Architectural Digest

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…

Home Travel

7 Chic Hotels Above the Arctic Circle

22/10/2022

Soul-penetrating cold, perpetual wintertime darkness, and lunar-like sparseness may not be what everyone is looking for in a vacation, but these high-design hotels are for those who don’t mind putting their creature comforts on ice. Built to defy the Arctic’s elemental inhospitality with weather-resilient materials and taking structural design cues from the dwellings of indigenous populations, these boundary-breaking properties—whether it be a snow-white sanctuary on a frozen lake or a space-age mobile igloo—are all about the full experience. These are the…

Home Interior Design

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…

Home Interior Design

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 &…

Home Interior Design Travel

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…

Home Interior Design

Step Inside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s Sustainable L.A. Farmhouse

28/07/2021

There’s surely some Beverly Hillbillies quip that pertains to the home that actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have built on a glorious hilltop site perched above the storied Los Angeles enclave. After all, the high-powered Hollywood transplants—he’s from Iowa; she was born in Ukraine—dug a well on the property to irrigate the land, planted (and harvested) a field of corn during the COVID lockdown, and dubbed the place KuKu Farms. But while Jed, Granny, and the rest of the Clampetts embraced…

Home Interior Design

Hilary Duff’s Cheerful Los Angeles Home

29/09/2020

“A lot of people move to the Hills for the view,” says Hilary Duff, discussing her decision to purchase the 5,260-square-foot Georgian-style Beverly Hills house she has lived in for close to a decade. “But I liked that this home felt really nested. I actually have hedges in my backyard, and then right behind that it’s just this big mountain. I feel like I’m getting this nice, warm hug.” The actor and musician had been living in L.A.’s Toluca Lake…

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Inside Supermodel Elsa Hosk’s Vintage-Filled SoHo Loft

18/09/2020

“I wanted to be in the center of everything,” says supermodel Elsa Hosk of her search for a New York City home. Tucked away on a quiet backstreet in SoHo sat a rare gem: a sun-filled airy loft only steps away from bustling streets replete with restaurants and shops. To the Swedish-born transplant, the location seemed too good to be true. “It was my dream apartment on my dream street,” Elsa says of her “meant-to-be” home. The loft was equipped with sky-high ceilings,…

Home Interior Design

Inside Supermodel Kendall Jenner’s Tranquil Los Angeles Home

30/07/2020

Kendall Jenner’s design team—the mother-and-son duo Kathleen and Tommy Clements, plus the inimitable Waldo Fernandez—didn’t know quite what to expect from their 24-year-old superstar client. “Her taste was surprising, more bohemian and funky than the rest of her family. The mood she described was totally understated and down-to-earth,” Tommy recalls of the team’s initial meetings with Jenner, reportedly the highest-paid model in the world. “Being who she is, we thought Kendall might gravitate toward something more flashy, more va-va-voom. I think we were…

Fashion Home

8 Fashion Month Trends to Inspire Your Next Design Job

09/10/2019

After a whirlwind four weeks on runways across New York, Paris, Milan, and London, the spring 2020 fashion shows have finally come to a close. And as the perfumed blur subsides, a number of catwalk trends and ideas have emerged that not only apply to fashion, but have the power to inform your next interiors project. From striking prints to unusual pairings to scene-stealing sets, here’s what stood out. Spotty Vision Polka dots have been a signature print at Carolina Herrera since…