You've Got Malle

I fell in love with French perfumer Frederic Malle's New York apartment the moment I saw it featured in Men's Vogue back in February 2008.  The dining room above is one of my all time favorite rooms.  It epitomizes the perfect mix of sleek and modern in the form of the Platner table and Sean Yoo bookcases juxtaposed with the patina of old with the antique French chairs and Veronese painting.  In

You've Got Malle

I fell in love with French perfumer Frederic Malle's New York apartment the moment I saw it featured in Men's Vogue back in February 2008.  The dining room above is one of my all time favorite rooms.  It epitomizes the perfect mix of sleek and modern in the form of the Platner table and Sean Yoo bookcases juxtaposed with the patina of old with the antique French chairs and Veronese painting.  In

Celebrity homes: Diane Keaton's Beverly Hills Home

THE ACTRESS’S PASSION FOR ART AND DESIGN ARE ON DISPLAY IN HER BEVERLY HILLS RESIDENCE

Who says opportunity knocks only once? Not Diane Keaton, who ignored it once, then grabbed it with both hands when she again heard it tapping on her door. Opportunity in this case was not a choice part in a movie but something that was just as important to a woman whose passion is restoring old California homes: a Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills with a beautifully proportioned interior courtyard. She actually bought the house when it first came on the market at the beginning of the decade, but she backed out during escrow and let another buyer take it. “It needed a lot of work,” she explains, “and I got cold feet.” When it went up for sale again two years ago, she bought it a second time—this time for keeps. Read the rest of the article in Architectural Digest.

Celebrity homes: Diane Keaton's Beverly Hills Home

THE ACTRESS’S PASSION FOR ART AND DESIGN ARE ON DISPLAY IN HER BEVERLY HILLS RESIDENCE

Who says opportunity knocks only once? Not Diane Keaton, who ignored it once, then grabbed it with both hands when she again heard it tapping on her door. Opportunity in this case was not a choice part in a movie but something that was just as important to a woman whose passion is restoring old California homes: a Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills with a beautifully proportioned interior courtyard. She actually bought the house when it first came on the market at the beginning of the decade, but she backed out during escrow and let another buyer take it. “It needed a lot of work,” she explains, “and I got cold feet.” When it went up for sale again two years ago, she bought it a second time—this time for keeps. Read the rest of the article in Architectural Digest.

If I won the lottery...

I MIGHT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THIS TRADITIONAL MANSION ON LAKE MICHIGAN...

Or I might just live in the pool house...

Photography by Peter Aaron/Estol

Architecture by Robert A. M. Stern Architects/Interior Design by Victoria Hagan Interior

READ THE ARTICLE IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.

If I won the lottery...

I MIGHT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THIS TRADITIONAL MANSION ON LAKE MICHIGAN...

Or I might just live in the pool house...

Photography by Peter Aaron/Estol

Architecture by Robert A. M. Stern Architects/Interior Design by Victoria Hagan Interior

READ THE ARTICLE IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.