In MILIEU, every story captures the look and feel, the mood and character, the style of a place—its milieu. The milieu that defines a beautiful home or garden, the places to which we travel, the art and culture we experience, the creative people who

DIDIER GOMEZ STARTED playing piano at the age of four, and still practices for three hours every day. “Music is very important to me—it’s part of my life,” says the interior designer, whose ebony baby grand anchors the living room of the Paris apartm

New York’s Hudson River Valley, my home for decades, has become a destination and a brand as hip as Brooklyn. Just 90 minutes north of New York City, visitors here enjoy excellent hiking, shopping, inns, museums, and historic sites, though much of th

WHEN THE CURRENT owners purchased this charming 1937 Tudor-inspired bungalow in the historic Pemberton Heights neighborhood of Austin, their plan was to give the residence a simple cosmetic makeover to make it more comfortable for their growing famil

It’s no guarantee that a personal passion can elicit a universal admiration, but such is the case with the collection of British artist Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017). Over the course of 60 years, Hodgkin formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawi

One of Anna Karlin’s favorite materials for her designs is light. She sees that intangible source of energy as something to shape—and as one that also has the ability to shape the objects in which it is contained. “I think of all of my lighting fixtu

Since it was first published in 2001, Rose Tarlow’s The Private House has developed a cult following among collectors of interior design books—despite the fact that its author doesn’t even think of herself as a decorator. “I don’t really do a lot of

STÉPHANE OLIVIER, A NOTED Parisbased antiques dealer and interior designer, had been looking for a refuge in Normandy for a long time. As if it had been waiting for him, he found a house in the heart of the region’s Pays d’Auge, near the town of Lisi

For centuries, paper and wheat paste have been used to adorn walls from palaces to cottages, adding color and pattern with decorative wallpaper. Casa Gusto has taken those same ingredients—paper pulp, wheat flour, and water—to create a revolutionary

Paolo Moschino, Philip Vergeylen, and Bunny Williams all cite their longtime friendship as the basis for their successful business partnership. In speaking of the newly forged collaboration between Paolo Moschino Ltd and Bunny Williams Home, Moschino

Camille Albertine makes it possible for a woman to carry a bouquet of flowers that never wilts. As a maker of handbags that assume the shapes of bouquets and hearts and pillboxes, her bestseller remains a grouping of stemmed roses seemingly wrapped i

RANDY HELLER begins every design project by asking the client to select a favorite object they feel they can’t live without. “I then work the entire project around that single thing,” says Heller from her home in Highland Park, Illinois, a bucolic la

Cheers to MILIEU on its 10th anniversary! Robin Rains, one of America’s most talented interior designers and antiques dealers, generously hosted a Champagne toast for the publication at her namesake showroom and design studio located in the Nashville

It’s possible to go around the globe upon visiting the Holland MacRae showroom in Atlanta, for on display and for sale there is a collection of 20 handcrafted original furnishings by interior designer Clinton Smith that reveal his worldly travels. Ea

In January, the 34th Annual Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville opened its doors to design, antiques, and garden enthusiasts from around the country. The show floor, a myriad of vendor booths and installations of greenhouses and living gardens, broug

Michael Boyd not only knows design history, he’s lived it. Years ago, Boyd and his wife purchased Paul Rudolph’s Modernist masterpiece of a house in New York. Now, the couple lives in the only Oscar Niemeyer house in America, in Santa Monica. And whi

JUST AS THE WALLS WERE coming down inside her Houston home and the floor plan was being reconfigured, Cynthia Davis and her architect husband, Issac Preminger, wrote out their individual wish lists. “When you remodel your house with your husband, who

Among gardeners, it’s the equivalent of an Oscar, or, this being France, a César, that is, being recognized by the French Ministry of Culture for having grown and nurtured a natural locale sufficiently spectacular to earn the Jardin Remarquable desig

Inhee Ma spends her days in a constant dialogue. Every time she begins the process of sculpting a ceramic and firing it in her studio in Bourgogne, France, she enters into a conversation between craftsmanship, art, and nature. “My work is centered ar

In 1889, when Lilian Rice was born in National City (San Diego County), her mother and father had been in California for only nine years. The enormous success on the Pacific Coast enjoyed by Mrs. Rice’s uncle, Elizur Steele, a real estate developer a

LIKE MANY SEASONED DESIGNERS, Sarah Vanrenen sees things that others do not. She’s able to imagine an empty room or the ruinous exterior of a house or an overgrown backyard in a finished—and glorious—state. And she is able to realize that vision to c

With brilliant hues, simplified forms, and broad, thin washes of color, Mark Rothko’s immersive abstract paintings convey the impression of a shallow pictorial space while engulfing the viewer in energetic, expansive emotional swells. Vastly outnumbe

IT WAS THE HOUSE IN TOWN THAT no one seemed to want. Not because it lacked curb appeal or was in the wrong neighborhood, but simply because it was actually hard to see, inside and out. “Everything was brown, brown, brown,” says interior designer Rich

MILIEU celebrated its 10th Anniversary at Atlanta Decorative Arts Center’s DISCOVER ADAC Fall Market 2023 with two interior designers who have been featured in the pages of MILIEU—Michael Del Piero, of Michael Del Piero Good Design, based in Chicago

SEATTLE’S MONTLAKE neighborhood is both a crossroads and a sanctuary, where tree-lined streets offer a calming corrective to the hustle and bustle of the city center a few miles away. Having strolled the neighborhood for nearly a decade, a couple wit

In Umbria, fortified castle keeps are as common as Fiats. The building of castles seems to have been a habit of those papal states that girdled the areas of Lazio, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria, and it’s lucky for us such a habit gained momentum