ON THE COVER A new Jackson Hole home from WRJ Design earned two separate LUXE Interiors + Design covers this month – one on the magazine’s national issue and one on its new Colorado + the Rockies regional edition – with a feature story in both that dubs the project a “family legacy home [that] stands as an ode to art and beauty.” In addition to showcasing WRJ’s in-demand brand of livable luxury, the homeowners’ remarkable blue-chip art collection (including an antique Indian motorcycle treated as sculpture) served up an opportunity for WRJ creative director Rush Jenkins to draw on his early pre-WRJ career as director of design at Sotheby’s New York to “create interiors where furnishings and décor are in clear dialogue with the artworks, which draw you forward, with a surprise around every corner,” as he told LUXE. (Photo: Roger Davies)

ONE PERFECT THING Compiling their popular Best in the West roundup for the annual HOME issue, Big Sky Journal turned to Kibler & Kirch creative director Jeremiah Young for intel. His pick, Century Furniture’s made-to-order Eliza Chair, became the section’s full-page opener. Young values the “chameleon-like” quality of the chair, originally created by iconic American designer Thomas O’Brien for the lobby of the 60 Thompson Hotel in New York City. “We consider this one of the greatest furniture pieces designed in over 50 years,” says Young, who has made the piece “in all manner of fabric and leather combinations.” Naming favorites is nothing new for Young, whose “One Perfect Thing” selections are a must-read in his “Design School” blog, on the Kibler & Kirch Instagram page, and in its newspaper-style printed newsletter.

MAKING AN ENTRANCE “Seasoned interior designers develop an arsenal of tips, rules, and guiding principles,” writes The Spruce in “The Decorating Shortcuts Designers Swear By.” The home design mega-site reached out to Aspen Design House design director Denise Taylor for one of her go-tos: remembering a home entry’s role in making a first impression. "As the first place guests see—and that you do on returning home—the entry deserves purposeful focus," she says. "Successful entry design creates a 'pause point.'" The Spruce shared a pic of the dramatic entryway from Aspen Design House’s Cliffside Getaway project – a home also recently featured in a Mountain Living story on how Taylor’s team turned the initially “boxy and bland” spec house chic, colorful and inviting. (Photo: Dallas & Harris Photography)