Some collections are built around possession. Others create an entire way of seeing. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo’s did the latter. Panza began collecting post-war American art in the mid-1950s, long before many of the artists he championed had acq
Love revisiting Donna Karan’s Manhattan apartment; a spatial version of her design philosophy. Created with architects Dominic Kozerski and Enrico Bonetti, the 7,000-square-foot home joins two classic-six apartments at the top of a 1929 Art De
AI WILL NOT SAVE A BAD GALLERY. It could save a good one from its administration. Dealer sales rose by 2% in 2025. Operating costs rose by an estimated 5%. Fifty-nine per cent of dealer businesses employed five people or fewer. That is the real bus
Harumi Klossowska de Rola has spent much of her life surrounded by art, but animals have always been just as important. Born in Geneva in 1973, she is the daughter of Balthus and the Japanese painter Setsuko Ideta. She spent her early childhood at t
At The Fife Arms @thefifearms, art is not an amenity. It determines the experience of the building. Built in 1856 as a Victorian coaching inn in Braemar, The Fife Arms was acquired by Iwan and Manuela Wirth of Hauser & Wirth @hauserwirth in 2014
Over several sittings, I have spent twenty hours with Evelina Hägglund @hagglundevelina as she builds a sculpture of my head. Some days we talked continuously about life, ourselves, inspiration, what it means to be an artist and gossip. During
Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York on 20 October 1976. They lean so close that the rest of the room seems to disappear, their hands clasped between them. O’Keeffe smiles while Calder sp
For Gianni Versace, home was fashion made architectural: rooms as theatrical as a runway, composed in marble, mosaic, lacquer, velvet, gold and art. His visual language began in Reggio Calabria, where the remains of Magna Graecia made classical myth
Behind a courtyard on Rue Jacob, Nathan Baraness has created a Paris apartment that refuses a single period or style. Designed for himself and his partner, it came with all the awkwardness of a typical Left Bank interior: low ceilings, crooked walls,
Picasso was 89 when he finished Couple in Mougins on 25 June 1971, although dates inscribed on the panel reveal that he had been working on it since February. This is worth noting because his late paintings are so often described as products of pure
At Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s La Jolla home, art is not decoration added to the architecture. It is the centre of gravity. The couple acquired the Razor House, Wallace E. Cunningham’s cantilevered concrete-and-glass residence overlook
Few figures have shaped the visual language of contemporary luxury as completely as Ramdane Touhami @ramdanetouhami . The French-Moroccan creative director, designer, publisher and entrepreneur has spent three decades turning identity into total envi
Yves Saint Laurent’s apartment at 55 rue de Babylone was not simply the home of a couturier. It was the private architecture of his imagination, dense with colour, history and objects chosen for the emotion they carried. Created with Pierre Be
Walton Goggins @waltongogginsbonafide and Nadia Conners @nadiasomerset did not leave Los Angeles to create a polished country-house fantasy. They moved towards a different way of living, found in a 1920s estate built as a Scottish-style hunting lodge
Salvador Dalí at home in Portlligat, dressed in a leopard-print shirt, swimming shorts and traditional Catalan espadrilles tied around the ankles. It is a wonderfully relaxed image of an artist usually remembered in full performance, his moust