Adele Cygelman

There is no perfect science to hiring someone who is going to become intimately involved in every aspect of your home and life. In most cases, you will work and collaborate with this person for at least a year, and longer on larger and more complex projects. Consider the fact that you will be making […]

Yellowstone Club Few golf courses present the opportunity to stand on the side of a mountain, at an elevation of 7,500 feet, and tee off across a canyon while praying that your ball sticks on an infinity-edge green. This may explain why Hank Kashiwa, the affable vice president of marketing at the Yellowstone Club, will […]

Solstice   In what went down as the year of the great shake-up in the destination club industry, one major player, Tanner & Haley, filed for bankruptcy, while other top clubs scrambled to consolidate their holdings. Solstice was no exception: Last year, the three-year-old company merged with newcomer Parallel to bolster its property portfolio and […]

When Carl D’Aquino and Francine Monaco joined forces seven years ago, the New York duo began offering a boutique approach to the entire architecture and design process. D’Aquino trained as an architect but, he says, he “made a left turn 20 years ago into interior design because I found it more fulfilling.” Monaco, who also […]

Every great estate deserves an equally grand garden. To this end, Robert Truskowski, over the course of his 34-year career, has created formal gardens in the South of France and tropical sanctuaries on Mustique. The landscape architect has floated king palms down Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway, trucked in 40-foot conifers to a Lake Tahoe property to […]

Greg Jordan The designer as evangelist.   His mother worked for an architect, and his grandfather had owned a construction company, so Greg Jordan grew up drafting room plans and visiting job sites. But a career as an interior designer was the last thing on his mind; his ambition was to be president. “It wasn’t […]

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen The art and craft of architecture.   There is a certain spirit to the Pacific Northwest—a reverence for the natural environment, an appreciation of light that shades from white to gray—that has inspired a handful of architects to produce some exquisitely understated, site-specific homes. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen has flourished by […]

A bathroom can be a sanctuary, but it can still be dynamic,” says Bruce T. Linthicum, design director/residential of Marc-Michaels Interior Design. The Florida firm was called to Pennsyl-vania for a client who is a practicing Buddhist and who is establishing wellness centers across the country that integrate Eastern and Western medical practices and holistic […]

Troy Adams of Studio Becker is best known for his fusion kitchen designs that bring together influences from the East and West. But he agreed to collaborate with a German manufacturer to produce an updated version of the traditional kitchen. “It has all the traditional English elements: a cooking alcove, a mantel with shelves and […]

Sparkling turquoise water, steep cliffs, rosemary swaying in the breeze. If this sounds like a scene from Italy’s Amalfi Coast, it is, just bottled and exported directly to Southern California. Rick Silver had spent nine magical summers vacationing in Positano and on the isle of Capri. When he found the oceanfront property overlooking Crescent Bay […]