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Oversize jali screens at the Aman New Delhi.

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The Leela Palace’s hot-spot restaurant the Qube provides a contemporary counterpoint to the hotel’s neoclassical-themed design.

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The Leela Palace New Delhi’s lobby.

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I die for this striped marble.

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The kitchen’s stainless-steel cabinets are offset by Calacatta gold marble counters; the refrigerator is by Sub-Zero.

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Curtains of a Jim Thompson silk frame a dining room window.

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In the living room, ornate millwork installed for previous owners was  painted a crisp cream and white; the 1937 light fixture is by Swiss  architect Max Ernst Haefeli, and the acrylic-and-gouache painting is by  Garth Weiser. The Lawson-style club chair is upholstered in a Pierre Frey velvet.

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The terrace off the kitchen is paved with honed Halila stone, inset with flush deck lighting; Pawson designed the teak table.

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Grouped with a Pawson-designed low table in the family room are Børge  Mogensen leather chairs and a custom-made sofa covered in a Loro Piana linen-cashmere.

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Oak cabinetry in the kitchen complements the La Cornue range and Caesarstone sink; the sink fittings are by Dornbracht.

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The double-height dining room. The floors here and throughout the house are of random-width oak.

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The bedroom terrace has pendant lights by Tom Dixon from Twentieth Art and Design, drum tables by Studio JRM, and cushions covered in Donghia, Holly Hunt, and Perennials fabrics.

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Brown UniversityProvidence, R.I.
Brown’s architectural ambitions have not always risen to the level of its academic reputation—at least until February, when Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s transparent (both inside and out) Granoff Center for the Creative Arts was completed. This old-world campus perched above Rhode Island’s capital finally has a building to match its progressive education.
Photo: Iwan Baan

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The woven seating on the terrace is by Oscar de la Renta for Century Furniture.