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ROSEWOOD LE GUANAHANI The hit-making hospitality group Rosewood just planted a flag on the island with its update to this Technicolor icon, new and improved with a Sense spa, a fresh outdoor dining concept, and revamped accommodations. rosewoodhotels.com LE TOINY A perennial pick for the ultra private, at just 22 suites, Le Toiny reopened this fall with a surf shack, refreshed interiors by Lady Bee Osborn, and two new four-bedroom villas, including the onetime home of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev. letoiny.com LE SERENO Situated along Grand Cul de Sac’s pristine marine reserve, the Christian Liaigre–designed Le Sereno has unveiled its family-friendly Suites Piscine (each with a dedicated pool), which can be combined with a bungalow for larger groups. serenohotels.com…

at a distance the house appears almost like a mirage: a pristine structure sitting atop rolling hills covered in wild grass, reminiscent of agricultural barns but a bit too geometrically precise. Closer inspection reveals two enormous glass-and-steel hydraulic windows that lift to open the light-filled interior to its surrounding dramatic landscape. As if this scene weren’t magical enough, two picture-perfect miniature donkeys round the corner to greet you, looking for treats. “They are Sugi and Jinx, our great loves,” Kristina O’Neal says with a laugh, referring to the full-time residents of this Sonoma County house. O’Neal, a founding partner of award-winning design firm AvroKO, known for ground-breaking hospitality projects around the world, and her husband, Adam Gordon, a developer of innovative real estate projects, are longtime Manhattanites who, a decade…

“Matt and I are both young, and we wanted something more attuned to our energy and lifestyle.”—Grace Morton While classic Spanish-style houses in Los Angeles have much to recommend them, the qualities of youthful joy and bright airiness are not generally considered their primary attributes. In fact, quite the opposite. These homes traditionally exude an aura of gravitas, underscored by heavy beams, dark wood, chunky plaster, and wrought-iron architectural details. Film producer Grace Morton had grown up in L.A. admiring the city’s rich trove of Spanish-influenced residences, so when it came time to find a suitable home for her and her fiancé, fellow film producer Matthew Budman, she naturally gravitated to a house in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Somber interiors, however, were not part of the plan. “I always…

For much of his professional life, Petrus Palmér, founder of the hit Swedish furniture company Hem, has held firm to the belief that there are three good reasons to create a new product. The first, he explained over Zoom, is the invention of a material—for example, “a form of metal that is lighter or stronger.” The second, he said, is the development of a manufacturing process, citing the Eameses’ innovations with bent plywood. And the third is “behavior, a big shift in the way people live, like working from home.” It’s thinking that has served him well as he has built one of the buzziest design brands to come out of Scandinavia since IKEA. These days, Palmér has added a fourth pillar to his philosophical portico. That’s culture, which he…

Digital catalog by email request / mitchell.catalog@gmail.com Follow on Instagram / @mitchell_johnson_artist Mitchell Johnson of Menlo Park, California is well-known for his color- and shape-driven paintings of Europe, New York City, San Francisco, Newfoundland, and New England. His paintings can be found in 700 private collections and 28 museum collections. The most recent museum acquisitions were by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa Museum of Art, Museo Morandi in Bologna, and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. In 2010—after twenty years of exhibiting in galleries in New York (Tatistcheff Gallery), Los Angeles (Terrence Rogers Fine Art), San Francisco (Hackett-Freedman Gallery), and Santa Fe (Mitchell Brown Fine Art)—Johnson embarked on a unique ongoing print advertising project to find a larger audience for his work. Amazon carries many…

When landscape architect Edmund Hollander told a Hamptons horticulturist with Southern roots that he wanted catalpa for an East End property, the gardener replied, “That’s a fish-bait tree,” invoking a not so endearing Low Country term for a species often filled with worms and caterpillars. What that green thumb didn’t quite understand was that such a tree was exactly what Hollander wanted. “Most people associate bad things with worms and caterpillars,” Hollander says with a knowing smile during a recent tour of the five-acre grounds. “But you can’t get freaked out by caterpillars if you want butterflies.” For Hollander, the goal was to attract not only butterflies but also bees and birds, all the while minimizing the use of chemicals. “We’re providing habitat for pollinators because without them we’re gonna…

As any New Yorker knows, the best watering holes can so often be found on the block less traveled. And so it goes that on an unlikely stretch of West 33rd Street, opposite a ramp to the Lincoln tunnel, past the rippling glass façade of a new tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, revelers can now cozy up in an oasis of glamour. Designed by AD100 firm Gachot as part of the recently unveiled Pendry Manhattan West hotel, the intimate evening bar features a site-specific installation by Nancy Lorenz, whose swirling patterns of gold leaf, mother-of-pearl, and lacquer reflect lighting by Hervé Descottes of L’Observatoire International. “Our favorite bars have a jewel-box quality to them—intimate, glowing, luxe,” says Christine Gachot, who favors the margarita. It’s negronis for her other half,…

Time stands still at Lal Bagh Palace in the Indian city of Indore—once home to the Holkar family, among the most powerful Maratha rulers. Completed in 1926 by Tukojirao Holkar III, who lived there until his death in 1978, the Italian Renaissance Revival edifice was converted into a museum before falling into disrepair, the top floor ravaged by fire. “It was like walking into Miss Havisham’s mansion,” says the Mumbai-based conservation architect Abha Narain Lambah, whose firm recently restored the palace to its former glory. “There was a dignity in the interiors, felt in the frayed edges, the damage, and the decay. The impetus was to keep this dignity but also bring a little life.” The approach was twofold: preserve the architecture, an effort guided by studio director Krishna Iyer,…

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when we walked in,” Sophie Ashby recalls. “I just thought, We’ve got to make this work.” Just a few strides from the bustle of Brick Lane in London’s East End—where the sweet, spicy scent of the street’s famous Bangladeshi curry houses fills the air—hides a gorgeous Georgian-era gem of a house that British interior designer Sophie Ashby and her husband, fashion designer Charlie Casely-Hayford, currently share with their daughter, Gaia, born last May, and Casely-Hayford’s seven-year-old daughter Rainbow when she comes to stay on weekends. Having outgrown their one-bedroom apartment in West London, the family rented this place in February 2020, just weeks before the world went into lockdown. “We could have bought a house, but I knew it wouldn’t have been one I was…

the adventure began humbly enough. Three friends with diverse backgrounds in art and design decided to share their passion for rare plants by opening a cactus store in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. They called it Cactus Store. Today, some eight years later, Cactus Store has morphed into a Hydra-headed horticultural juggernaut, with tendrils in landscape design, outdoor furniture and objects, clothing, soil and fertilizer, garden sculpture, books and television, and other projects catering to the burgeoning culture of plant freaks. “We wanted to introduce a broader audience to the world of specimen plants, to share their mythology, the stories of how and where they grow, and what makes them so incredible. The idea was to bridge the divide between the insular community of die-hard botanists and the…

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“The Lakin Ogunbanwo photograph of a Nigerian bride in all her regalia kick-started the bedroom’s color palette.”—Sophie Ashby “The dressing room was inspired by a kimono I bought at an antiques market in Kyoto. I thought about having it framed, but I like to occasionally wear it.”…

“It’s too small an apartment for anything to be superfluous.”—Adam Charlap Hyman “I love different rooms and different experiences; I was not interested in having an open floor plan.”…

The desert always wins. Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran, partners in the Los Angeles–based architecture firm Woods + Dangaran, repeatedly underscore that idea—the inexorable force of the desert’s climate and terrain—in discussing the unconventional Palm Springs weekend home they designed for Woods’s young family. In terms of form, siting, and materials, every decision the architects made was calculated in response to the exigencies of the house’s boulder-strewn lot, the views of the nearby San Jacinto Mountains and valley floor, and, naturally, the relentless sunshine that bakes the desert oasis. “We always refer to this as the anti–Palm Springs house, which we say with love. The midcentury-modern movement is so revered here, so crucial to the cultural identity of the city, that it becomes the defining feature of what people think…

“This collection talks about the load that women carry—the baskets, the firewood, the baby,” artist Zizipho Poswa explains of her colossal new ceramic sculptures, examples of which appeared at Design Miami this past December. Titled Umthwalo, the colorful, vaguely figurative body of work, which debuted in a 2018 group show with the Southern Guild gallery, honors the strong women Poswa grew up with in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. (She is pictured at her Cape Town studio with a work in progress that will soon be slathered in orange glaze and decorated in stripes.) For more than a decade, Poswa, who has a background in textile design, made smaller, decorative pieces for Imiso Ceramics, the studio she runs with her business partner, Andile Dyalvane, a fellow artist. But these largescale,…