An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
By Max Norman and
![A collection of modern art is displayed in the study of Aldo Businaro’s Palladian-style villa, which was purchased by his grandfather in 1924. In the foreground, a pair of leather chairs designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2022/09/19/t-magazine/19tmag-ilpalazzetto-slide-W3NO-copy/19tmag-ilpalazzetto-slide-W3NO-copy-videoLarge.jpg?auto=webp)
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
By Max Norman and
How two designers reinterpreted Casa di Fantasia, Ponti’s perspective-boggling apartment in Milan.
By Laura May Todd and
The tentmaker Guido Toschi brings color and pattern to a 12th-century citadel once occupied by his five great-aunts.
By Nancy Hass and
The writer Skye McAlpine’s apartment, part of a storied palazzo in Venice, is filled with layers of history.
By Gisela Williams and
For New Yorkers, 6 p.m. Is the New 8 p.m.
Why are restaurants in the city filling up at hours that were once unfashionably early?
By Rachel Sugar and
In Malibu, an Inflatable Bungalow for Robert Downey Jr.
The actor’s thin-shell home is at once an aerodynamic oddity and, perhaps, a harbinger of environmentally conscious architecture.
By Nick Haramis and
A Tangier House Is Given New Life, and an Extension
An English creative revived and expanded a once-crumbling Moroccan building next to her family’s ancestral home.
By Nancy Hass and
A Sprawling Connecticut Estate Embraces the Wild
The British landscape designer Dan Pearson has created a uniquely connected ecosystem that dances between cultivation and wilderness.
By Nancy Hass and
The Kashmiri Chef Foraging on Precarious Soil
For Prateek Sadhu, gathering native ingredients in the conflict zone where he grew up is the only way of asserting Kashmir’s tenuous place in the world.
By Ligaya Mishan and
The Optimistic Art of Mary Mattingly
The artist’s work addresses future climate crises while attempting to make the urban environment a better place to live right now.
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An Interior Designer’s Los Angeles Home Is Also Her Laboratory
In renovating her family’s house, Sally Breer moved nearly every wall to create a space that is both modern and kid-friendly.
By Kurt Soller and
Australian Floral Designs That, at Long Last, Embrace Australian Flora
In a land where unique species thrive, local florists are developing a gloriously twisted aesthetic all their own.
By Besha Rodell and
What Does Cultural Appropriation Really Mean?
And as accusations of improper borrowing increase, what is at stake when boundaries of collective identity are crossed?
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Unconventional Urns That Go Beyond Solemnity
Following a period of great loss, how we talk about death has changed — so, too, has the way we think it should look.
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How has Italy remained, for centuries, one of the most innovative places for interiors and architecture?
By Hanya Yanagihara
These timepieces shake off their clichéd 1980s associations.
A new clutch highlights the brand’s signature woven leather.
By Lindsay Talbot
The designer’s new resin screen is a sign of his enduring fascination with the Manhattan skyline.
By Nancy Hass
Both structured and airy, these couture silhouettes take sportswear essentials beyond the stadium.
By Katsu Naito and Jasmine Hassett
This fall’s bags come in sunnier shades.
By David Chow and Maria Santana
A furniture designer and an olive oil purveyor discover a slower pace — and new inspiration.
By Kate Guadagnino and Yiorgos Kordakis
A once seasonal staple goes year-round.
By Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi
Plus: pastoral-patterned knitwear and more from T’s cultural compendium.
In this season’s fashion, there’s nothing hotter than looking like a million bucks.
By Nick Haramis
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