“I didn’t grow up in a house on the water, but I did grow up on the beach,” writes Phoebe Howard in the introduction to her new book, The Waterfront House: Living with Style on the Coast (Abrams, 2025). Living … Continue reading →

Bicoastal interior designer Jeffrey Alan Marks is no stranger to moving around. Following a nomadic childhood up and down the state of California, Marks spent seven years studying design and architecture in London, met his husband and moved into a … Continue reading →

“The family quarters are the heart and soul of the house. They are where we live—really live—day in and day out,” writes Alabama-based interior designer Caroline Gidiere in her latest book, Interiors for a Life in Good Taste (Rizzoli, 2025). … Continue reading →

Multihyphenate Dani Dazey, a fashion-designer-turned-influencer-turned-interior-decorator, wrote The Maximalist (Abrams, 2025) to “empower even more people to be daring with their decor and express themselves to the fullest.” Throughout her debut design book, readers will discover playful textiles, bold color palettes, … Continue reading →

As children, we were taught the difference between warm and cool colors, primary and secondary colors, and how complementary colors sit opposite on the color wheel while analogous colors are adjacent to each other. In the design world as in … Continue reading →

Designer and artist Natalie Papier, founder of interior design company Home Ec. and star of the Magnolia Network show Artfully Designed, is unapologetic about her love for funky textiles, eccentric art, colorful wallpaper, and all things others might consider unconventional. … Continue reading →

Designers Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg, cofounders of Mexico City–based AGO Projects, live the nomadic lifestyles of celebrated creatives, bouncing from New York City to Guatemala to London to work on new projects and attend to their thriving business. In … Continue reading →

Writer Kathryn O’Shea-Evans is no stranger to living life at altitude: based near Colorado’s Front Range—home to some of the highest peaks in the Rockies—the food, design, and travel writer has contributed to an assortment of interior design books highlighting … Continue reading →

For nearly 50 years, the annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House—held each spring in New York City, along with recent offshoots in Palm Beach and Dallas—has been a must-see for design enthusiasts. A bona fide “who’s who” in the world … Continue reading →

American architect Gil Schafer III is known for his keen ability to mix the traditional with the new, despite, as he jokes, being “deeply allergic to the trendy.” In Home at Last: Enduring Design for the New American House (Rizzoli, … Continue reading →