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Editor’s Letter

ULTRA-FEMME DESK LIGHTING • SABRINA LANDINI’S FIGURAL TABLE LAMP CASTS A GLOW ON LADYLIKE FORMS.

Network Stars • Caning’s epic resurgence draws two stalwart patterns—the open mesh design favored by Thonet and Billy Baldwin and Jean-Michel Frank’s “radio” matrix—back to the fore, weaving a chic grid across generations.

Wild-Card Botanicals • A new Arts & Crafts movement is afoot, arriving in Technicolor as designers retrofit century-old patterns for a vivid, natural-world awakening.

POWER HOUR • The petite timepieces that governed Grandmother’s bridge games are back, this time with intrepid bracelets that belie their dainty silhouettes. (Serpentine yellow gold scaling? That surely would have run the table.)

Sweden’s Magic Carpets

CITRUS REIGN • The jubilant fruits exalted in ancient Rome and elevated further in European orangeries reclaim rank in overscale fabrics, papier-mâché, and more.

SCALING UP • The ultimate beastly treasure: Cartier’s iconic crocodile collier, originally made for Mexican actress María Félix, returns in sinuous abstract headed by a single 54-carat Zambian emerald.

Now Serving the Classics • Treasured textile motifs rise from brilliant backgrounders to stars of the modern setting and make for captivating supper-club repartee.

Above the Curve • Squares, be gone! From feminine upholstery to sculptural consoles, today’s top pieces feature suggestive swirls, arcs, and undulations in all the right places.

HERE COMES THE SUN • Once the height of fashion, yellow rooms fell far from their candlelit, Regency-era grace, particularly as saccharine spaces that reigned in the 1980s began to collect a little too much dust. Recently, though, the classic shade is rising again, most notably as a striking canvas against which other decoration truly shines.

Convivial Brights • Originally developed for candlelight, daring hues of chrome yellow, egg yolk, and limoncello continue to captivate today.

Subdued Earth Tones • Abundant in the ancient natural world, colors like ochre, mustard, and goldenrod prove once and for all that quiet patina can make a strong, enduring style statement.

Comforting Pastels • Tinged with nostalgia, shades of lemon chiffon, corn silk, and buttercream are the ultimate decorative “tuck in”—and these days, who doesn’t need a soft, enveloping room?

Charleston’s Noble Artist • On the heels of his standout “Promiseland” show, Fletcher Williams III opens up to Joy Moyler about creating art in which natural beauty and social dialogue brilliantly collide.

PASSPORT to INDIENNE • How chintz charmed the West and bloomed a British textile classic—plus, a modern return to its roots

DUE WEST • Tracking chintz’s transit from Indus Valley experiment to power player in the Industrial Revolution

PINNING CEREMONY • Having evolved from the humbly utilitarian to the exuberantly decorative, fanciful brooches are enjoying an arresting fashion renaissance. Here, a look at the radiant breastpins, both past and present

CHAMPIONS OF THE BROOCH • Five style luminaries who proudly marched the precious pins through history.

Open-Door Decadence • Four new Southern hotels, four soulful takes on the region’s famed hospitality, each unveiling a warm, wondrous sense of discovery

Tennessee’s Temple of Hope • Restoring Clayborn Temple, once the epicenter of Memphis’s civil rights movement,...