This is a compelling story of fashion entrepreneur Bryan Downey’s great-great-uncle, artist Waylande Gregory — whose treasure trove of work, through fate and circumstance, fell largely into Downey’s fortunate hands. A savvy businessman who partnered with Mickey Rosmarin (owner of Tootsies) to launch Rayure...

It all started with The Handmade House, divine developer Carol Isaak Barden’s latest entry into the luxury oeuvre, under construction at 1916  Banks Street. Designer Richard Holley is working with her on this project, as is the award-winning, Seattle-based architect firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen. Here’s ...

In a series we're entitling "Dead People We Wish We Would Have Known" we'll take a look at ... well, the title says it all, really. Our first: Elsie de Wolfe, (known to many as Lady Mendl); mother of interior decoration and a thoroughly modern Millie if ever one existed. Why we want to be her bff:Well, let's see: She was th...

They can punch up a room with a dash of paint and play fearlessly with scale and proportion. The best of designers can rearrange a room in a snap and breathe new life into a tired-looking boudoir. While we rely on their knowing eye to pull fabrics, measure curtains and estimate what it will take to recover Grandmother’...

Photo credit: Paul Aaron, ESTO, from the book "American Masterworks: Houses of the 20th and 21st Centuries" by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin (Rizzoli, 2008) We asked nine top-drawer men — architects, decorators, a bon vivant or two — one question: What room continues to inspire? As they flipped thr...