It was a challenge not every pro could meet. Imagine a stoplight flashing both red and green. The homeowner wanted to freshen up the interior of her Verona home but keep a lot of her furniture. She craved the new—and also the familiar. It turned out that Kathryn Cook was just the designer to answer […]
Scandinavian Style
Caroline and Paul Schiavone—she’s Swedish and he’s American—met in Paris, where he was working at the time. They eventually married and moved to London, where they lived for eight years and had their three children. Life in the U.K. was good, but the family eventually found themselves wanting to expand their horizons. On summer vacations […]
Almost Home
A beach house can be a getaway, a sanctuary, a gathering place for friends and family. For a pair of empty nesters who built their dream beach house on a grassy Brant Beach dune, it would be all these things and, eventually, one more: their primary residence. Given that multiplicity of purposes, the home’s interior […]
The Everything Yard
When Jill and Chris Torrente decided to redo their backyard, they relied on their travels for design inspiration. “I pull a lot of ideas from the hotels we go to,” says Jill. “I’ve come to really appreciate their attention to detail. And I wanted every part of our backyard to be an area that I […]
Ocean-View Devotion
A family’s Asbury Park vacation condo is designed around its best feature: a breathtaking view of the Atlantic. Text by Darius Amos Design by Marc Goldberg Photography by Vic Wahby A Whitehouse couple didn’t have to travel far to find their ideal getaway: They discovered a perfect staycation spot in Asbury Park, a little more […]