The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the ...

If you close your eyes and picture a classic ’70s living room, you can probably feel the shag under your toes and see the avocado green sofa against a wall of wood paneling. Those spaces were cozy, ...

For a recent project in Montauk, Robert McKinley painted the kitchen floor an unusual color: avocado green. In an age of all-white eateries and greige living rooms, this may sound like an aesthetic ...

The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 ...