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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s Former Beverly Hills Rental Lists for $85 Million

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The palatial Beverly Hills estate where Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck stayed during their nearly two-year-long newlywed house hunt has landed on the market for $85 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The power couple eventually chose another mansion in Beverly Hills this summer: a $61 million contemporary Georgian-style home. With the Lopez-Affleck family …

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The Minimalist Bed: Monastic Bed-Making Is In—And We’re Here for It

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A muddy gray-toned bedcover softens a monochrome bedroom in West Village home transformed by designer Sebastian Zuchowicki. William Jess Laird For photoshoots in particular, King points out, a bed has a tendency to dominate a room, and depending on the shot angle, this large rectangle can get distorted. The monastic, minimalist bed helps with this …

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Giorgio Armani Is Buying an Apartment Above His NYC Boutique

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As one might expect from the luxury designer, the materials featured inside the units are some of the finest, with white oak and beige Gascongne limestone flooring, Quarzo Bianco stone, and honed Bardiglio Imperiale Blue marble scattered throughout. Other highlights of the apartment include a full-height wine storage unit in the chef’s kitchen, a media …

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Traditional Millwork and Color Blocking Transform an LA Home Into a Modern Dollhouse

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Selina and Matthew Murphy are social butterflies. Their former Los Angeles abode had been a convivial hub for friends, who were encouraged to come over unannounced on Saturday mornings for impromptu brunches and hours of laughing around the table. So when the California natives relocated to New York for a career opportunity, they missed their …

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Vaulted Ceilings: The Pros and Cons of This Dramatic Feature

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“Vaulted ceilings do cost more to maintain than regular ceilings,” Thompson says. “Simply put, you are adding more cubic volume to your home, and you’ll need to heat or cool that additional space.” You could always put in ceiling fans, of course, but then you’d run the risk of detracting from that fancy groin vaulted …

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What Life Behind-the-Scenes of Sofia Coppola’s Movies Looks Like

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Actress Hanna R. Hall on the delightfully cluttered set of The Virgin Suicides Photo: Sofia Coppola, from Archive (MACK, 2023). Courtesy of the artist and MACK. Collaboration is an essential part of filmmaking, and the book offers Coppola an opportunity to highlight the people who’ve helped create her celebrated worlds. She remembers Harris Savides, the …

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See How a Former SoHo Parking Garage Was Transformed Into a Cozy Home of Two Art Collectors

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It was the early aughts when Daniel Sachs and Kevin Lindores, of New York architecture and interiors firm Sachs Lindores, first met real estate executive Steven Guttman and his wife, Kathy. Mark McDonald, proprietor of the legendary vintage furniture shop and gallery Fifty/50, made the introduction. “We had no idea who they were,” recalls Sachs …

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