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THIS IS THE AGE when the digital voice is powerful, so much so that sometimes it seems as if it will drown out print altogether. The publishing world is in flux, but we at MILIEU are here to stay—and flourish. Our staff believes strongly that the bes

With a new expansion into Nashville proper, The Iron Gate’s Rozanne Jackson is offering the best of both worlds for her interiors outposts. The original location in nearby Franklin, Tennessee, retains its vintage charm (it’s housed within a building

I had little idea of what Marrakesh was like before I went there for the first time a few years ago. I had in my mind images that were already commonly known, some that were even iconic and others of certain famous people who had lived in the city. I

It started as a way to pass some time. As a young mother back in the 1990s, Frances Kansteiner logged many an afternoon hour outside her little girl’s gymnastics studio. Noticing another mother knitting while they waited for the classes to end, Kanst

When Elizabeth Barlow Rogers walks to the windows of her New York apartment, she takes in the full panorama of Central Park. What she sees from her vantage point is an 843-acre work of art, more so even than a natural creation. She points to distant

Rarely does a painter of such striking talent and originality choose to keep her most imaginative artworks out of public view, and even stipulate in her will that her paintings should remain private until twenty years after her death. Hilma af Klint

I love walking through Naples, particularly Spacca Napoli, the true center of the old city. I often venture to an area just off San Gregorio Armeno, where one little shop after another sells the elements that make up the famous Neapolitan presepe, th

BELGIAN DESIGNER MAGDA De Smet and her interiors photographer husband, Claude Smekens, split their time between two very different architectures. The successful couple’s elegant town base is a classical city mansion, dating from 1900, in Kortrijk, ne

SO TAKEN WAS designer Barbara Westbrook with her clients’ collection of art and antiques that she contemplated the elements, often well into the night. She sketched, she made notes, she continued to envision ways to integrate and display the treasure

MIMI CAY HAS a favorite designer she always turns to for inspiration and advice. This designer is always inventive and rarely lets her down. Nature is its name. Throughout the many rooms of her Savannah home, situated among groves of oak trees bearde

THE TWO APARTMENTS couldn’t be more different from each other. Back in Paris, American textile designer Lisa Fine’s pied-à-terre had nineteenth-century grace and two separate sitting rooms. Its New York City replacement is made of post-War Sheetrock,

WHILE THE MINARETS and souks of a Moroccan city are not visible from the fifty-eighth-floor perch of this Manhattan apartment, it’s easy to imagine that details of the North African country might come into focus on a clear day. On the streets far bel

THOMAS CALLAWAY HELPED his clients travel back in time. That is not a goal an interior designer is often called upon to achieve, but the Los Angeles–based Callaway managed to honor such a request to invoke the past by creating four related buildings