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A recent trip to Italy – our honeymoon, in fact – brought us on a whim to Palermo, the ancient capital of Sicily, whose deeply layered history can be read …

No one can deny the impact of a stunning and complete interior environment, but I find I derive the greatest inspirations from ruins. It is at the feet of destroyed buildings – …

Something must be said for a nation’s capital where the music hall is larger than any government building, and whose national bank centers around a public sculpture garden. Rekyavik, a city …

For all its couture ostentation, Milan is a city of secret places. Most striking are the hidden moments left for discovery beyond each palazzo gateway: an imposing courtyard, a stunning urban garden oasis, an …

Here’s a little video blogging test run… hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!

I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to design a capsule collection with Quintus this Spring, introduced to the design world this past week in Los Angeles during the Spring …

I’ll keep this one light on text, and let you just take in the images… A quarry visit outside Munich in mid-January this year gave me the opportunity to show …

Mr. Edward Codish, a much admired teacher of mine once began a history class by suggesting that the social rank of Aristocrat (in this context, the nobility of pre-revolutionary France) …

The contrast between this space and John Piermont Morgan’s Library can be found not in material or eloquence of design, but in intentions. Whereas the Morgan Library served to impress …

The magnificent Sainte-Chapelle on Paris’s Ille de la Cite is hailed as one of the greatest works of Gothic architecture. Completed in the mid-Thirteenth Century, it is perhaps most famous …