Luxe Interiors + Design

Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year 2025 is Cinnamon Slate 2113-40, a mix of heathered plum and velvety brown, that strives to embody the "home sweet home" sentiment. This nuanced hue takes center stage following years of more saturated colors, offering a more subdued tone that embraces the softness of everyday life.

Interior Design Brian Paquette, Brian Paquette Interiors and Elizabeth Wenning, MN Custom Homes

Suzanne Lovell is a storyteller, although not in the traditional sense. Her narrative isn’t oral or written but, rather, architectural. This was the approach she used when renovating an amoeba-shaped Naples penthouse with sweeping oceanfront vistas. “The architectural language had to play together throughout the home,” the residential designer explains. The main plotline, she adds, is “all about the views.”

Architecture Carlina T. Arronte, ArTchitecture Associates Inc.

Custom sofas from The Future Perfect upholstered in Kettlewell Collection plaids anchor the living room. The vintage stool and marble-and-walnut coffee table are 1stdibs finds, while the rug is from Lawrence of La Brea. Sliding doors connect out to the verand

Architecture Robert Sinclair, Sinclair Associates Architects Inc.

Suddenly, Greenville, South Carolina, seems to be the city on everyone’s lips. But its recent surge in popularity certainly didn’t happen overnight. Nurtured over decades of careful urban planning, the city’s downtown has steadily revitalized, inviting boutiques, art galleries and eateries into the industrial vestiges of its textile-industry past. Today, Main Street fizzes with activity on dining patios, walking trails and the gracefully engineered single-suspension pedestrian Liberty Bridge, all embracing the master-planned Falls Park at the city’s heart.

Passing through the gold-leaf entry of Le Colonial, it's as if you’ve stepped into a glamorous, bygone era. The famed French-Vietnamese restaurant now has a prime location on Naples'5th Avenue South, with a dream-team collaboration between Chicago architecture and design firm Knauer Inc, Connecticut firm DF Creative Designs and Swedish artist Jonas Wickman.

Architecture: Richard Landry and Suzanne Evans Shepela, Landry Design Group

Overlooking Naples Bay, the property’s many outdoor amenities include a vanishing-edge pool with fountains as well as a waterside fire pit, surrounded by Summer Classics’ Bentley woven swivel rocker lounge chairs. The home’s exterior is painted Sherwin-Williams’ Shoji White.