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Patchwork Textile Is the Digital Palette Cleanser We Need Right Now
Patchwork Textile Is the Digital Palette Cleanser We Need Right Now
Designers and makers share why they’re turning to the age-old craft at a time when we're all looking for an antidote to life online.
By River Davies
From the Archive: How Edith Heath Upended Modern Ceramics
After her death more than two decades ago, we revisited how the trailblazing potter’s beloved tableware became synonymous with California style and the midcentury-modern aesthetic.
A Wavy Wardrobe Echoes Original Barrel Vaulted Ceilings in This Renovated Barcelona Flat
The scalloped pattern was a starting point for several features across the 646-square-foot apartment, which now has an open floor plan.
Their Family of Seven Needed Space, So They Built a Backyard House
Featuring curvaceous details and unexpected pops of color, the garden suite in Toronto’s Davisville Village does triple duty as a clubhouse, workspace, and guest quarters.
Richard Neutra’s Hendershot House Is on the Market for $5.95M
Listed for just the second time, the revamped 1962 residence is perched above a creek in the Hollywood Hills.
Burnished Aluminum Sheeting Covers the Entire Ground Floor of This Renovated 1893 Lisbon Home
The material and the ultramarine color covering the exterior hint to the building’s past in an industrial part of town.
Vintage Vibes Fill an Architect’s $1.7M Midcentury Home in Portland
John R. Gatewood’s 1956 residence is remarkably well preserved with cork floors, colorful built-ins, and period light fixtures.
I Learned Exactly Why American Architects Stay Tight-Lipped About the Government
Design professionals have highly practical reasons to keep their opinions to themselves.
One Night in a Cold War-Era Bunker Turned Airbnb in New Mexico
On a trip to Roswell, a city known for UFOs and military secrets, my girlfriend and I stayed in an appropriately off-center spot: a former missile base made into a subterranean...
500-Million-Year-Old Boulders Prop Up This Small Cabin in New York
There’s an ancient stone at each corner of the 980-square-foot plan, which you enter underneath via stairs rising through a cutout.

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