François Halard

Sep 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nancy Hass |François Halard

IN 1985, CHARLES Zana, then 25 and newly graduated from the architecture school at Paris's École des Beaux-Arts, knew what he had to do: move to Manhattan, where the city's post-punk scene was in its flamboyant final days. Garbage swelled the gutters downtown, and a dense collage of graffiti and ragged posters seemed to cover almost every surface. Odessa, a Ukrainian diner on Avenue A frequented by artists and neighborhood characters, never closed on weekends. "It was just fantastic," Zana says.

May 25, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Léa Teuscher |François Halard

Over the past three decades, Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has put his uncompromisingly contemporary stamp on a series of minimalist spaces and pared-back designs, from a white stone-clad country retreat in Belgium, to immersive showrooms and an elegant pavilion for Molteni & C (a company for which he works as creative director) and sought-after collections for Zara Home.

Dec 6, 2023 | vogue.ph | Chiara Barzini |François Halard

Alessandro Michele looks for a home in every city he visits, entertaining romantic visions for himself, and often following up on them. He has a particular love for faded beauties, run-down places brimming with history and lost grandeur—and this is why he has embarked on the quixotic endeavor of renovating one of the most iconic and mysterious buildings in Rome: Palazzo Scapucci.