EDITOR'S LETTER

Many years ago when I was working at Architectural Digest, my dear friend, the architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, shared his thoughts about the difference between a house and a home. "Designers create a house," he said, "but it is the people who live there that create the home." This has always stayed with me. Marrying furnishings designed or purchased for a particular space (or brought from a previous residence) with the bones of a new structure is important, but ultimately it is the soul of the homeowner that turns the house into a home. A house is the backdrop for the life that unfolds there, whether it is a place to escape to, to entertain from or to congregate with family and friends—or a combination of all these elements.

We all need havens we can walk into and feel immediately at home, whatever that may be for each of us. My life and my passions have always taken me to many wonderful places, and over the last two years I have been shuttling back and forth between various hotels, friends' residences in far-flung places and my Toronto loft. I have also lived in numerous geographic locations. But there is nothing like coming home to your roots.