December 2010: Fresh Volumes. In Connecticut, A House Challenges Conventional Notions of Space.

Interior designer Stephen Sills and architect Jason Chai, of C/S Architecture, collaborated on a family's 12,000-square-foot residence in Connecticut.

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June 2010: ELLE DECOR's A-List Twenty-five designers we love.

The look? Serene and sophisticated, history energized with a dollop of swagger. Hes also known for his subdued color palettes, rich fabrics, jaw-dropping modern art, and striking finishes.

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January 2009: 12 things he can't live without.

"I don’t like superficial decoration for decoration's sake." That point of view permeates his own near-and-dear essentials, whether it's the purity of a Japanese meal, a good cotton shirt, or a beloved Giacometti light fixture. "It comes down to selecting the right form," he says simply.

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December 2007: People talk inside their houses, and they talk outside. Some people talk to their houses. But very rarely do their houses talk back. An exception is a large and loquacious stone-and-slate house on Long Island's North Shore—Great Gatsby country. "The secret of this house is that it carries on a dialogue," says Stephen Sills, of the interior design firm Sills Huniford. "It's a dialogue between classical timelessness and the owners' modern art—the way they live today. It's about giving the past a nod yet respecting the present."

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November 2007: "No morbid desire for mere originality activated the architectural designers of The St. Regis," bragged one of the hotel's brochures a century ago. That is one way of saying that the original designers favored restraint over ostentation. Sills...followed the same rule—a light touch can be the best one.

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2006: The previous owner was a grande dame of the old school, and her décor was a predictable stage set heavy on the passementerie, with a stuffy dining room, a drafty entrance gallery, a nondescript kitchen she may or may not have ever visited, with a warren of staff rooms behind it, and—as Stephen Sills puts it—"Louie, Louis everywhere."

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November 2005: Stephen Sills details his work on the St. Regis, New York, NY.

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March 2000: Tina Turner's home; Interior design by Stephen Sills Associates.

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June 2005: "For the architecture and quality of the craftsmanshipm the St. Regis is the finest hotel in New York," says Sills...The secret to the success of what we contributed is the fragile subtlety of the colors and textures."

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