Houses by the sea

In an extract from Classic by Design, the latest book to chronicle Michael S Smith's work, Andrew Ferren introduces a beautiful Mallorcan house

To celebrate the publication of his new book John Stefanidis: A Designer's Eye, House & Garden revisits the interior that was the genesis of it all, the home he created on the Greek island of Patmos

In an extract from his new book Home at Last: Enduring design for the New American House, the acclaimed American architect Gil Schafer designs a multi-generational family gathering place on a bluff above Lake Champlain in Vermont

Together, Jean-Baptiste Martin and Vincent Farelly of paper company Antoinette Poisson have sensitively restored this historic house in a French seaside town to its former glory

Interior designer Kari McCabe and her architect husband Nate McBride breathed new life into their tired house using a mix of Scandinavian design, vintage pieces and inherited family furniture

Impressive in size and location, this house on the south-west coast of France is the holiday home of hotelier Cristina Lozano who, together with her long-time collaborator Lorenzo Castillo, has transformed the large, lofty rooms into tactile, characterful spaces

When Max Sinsteden started decorating his Rhode Island cottage, he kept the colours neutral in order to let his beloved collection of treasures shine

Having inherited a derelict merchant's house on the Greek island of Patmos, designer Melina Blaxland-Horne and her husband Dimitri set about salvaging abandoned elements of its period interiors before embarking on a careful and characterful restoration

Mixing natural materials with patterned fabrics and a host of influences, interior and textile designer Leah O’Connell has transformed this neglected 1960s house into a warm, serene home

The seaside house designer John Derian shares with his partner Stephen Kent Johnson bears witness to his love of the 18th and 19th centuries and his extraordinary eye for collecting

The team at Sims Hilditch have used natural materials and light colours to make a sanctuary of this seaside house

Deep inside a protected nature reserve on Mallorca’s northern coastline, the American sculptor Micheal Prentice has spent decades building an enchanting retreat.

Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish house full of bottle greens and rusty reds. Her friend, the interior designer Remy Renzullo, explains.

In an extract from Miguel Flores-Vianna's new book Haute Bohemians: Greece, the author visits legendary writer Patrick Leigh Fermor's house in the Mani

Though on the Norfolk coast, this handsome Regency house wears its beach credentials lightly, thanks to designer Veere Grenney, whose masterful mix of practical and decorative elements has created an elegant, liveable interior

Interior designer Tino Zervudachi has transformed this house in the Bahamas from dark and unpromising into bright and breezy, with cool blue and white colour schemes that enhance the reworked layout inside, and wraparound terraces outside with spectacular ocean views.

When interior designer Kelly Wearstler saw the potential this midcentury beach house had, she knew it was an opportunity to create a peaceful retreat for her family to come together in

Small spaces always present their own peculiar challenges, but Isabella Worsley was determined to work with the quirks and charm of this house in Hove, rather than fight against them

American designer Steven Gambrel had decorated this Long Island house before, but its new owners asked him to return and reinterpret it in a way that better reflected its coastal setting and their lifestyle

It is hard to imagine that this island villa was once flashy and overdone, so beautifully have interior designers Martin Hulbert and Jay Grierson introduced pale tones, natural textures and pared-back furnishings to create spaces that feel at one with the sun-kissed surroundings