Andrew Sessa

The fashion house’s former curator of antiques and vintage now uses her discerning eye to help clients create high-style homes that combine subtle playfulness with restrained elegance.

Carol Kurth designs a guesthouse that channels both the main residence and the lakefront surroundings.

Husband and wife George Kypreos and Shana Sherwood reinvented a Mission-style home in the city’s Hancock Park neighborhood for Sherwood’s sister, brother-in-law and their two young children.

With white-sand beaches, great snorkeling, and a 70-foot infinity pool, Lovango Resort & Beach Club is the perfect mix of deserted island seclusion and full-service beach resort hotel.

Old-fashioned coastal New England at its finest

It's not just hurricane damage that has kept Caneel Bay, Laurance Rockefeller's storied St. John resort, closed for years.

A St. Thomas hideaway with a fresh redesign

The architect brought a subtle modern-classic style and a more approachable scale to a sprawling family home.

In some of the island’s most charming new hotels, you can still find summer rooms for less than $400.

On a reunion trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Andrew Sessa and his architect brother find surprises—and a surprising sense of familiarity—inside the building’s iconic walls.

A toddler dad replaces a canceled, kid-free trip with a break to a child-friendly all-inclusive — and discovers how to have a real vacation along the way

Whether you’re trying to persuade grown-up kids to spend more time at the family home, or looking for an upgrade from your childhood room when visiting the folks, the answer’s the same. Welcome to the new vacation compound.

A designer and her repeat clients speak the same language when it comes to comfort and sophistication.

This relaxed Massachusetts beach house, designed for repeat clients, impresses with tactile materials, sculptural vintage finds and a surprisingly neutral color scheme.

Designer Wesley Moon assumed stewardship of a much-loved 1980s postmodern-style seaside home, updating it for a new era