The holidays are the perfect time to impress your guests with an over-the-top floral centerpiece that’ll add dimension and natural beauty to your tablescape. To learn the intricacies of flower arranging, DuJour is looking to the experts at Jack & Rose Florist. The Long Island-based floral design studio has ... More

"What's successful today is not necessarily successful tomorrow,” says Gary Friedman, the chairman and CEO of RH. “So it’s more in the journey than it is where we land.” Given the hockey-stick growth trajectory of the home-furnishings company formerly known as Restoration Hardware, whose new-antique aesthetic is adored by everyone from baristas ... More

“Rooms should reveal themselves gradually over time,” writes the pioneering interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber. This design principle applies not only to his work but also to the creation of his new book, Jeffrey Bilhuber: American Master, a tome 30 years in the making.    The nearly 300-page book offers exclusive tours of ... More

The eco-friendly future of urban construction is here, and it looks a whole lot like an epic game of Jenga. In the last five years, 17 wood high-rises of seven stories or taller have been erected around the world, with at least a dozen even loftier projects currently in the works.  This ... More

When it comes to decorating, it's a toss-up as to who should be more envied: the clients of top designers or their family members. Supporting the latter's position is the comprehensive book Designers at Home (Rizzoli) by Ronda Rice Carman. The amazing residences of 50 top ... More

The real reason why William Hefner and his wife Kazuko Hoshino weren’t spending much time at home wasn’t a hectic schedule or travel—it was a giant tree. Planted in the front yard, the tree was blocking a good amount of sunlight from spilling into their house. “We built a sunroom which ... More

Right in the heart of SoHo sit two historic residential properties that retain a distinct narrative inscribed in their walls. It’s a place where art influencers and fashion bigwigs once lived and worked inside their airy lofts. Today, those buildings—25 Mercer and its neighbor 27 Mercer—are being transformed into luxury ... More

The Dakota, the exclusive Manhattan apartment building that’s housed the likes of Joe Namath, Yoko Ono and Judy Garland, might be next to impossible for mere mortals to move into, but the famously private building recently opened its doors to historian Andrew Alpern. The resulting book, The Dakota: ... More

Nothing’s done quickly in Washington, D.C., and politics are usually to blame. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, now slated to open in late 2016, has been seven years in the making, something its architect, David Adjaye, attributes to the red tape that comes along with ... More

Design power couple Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller are giving the world a peek at the exquisite homes they’ve decorated on the pages of their new book, Carrier and Company: Positively Chic Interiors. The duo worked for a number of Architectural Digest Top 100 designers before eventually forming their own business, Carrier and Company ... More