It’s also where Yoko Ono and John Lennon liked to vacation; Ono once described Karuizawa as “an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons, except it’s in the mountains.” ...

In the interior designer Ed Ng’s study, inside the Karuizawa, Japan, home that he shares with his partner, the architect Terence Ngan, a Patrice Besso painting hangs over a vintage desk.