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Though Alex Tieghi-Walker moved to New York less than a year ago, the Welsh curator and collector’s live-in Tribeca gallery, Tiwa Select, has already become one of the downtown set’s most frequented addresses, whether the occasion be an exhibit of self-taught artist Leo Kaspar, a Fashion Week dinner for Nordstrom, or an impromptu after-hours celebration. With a singular eye for folk crafts and found objects, Tieghi-Walker shares his cherished discoveries below
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Though Giampiero Tagliaferri opened his interior design studio less than two years ago, the former Oliver Peoples creative director has already developed a client roster on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to his distinctive talent for marrying West Coast ease with midcentury Italian flourishes. Below, Tagliaferri shares the pieces that he keeps close—from small pleasures to future heirlooms—whether at home in Los Angeles or Milan
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Leave it to Dezso’s Sara Beltrán to elevate a simple seashell to the extraordinary. For nearly 20 years, the thalassophile and jewelry designer—who lives between New York, Jaipur, and Mexico—has stood apart with her one-of-a-kind oceanic accents, from hand-carved crystal cowry pendants to lapis-and-gold-laced puka strings. Below, Beltrán shares her refined signatures—for both sandy beaches and city streets
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Following a tenure at Roberto Cavalli, Barbara Casasola debuted her eponymous collection in 2012. Over the decade-plus since, the Brazilian, Florence-based designer has never lost sight of her raison d’être: to complement—rather than reconstruct—a woman’s wardrobe. Emphasizing simplicity over spectacle, each of her nuanced foundations offers a quiet confidence—much like her favorite belongings, as shared below
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Since launching his eponymous firm just over a decade ago, the self-taught interior designer, television host, and newly minted author Jeremiah Brent has reimagined countless spaces, from a Montauk estate and Hollywood office to the Greenwich Village apartment that he now shares with his husband, Nate Berkus, and two children. Below, Brent reveals the pieces that make him feel most at home
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While studying architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, Anh Duong—with her balletic poise and Modigliani-like visage—caught the attention of photographer David Seidner and, soon after, countless designers. In 1988, however, the French model became her own best muse when she moved to New York and started painting her now signature self-portraits. Ahead of the opening of her latest exhibition, at Galerie Gmurzynska, Duong shares her must-haves
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After beginning her career at David Zwirner and rising through the ranks of the art world, Ashley Stewart Rödder landed at Gagosian, where she became one of the gallery’s youngest directors. Whether working from her Upper East Side office or traveling the world to visit artists’ studios and international fairs, the exacting aesthete always dresses the part, as detailed below
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Though Alyssa Kapito has decorated sprawling SoHo lofts and grand Upper East Side townhouses, the interior designer’s latest undertaking may be her most ambitious yet: an eponymous gallery offering rare 20th-century treasures—including Jean Royère chairs and François-Xavier Lalanne cachepots—and her very own collection of exquisite Murano-glass vases. Ever the curator, Kapito showcases more of her favored finds below
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In an age of transient trends, Maria Cornejo stands apart: for more than 25 years, the New York-based Chilean designer, who recently received the CFDA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, has quietly met the needs of smart sartorialists with her signature amalgam of sustainability, sleek simplicity, and architectural lines. Here, Cornejo shares her own enduring essentials
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