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The article from Architectural Digest explores Gloria Steinem's life and home in Manhattan, highlighting her feminist activism and personal space. Steinem's brownstone is filled with colorful and eclectic decor, reflecting her diverse interests and experiences. The article delves into Steinem's upbringing, career, and the significance of her home as a place of refuge and creativity. Steinem's home serves as a reflection of her values and beliefs, showcasing her commitment to equality and social activism. [Extracted from the article]

The article from Architectural Digest explores artist Walton Ford's restoration of a historic townhouse in Manhattan's West Village. Ford's home reflects his artistic style, with vintage decor and a focus on animal motifs. He restored the house to its 1830s appearance, blending period-appropriate furnishings with his personal tastes. The house serves as both a comfortable living space and an inspiring environment for Ford's artwork. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: TEXT BY SARAH MEDFORD PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS curta in up Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller works with designer Steven Volpe on a showstopping Manhattan [...]

Byline: TEXT BY SARAH MEDFORD PHOTOGRAPHY BY VINCENT LEROUX good vibes India Mahdavi brings her signature flair to a joyful, light-filled getaway in the South of France India Mahdavi developed [...]

Byline: TEXT BY SARAH MEDFORD PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEXIS ARMANET BRONZE AGE For Parisian sculptor Ingrid Donat, home is the perfect place to show off her own work Not all gardeners [...]

Designer Julie Hillman recently renovated her workspace in a Manhattan brownstone to create a more inspiring and functional environment for her 10-person team. Hillman is known for her skill in creating sumptuous and layered interiors, incorporating contemporary design pieces alongside antiques and artwork. The renovated space features a charcoal gray entry lounge, an open shared workspace, and a central sample library with a marble counter and wicker baskets for fabric swatches. Hillman's personal office showcases vintage furniture and artwork. The newly configured space reflects Hillman's passion for collecting and her ability to find a place for unique pieces. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: SARAH MEDFORD EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN A Cut Above Landscape-design team Harrison Green masters the art of Gotham gardening psdNICHOLAS CALCOTTHARRISON GREEN PLANTED A ROOFTOP GARDEN IN NEW YORK'S [...]

FOR MOST PEOPLE, especially those from the East Coast or anywhere else snow can be expected from Thanksgiving on, Malibu is synonymous with summer. It's where California girls live, where [...]

Aspiring Sister Parishes used to ton for years in the service of respected big-city firms, refining their sensibilities as they wore holes in their Belgian loafers and logged hours in [...]

With daughter Jasmine, two, on her lap, Nadja gets down to business at her parents' house in Florida's Windsor community. 'It's a sanctuary for us--I love getting lost on the [...]

WENDY WHELAN has always been an un-orthodox presence. She doesn't look picture-perfect or innately graceful. She doesn't have the smooth, long-limbed body and small, delicate-featured head that are the physical [...]

IF ANY FILM deserves a re-release on Blu-ray this Christmas, it's Dinner at Eight. Directed by George Cukor in 1933, arguably at the trough of the Great Depression, Dinner at […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Cullum Clark was a boy growing up in the Greenway Parks neighborhood of Dallas, touch football was the city's sport of choice. Dallas is a […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] READERS OF Peter Matthiessen's books of fiction and nonfiction would be challenged to say exactly where the author lives, although they'd be right to assume it's well outside […]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CHANGE IS OFTEN GOOD. But when change comes with unsettling speed or is basically unsettling in itself, we all tend to react in the same way: we want […]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Who wants to be alone during the holidays? Not the crowds that gather at the corners of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City. Rockefeller Center […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Soul [A] Few early-20th-century photographers could match Edward Steichen in painterly Pictorialist technique. Make a lasting impression with a gift of Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography (W.W. Norton; […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JEFFREY BILHUBER climbed aboard the sloop of interior design in the mid-eighties, a stowaway from the field of hotel management. More than twenty years later, he stands with […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BEYOND WORDS ELENA FOSTER A book made of bronze, brass, steel or heavy paper; a book sculpted with a laser beam; a book so large you can step […]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Imagine a place where tiered pagodas made of fanciful wooden latticework rise up toward sharp blue skies. Poised on lacquered columns and decked out with Chinese urns and […]

Blue Ridge foothills of Albemarle County, Virginia, have a gentle, undisturbed beauty. As you turn onto the private road that traverses Dan and Nancy "Nan" Brody's 260-acre farm, you follow […]

"I THINK WE CAN SAY that we had the baby, then we got married." Bunny Williams is a nice girl from Charlottesville, Virginia, who grew up to become one of […]

For many of us, the CHRISTMAS SEASON ushers in tidings of comfort and joy followed almost immediately by a creeping sense of failure. All that talk, during the preceding ten […]

"LAST SUMMER, I bought a fluffy pink Christmas tree from a California company I found on the Web. It makes trees that look like evergreens but in an unbelievable range […]

WHO WANTS the robe from a fancy hotel room anymore? We'd all much rather have the eight-nozzle steam shower, the olive-wood shutters, the amber room fragrance or the duvet cover […]

"I SAW THE PRECINCT across the street, and I thought, 'This is a sign--these are my people,'" says Mariska Hargitay, describing her search for the perfect New York City apartment […]

It's mid-June in the swedish provinces, and Lars Nilsson, like just about everyone else in the country, is having a hard time staying indoors. The sun sits adamantly at twelve […]

UNLESS YOU KNOW what you're looking for, Deedie and Rusty Rose's house is almost invisible from the street. Its windowless facade of ragged limestone blocks is easy to mistake for […]

Last Christmas Eve, Monica Noel e-mailed me from her new house on Mustique. "I just finished setting the holiday table and arm off to the carols at the bamboo church," […]

In September 2002 a hurricane passed through Merida, the capital of Mexico's Yucatan state, downing power lines and causing flooding in a city much more accustomed to watching its eastern […]

There is no question that my husband, Doug, and I were more excited than our kids last winter at the prospect of spending part of the Christmas holiday in Colonial […]

Can a house have too much personality? It's a question that doesn't really come up these days--maybe because we'd all secretly rather live with someone else's personality (hello, reality TV […]

Bui Simon stands in her Montecito topiary garden, her high heels buried in gravel. "I love these guys," she says of the boxwood birds and whimsical shapes that seem to […]

Meeting Lilly Pulitzer is like moving on to your second glass of Champagne: suddenly the world seems brighter, happier, incontestably more carefree. Lilly's contagiously bubbly outlook comes from spending most […]

Shakespeare's Macbeth was Thane of Cawdor, as any fifteen-year-old can tell you. Rereading Macbeth would have been an obvious thing to do before a visit to the twenty-fifth thane and […]

Rare giltwood furniture, paintings from British ancestral estates and rock-crystal table trinkets deployed to all corners of a house ate what most of us would call serious decoration. To Ann […]

SHE KNEW what women wanted: to be beautiful. At four feet ten inches tall, with rather severe features and a plump physique, the young Helena Rubinstein wanted the same for […]

It's not easy, at the start of summer 2003, to think back to a time when building a house in the Hamptons was a relatively simple proposition: before land became […]

Anyone wondering how much is left of Maine beyond mail-order clambakes and balsam sachets will enjoy these recent photographs of August Moon, a hundred-acre private camp on Mount Desert Island. […]

"Where is the moat?" children ask in awed succession when they first see the drawbridge at Castello di Albinea, the home of Achille and Ida Maramotti in the western foothills […]

So many of the good memories associated with Christmas in the South revolve around houses and food. Not just the gathering and cooking of food at home, but also the […]

To call John Stefanidis worldly is to confide to a zookeeper that his zebra has stripes. The London-based decorator was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1937, to Greek parents; he […]

Building houses is a siren call for some people, an almost instinctual urge. This also turns out to be true for some magazines. In 1999 Town & Country built its […]

Calling cards and hired cars may be the stock-in-trade of most titled Europeans living in Manhattan, but they don't begin to define the world of Princess Alexandra of Greece. "My […]

"WHEN THE GARDEN IS IN FULL SWING, IT LOOKS LIKE THE SOUTH of France back here." Ryan Haddon Slater is standing in her living room in a cashmere sweatshirt and […]

At a time when prudence and self-restraint have become national bywords, John Rosselli has been sifting with contrarian zeal through some of the world's best antiques markets, his checkbook poised. […]

Michael McCarty, owner of Michael's restaurants in Santa Monica and Manhattan, is so adept at entertaining that he can conjure up a lunch for twenty as he trolls his local […]

Join us for cocktails, conversation and laughter in North Yorkshire, as cartoonist Annie Tempest and her family host friends for a country-house weekend that updates a much-loved tradition. Back in […]