New York magazine's Home Design 2002 issue reveals the difference between redecoration and reinvention. Plus: 100 Top Architects & Decorators

Three barns where downtown meets the farm.

EDITED BY MEREDITH KAHN
TEXT BY ALEXANDRA LANGE
MARKET EDITOR: RIMA SUQI
PHOTOGRAPH BY CARLOS EMILIO

Eight prominent New Yorkers walk us through their homes, from a radically renovated brownstone to an art-filled aerie.

How to make a small Sag Harbor summer house feel open, airy, and older than its years.

Good taste is easy to come by these days. But interesting taste is a different matter.

Philippe Starck has checked out of his hotel and into a SoHo loft, where he's dreaming up the housing of the future and -- with Peter Gabriel's help -- planning to launch a satellite.

And blues are, too. Designer Miles Redd applies his genius for color—on walls, on floors, and in the objets that he finds—to transform two young Manhattanites’ apartments.

How young designers learn on—and from—the job.

Restaurateur Keith McNally -- the man behind Pastis and Balthazar -- uses a mix of Provençal flavors and American country spice to turn an 1841 townhouse into a thoroughly luxurious retreat.