I love this Parisian pied-à-terre by @luislaplace, an interior that shows how restraint can give a collection greater presence. Warm oak panelling grounds the rooms, richly veined marble brings movement, and soft rugs and upholstery keep the a
Villa Santo Sospir was built in 1930 and bought in 1948 by Alec and Francine Weisweiller, who handed the interiors to Madeleine Castaing. Castaing furnished it as a summer house in bamboo and wicker, and because it was only ever meant for summers she
On Swiss National Day, ten Swiss artists I love. As one can see, there is no national style, and most of them worked elsewhere. Celebrating my birth country. 1–2 · ALBERTO GIACOMETTI After 1945 the figures narrowed to almost nothing. L&
Luca Bombassei lives on the upper piano nobile of Palazzo Contarini Corfù, a 15th-century palace on the Grand Canal. Nearly 6,500 square feet. Working with Venice’s heritage authorities, the architect took out later partitions and reope
RADICAL ROOMS The invitation was a drawing of a yawning dinosaur under a lightning storm. It went out in Milan in September 1981, for a show at a furniture showroom called Arc ’74 during the Salone del Mobile. Around two thousand people came.
The Bass House was never conceived as a neutral container for art. Architecture, furniture and collection were planned as a single environment. Commissioned by collectors and philanthropists Anne and Sid Bass in 1970 and completed in 1976, Paul Rudo
What is often described as Carlo Mollino’s Turin home was never really a home. Between 1960 and 1968, Mollino transformed the first floor of Villa Avondo, an 1888 building overlooking the River Po, into one of the most enigmatic interiors of t
LOVEABLE ARTWORK SERIES: Cecily Brown, The Triumph of Death, 2019. Oil on linen, in four parts, 535.94 × 535.94 cm. “Through the act of painting, [Brown] transforms the scene into a lively ballet, a joyful, macabre dance.” Sylvain
The art world keeps confusing retrenchment with death. Adam Lindemann’s @adamlindemann1 mega-gallery column for @artnet has been rattling around my head since it ran. He’s right that the obituaries are premature, but I think the luxury-v
Villa Caffetto, Calcinato, Italy is a masterpiece to me. Architecture by Fausto Bontempi, designed in 1972 and built between 1973 and 1974. Artist and entrepreneur Claudio Caffetto did not simply want a family home. He asked his friend Fausto Bonte
RADICAL ROOMS Gufram @gufram was founded in Turin in 1966. Its first experiments were with polyurethane, a material developed for the transport industry. A group of young architects and artists turned that research into a revolution. Piero Gilardi.
At STUGAN yesterday, Hanna Tordai completed the second work created within the studio residency on Skeppsholmen. One artist. One week. One newly created work. Hanna Tordai explores an alternative, calculated, almost collapsing contact with the pr
At David Hockney’s Hollywood Hills home (he passed away spring 2026), the boundary between domestic space, studio and artwork almost disappears. He bought the house in 1978 and added the studio in 1983, transforming its discreet grey exterior
In the spring of 1972, Cy Twombly bought a dilapidated house in Bassano in Teverina, a small hill town north of Rome. He spent the next three years restoring it as a country home and summer studio. Bassano offered the artist distance from Rome and a
The most exclusive people you know can talk about anything. That is the exclusion. Watch it work. A collector at a fair dinner moves from a Rosemarie Trockel to a reality dating show without a gear change, and nobody flinches. Thirty years ago that
To call Andy Warhol one of the most important artists since the Industrial Revolution may sound excessive. I think it is precise. Industrial modernity transformed how objects are produced, images distributed, desire organised and identity consumed.
Jacques Couëlle did not place a house in the landscape. He made the house behave like one. Created in the early 1960s at Castellaras, high above Cannes, the Sculpture House is one of five experimental residences known as Les Troglodytes, or &ld