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 the new book Love How You Live (Monacelli, 2024), the pair open the doors to six homes they’ve designed for themselves across the globe, along with seven residences they’ve curated for others.

Despite running a successful design firm and art gallery based in Mexico City and New York, Primack claims he has no special authority to dictate what’s beautiful; rather, he aims to lead others to their own language for living with the following instructions: “Nurture what you love and share that with others. Seek out the beauty in authenticity and minimize your investment in trying to emulate the supposed ‘good taste’ of others. Embrace flexibility and chance, the unresolved and unexpected. These principles work in decorating,” he writes, “because they work in life.”

When outfitting the interior of this sprawling U-shaped home for themselves in Guatemala City, Primack and Weissenberg made the most of the “traditional local know-how” that they believe is too often overlooked in locations rich with culture and craft. To avoid importing wherever possible, the couple sourced wool textiles from looms in the Mayan highlands; used wood from family sawmills; employed a local metalsmith to make window casings, benches, and shelving; and commissioned artist and architect Dario Escobar to design tiles to decorate the home. Hand-me-down furniture and kitchenware from Weissenberg’s grandmother are found throughout the space, often paired with Guatemalan crafts from local artisans. As writer Ana Karina Zatarain notes in the book’s foreword, Primack and Weissenberg’s homes “reflect an intense fondness for objects, with every room densely populated by art, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware, patterned wallpaper, variegated tiles, and countless curios coexisting in eclectic juxtaposition.” Follow the couple’s lead and learn to love how you live with these nine finds.