The Well-Dressed Kitchen Has Grown Feathers Again

Birds are back in the American interior, and in good company. Architectural Digest counts the kitchen of Julianne Moore among the rooms now wearing them, and reports the motif has not been this widespread since 2011. For a reader walking a listing in Palm Beach or on the East End, the sign to watch for is small: a bird on a tile behind the range, on the wallpaper of a breakfast room, or perched in porcelain on an open shelf. It is a detail that costs almost nothing against the price of the house and says a good deal about who furnished it. That is precisely the kind of thing this desk likes to notice.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.