For Paris-born, New York–based designer and architect par excellence Robert Couturier, life is about a constant process of renewal—both to amuse the eye and reinvigorate the soul. So it might come as ...

Robert Couturier’s career got off to an auspicious start in 1987 when the then-32-year-old designer was commissioned by billionaire Sir James Goldsmith to overhaul his 20,000-acre kingdom on the ...

Some people build sandcastles. SoHo-based interior designer Robert Couturier builds castles in the sand. Literally, right now, in Azerbaijan, 100,000 square feet large. He builds and designs palaces, ...

In home design, trends such as conversation pits and waterbeds come and (thankfully) go. Only a select few furnishings endure, and these timeless pieces are sought after by both hard-core collectors ...

Architect and designer Robert Couturier is known for private home and grand-scale commissions around the world, but he was recently tapped for his first residential new development project: the ...

The space was a mystery,” says author Andrew Solomon of the original jumble of closets and cut-up rooms he found on the second floor of his West Village townhouse when he purchased it in 1994. He ...

A deeply learned alumnus of Paris’s rigorous École Camondo school for design and interior architecture, Robert Couturier can do consummate period-French style with his eyes closed. But he’d rather not ...

French architect Robert Couturier stole the spotlight at a Zoom gala by showing off his favorite trinket — an incense burner once owned by Marie Antoinette. We’re told Couturier — who was being ...

French-born Robert Couturier is no stranger to exotic locales. From 1988-1997, he was the personal designer for British billionaire and conservationist Sir James Goldsmith, for whom he created ...

For over sixty years, Robert Couturier worked in his Paris studio at the Villa Seurat, devoting his art to the exploration of the human body—particularly the female form. On 15 May, under the ...

“Originally, I was going to put only a few objects up for sale, but it was easier, emotionally and psychologically, to just part with it all. Really, how can you choose just one?” Couturier told Robb ...