Grand residences may fill one with envy, but they can also inspire low-effort, high-impact do-it-yourself projects. Count among them the grandiose Paris mansion, now home to Kuwait’s ambassador to ...

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This Old House: Where would contemporary interior design be without the high-low eclecticism and the shabby chic pioneered by Madeleine Castaing? Castaing, who decorated Jean Cocteau’s home and made ...

Surrealist writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau first showed up on my radar in 2009 while I was researching a book about eccentric French decorator and antiquaire Madeleine Castaing. Her radical ...

Adam Lippes recently moved house, relocating from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn Heights. His mind has been on interiors of late—those of the French interior designer Madeleine Castaing and his own, ...