Summer 2023 Issue
Here’s a Striking Harborfront Three-Bedroom in Marblehead
Creative director Kristine Irving helps a couple create a timeless, well-edited waterfront home.
Feature
A Much-Beloved Nantucket Summer House Comes into Its Own
Mona Ross Berman gives a sprawling, several-acre island abode the gut renovation it deserves.
R + D Studio Builds a Martha’s Vineyard Home into a Huckleberry Hillside
The design firm installs a West Tisbury house where its property owner picked fruit as a child.
A Weston Home for a Young Couple’s Growing Family (and Car Collection)
LDa Architecture & Interiors crafted a suburban house with a more contemporary sensibility for two young professionals.
Interior Designer Kerri Pilchik Gives a Chestnut Hill Home Colorfully Balanced Character
To reflect the family of four who inhabits it, a new house is fine-tuned with boldness, pattern, and personality.
Department
Pawtucket Artist Tracy Glover Crafts Glass Fixtures for a Global Clientele
The Rhode Island School of Design alum turns glass into functional art in a Blackstone River antique mill.
What It’s Like to Live at the St. Regis in Boston
The luxury chain’s first market-rate, residential-only homes opened in The Seaport in November 2022.
Maggie Gold Seelig’s Family Heirloom
A leather sofa from her father’s office brings the Cambridge-based real estate broker comfort now.
Faraway Martha’s Vineyard Opens, Pays Tribute to Island Flora
An Edgartown icon is revived as a luxuriously laid-back garden party.
A Father-Daughter Birdhouse Biz Grows in Boston
How one local architect created a birdhouse design workshop, inspiring lessons about craft, carpentry, and entrepreneurship.
Other
Four Art and Design Books for Your Summer 2023 Reading List
A peek into Newport cottages, Hopper heads to Cape Ann, and a guide to seaside soirees.
This Arlington Artist Paints What She Gardens
Mara Callahan cultivates her garden and her creative side to glorious results.
City Journal
A Primer on Boston’s Victorian-Era Buildings
More than 350 years of domestic architecture helps tell the story of the city’s evolution.
Home Design
Suite Dreams
Liz Caan designs a guest retreat that’s so well adorned visitors may never want to leave.
This Wellesley Tudor Is a Home Entertaining Dream
Two married dentists tap architect Jacob Lilley to turn their stately brick home into a fun-but-traditional social hub.
A Waterfront Eastie Condo Comes to Life
Interior designer Trevor Fulmer gives a luxury East Boston unit a makeover as bold as its empty-nesting owner.
A Beacon Hill Condo’s Unfussy Yet Sophisticated Design
An understated scheme and a roof deck filled with foliage are the key ingredients in a traditional-turned-clean-lined condo in Beacon Hill.
Restaurants
How Wolf in Sheep Design Brought Cambridge’s Moëca to Life
For the Shepard Street spot, the interior architecture firm paid subtle homage to the sea.