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The Notebook: Diego Giacometti's Bronze Furniture
The Notebook: Diego Giacometti's Bronze Furniture
Diego Giacometti's bronze furniture blurs the line between sculpture and something you use every day. His animal motifs and delicate casting, up close. Read more...
The Notebook: Billy Baldwin's Bold & Beautiful Interiors
The Notebook: Billy Baldwin's Bold & Beautiful Interiors
The designer who proved a room can be drop-dead gorgeous and comfortable at the same time, and what I take from him. Read more...
Art Hearts: Josef Albers' Influential Color Studies
Art Hearts: Josef Albers' Influential Color Studies
Josef Albers built a career on the square. His Bauhaus color studies, the Homage to the Square series, and how they led to my Color Study rug. Read more...
The Notebook: David Hicks' Bold Approach to English Style
The Notebook: David Hicks' Bold Approach to English Style
David Hicks paired fearless color with geometry and invented the modern tablescape. His South Eaton Place rooms, Vila Verde, and the rules he broke. Read more...
The Notebook: Milo Baughman's Mid-Century Style for All
The Notebook: Milo Baughman's Mid-Century Style for All
Milo Baughman designed luxe modern furniture for the everyman, much of it with Thayer Coggin. What I take from his mix of rich materials and plain silhouettes. Read more...
Art Hearts: Paule Marrot's Natural Curiosities
Art Hearts: Paule Marrot's Natural Curiosities
The French textile designer behind Les Tulipes, the print Jackie Kennedy chose for the White House, and a Renault paint palette. Why her botanicals still work in a room. Read more...
The Notebook: Jacques Adnet's Visionary Designs
The Notebook: Jacques Adnet's Visionary Designs
Jacques Adnet joined metal and glass, Art Deco and French modernism, and wrapped furniture in Hermès leather. What a lot of work to achieve simplicity, as he put it. Read more...
The Notebook: Dorothy Draper's Optimistic Legacy
The Notebook: Dorothy Draper's Optimistic Legacy
Dorothy Draper answered the Depression with chartreuse, checkerboard floors and cabbage rose chintz. Her work from the Carlyle to the Greenbrier, and who followed her. Read more...
Art Hearts: James Turrell's Mastery of Light
Art Hearts: James Turrell's Mastery of Light
James Turrell builds rooms out of light. His installations, Roden Crater, and how hidden LEDs and circadian lighting bring a bit of his approach into a house. Read more...
The Notebook: Karl Springer's Everlasting Influence
The Notebook: Karl Springer's Everlasting Influence
Karl Springer's lacquered parchment, shagreen and snakeskin still shape luxury rooms fifty years on. Where his work shows up today, and how to find an original. Read more...
Art Hearts: Cy Twombly's Grand Gestures
Art Hearts: Cy Twombly's Grand Gestures
Cy Twombly's scribbles and calligraphic marks, from Fifty Days at Iliam on, and why his raw but refined gestures keep pulling me back. Read more...
The Notebook: Tony Duquette's Dazzling World
The Notebook: Tony Duquette's Dazzling World
Tony Duquette took Hollywood Regency to the stage with gold leaf, murals and saturated color. A look inside Dawnridge, the Beverly Hills estate he built with his wife. Read more...
Art Hearts: Henri Maik's Painted Jungle Scenes
Art Hearts: Henri Maik's Painted Jungle Scenes
The panther painting in my grandmother's Ponte Vedra living room led me to Henri Maik, a French primitive painter of jungle scenes and friendly felines. Read more...
Art Hearts: Richard Diebenkorn's California Dreamscapes
Art Hearts: Richard Diebenkorn's California Dreamscapes
Richard Diebenkorn painted the California coast from above in flat, patchwork color. A look at his Ocean Park series and the path that led him there. Read more...