Brooke Astor in her New York apartment in 1997. Photo: Annie Leibovitz Last week, Sotheby's sale of Mrs. Vincent Astor's es...

The exterior of R. Louis Bofferding's shop in New York City, executed by French artist Pierre Le-Tan. To read my take on the new w...

(Left to right) Dressed as a Chinese emperor and his court, Alexis de Redé, Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, his wife, Patricia, and interior dec...

Uplights highlight Egyptian artifacts in a Miami living room by Louis M. Bromante from the May 1982 issue of AD. Photo: Dan Forer Up...

Baroness Philippe de Rothschild in the garden of her Paris apartment, 1969. Image by Horst P. Horst for Vogue. One of my longtime desi...

Though I've been away from this address for several months, the virtual cards and letters keep coming in—and most of them ask, ...