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The architect ruffled feathers in Hampstead with his Modernist terrace — and inspired the name of a James Bond villain

The Cambridge home of Jim and Helen Ede was a radical statement about living alongside beauty

Mariano Fortuny began creating his flowing gowns and sumptuous textiles in the Venetian palazzo he restored

The painter’s house and studio near Aix-en-Provence, where he created some late masterpieces, was his last workspace

The LA house of Viennese architect Rudolf Schindler is a European intellectual’s take on bohemian California life

Curators at Thomas Jefferson’s palatial home in Virginia try to balance the US founding father’s lofty ideals with his involvement in slavery

The young author experienced both heartbreak and scandal in this gracious Dublin home

This formative building in the career of the US architect was the first over which he had complete artistic control

The Barcelona home is considered to be the architect’s first masterpiece

The Irish author lived in the defensive fort only a short time — but it would be pivotal in the writing of ‘Ulysses’