Veranda

VERANDA is a forum for the very best in living well. Always gracious, and never pretentious, we keep readers abreast of the finest in design, decorating, luxury travel, and more, inspiring them with beauty and elegance. VERANDA is both an ideas showcase and a deeply pleasurable escape, a place where homes feel as good as they look.

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Preserving Our Future

Editor’s Bookshelf • FIVE BOOKS ON CHIC HOUSES WITH HISTORY

OBJECTS & ARTIFACTS

REVERIES of HOME • How are we shaped by our earliest environments? Three design visionaries share the enduring imprints of significant childhood spaces, recreated as memory-inspired tableaux.

Pure Deco THEATER • CALL IT THE GREAT REGILDING: TOP MAKERS CHANNEL EARLY 20TH-CENTURY PARIS WITH ULTRAFINE MATERIALS AND FUTURISTIC FORMS.

INTO THE Wee HOURS • Stylesetting titans from Cartier to Dior answer the call for understated, Audrey-esque elegance with feminine timepieces in slimmed-down silhouettes.

Monumental GEMS • High jewelry gazes skyward to Italy’s architectural giants, echoing landmark designs in the latest sautoirs, earrings, and bracelets.

ART & CRAFT

SAVIORS of the LOST ARTS • From France and Italy to the Southern U.S., these workshops are rescuing rare and significant handcrafts from disappearing into history.

Preservation RISING • A new guard of creatives is blowing the dust off the long-buried legacies of forgotten architects, gardeners, and artists with innovative retellings of stories from the past.

Mr. SMITH Goes to PARIS • Writer Andrew Ferren tags along with MICHAEL S. SMITH on an eight-hour tour of the City of Light as the celebrated designer stakes out Russian wall hangings, cast glass lighting, and epic boiserie.

FLOWERS & GARDENS

WITHIN THESE CASTLE WALLS • Angus and Zara Gordon Lennox trade noble-born conventions for gardeners’ hours to bring an eight-acre Scottish plot back to glorious bounty.

PAST PERFECT • Photographer Kreetta Järvenpää composes painterly arrangements that celebrate the full life cycle of flowers, from seeds to wilting blooms.

The LAND LISTENER • With equal parts sensitivity and ingenuity, visionary landscape architect Thomas Woltz brings a narrative arc—and occasionally a bridge—to preserving the South’s public lands.

ARCHITECTURE & DECORATION

BRIGHT Young THINGS • In Virginia, Bunny Mellon’s private gallery springs back to life as an exuberantly decorated home for a preservation-minded family and their animated cast of

PIED-À-TOWER • Grecian fluting, glinting metalwork, and eye-popping modern art: A 1901 seven-story townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side rediscovers its true north at the hands of Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller.

Viva il Paradiso • Mary McDonald embarks on a gentle reawakening of an architectural triumph in Palm Beach, marrying muted tones with 1920s Mediterranean mastery.

GEORGIAN QUEEN • In Charleston’s South of Broad neighborhood, designers Thomas Jayne and William Cullum turn a prominent 18th-century landmark into a warm family haven.

The Sourcebook

ILLUMINATING an ICON • A novel exhibition of Ruby Ross Wood’s last surviving work revives the designer’s legacy of taste, talent, and bucking societal norms.