A noble-floor apartment in an 18th-century hôtel particulier on Rue de Tournon, steps from the Luxembourg Gardens, spans 190 m² (2,045 ft²) with ~4 m (13 ft) ceilings, combining classic Parisian proportions with a more contemporary interior approach.

Within reach of Houston, this Italianate residence sits in Galveston’s Historic East End, one of the most intact concentrations of Victorian-era architecture in the United States. Set on a prominent corner site, the home has undergone an eight-year, design-led restoration.

Set in a quiet village in the Burgundy countryside just outside Dijon, this 15th-century manor features a turret, dovecote, and one-hectare grounds in one of France’s most culturally and gastronomically rich regions.

A 106-acre historic estate in Sintra, Portugal, dating to the 16th century, the property’s past owners include the Marquis of Pombal and British industrialist Sir Francis Cook.

In the 1980s, when Nasser Nakib was a junior architect working in Soho, he used to slip over to Bond Street on his lunch breaks just to stand on the cobblestones. “In Provence you’re in a lavender field and you think, I could die happy here,” he says. “In New York, this block is it for me.”

In Paris’s 16th arrondissement, just off Avenue Foch near Porte Dauphine, this private mansion sits within a secure cul-de-sac, combining a traditional Parisian limestone exterior with a fully modernized interior, a separate indoor pool annex, and dedicated spa and fitness spaces.

A 1965 Big Sur residence, reworked in the 1990s by architect Mickey Muennig, is set on a forested bluff along California’s Highway 1 within walking distance of the Esalen Institute.