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.

CHROME yellow • A favorite hue for both Sir John Soane and Nancy Lancaster, bright, saturated gold illuminates new porcelain, paint, silks, and more.

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What Is a Forever Home?

BEAUTIFUL DISCOVERIES

Blooms Eternal • ACROSS ERAS AND EMPIRES, FIVE HISTORIC FLORAL MOTIFS ENDURE, GRACING NEW FABRICS AND WALLPAPERS IN LARGER-THAN-LIFE PATTERNS THAT SERVE AS NATURAL LINKS BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT.

Perennial Icons • WITH RICH PATTERNING AND CAPTIVATING FORMS, RARE VARIETIES OF PRIZED TULIPS BLOOM ANEW IN ARRANGEMENTS INSPIRED BY DUTCH MASTERS.

Good BONES • Old house hallmarks—plaster moldings, marble mantels, ornamental wood paneling, and more—are fueling a modern crusade for historic craft preservation. Here, eight studios that are restoring and re-creating heirloom decorative details for the houses of tomorrow.

Forces of NATURE • High jewelry maisons create potent expressions of flora and fauna in virtuoso metalwork and breathtaking jewels.

ILLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR • Realism reigns in new trompe l’oeil wallpapers that re-create iconic architectural details, from classic parquet flooring to Coptic fretwork.

MIRROR, MIRROR • With artful bravura, a new Cartier timepiece casts glimmering reflections of its deftly hidden dial.

ENDURING IDYLL • Innovative decking from TimberTech turns outdoor spaces into welcoming living rooms built for a lifetime of leisure.

WANDER LUST & JOURNEYS

SACRED PASSAGES • On three gracefully luxurious ships, contributing editor TRACEY MINKIN explores the rich and revealing nature of river travel—and its intimate entrée to landscapes, cultures, and history.

Crossing the Threshold • What is the future of the AMERICAN HOUSE MUSEUM? Today’s stewards set out to ensure that the nation’s most influential properties thrive in the decades to come.

Mountains PAPER Scissors • A pilgrimage into the Alpine origins of Swiss paper cutting reveals a resurgence of the high craft at the hands of a fresh generation of artists.

HOUSES & GARDENS

GROWING A LEGACY • At Highgrove House, King Charles III has planted the seeds for a future of sustainability and original artistry. But how to preserve the essence of the garden itself? English home furnishings firm Sanderson immortalizes his vision in a new collection of fabrics and wallpapers, created in close collaboration with His Royal Highness’s estate.

GOING for the GUSTO • A Dallas couple topples the notion that later-in-life house revamps must take away, scale back, hush. Here, Miles Redd and David Kaihoi dream up a glamorous fresh start for their International-style home.

SPIRIT of SEVILLE • Sun-baked color meets British textile exuberance in an 18th-century pied-à-terre reimagined by designer Amaro Sánchez de Moya.

GOD SAVE THE Queen Anne • …and other historic neighborhood beauties, advises designer Markham Roberts, who wrote the rules of rescue and restraint in updating them for modern families.

Belle of the Boulevard • Amid a flurry of historic-house teardowns in Nashville, a 1926 Greek Revival rediscovers its vitality at the hands of three local design powerhouses.

The BUILDING STANDS • A Pacific Palisades temple miraculously survived the wildfires that torched much of the surrounding area. With his own residence destroyed, Associate Rabbi Daniel Sher contemplates the meaning of home, the...