Martha Stewart at Home: 20 Photos of the Legendary Homemaker in…

The mogul honed the tastes that made her famous at a few bucolic country estates

Before there were Pinterest boards and Instagram reels, there was Martha Stewart. The homemaking icon elevated quotidian domestic tasks like cooking and gardening to aspirational levels, feeding a burgeoning demand for lifestyle advice through scores of her own made-from-scratch recipes, elaborately set tablescapes, and pristinely manicured grounds. She became the first American woman to build a billion-dollar company—one based on sharing knowledge of the domestic arts, no less. “She was the first person that saw the marketability of her personal life,” her friend Lloyd Allen claims in Martha, the 2024 Netflix documentary. “Martha was the first influencer.”