Boston Home Issue
Best of Boston Home 2024
Drumroll, please! Here is the best of the best, the most discerning architects, builders, designers, craftspeople, and retailers around the city and beyond.
A Hollywood Regency-Styled Kitchen Takes Shape in Medford
The inventor of the soda fountain, A.D. Puffer, used to live here.
Here’s a Striking Harborfront Three-Bedroom in Marblehead
Creative director Kristine Irving helps a couple create a timeless, well-edited waterfront home.
Feature
The Next Phase
A home with great bones is reimagined to suit the laid-back lifestyle of its new residents.
Personal Space
Inimitable art, bold furnishings, and meaningful custom details transform a couple’s Concord home into a one-of-a-kind sanctuary.
Inside a Local Gem Designer’s Jewel Box Home
Interior designer Elizabeth Georgantas turned a blank slate outside of Boston into a sparkling showcase, using finely honed elements of drama and surprise.
Glorious Revival
A long-neglected grand residence in Chestnut Hill regains its luster for a family’s homecoming.
Best Kept Secret
Reserved and compact from the front, the renovated form of a 19th-century Bay Village row house is gradually revealed as one travels through the home.
The Long View
It took a decade for a dream house to come together, but it was worth the wait.
A Dated Kitchen Gets a Colorful Modern Revamp in Marion
The social focal point of an antique shingle-style home gets a gut renovation, courtesy of Rhode Island’s Digs Design.
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.
Department
Castle by the Sea
In coastal Maine, a historic inn’s original character shines with just the right amount of contemporary detail.
Re-Formed for the Future
When a new sculptural stairwell replaces a space-consuming relic, an 1892 row house in the South End is readied for its next century.
The White Elephant Nantucket Gets a Lovely Centennial Redesign
The 100-year-old institution unveils a deeply considered refresh inspired by the island’s singular splendor.
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.
Arts + Entertainment
Extra-Ordinary
Helena Wurzel celebrates female friendships, raising children, and the changing seasons of New England in paintings that present self-assured subjects going about their days.
Green With Envy
This enchanting emerald and other spectacular gems will soon be on view at the MFA Boston.
Other
Extra-Ordinary
Helena Wurzel celebrates female friendships, raising children, and the changing seasons of New England in paintings that present self-assured subjects going about their days.
Three Art and Design Books for Your Winter Reading List
Designing diplomatic reception rooms, Hunt Slonem’s homes, and Yves Saint Laurent goes gold.
The Mystical Brilliance of Maine Photographer Cig Harvey
“I make pictures of things that make me gasp,” the New England artist says.
Three Art and Design Books for Your Fall 2023 Reading List
Transforming the common kitchen, celebrating a century of Avedon, and Nina Farmer’s enduring interiors.
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.
Home Design
Castle by the Sea
In coastal Maine, a historic inn’s original character shines with just the right amount of contemporary detail.
The Next Phase
A home with great bones is reimagined to suit the laid-back lifestyle of its new residents.
What’s in Store
Lee Jofa’s legacy collection and Cosentino, a gleaming new showroom specializing in surfaces.
Breaking With Tradition
O & G Studio modernizes New England historical craft to elevate the art form.
Green With Envy
This enchanting emerald and other spectacular gems will soon be on view at the MFA Boston.
Artfully Floored
A creative partnership between Landry & Arcari and Vani Sayeed results in an inspiring rug collection.
Kids Incorporated
A new Brookline home includes an airy, all-purpose study and play space that also disappears.
Moving Up
Shake Architecture + Construction rehabs a chopped-up Charlestown townhouse, creating an interconnected oasis.
Personal Space
Inimitable art, bold furnishings, and meaningful custom details transform a couple’s Concord home into a one-of-a-kind sanctuary.
Inside Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Former Brookline Residence
This renovated home stays true to its origins while accommodating its present-day inhabitants.
Roweam, a Luxury Furniture Brand, Launches in Rhode Island
Rhode Island designer Blair Moore introduces a line of heirloom-quality pieces with a little East Coast grit.
Inside a Local Gem Designer’s Jewel Box Home
Interior designer Elizabeth Georgantas turned a blank slate outside of Boston into a sparkling showcase, using finely honed elements of drama and surprise.
Best of Boston Home 2024
Drumroll, please! Here is the best of the best, the most discerning architects, builders, designers, craftspeople, and retailers around the city and beyond.
Habitat: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
How do you make a new-construction home in the Boston suburbs stand out from the crowd? Bring the drama.
In Focus
Designer Annie Hall fearlessly blends form and function in a living room where local artwork is the star.
Natural Selection
Using raw materials, Merida weaves time-honored skills with modern techniques to create its art-inspired, sustainable rugs out of a Fall River factory.
What’s in Store
A modern original is celebrated and a Beacon Hill boutique with one-of-a-kind wares.
Two-Part Harmony
Designer Justine Sterling improves flow, adds aesthetic interest, and creates cohesion in the dining room and adjacent foyer of a family’s spacious Victorian.
Joint Effort
Two savvy design firms strive to transform an 1840s Greek Revival into a 21st-century abode.
Best Kept Secret
Reserved and compact from the front, the renovated form of a 19th-century Bay Village row house is gradually revealed as one travels through the home.
See the Art-Driven Redesign of a Business Exec’s South End Triplex
Daher Interior Design complements a client’s art collection with furnishings that stand strong.
A Victorian Back Bay Kitchen Is Reimagined with Dramatic Flair
A theater actor and his partner get a showstopping space for entertaining.
Garden of Delight
The vibrant South End patio of eponymous boutique owner Elisha Daniels is an oasis that brings joy and replenishment.
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.
Fashion + Style
Inside a Local Gem Designer’s Jewel Box Home
Interior designer Elizabeth Georgantas turned a blank slate outside of Boston into a sparkling showcase, using finely honed elements of drama and surprise.
Restaurants
Design Master Ken Fulk Grandly Reimagines a New Restaurant for the Four Seasons Hotel
For Coterie, the former Boston resident pays posh tribute to the Public Garden.
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.