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The kitchen of actor Christopher Meloni and his wife, Sherman Williams, who designed the interiors of their Manhattan apartment. (March 2008)

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The dining area of a Palm Beach villa designed by Peter Marino . (January 2008)

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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Antoine Predock built a modern log cabin in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. (January 2008)

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“I prefer to work with wood, stone, stainless steel and concrete, and I prefer to catch the morning sun—so lots of glass!” responds Karin Blake to a question about kitchen design from our Designers Tell All feature. (January 2008)

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On Hawaii’s Kona Coast, architect Shay Zak created a Balinese-inspired residence . (March 2008)

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A jellyfish-inspired light fixture hangs in the dining room of a 155-foot Benetti motor yacht designed by Bernard Desjardins . (February 2008)

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The porch of a Seaside, Florida, residence designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern . (April 2008)

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The living area of a Shelton, Mindel -designed Central Park apartment. (April 2008)

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Don and Jeanine Cooksey worked with architect Wallace Cunningham to conceive a house for a La Jolla, California, lot that was previously thought to be unbuildable. (April 2008)

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The living room of a 1932 Tudor Revival house in Washington D.C., renovated by designer José Solís Betancourt . (April 2008)

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A swimming pool of a house in Hawaii by architects Ricardo and Victor Legorreta in collaboration with designers Paul Vincent Wiseman , Joseph Matzo and James Hunter, of The Wiseman Group. (May 2008)

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Architect Gisue Hariri created a contemporary, ipe -paneled poolhouse in Wilton, Connecticut. (May 2008)

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Open Audition participant and California-based designer Thomas R. Jones did both the architecture and interiors for a northern Wisconsin residence located near Siskiwit Lake. (May 2008)

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For a site along the Vecht River in Loenen, the Netherlands, Michael Graves & Associates conceived a residence totaling 8,000 square feet. (May 2008)

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Ellen Denisevich-Grickis found an 18th-century barn in Ontario, Canada, relocated it to a four-acre plot in Rhode Island and renovated it for use as a summer house for her and her family. Above: The kitchen. (June 2008)

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Ted Turner ’s 350,000-acre Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico was designed by Laura Hunt. (June 2008)

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While constructing a contemporary house for a couple in Sonoma, California, architect Harvey Sanchez and his son, Conrad, asked designer Ron Mann to help with the architecture and to decorate the interiors. (July 2008)

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Made Wijaya designed an Alibag, India, residence on the Arabian Sea. (August 2008)

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A field house in upstate New York was created, in a collaborative effort, by architect Paul F. Shurtleff and interior designer Thad Hayes . (June 2008)

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Carleton Varney ’s sophisticated take on Caribbean style characterizes the St. Croix residence of Janis and Duane Bobeck. (August 2008)

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Geoffrey Bradfield designed a one-bedroom “escape hatch” on Park Avenue, just two blocks from his main residence and office. (September 2008)

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Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt created the interiors of his own residence in Venice, Italy. (September 2008)

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Architect Robert M. Gurney and his wife, interior designer Thérèse Baron Gurney, transformed a psychiatrist’s Washington, D.C., apartment into a calm, minimalist space. (October 2008)

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Architect Bart Prince conceived a 4,000-square-foot residence near Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains. (October 2008)

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Architect David Jameson designed a raised L-shaped house on Maryland’s Upper Hooper Island. (October 2008)

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Stephen Shadley designed the interiors for actress Diane Keaton ’s early-1920s Ralph Flewelling home in Los Angeles. (November 2008)

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Architect Howard J. Backen worked closely with his clients in constructing a neo-Mediterranean-style house in Belvedere, California. (October 2008)

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Actor Dennis Quaid shares a 15-room house in Los Angeles’s Rustic Canyon with his wife, Kimberly, and their young twins. (November 2008)

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Platinum-glazed tiles by Olafur Eliasson adorn the walls of a guesthouse and gallery space designed by Tokyo architect Tadao Ando . (December 2008)

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For the redesign of his house near Taipei City, Rudy Tseng commissioned Yann Chu, of Atelier Marais Design. (December 2008)

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“We created a calm and holistic environment,” designer Chandu Chhada says of Shanti Ananda Maurice , a beachfront hotel and spa on Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, which he collaborated on with architect Jean-Marc Eynaud. (December 2008)

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With the help of architect Peter Cohen, chef Giada De Laurentiis and her husband, Todd Thompson, transformed their 1,600-square-foot residence in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles into a California contemporary home with twice the space. (December 2008)

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Open Audition participant Valerie Schweitzer built a studio for herself in Westport, Connecticut. (December 2008)

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The deck lounge of the 147-foot yacht, Harle —a yacht designed for a private U.S. client by De Voogt Naval Architects and Sinot Yacht Design as part of Netherlands-based Feadship’s F45 series. (December 2008)