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.

Buatta’s BLUSH • Aromantic renaissance is afoot, lighting up the latest chintz, trim, and tableware in dusty, delicate pinks that riff on the late designer’s love of power pastels.

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BEAUTIFUL DISCOVERIES

EARLY BLOOMERS • Vivid preludes to spring’s abundance, flowering branches stretch and sway skyward in three wild arrangements.

SPEAKING Their LANGUAGE • What is Veere’s golden rule for curtains? Does Bunny have a can’t-miss neutral? Here, an A-to-Z guide to top designers’ secret weapons and time-tested tips for a well-decorated home.

Trimmed in TRADITION • A surge of new passementerie—from caterpillar trim to hand-tied tassels—signals a return to rich embellishment.

2025 NEXT LEGENDS The BOLD and the BRILLIANT • Five indie design ateliers are cutting an innovative path for tomorrow’s jewels, from novel geometries to 3D-printed botanicals.

Rainbow CONFECTIONS • In gumdrop-like cabochons and playful faceted gems, a wave of bright baubles sizzle in candy hues, thawing winter’s chill.

WANDERLUST & JOURNEYS

Palm DYNASTY • PALM BEACH HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER OF POSH, but now its design lure has the luxury world buzzing louder than ever. With the BOOM IN DESIGN EVERYTHING—from shops to events to contemporary arts—could the SIZZLING ISLAND PLAYGROUND get any hotter?

Masterpiece Theater • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin studio comes roaring back with the restoration of his concert hall and its fabled handsewn curtain.

THE PATTERN MAKERS • IN WEST LONDON, A HISTORIC WALLPAPER FACTORY STIRS TO LIFE, INVITING DESIGN DEVOTEES TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARTS AND CRAFTS TITANS.

HOUSES & GARDENS

Outside Voices • Art and nature converge in Ann and David Sutherland’s Dallas home, where one-of a-kind furnishings and objects speak freely with the garden.

PATTERNS of NATURE • Fresh off the opening of her New York showroom, Texan Meredith Ellis brightens her Lenox Hill pied-à-terre in ultra-personal motifs and juiced-up color.

LAKESIDE Reverie • On Alabama’s Lake Martin, Bobby McAlpine and Blake Weeks mix this and that—fairy tales, Japanese techniques, Nordic mythology, and Gothic elements—to cast a soulful artists’ hideaway.

MR. WATSON’S OPUS • In his Upper West Side flat, Marshall Watson composes a symphony of exquisite blues, harmonizing lustrous textiles with auction finds and ancestral heirlooms.

FARM TO FABLE • Brooke and Steve Giannetti cultivate a storybook homestead in Tennessee, remodeling a circa-1850 log cabin as a warm centerpiece of a slower, more connected next chapter.

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