Home & Garden

There are walk-in closets in Malibu larger than Steven Jones' Laguna Beach home. So when it came time for the designer to decorate his 320-square-foot pied-à-terre overlooking St. Ann's Beach, he treated the space as if he were designing a boat. "Everything had to be very intentional and...

The latest addition to the new cluster of upscale, design-wise shops peppering the heart of Ojai is home and lifestyle boutique DeKor & Co. from Swedish-born interior designer and landscaper Isabelle Dahlin, owner of interiors store DeKor in Echo Park, in partnership with beauty and travel...

Jeff Andrews has been too busy designing high-end home interiors, two of them for celebrities Ryan Seacrest and Kris Jenner, to think about much else over the last 20 years. So it was kismet when wallcovering manufacturer Astek Inc. of Van Nuys invited him to develop his own line of wallpapers.

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Wanda Wen, founder and creative directory of Soolip, the upscale stationery and paper arts studio in West Hollywood, believes gift wrap is a statement of personal style. "It's really an extension of yourself," she says. "People are hyper-aware of the power and importance the attention to...