T's Sept. 23 Design & Luxury Issue

Highlights

From the Director of ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ a New Project: A House
Luca Guadagnino has long dreamed of being an interior designer. Inside a former silk mill on Lake Como, he got his shot.
By Guy Trebay
CreditHenry Bourne
How a Love of Jane Fonda and the Color Pink Created a California Dream House
Perched on a hill planted with fruit trees, one home in Eagle Rock takes the Los Angeles fantasy to new heights.
By Max Lakin
CreditSimon Watson
Once a Summer Camp, Now a Family Home
In the Connecticut wilderness, the Portuguese hotel designer Alexandra Champalimaud has created an unexpected respite.
By Nancy Hass
CreditChristopher Sturman
On Shelter Island, a Pool House as Discreet as Its Environs
Beyond the opulent mansions of the Hamptons, one resident has created an ultraminimalist aerie.
By Kurt Soller
CreditNicholas Calcott

The Architects Who Live Wherever They Work
Zoe Chan Eayrs and Merlin Eayrs inhabit spaces as they renovate them, infusing each room with history and humanity.
By Megan O’Grady
CreditMartin Morrell
This Dublin Block Tells the Story of the City
Lined with outsize Georgian buildings, Henrietta Street has been, over the years, home to both tenement squalor and aristocratic grandeur.
By Gaby Wood
CreditSimon Watson
Does the Cost of Living in New York Spell the End of Its Artistic Life?
Micro-galleries, jury-rigged studios, an old church with a cemetery out back: Real estate has become its own, potentially deal-breaking, creative pursuit.
By John Chiaverina
CreditSean Donnola
Notes on the Culture
These Gay Figure Artists Are Reimagining the Male Gaze
Working largely outside the gallery system, a group of illustrators is reviving the discipline and redefining how queer bodies are represented in art.
By Antwaun Sargent
CreditJohn MacConnell, “Ernie” 2014, watercolor and pen on paper
T’s Design & Luxury Issue: No Room for Compromise
The houses in this issue aren’t meant to appeal to everyone; they were meant to appeal to their owners, and that is why they appealed to us as well.
By Hanya Yanagihara
CreditAndrew Kuo
Letter from the Editor

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The Ancient Art of Marble Painting Gets a 21st-Century Update
Young female artisans are revisiting the age-old craft with new patterns, techniques and modern applications that move the tradition into the world of interior design.
By Leslie Camhi
How One Photographer Is Reinvigorating a Down-and-Out Connecticut Mill Town
Gerald Incandela’s massive studio in Torrington, Conn., has become the cornerstone of a more ambitious project.
By Nancy Hass
The Season’s Fabrics, Animated by Dancers
Vivid jewel tones, retro tropical prints and North African-style patterns come alive in the desert outside Marrakesh.
Turkish Ceramics, Collected by a Textile Designer
Madeline Weinrib spotted an intricately painted blue-and-white vase in Istanbul eight years ago; thus began her obsession with late 20th-century pottery from Kutahya.
By John Wogan and Illustrations by Aurore de La Morinerie
People, Places and Things to Know: Fashion’s Quilt Craze, Gnomes as Art and More
T’s cultural compendium of what’s new.
With Cultivation, Have Oysters Become Too Perfect?
Farmers are perfecting dainty, briny, name-brand products to supply America’s thriving raw bars — making something more predictable out of what was once wild.
By Wyatt Williams
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House Tour | Camp Kent
T visits the summer camp turned retreat designed by Alexandra Champalimaud for her family.
By United Labor
The Exacting Eye of Akris’s Albert Kriemler
He has helmed the house founded by his grandmother for 40 years. Here, he shares his many inspirations with T.
By Lindsay Talbot
Luca Guadagnino’s Décor Debut
He’s known for creating sumptuously layered environments that tell stories themselves. Now he’s applied that same eye to his first interior design commission.
In Fashion: Panda-Dial Watches
This season’s chronographs are inspired by the sporty but elegant midcentury racing style.