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Trend expert Arren Williams tells us about Arcade, his collection of furniture, rugs and lighting launching in time for fall decorating&lt Take us back to the beginning! What was your starting point for the collection?From a style perspective, it was all about creating a dialogue between my favourite high points of 20th-century design, which are Art Deco, mid-century modern and ’70s style. I wanted the collection to actually feel collected, which hopefully makes it more livable. What’s behind the name? I liked that Arcade is an architectural term, as well as being connected to old-school gamer culture and video arcades....

n The Authentics, the lush coffee table book by photographer Melanie Acevedo and Schumacher creative director Dara Caponigro, Libertine fashion designer Johnson Hartig opines that every room needs five essentials: good table lamps, comfortable chairs, art, colour and pattern. The last two are beautifully and boldly represented in his first collection of wallpaper, fabric and trim for Schumacher. Launched in September, the line includes fearless prints of tigers and dragons alongside daintier toiles — a gleeful clash of classic and unconventional that fans of his clothing brand already know and love. At AnneStarr and Crescendo...  If you’re going to treat...

Working with Studio Shamshiri, Anne Hathaway and spouse Adam Shulmanreinvent a noteworthy Alpine-enlivened escape As one may sensibly expect, the California nation home of Oscar-winning entertainer Anne Hathaway and her significant other, gems fashioner Adam Shulman, has a captivating account. We'd be baffled on the off chance that it didn't. In the backstory they envisioned for their charming 1906 Swiss chalet–style habitation (which was annihilated by a flame in 1917 and revamped), Yves Saint Laurent once possessed the property before executive Wes Anderson moved in and put his own trendy person twee turn on the house. The anecdotal starting point...

Wellies good to go, another age of British scene planners—imaginative, lively, and shockingly youthful—is developing the nurseries of tomorrow hen considerations go to exemplary British nurseries, ravishment rules: Roses tumble, lavender aromas, boxwood edges. That intense Downton Abbeyreverie, upheld by a force of laborers, implies little to a developing band of millennial scene masters. It's a high-season dream that, for some, removes all the joy from plants."One of the most energizing things about a nursery is what's gone," Sam Ovens, a multi-medaled 30-year-old Cornwall-based creator, demands. In his 2014 Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show Tatton Park establishment, "I needed to...

I experienced passionate feelings for the Alentejo, a district in south focal Portugal on the double stark and wonderful, planted with umbrella pines and plug oaks, and graced with a flawless coastline—a sandy, detached shoreline that stretches for miles along the Atlantic. I owe this to my companion Christian Louboutin, who in the spring of 2013 said to me, "Jump on a plane and meet me in Lisbon. I'm going to take you to a mysterious place."From the air terminal we drove south for a few hours, proceeding past the rice fields of Comporta. In the wake of passing the...