Visits: 26 A special-edition Bovet timepiece celebrates the history and future of the Old War Office building, which now contains residences, a hotel and more. There is a bit of collaboration fatigue in the Swiss watch world these days, but …
Alice Mason, Real Estate Fixer and Hostess to the Elite, Dies at 100
Visits: 24 She was the queen of Manhattan real estate when power brokers jockeyed for places in stately co-op buildings. Her dinners for them made the gossip columns. Alice Mason, a real estate broker and hostess whose talent at social …
Townhouses Took Off in December, and Neighbors Filed a Rare Joint Listing
Visits: 31 Two townhouses in the West Village, one owned by the producer Scott Rudin, are listed together at $37.5 million. They could be combined into a 40-foot-wide mansion. Manhattan townhouses took center stage in December, with several big sales …
What Is It About Montecito?
Visits: 38 Are there Americans who don’t have fantasies about a better life in California? About gold in the rivers, giant fruit in the yards and a hardcore, neon sunset every single night? The collective westward yearn is endlessly evolving …
When the Neighbors Don’t Share Your Vision (and That Vision Involves ‘Transformers’ Statues)
Visits: 31 A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased. The thing about putting a pair of 10-foot statues of metal-hewn Transformers outside your townhouse in the …
What Makes a Room Unforgettable?
Visits: 28 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Ace Hotel New York. The Chicago Athletic Association. The NoMad hotel in London. Goop’s store in Los Angeles. The Reykjavik Edition hotel, in Iceland. The Boom Boom Room. These are all some …
Home at Last in the Wind, Rain and Isolation of the North Sea Coast
Visits: 99 A writer escapes the usual expectations by leaving the city for a house of her own in rural Denmark. At one point there were geese. But before the geese came, I stood in the garden. Storm season, December …
In Montauk, Big Money Moves In On a Surfers’ Paradise
Visits: 29 MONTAUK, N.Y. — Ditch Plains Beach is the heart of the surf scene in Montauk, a two-mile stretch of dunes and sea at the tip of Long Island’s East End with views of sand cliffs to the east …
Don’t Call It a Swimming Pool
Visits: 22 Plunge pools have become an alternative for homeowners who want a simple, less expensive way to cool off. When Amy Holland bought her house in Austin, Texas, in 2020, she and her husband knew they wanted to have …
We’re Not Asking for the Moon
Visits: 24 “A lot of us were raised with this mentality of, ‘Find your passion, be happy, the money will follow.’” “I’m in a good place right now, but it probably won’t last.” We Aren’t “I’m confident I’m going to …