The story begins with food hidden inside coffins. During WWII, Michèle Lamy’s @lalamichmich family smuggled provisions through Nazi checkpoints to members of the Resistance. Scarlett Rouge @scarlettrouge calls it “the nutrients
When Iria Leino died in 2022, her SoHo loft held a lifetime of paintings and hundreds of journals. She had worked there since the 1960s, largely outside the gallery system. Now her work can be viewed at the amazing exhibition ’Inner Light&rsquo
At Place du Palais Bourbon, opposite the Assemblée Nationale, Michèle Lamy @lalamichmich and Rick Owens @rickowensonline have lived and worked since 2004 in a building that once housed the French Socialist Party and François Mitt
Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment at Le Roccabella in Monte Carlo was one of the most complete Memphis @memphis_milano interiors ever assembled. He moved into the large modern apartment in 1981, the same year the Memphis Group made its debut in Milan
In Yubaba Yaga, Anetta Lukjanova @anettalukjanova brings together the technical discipline of atelier painting with mysticism, pop culture and the shifting image of female power. Even the title is a hybrid, folding Yubaba from Hayao Miyazaki’s
The most convincing collectors’ homes are rarely perfectly coherent. They reveal different appetites, periods and points of view. In Southampton, entrepreneurs and collectors Jen Rubio and Stewart Butterfield @stewart have transformed a 1910s
The tributes to Mathilde Favier this week have returned again and again to the same things: her warmth, loyalty, humour, courage and unmistakable joy in life. Favier, Dior Couture’s director of public relations, passed away on Monday at the ag
After its major presentation at Tate Modern in London, Tracey Emin’s ’A Second Life’ travels to @louisianamuseum this autumn. Spanning almost four decades, the exhibition brings together painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, film
Next month, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, better known as @yunglean2001, will present ten years of visual work at Torsgatan 22 in Stockholm. Sept 25 - Oct 11. Free for all! Collected Works 2016–2026 brings together paintings, collages and scu
Carine Roitfeld’s @carineroitfeld home is less a decorated interior than an exercise in editing. When the legendary French editor and stylist moved into this 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom flat, she reduced her art and fashion collections to th
Valentino Garavani, immaculate in white, seated at Chalet Gifferhorn in Gstaad among three pugs and a flock of François-Xavier Lalanne’s Moutons de Laine. Photographed by Lukas Wassmann in 2010, the image feels less staged than perfectly
Modernism is often remembered through the empty room: white walls, a perfect chair, nothing out of place. The Eames House offers a far more generous idea of modern life. Completed in Los Angeles in 1949 as Case Study House No. 8, Charles and Ray Eam
For five years, four canvases remained stacked in Hanna Zelleke Collin’s studio. She tried more than once to separate them, but could not. This week at STUGAN, with her one-month-old daughter Zelda beside her, she finally did. Hanna @nilloceke
On Via XXIV Maggio, Ward Bennett designed the apartment of Marella and Gianni “L’Avvocato” Agnelli in 1977. Rather than answering the grandeur of Rome with more grandeur, the American designer introduced enormous wicker furniture, g
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