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Residences and estates considered through architecture, landscape and the lives they accommodate. Historic houses, contemporary homes and the responsibility of keeping a place.
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Listed at $3.3 million in February, the Charles Du Bois house in Vista Las Palmas long linked to Marilyn Monroe sold in October for about $2.8 million, to a local designer who intends to restore it.
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On a narrow arc of islands in Biscayne Bay, the scarcest asset in Miami is not the house but the land beneath it. A record $170 million sale on Indian Creek shows how far the top of the market has drifted from the rest.
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From Via Borgonuovo in Milan to the lava-stone dammusi of Pantelleria, the Engadine, Saint-Tropez and Antigua, the houses Giorgio Armani gathered over a lifetime, and where they stand a year after his death.
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Villa Laubenò, in Gressoney-Saint-Jean in the Aosta Valley, stood in for the Gucci family's Swiss retreat in Ridley Scott's film. Eleven bedrooms, views of Monte Rosa and an asking price of €2.9 million.
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A hotel’s social identity cannot be transferred to a residential tower by name alone. Delano Residences Miami makes that translation its central question: how rooms associated with temporary stays become spaces used repeatedly by a community of residents.
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At Faena Residences Miami, the uppermost homes are organised around more than a high view. The collection of Sky Villas, Sky Lofts and penthouses treats outdoor space as a substantial part of the residence, with terraces that can function as another set of rooms.
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A residential project can carry a fashion name without revealing much about the place beneath it. Aroeira Collections by Missoni offers a more specific starting point: a pine landscape south of Lisbon, Portuguese furniture and low buildings that bring daylight into the plan.
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A hotel brand takes on a different responsibility when the guest becomes a resident. At Four Seasons Private Residences Abu Dhabi at Saadiyat Beach, the proposed service is attached to a permanent residential community, not to apartments sitting above an operating hotel.