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Structured, ladylike purses look crisp in shades of sky and robin’s egg.

Two years ago, when the Paris-based Pauline and Xavier Favre, an executive for a fragrance company and a producer of television commercials, respectively, began looking for a weekend retreat in their native...

Whether classic cone or modern orb, these hanging fixtures cast just the right light.

A Woman of PleasureA novel by Kiyoko Murata, translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter“Food and sake were set out for them on low tables, and farther inside the room was...

This hen’s name is Nina (above, center). I was visiting a friend this past November in the Canary Islands — a place made for hiking and forgetting about fashion — and the...

WHEN THE ARTISTS Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian bought their home near Gramercy Park in 2020, it was a longstanding shrine to rock ’n’ roll glory. On a gracious Manhattan block shielded...

IN 1973, THE painter Stanley Whitney moved into a long, skinny loft overlooking Cooper Square in downtown Manhattan. In the course of the next 50 years, he’d meet and marry the artist...

AS THE FOUNDER of the streetwear brands A Bathing Ape and Human Made and the artistic director of the French luxury brand Kenzo, the designer and record producer Nigo has, over 30...

When the French gallerist Yves Gastou bought the Ermitage de Douce-amie — or refuge of a sweet friend — a follylike crenelated castle on the outskirts of Biarritz in southwest France, in...

For over 20 years, Melissa Goldstein worked as a magazine photo editor. While researching imagery, she developed a fascination with Scandinavian ceramics, 17th-century botanical illustrations and Japanese woodblock prints dating back to...