Interior Design

How to Set a Table: A Guide to Holiday Parties and Casual Dining

12/11/2022

A well-appointed table—from linens and china to glassware and centerpieces—strengthens a chic setting. But the beautiful accessories are useless if you don’t know how to set a table properly, even if you can fold a napkin in six different ways. A Google search might even confuse you further, since arrangements will vary depending on what you’re looking for, whether it’s Thanksgiving table setting ideas or a casual dinner party table to enhance a wine night. Sure, at first glance the setup may look complicated, but once you break things down, it…

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The 23 Most Iconic Furniture Designs In History

05/11/2022

Sometimes, a piece of furniture comes along and changes everything around us. If a painting is meant to be looked at and fashion meant to be worn, furniture is meant to be lived in – slept in, worked in, sat in. It dictates how we interact with our surrounding spaces, how we go about our daily lives, even during the most mundane moments. George Nelson’s collection for Herman Miller, for example, created the template for cubicles, now omnipresent in office…

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20 Modern Bedroom Ideas For Sleeping In Style

20/09/2022

The kitchen might be considered the heart of the home, but is any space so crucial to our wellbeing as the bedroom? It’s the first space we see in the morning and the last one we see at night, but making sure it suits your style can be a difficult task. While some of us might rely on restful hues and a clutter-free policy in order to guarantee the coveted eight hours, others will wake up energised by bold colour…

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Step Inside Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tranquil Montecito Home

06/07/2022

First, a caveat. Anyone hoping to find an array of caricatured, Goop-arific novelty features in the Montecito home that Gwyneth Paltrow shares with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk, is sure to be disappointed. There’s no plant-based, toxin-leaching, zero-gravity pod, no fermenting cabana, no crystal-powered sweat lodge. There are, to be sure, myriad elements specifically designed to nurture mind, body, and soul; they just happen to be far more discreet—things like Vitruvian proportions, sacred geometries, and a host of finely crafted…

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Inside the home of… Aerin Lauder

05/07/2022

The granddaughter of Estée Lauder, Aerin Lauder has lived in her quiet apartment block on Park Avenue in New York for 20 years. The feminine, refined space that the beauty mogul shares with her husband and two sons is an oasis in the middle of the city, with big windows overlooking the bustle below. The four bedroom apartment is filled with artwork, framed photos and beautiful ornaments to create a perfectly elegant living space that feels polished, yet inviting. Take…

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas Launches Sona Home, Her Ode to Indian Entertaining

25/06/2022

Priyanka Chopra Jonas has always thought of her company Sona as a holistic feeling rather than any one place or product. She and her business partner Maneesh Goyal originally bonded over their shared desire to show an elegant representation of India in American culture. “I wanted to see the luxury of India that I grew up with, and that I’ve seen in my travels,” Chopra Jonas says. The first manifestation of that desire was Sona, the restaurant, which opened in New York City’s…

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9 Black-and-White Interior Design Ideas to Master

16/05/2022

Black-and-white interior design has the power to give your home a lasting impression. Designers regularly incorporate this two-tone color theme in their designs to wake up interiors. The beauty of using black-and-white is that the palette is flexible and can look mod or classic, depending on how you use it. “I always like to inject glamour into a space, and one of the best ways to do this is with a black-and-white palette,” says Carleton Varney, president of the design firm Dorothy Draper &…

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The Most Beautifully Designed Greek Island Hotels

28/04/2022

By some accounts, Greece has around 6,000 islands and islets, which makes picking where to go no easy feat. Do you choose Cycladic cool in Serifos and Milos, or head to the northwest Sporades archipelago, which counts Skopelos—of Mamma Mia fame—among its islands? Decisions, decisions. But once you’ve selected an island, it’s not like your work is done—no, you still need to figure out where to bed down. With this in mind, we’ve scoured the islands for the hotels that stand out, thanks…

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Wall-to-Wall Carpet is Back

06/04/2022

It’s a luxurious product, soft to the touch, cozy, yet boldly glamorous. A fashion statement. Are you thinking of wall-to-wall carpet? The furry floor covering might bring to mind a 1970s adult film set more than of-the-moment glamour, but like it or not, all signs point to a resurgence for this misunderstood interior design icon. From chic nightspots to fashion-forward apartments, wall-to-wall carpet is suddenly taking a star turn. Recent decades have not been kind to wall-to-wall carpeting, which tends…

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Why 1970s Interior Design Is Trending Again

01/04/2022

For a recent project in Montauk, Robert McKinley of Studio Robert McKinley painted the kitchen floor an unusual colour: avocado green. In an age of all-white eateries and greige living rooms, this may sound like an aesthetic crime against humanity. Avocado green? Like my grandmother’s house? But McKinley’s kitchen evokes an earthy, Laurel Canyon meets Wes Anderson ambiance, a delicate balance of earth tones with playful colour that doesn’t tread into the kitsch. It’s cool, it’s calming, and it’s, well, a little bit ’70s. Oh, yes.…