When the Grace Farms Foundation needed an architect for its 80-acre New Canaan community center, they searched wide. “Our committee looked at 25 firms,” says foundation president Sharon Prince, before settling on Pritzker Prize–winner SANAA, whose designs include NYC’s New Museum. The River Building opens October 9 with artworks by ... 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

Last night in Chelsea, Zaha Hadid celebrated the launch of sales in 520 West 28th—her much-anticipated premiere outpost in New York City. Located along the High Line, the 11-story, 39-unit residential building’s most distinctive feature is the curvaceous, chevron-patterned façade that winds between exterior apartment spaces ... More

Apartment Therapy, Maxwell Ryan’s wildly successful home design site, inspires readers all over the world to get creative with their interior décor. There simply isn’t a design challenge that he can’t unravel. So, in honor of the just-released Apartment Therapy: Complete + Happy Home, DuJour put Ryan to the test. ... More

WorkOf was launched last year with one goal in mind: to make the buying and selling of one-of-a-kind decorative items easier for creators and collectors alike. This fall, the online platform—a kind of 1stdibs with a markedly millennial aesthetic—expanded from New York to the West ... More

For most people, shopping for bedding is a necessary evil. You want the very best on offer. After all, according to Ariel Kaye, CEO of the new online bedding e-tailer Parachute, you’ll spend a third of your life in bed. For that amount of time, you and you family ... More

Farfetch—the global online marketplace of 300-plus visionary fashion boutiques—has launched the second petite coffee table book in a three-volume collaboration with luxury publisher Assouline. Farfetch Curates: Design explores this year’s major design feats—think: modern home and hotel interiors and expertly crafted architectural projects—from a distinctly fashion-focused viewpoint. Among the many highlights ... More

Of all the rooms in which to spend one’s time at Il Palagio, where sumptuous sitting areas and fireplace-adjacent settees seem to appear around every corner, no place beats the kitchen. From before the first cup of morning espresso lands on the farmhouse table until the last bits ... More

The first design overhaul that decorator Abigail Ahern ever made might have also been her most daring. Over the course of one afternoon, Ahern—whose new book, Color, is out now—painted over every white surface in her home with Farrow and Ball’s edgy, deep grey shade Down ... More