Holiday Interiors and Gardens / 2

As nature lifts into spring, we open the second issue of Holiday Interiors and Gardens. This volume follows spaces shaped slowly by use, memory, and return. Places where time accumulates rather than resets. Interiors that settle, evolve, and endure.

 

We move through architectures that extend rather than erase, where every element becomes part of a longer continuity. Across landscapes and interiors alike, a similar logic emerges: nothing remains fixed. Forms persist, but they shift. In the summer light by a river, where the ordinary takes on a sharper presence. In lives shaped by attention and duration. In spaces that are not imposed, but built gradually through habits, objects, and time.

 

From a terrace overlooking the Pacific in Big Sur to more intimate interiors formed through daily use, what remains constant is not style, but a way of living. One that resists the new and instead absorbs it into what already exists. And, in doing so, a way of beginning to imagine what comes next.

 

Perhaps this is the thread running through the issue: a way of inhabiting the present without cutting it off from what came before.

 

___

 

 

A magazine in which travel was merely the ideal pretext to give life to this vision, and additionally offered the luxury of time—to discover, observe and dream. For indeed, Holiday is an interlude suspended in time, where since the beginning, the idea has been neither to regret the past not to fantasize about the future, but to savor the path between the two, as Jack Kerouac, one of the magazine’s many prestigious contributors, used to say. So it is with these founding principles—the ones that have made it legendary and still give it such a special place—in mind that we have created Holiday Interiors and Gardens.

 

For interior decoration requires almost as much curiosity as travel and, in its own way, enables us to traverse eras, styles, cultures and continents. Besides, it is a free discipline that loves to break down the boundaries between creative fields. As proof, just think of interiors designed by Balthus and Cy Twombly, furniture crafted by Francis Bacon and Paul Poiret, Dante Ferretti’s set decors for Pasolini and Scorsese movies, or even simply the sofa covered with Persian carpets in Sigmund Freud’s consulting room. All of them have stood the test of time and seem to defy trends.

 

Holiday too. The magazine has always striven to demonstrate that beauty is not a subject but rather a point of view. And here is ours, which you will discover on these pages: interiors, gardens and objects, through the words of the writers and the gaze of the photographers who inspire us and have enabled us to give life to this new adventure.