For decades, French-born creative director Marc Atlan has helped shape the visual worlds of Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang, Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent. His own Los Angeles home was approached with the same attention to atmosphere and detail: a landmark 1923 Mediterranean Revival in historic Lafayette Square.

Built in 1999 as one man's vision of the Old West, Rancho Alegre was later bought by another lifelong Western enthusiast who had grown up in Germany watching cowboy films and dreaming of life in the American West. Decades apart, the two men shaped the same extraordinary ranch outside Santa Fe.

A 1925 English manor built as a full-scale showcase for oak construction at the British Empire Exhibition was later taken apart piece by piece, moved to Devon and rebuilt on a hillside above Salcombe. Today, Falconers stands in seven acres of gardens believed to have been designed by Gertrude Jekyll.

In the 1970s, a concrete “spaceship” appeared among the colourful Art Nouveau villas of Cusano Milanino, less than 30 minutes north of Milan.

Set on 3 hectares / 7.4 acres, this restored 18th-century Provençal farmhouse offers 550 m² / 5,920 ft² of living space and 7 bedrooms in the main house and a separate 2-bedroom caretaker’s residence.

Set in the hills of Valdarno, the estate’s historic buildings are linked by underground passages, internal hallways, courtyards, and gardens, and are surrounded by olive groves, Chianti DOCG vineyards, and an established agriturismo.

A Kendrick Bangs Kellogg house set within a 40-acre avocado grove has entered escrow after being listed publicly for the first time.

A remote Scottish castle estate on the Isle of Mull brings together an 18-bedroom Baronial castle, more than three miles of Atlantic coastline, three lochs, woodland, farmland, holiday properties, and an established working estate economy.

It’s one of the oldest continuously inhabited properties in the county.

This restored Alpine palazzo in Craveggia, Piedmont, offers frescoed interiors and substantial private living space in a historic mountain village near the Swiss border.