The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the ...

For a recent project in Montauk, Robert McKinley painted the kitchen floor an unusual color: avocado green. In an age of all-white eateries and greige living rooms, this may sound like an aesthetic ...

If you close your eyes and picture a classic ’70s living room, you can probably feel the shag under your toes and see the avocado green sofa against a wall of wood paneling. Those spaces were cozy, ...

The strangest ’70s home design trends walked a fine line between cozy and chaotic, turning ordinary rooms into shaggy, sunken, avocado-colored experiments. You still feel their influence every time ...