fountain and large central basin full of miniature sailboats, Jardin du Luxembourg is one of Paris’ most storied locations. It was here that Victor Hugo set the scene of Cosette and Marius’ first encounter in Les Misérables. Ernest Hemingway also loved to stroll through...

The village of… Sagaponack in the town of South Hampton is one of the most exclusive zip codes in the US. Once a historic fishing village, it is now home to sprawling estates and converted farmhouses with sweeping ocean views. The author, actor and screenwriter Truman Capote, lived in a saltbox home here for the...