AMELIA HANDEGAN “I was lucky enough to work on the 1772 William Gibbes house in Charleston, one of our country’s finest Georgian houses. The architecture dictated everything—a lesson in layering details with restraint.”
MARY McDONALD “Malmaison is a riot of decorative inspiration: detailed upholstery, trompe l’oeil, tented rooms, patterned parquet. I could live there now.”
JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT “Portugal’s Villa Serralves is an amazing feat of early minimalism. The interior details are done entirely in plaster, unified in an off-white finish.”
KELLY WEARSTLER “Josef Hoffmann’s Stoclet Palace in Brussels blends simplicity, luxury, and comfort. The dining room—marble mosaics, macassar ebony sideboards, and sharp silhouettes—is a statement of artful living.”
DEBORAH NEVINS “The hall of mirrors at Gustav III’s Pavilion in Haga, Sweden, reflects woodland views from windows on either end, so…