Celia Barbour

The Thorntons' house-hunt was going nowhere—one property after another proving “so expensive yet so cookie-cutter,” recalls Josh Thornton. At the close of a particularly frustrating day, he asked his then-pregnant wife, designer Summer Thornton, “If we co... See more

If you build it, they will come—or so the cliché promises. But when the “it” is a 17,000-square-foot Caribbean villa with views of the ocean from each of its eight bedrooms, “they” is likely to be everyone you know, plus a few you’ve barely met. Kathryn a... See more

For parents of small children, the idea of waking up in the city that never sleeps takes on a whole new meaning. But one Manhattan family may have found a clever way to lean into the dreamtime disarray: Their newly renovated home is as beguiling as a bedt... See more