Center halls were designed to draw a breeze from the front door straight through the house, long before air conditioning. Two centuries later, the idea still feels gracious and completely right.

Center halls were designed to draw a breeze from the front door straight through the house, long before air conditioning. Two centuries later, the idea still feels gracious and completely right.
Steal this room's trick: pick one accent color and use it exactly twice. Green shows up on the chair and in the print, and nowhere else. Everything left is walnut, cream, or marble. Three materials, one color, done.
Navy suede bomber, gray crewneck, denim shirt, cream trousers. Four pieces, three textures, and nothing shouts. Copy this formula for fall and you're dressed in two minutes. One rule: check the forecast first, because suede and rain do not get along.
Count the cats before you scroll past. Most people stop at one. The spines on the sofa shelf read Tyrmand and Pilch, so my guess is an old apartment somewhere in Poland. That orange arc lamp looks like a 1970s Italian design and it runs the whole room.
White polo, charcoal trousers, tassel loafers. René Lacoste designed the polo for tennis in the 1920s, and the Mustang fastback arrived for 1965. Sixty years on, both still work without any updating.
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Steve McQueen with his Jaguar XKSS. He bought it in 1958 for about $5,000, nicknamed it the Green Rat, and collected enough speeding tickets to nearly lose his license. It now lives at the Petersen Museum in LA.
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Dark walls don't shrink a room the way people fear. Matte charcoal hides the corners, so the walls seem to fall back. The white ceiling keeps the height, and the brass on the lamp and bed frame gives your eye a few bright places to land.
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Vintage Patek Philippe chronograph in yellow gold. Silvered dial, Breguet 12 and 6, a 30-minute counter at 3, small seconds at 9, and a tachymeter scale running the outer edge. The gold brick-link bracelet matches the case.