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Her husband was adamant: The investment manager would accept any place for a vacation home other than Ibiza, the Spanish island known far and wide for its wild nightlife, hedonistic discotheques, and celebrity sightings. “We started with the Hamptons, then Greece, and then Mallorca, because he plays golf, and it has plenty of courses,” says his ebullient wife, Emma Roig Askari, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair Spain, a TV commentator for Atresmedia, and a Christie’s ambassador. Her secret weapon was simple: to take her recalcitrant husband to Ibiza offseason, “when the valleys are full of flowers and there’s beautiful sunlight. Little by little, he got interested.” Three years of diligent searching later, the London-based couple and their relieved grown children—“They were so happy that we’d finally decided on something”—found a…

LIKE A VIVID MIRAGE, Jan Salta’s first memories of Palm Springs in the late 1960s flash in Technicolor. Arriving in Southern California as a flight attendant, the native midwesterner joined her roommate on a jaunt to explore the desert town. She was soon enamored of its vibrant palette—a city bursting with hot pinks, lime greens, and sunny yellows. “I remember thinking that I would love to live here one day,” says Jan. But it wasn’t quite time. She met her husband, Mike, after moving back to the area in the mid-1970s. The couple settled elsewhere in California, eventually buying a home in Newport Beach and consulting with designer-builders Melinda and Fari Pakzad of luxury handcrafted furnishings company Ebanista to help with the renovation. “My husband was leery about hiring a decorator,”…

A ceiling is like a surprise baby, the ELLE DECOR A-List designer Celerie Kemble says. “Homeowners are like, ‘Wait a second! We just lacquered a wall. We have a big rug. We did the curtains. You’re telling me I have a fourth child I didn’t know about?’” But sometimes, the family—or room—just doesn’t feel complete without a statement ceiling. Increasingly, designers are incorporating treatments to direct eyes upward. India Mahdavi, the Paris-based ELLE DECOR A-List Titan, finds that “when I apply a strong floor to a space, I tend to respond with a strong ceiling to balance out the room. It initiates a conversation between heaven and earth and everything in between.” “People are looking for more details and finer finishes,” says Paris-based ELLE DECOR A-List designer Jean-Louis Deniot. “By treating the…