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"View Slideshow\n\nArchitectural Digest contributing editor Marella Caracciolo's article this month on interior designer Livia Rebecchini's Rome apartment includes this intriguing quote from the dynamic Italian tastemaker: \"One's home should reflect the time frame one is living in.\"\n\nI've been mulling over that sentiment from the moment I first read Marella's manuscript\u2014especially since it has been expressed, in so many words, by other designers I know, among them Victoria Hagan and Thomas Jayne, both featured in this issue. Now Livia isn't advocating creating a house that's a wall-to-wall 21st-century statement. On the contrary, her observation is more generous than that. She is saying that whatever your personal taste and wherever you live, there should always be room for the new and the now.\n\nThe designer has a passion for antiques and heirlooms\u2014of which she has plenty\u2014but Livia is also seduced by the latest contemporary art. It definitely adds a certain sizzle to her duplex, which happens to be located on the top floors of a historic 16th-century palazzo. Similarly, Thomas has devised a lively d\u00E9tente between top-notch European antiques and bold, colorful, and provocative avant-garde paintings and sculptures for clients on Philadelphia's Main Line. And in Connecticut, Victoria has no qualms about placing a Regency center table in the entrance hall of her Georgian Revival house and offsetting it with moody seascapes by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The objects span the centuries, but the look and feel of her crisp, expertly appointed rooms are perfect for the designer and her young family in 2012.\n\nEven the poolhouse pictured on our cover continues the theme\u2014the streamlined structure is a striking counterpoint to the property's classic Colonial-style residence. Karen Stonely, one of the project's architects, tells us that she and her partners had long conversations with the homeowners about \"what it means to be modern\" while still respecting a building's context. The answer was simple: They employed the same fieldstone that clads the main house but used it to form a fresh, sleek silhouette. The result is a remarkable example of blending the present day with a site's architectural history. To me, it's modern living at its finest.\n\n\u2014MARGARET RUSSELL, Editor in Chief\n\n editor@archdigest.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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