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 “I’m interested not so much in interior design as in designing environments,” says maternity couturière Lauren Sara, who created the interiors of her home near Philadelphia. Throughout, she wanted a uniform palette of black and white and the rooms to have a minimalist, gallery-like feel. In the dressing area, floating shelves hold shoes and leather boxes. Past a stair that leads to her third-floor office stands a wire dress form. A former protégée of Calvin Klein’s, she is the author of Expecting Style, a style guide for pregnant women. (June 2006) 

 In the medieval hill town of Ménerbes, France, a fortified château dating to the 11th century was sensitively renovated by an American couple, with the help of French designer Michel Biehn. The philosophy of the renovation was “nothing gimcrack, ersatz, or new,” the wife explains. “We used original materials only.” Closets in the dressing room were built from old louvered shutters. The 18th-century carved gilt-wood mirror is from a Scottish castle. (July 2005)

Martin Kemp, head designer at Candy & Candy, conceived the interiors of a 17,500-square-foot penthouse in La Belle Epoque, which overlooks the port of Monte Carlo. Art Deco styling influenced one of the two master suites—a true gentleman’s quarters, with an adjoining dressing area, pictured here. (November 2009)

Eleven AD 100 designers transformed Apartment 73A at New York’s One Central Park into a glamorous showhouse. Roderick N. Shade imagined the master dressing area to be “a place where girlfriends get together and snap on their shoes and have a glass of Champagne” and a spot “to put on the finishing touches before going out on the town.” (February 2004)

“It’s ideal for someone who wants a traditional home with a modern feel,” architect James Paragano says of the house he designed for New York Yankees pitcher C. C. Sabathia and his family in Alpine, New Jersey. Adding a second floor above the great room gave Sabathia a new closet, providing plenty of storage for his extensive collection of signature sneakers. The space also boasts a dry bar with a microwave and refrigerator drawers. (November 2010)

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