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A Lakeside Italian Villa Restored to Its Original Splendor
THE COMMUNICATION EXECUTIVES Ase Botha and Gustaf Brusewitz both grew up in Sweden but had barely lived there since meeting as young professionals in Brussels some 20 years ago. Their careers at global technology companies took them to London and Sydney, where they had their second child. Then, during the pandemic, their work brought them home to Stockholm, where the family resettled in Nacka, a suburban area known for its enviable access to lakes and forests, making a country home redundant.
How Two Designers Brought Easy Charm to a Classic Parisian Apartment
How Two Designers Brought Easy Charm to a Classic Parisian Apartment Samantha Hauvette and Lucas Madani created a home that reflects the city’s history — and their own. In the living room of a 16th Arrondissement Parisian apartment designed by Samantha Hauvette and Lucas Madani, a pair of vintage 1960 chairs, a rug from Nordic Knots and a sculpture by Henry Parayre on a custom oak pedestal, which, like the shelves, sofa and low table, is by Hauvette and Madani.Credit...Thibault Montamat Sept.
A House That’s ‘Everything You Dream of When You’re in Paris’
Although there were once more than 2,000 hôtels particuliers (grand, centuries-old free-standing mansions) throughout Paris, only a few hundred still exist. Even fewer of those are fully intact, now often serving as museums, embassies or boutique hotels.
A House That’s ‘Everything You Dream of When You’re in Paris’
I’m an Overpacker, but My Suitcase Is Always Under the Weight Limit Thanks to This Flight Attendant-loved Hack Go ahead, pack the extra pair of boots. I have many talents, but packing light is not one of them. From disorganized suitcases and 50-plus-pound bag weigh-ins to shoving shoes into my personal item at the last minute, I’ve made just about every packing mistake. But after learning about this flight …
In Mexico City, a Futuristic House With a Secret Chess Room
As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil Aparecida Rosa Ayres often says she has known seaweed since she was in her mother’s womb, thanks to the stories she used to tell her. As a child, her …
In Mexico City, a Futuristic House With a Secret Chess Room
In Mexico City, a Futuristic House With a Secret Chess Room The architect Fernando Romero has pushed what was once a generic midcentury home as far as it can go. A path through long grasses and past a plum tree leads to the metal-clad facade of the architect Fernando Romero’s house in Mexico City.Credit...Rafael Gamo Aug. 18, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET THE MEXICAN ARCHITECT Fernando Romero always wanted to build airports.
Inside Mario Milana and Gabriella Campagna’s Endlessly Adaptable Milan Home
MILAN IS A place with such hidden beauty — sequestered behind ornate iron gates, sprawling courtyards and fortresslike structures that survived World War II — that it’s become almost unimaginative to say so. This is partly because of Salone del Mobile, the design fair that swallows up the city each April, during which there’s an increasingly heated competition to host installations in the grandest never-before-accessible spaces.
Inside François Champsaur’s Majorca Home
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A French designer creates a rustic, rudimentary country house that argues for a better, more environmentally conscious way of life.
Sundance 2026 Takeaways: Good Movies, Unexpected Comedies and More
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7 hours ago Meghan Markle’s signature 'polished, but wearable' approach to beauty often begins with her hair. When her natural colour meets sophisticated styling, the result is usually coveted – and her latest look is no exception. During the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the Duchess of Sussex stepped out at the …
T Magazine|How Much Political Propaganda Art Can One Mansion Hold? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/t-magazine/roland-emmerich-london-home-propaganda.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. In London, an interior designer helps a director of Hollywood action films make his house a cheeky, ever-evolving statement on international authoritarianism.
The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time
Despite all the groaning that “print is dead,” many people seem captivated by magazines lately: When Anna Wintour relinquished her editorship in June of Vogue, which she’s overseen for 37 years, it was national news; a memoir by the former Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter and a dishy nonfiction chronicle (by the New York Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum) of Carter’s ex-employer, the luxury magazine publisher Condé Nast, made many summer reading lists.
The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time
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SNL 'Weekend Update' co-anchor Michael Che announces he's 'very sick' just before new episode Tonight's episode, hosted by "Saturday Night Live" alum Amy Poehler, falls on the official 50th anniversary of the show's premiere. The show must go on? Longtime Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" anchor Michael Che announced he was feeling "very sick" just hours before Saturday's live show. The …
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In Manila, a Singular Home With Global Influences
The decorator Junie Rodriguez has created a space for his sister in the Philippines that reflects many cultures and traditions — but most of all his own. In the living room of the home that the Manila-based Junie Rodriguez decorated for his sister Mary Faye Garcia, a vintage rattan settee, a cabinet made of stained concrete and salvaged steel plate scraps, a Moroccan pouf and an Anglo Indian thatha chair.
Fine Jewelry Inspired by Centuries-Old Paintings at the Met
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Fine Jewelry Inspired by Centuries-Old Paintings at the Met Original
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues.And you can always reach us at tmagazine@nytimes.com.
How Agathe Labaye and Florian Sumi Turned Their Paris Home Into a 'Big Diorama' Original
THE FIRST TIME the 40-year-old French designers Agathe Labaye and Florian Sumi met, they were in high school in Dijon, forced to work together in art class on an amateurish painting of a dead fish that they still have in storage. They had crushes on each other, Labaye says on a dreary March morning while the couple sit at an oval black glass dining table in their third-floor apartment in Paris's Haut Marais.
A Beach House in the Philippines, Unlike Anything Else on the Islands Original
IN THE QUIET Philippine province of Pangasinan, about three hours north of Manila, depending on the city's often heavy traffic, there was once a small beach house - an open-air bamboo-and-mahogany pavilion with walled-off bedrooms and a thatched roof - on 50 or 60 acres of otherwise empty oceanfront land.
A Peeling 17th-Century Palazzo and the Man Who Was 'Crazy Enough' to Buy It
WHEN RAFFAELE FABRIZIO was growing up, he lived in a small village close to Lake Como called Fino Mornasco that was near the headquarters of Dedar, the Italian fabric house that his parents, Nicola and Elda, founded in 1976. Fabrizio, 55, and his sister, Caterina, 56, have spent their careers at Dedar, bringing the firm into a new era by introducing novel combinations of color, pattern and texture, attracting clients like Hermès and the movie director Luca Guadagnino.
Leda Athanasopoulou's Patmos Home Reflects Centuries of History
THE GREEK DESIGNER Leda Athanasopoulou - whose practice spans jewelry, furniture and interiors - has spent her life in Athens, London, New York and Paris. But when the 34-year-old thinks of home, her mind immediately goes to Patmos, the rocky, secluded Dodecanese island near the coast of Turkey where her mother, Katerina Tsigarida, an esteemed Greek architect, and father, Dimitris, a businessman, started buying property in the early 1990s, when their three children were young.
Just as the Sundance Film Festival is in flux, likely soon to leave its longtime home of Park City, Utah, so too is the state of film - and indie film in particular. Yet the industry and its most ardent fans still came to the mountains for America's most important event in independent cinema to schmooze, ski and see lots of movies, hoping to find this year's " A Real Pain," the breakout hit from last year's slate.
The Under-the-Radar Filipino Island That Evokes 1970s Bali
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A Cape Cod Beach Shack Where Charm Takes Priority Over Air Conditioning Original
THERE'S A COMMON belief among many longtime New Yorkers that, in order to love the city, you have to leave it regularly. For the minimalist residential and commercial architect Robert Finger, 57, that's long meant escaping to his family's Cape Cod cottage, built circa 1918 in the dunes along the Atlantic Ocean in Wellfleet, Mass., which he first visited when he was a month old.
Blood Red Is the New Barbie Pink Original
After years of pandemic delays and Hollywood strikes, the Toronto International Film Festival, which concludes on Sunday, felt particularly alive this year. Unlike recent years, there was no surefire hit like "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022) or "Oppenheimer" (2023) that premiered in the spring or summer, which added excitement and uncertainty going into awards season.
In Majorca, a One-Room Home With Sheep for Neighbors Original
How a couple transformed a tumbledown shepherd's hut into a spare but functional retreat with views of the Balearic Sea. In the stone shed that Tyson Strang and Tatiana Baibabaeva refurbished outside Sóller, a village on the Spanish island of Majorca, a vintage bed with Society Limonta linens overlooking an outdoor sitting area and olive grove. Credit...
An Italian Nobleman's Villa Is Restored to Its Former Glory
The eldest son of the Etro family joined the throngs buying up centuries-old properties in Puglia but had the good sense to leave his (mostly) alone. In the upstairs hall of Jacopo Etro's home in Puglia, Italy, a mirror hangs behind two marble sculptures on a Neapolitan console table, all from the early 19th century. Credit...
In Paris, an Apartment With Views That Look Like Postcards Original
Unlike, say, Milan or New York, Paris isn't a city that hides its beauty behind closed doors. Most of the French capital's grand boulevards are, of course, lined with Haussmannian buildings, their stone facades and wrought-iron balconies as elegant as the herringbone parquet floors and marble fireplaces inside.
A Forest Retreat in 'Tokyo's Backyard'
Image But it's the fourth, 33 feet farther down the slope from the others, that commands all the attention. Built on four pencil-thin columns, it's a floating 26-by-26-foot greenhouse that disappears into the forest around it - except in the colder months, when the verdant plants inside contrast with the brown branches outside, life and death separated only by glass.
An Artist Whose Knits Are an Antidote to Loneliness Original
Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared at a JW Anderson runway show. The textile artist Patrick Carroll, photographed at his Los Angeles studio on Feb. 21, 2024, surrounded by some of his pieces. Credit... Abdi Ibrahim Four years ago, the writer and textile artist Patrick Carroll helped his father, who'd developed a neurodegenerative disorder, to arrange his physician-assisted suicide in California.
A Filmmaker Needed a Quiet Place to Write. Where Better Than a Tuscan Villa? Original
Albert Moya has optimized his apartment, part of a 14th-century estate in the hills of Florence, for work and lounging. Credit... TWO YEARS AGO, the Spanish filmmaker Albert Moya came to Florence to visit an artist friend who'd unwittingly become the caretaker of a large family estate, left empty after a famous Italian writer died, on the outskirts of town.
In Japan, a Place for a Famous Artistic Director to Hide by the Sea Original
The designer and record producer Nigo has built a minimalist retreat where the Pacific Ocean itself is practically an architectural feature. AS THE FOUNDER of the streetwear brands A Bathing Ape and Human Made and the artistic director of the French luxury brand Kenzo, the designer and record producer Nigo has, over 30 years, asserted himself as one of the most revered aesthetic talents in Japan.
Minimalist Leather Bags, Made by Hand in Brooklyn Heights
The 40-year-old designer Adam Wade Wagner had for years travelled internationally doing visual merchandising for a fashion retailer when, stuck at home in Brooklyn Heights during the pandemic, he was finally able to focus on his leather-working hobby. At first, he was drawn to the hides themselves, because he knew that New York’s garment district was among the world’s best places to source artisanal, vegetable-tanned options imported from Italy.
Yoga and Energy Healing in a Former Hudson Valley Mansion
Stay Here The Ranch, a Malibu Mainstay, Opens a Wellness Retreat in Upstate New York Image The Ranch at Hudson Valley is scheduled to open this April in a refurbished 1907 mansion near Tuxedo, N.Y.; group fitness classes will take place in the former ballroom.
On Patmos, in Greece, a Very Old House Gets a Colorful New Life
T Magazine|On Patmos, in Greece, a Very Old House Gets a Colorful New Life https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/t-magazine/patmos-greece-home-design.html Two designers returned a historic dwelling to its roots, removing everything contemporary — then adding an internationally inflected spirit of their own.
On Patmos, in Greece, a Very Old House Gets a Colorful New Life
T Magazine|On Patmos, in Greece, a Very Old House Gets a Colorful New Life https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/t-magazine/patmos-greece-home-design.html Two designers returned a historic dwelling to its roots, removing everything contemporary — then adding an internationally inflected spirit of their own.
Five Things Tom Dixon Wishes He’d Created
Objects of Envy The designer, who’s debuting a line of portable lighting, looks to geodesic domes and bicycles. Nov. 8, 2023, 7:00 a.m. ET ImageCredit...Nikreative/Alamy “Fuller wasn’t a trained architect, but he was dreaming of the future.
A Wood-Lined Retreat in the Heart of Paris
T Magazine|A Wood-Lined Retreat in the Heart of Paris https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/t-magazine/festen-paris-apartment.html by design On one of the most Parisian streets in the city, two interior designers create a new kind of French fantasy.
It’s Engagement Season. Here’s What to Get Your Soon-to-Be Married Friends.
T Magazine|It’s Engagement Season. Here’s What to Get Your Soon-to-Be Married Friends. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/t-magazine/engagement-gift-guide.html Set in Stone Custom Carved Pendants and Rings Prounis Intaglios in lapis, carnelian or gold, from $2,480, prounisjewelry.com.Credit...Courtesy of Prounis The intaglio — a stone engraved with an image — is a form of jewelry that goes back to ancient Mesopotamia.
IfYouCanMakeItHere The House Tells A Story The Age of Embellishments Speak Softly
Hide menu Design & Luxury Issue Harlem The House Tells A Story Washington Square The Age of Embellishments Montauk Speak Softly IfYouCanMakeItHere Great design for a great city (New York, of course — where else?) Unlike Paris, London and Rome, New York isn’t a beautiful city. There are beautiful stretches, of course, and beautiful blocks, but it’s not a place where the architecture is going to stop you in your tracks every few paces — it’s a town meant for hurrying, not meandering.
Julianne Moore’s Montauk Sanctuary
Unlike Paris, London and Rome, New York isn’t a beautiful city. There are beautiful stretches, of course, and beautiful blocks, but it’s not a place where the architecture is going to stop you in your tracks every few paces — it’s a town meant for hurrying, not meandering. The city’s allure comes instead from its rhythm and unpredictability, how any street can at once become a stage for a drama big or small, played by people from any number of nationalities, races, genders, ages or sexualities.
Inside the Elaborate, Enviable Design of Three New York Homes
Unlike Paris, London and Rome, New York isn’t a beautiful city. There are beautiful stretches, of course, and beautiful blocks, but it’s not a place where the architecture is going to stop you in your tracks every few paces — it’s a town meant for hurrying, not meandering. The city’s allure comes instead from its rhythm and unpredictability, how any street can at once become a stage for a drama big or small, played by people from any number of nationalities, races, genders, ages or sexualities.
Visit Trunk Hotel Tokyo (and its Rooftop Pool)
When the Japanese brand Trunk opened its first hotel in central Shibuya in 2017, its Western-influenced rooms, with their calming neutral palettes, were a respite from one of the world’s busiest neighbourhoods. At the same time, the cozy, moodily dark lobby was conceived to be a communal social space — rare for Japan, a country where lodging tends to be more cloistered — for locals and tourists to work on their laptops or drink highballs with friends.
Yes, R. Crumb Made a Yoga Mat
Stay Here In Tokyo, a New Boutique Hotel With a Rooftop Pool Image From left: the exterior of Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park; one of its furnished balconies. Credit...Courtesy of Trunk By Kurt Soller When the Japanese brand Trunk opened its first hotel in central Shibuya in 2017, its Western-influenced rooms, with their calming neutral palettes, were a respite from one of the world’s busiest neighborhoods.
Yes, R. Crumb Made a Yoga Mat Original
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For Dua Lipa, Just Being a Pop Star Isn’t Enough
Though the singer has maintained a strict line between her music and her private life, she’s leveraging her personal passions in a bid to become a media mogul. Read More
For Dua Lipa, Just Being a Pop Star Isn’t Enough
Though the singer has maintained a strict line between her music and her private life, she’s leveraging her personal passions in a bid to become a media mogul. The pop star Dua Lipa, photographed in Paris on May 25, 2023, wears an Alaïa dress, $3,320, and scarf, $4,090, maison-alaia.com/us; Skims bra; Stuart Weitzman shoes, $495, stuartweitzman.com; her own earrings; and stylist’s own underwear.Credit...Photograph by Luis Alberto Rodriguez.
The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature
If there’s no single definition of what it means to be queer — a word whose meaning seems to shape-shift constantly, just like the culture around it — then there’s perhaps no consensus on what defines queer literature as a genre either. Still, one thing many queer people share is that we first discovered ourselves on the page.
A Hawaiian Bungalow Resort Reopens on the Big Island
Plus: playful lamps, Loewe Craft Prize finalists on view in Queens and more recommendations from T Magazine.
A Hawaiian Bungalow Resort Reopens on the Big Island
Visit This The Noguchi Museum Exhibits the Finalists for the Loewe Craft Prize Finalists for the Loewe Craft Prize include (clockwise from top left): Eriko Inazaki (Japan); Giorgi Danibegashvili (Georgia); Maina Devi (India); Claire Lindner (France); Dominique Zinkpè (Benin); Jaiik Lee (South Korea); Aranda/Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson (United States); and Liam Lee (United States).Credit...Photos: courtesy of Loewe By Jameson Montgomery In 2016, the Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson...
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