https://estateanddesign.com/ The latest estates stories from Estate & Design. en https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-cavrois/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-cavrois/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In Croix, France, Robert Mallet-Stevens built a textile magnate a house like no other: sixty metres of yellow brick designed to the last door handle, lost for decades, then restored to its 1932 state. It is the architect's most complete surviving work. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/sanssouci-palace-potsdam/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/sanssouci-palace-potsdam/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Above the terraced vineyards of Potsdam, Frederick the Great built a small palace with a French name meaning 'without worries', and spent his happiest years trying to live up to it. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/blenheim-palace-woodstock/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/blenheim-palace-woodstock/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A nation thanked its greatest general with the grandest house in England. Three centuries later, the Dukes of Marlborough still live in it. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/schonbrunn-palace-vienna/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/schonbrunn-palace-vienna/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 1,441 rooms, a Baroque garden the size of a small town, and the summer address of an empire: Schönbrunn is where the Habsburgs lived, ruled, and finally said goodbye. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/fallingwater-pennsylvania/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/fallingwater-pennsylvania/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Frank Lloyd Wright's 1935 weekend house for the Kaufmann family stands partly over a Pennsylvania waterfall. Ninety years on, it remains the house by which all modern houses are judged. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/quinta-da-regaleira-sintra/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/quinta-da-regaleira-sintra/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In the romantic hills of Sintra, the millionaire Antonio Augusto Carvalho Monteiro built a palace, a chapel, and a garden of grottoes and initiation wells between 1904 and 1910. The most enigmatic estate in Portugal. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-tugendhat/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-tugendhat/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Completed in 1930 for the textile manufacturer Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Grete, this steel-framed villa in Brno redefined what a house could be, and then spent the next eighty years surviving history. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-necchi-campiglio/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-necchi-campiglio/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Behind a deliberately plain street wall in Milan, Piero Portaluppi built one of the great bourgeois villas of the 1930s, later layered by Tomaso Buzzi and preserved intact by the FAI. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/katsura-imperial-villa/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/katsura-imperial-villa/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 On the western bank of the Katsura River, a seventeenth-century princely retreat shaped modern architecture without ever naming a designer. Its choreography of buildings, water, and path remains the standard. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/casa-de-vidro/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/casa-de-vidro/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Completed in 1951 on a former tea farm above Sao Paulo, the Glass House was Lina Bo Bardi's first built work and her declaration of optimism: a house lifted into the Atlantic rainforest. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/estate-as-complete-work/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/estate-as-complete-work/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 The greatest estates are not collections of good decisions. They are single visions, carried through architecture, interiors, landscape, objects, and craft, until nothing could belong anywhere else. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/hearst-castle-san-simeon/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/hearst-castle-san-simeon/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 For twenty-eight years, William Randolph Hearst and the architect Julia Morgan built a Mediterranean fantasy on a California hilltop. It remains the most storied great house in America. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/the-breakers-newport/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/the-breakers-newport/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Richard Morris Hunt built Cornelius Vanderbilt II a 70-room Italian palazzo on the cliffs of Newport. It set the standard for the American great house. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/biltmore-estate-asheville/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/biltmore-estate-asheville/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Richard Morris Hunt's Chateauesque mansion and Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape in Asheville remain the defining American estate: 8,000 acres, still Vanderbilt-owned. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/chatsworth-house-derbyshire/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/chatsworth-house-derbyshire/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In Derbyshire, the Devonshires' great house has been rebuilt, rethought, and replanted for generations. It has never stood still, and that is the point. https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-san-michele-capri/ https://estateanddesign.com/estates/villa-san-michele-capri/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A Swedish physician built his dream house on Roman ruins above the sea at Anacapri, filled it with antiquities, and gave it to Sweden. It is the most personal great house in Italy.