Many of the rooms featured in Met Home are designed around collections of art, which makes perfect sense: People who love design usually love art, and vice versa. In the photo above, a collecting couple installed many pieces of museum-quality art in their Miami condo.

Readers of “I on Design” already know that I am mad about Jimmie Martin, the couture London-based company whose furniture is about as cutting edge as it gets these days.

People who live in modern houses don’t generally go in for clutter. The look is spare, open, uninflected. “Less is more” is decidedly the clarion call of modernism. But one person’s tastefully understated is another’s cold, stark and off-putting.

Last week, I divulged some of my picks for the most iconic modern seats. This week, read on to see the final five unveiled ...

The first chair a human ever sat on was probably a rock. Handy, durable, not very portable, inexpensive. Happily the species evolved a sense of style, which is why the following spectacular chairs exist, making our lives immeasurably better.

So I assume you’ve heard there’s a recession going on. Depressing. And most people are holding tight to their increasingly hard-to-earn greenbacks. So, yes, the major renovation plans are on hold.

Every once in awhile, I am moved to do a little research on an object that has become a style icon, like the “Sputnik”-style chandeliers that used to just come with tract houses back in the day and now show up regularly in midcentury retro spaces and on the p

Everyone has a theme song. Mine is “I Love a Hotel” (sung to the tune of Harold Arlen’s 1931 “I Love a Parade”). In my travel writing days, I passed many a happy hour in haute hotels from Honolulu to Hong Kong.

Like many a big-city apartment dweller, I have bathroom envy. I have a bathroom, of course, but it's strictly by the numbers. Functional.

For years it seemed that every designer under the sun was maximizing each room’s exposure to the sun’s rays by leaving windows starkers.