From a 19th-century palace in Naples, Italy, to a bohemian retreat in Tangier, Morocco, the homes we explored in our design coverage this year spanned continents and styles. We also considered environmentally minded approaches to construction with stories about the actor Robert Downey Jr.’s California Binishell bungalow and a Connecticut estate whose garden blends into the surrounding wilderness. Other places prioritized their occupants’ creative work. The author Anaïs Nin’s minimalist Los Angeles residence, for example, was designed as a writing sanctuary with dark wood, mauve carpeting and concrete bricks. As Kurt Soller puts it, the palette “makes one feel as if they’re hibernating inside a dusty, cracked-open geode.” See these, and a few more favorites, in this special end-of-year edition of the T List.
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