JOURNALIST, AUTHOR, ENTERTAINER
Christopher is a longtime contributor to The New York Times, Air Mail, New York, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, Architectural Digest, Departures, and The World of Interiors.
A SELECTION OF ARTICLES BY CHRISTOPHER MASON
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Jacopo Etro’s Puglian Palazzo
Jacopo Etro’s summer retreat in Puglia, Italy, stands as an ode to the collector’s impulse: the thrill of discovery, a reverence for decay, and the restless eye that turns… More
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Alice Mason Hid a Family Secret
Alice Mason was a celebrated hostess and New York’s real-estate agent to the elite, but while she was showing lavish apartments to clients like Marilyn Monroe, she was hiding… More
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Muriel Brandolini Designs a Long Island Guest House
‘It’s a jewel box’, Muriel Brandolini says of the deluxe three-bedroom guest house she designed for an American client in Southampton, Long Island. The half-French, half-Vietnamese designer, known for… More
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Hotel Chelsea
The Hotel Chelsea in New York City has been restored to its former glory thanks to a meticulous attention to detail by its new owner Sean MacPherson. More
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Mark Ronson: Keys to My Heart
When Mark Ronson bought a grandly scaled Manhattan townhouse with five bedrooms just over two years ago, he was 44, newly single, and eager to fall in love and… More
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Whiff of Scandal: Guerlain Elder Abuse
La Maison Guerlain, the ornately gilded Art Nouveau perfumery at 68 Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, is redolent of grand luxe. It is, after all, the home of the… More
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Camp isn’t Just Fashion, It’s design
Camp is suddenly all the rage. As the topic of the Metropolitan Museum’s ingenious new exhibition at the Costume Institute, “Camp: Notes on Fashion”—a witty nod to Susan Sontag’s… More
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Remembering the Marvelous, Maddening Mario Buatta
When Mario Buatta drew his last breath at 9:12 p.m. on Oct. 15 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the celebrated interior designer, 82, known for his exuberantly colorful work, riotous… More
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What’s in a Dame? Has Being Knighted Lost Its Prestige?
Ardent fans of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch may still be reeling from his defeat in the high-stakes competition of this year’s Oscars, when fellow Brit Eddie Redmayne won for… More
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The Craziest House Party of the 20th Century
While thumbing through one of Cecil Beaton’s unpublished scrapbooks two years ago—enjoying a peek at a friend’s rarefied collection—I stumbled on a blurry black-and-white photograph of a tousle-haired youth.… More
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Stephen Gambrel Imbues a Storied Manhattan Duplex With his signature style
When designer Steven Gambrel visited a Manhattan couple’s apartment on the Upper East Side for the first time, he was captivated by their 1912 building’s Renaissance palazzo architecture—and by… More
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David Easton Restores a Palm Beach Landmark to its Former Glory
When Palm Beach, Florida, was heralded as a subtropical paradise in the early 1900s, Charles Munn Jr., a social arbiter known as Mr. Palm Beach, hired superstar architect Addison… More