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Edited by Annie Block and Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 7/1/2009

Climb a Tree

Thanks to Patrick Dougherty, nests needn't be for the birds. The sculptor's latest woven-twig creation opens July 24 at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Previous site-specific installations have graced the Atelier 340 Muzeum in Brussels, a Max Azria boutique in Los Angeles, the office of Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he recently spent a month as artist in residence producing Bedazzler. >>More

Feting the French

It's always a good year if you're Patrick Jouin. Even 2009. And even in the shadow of the Air France flight 447 disaster. As part of a Franco-Brazilian exchange and celebration, a Jouin retrospective debuts at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo on July 29. >>More

Villas of the Caribbean

Renting on St. Bart's just got even more swishy with the opening of three villas with interiors by the firm of Interior Design Hall of Fame member Christian Liaigre and architecture by C+P Design. (The C stands for Gabriela Contreras, the P for Luis Pons.) >>More