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On an island 20 miles off the coast of Maine, a writer, with the help of his daughter, built not only a room but an entire green...

Limitations—even in choice of wardrobe—fuel the creative fires of Dutch master Karel Martens.

Inventive designers are finding new ways to achieve beautiful, green surroundings that demand less care and feeding.

"You can take the principles of what something stands for and use them in a completely new way.

Connecticut birders happily swap their waterlogged Wellies and foggy field glass for the Wesleyan student–designed SplitFrame, a...

On a former brownfield site across the river from downtown Boston, a renovated turn-of-the-century lithography factory trades in...

Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of midcentury furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great...

Is kitty leaving too much for you to remember him by? Are your wellies tracking dirt? Whatever the mess, these vacuums will help...

Don’t try these landscape design approaches at home.

Each of these residential landscaping projects serves as a model for executing traditional landscape design practices—well.

Garden design is only a fraction of the landscaping tradition. We take a look into (and upon) the field.

For computing commuters, laptop bags are not just about fashion.

They tasked Bates Masi Architects with updating the cypress-clad Long Island residence almost 40 years after Bates built it.

In the small village of Spannum, in the Dutch province of Friesland, Claudy Jongstra heads a felt-design studio whose modesty in...

From the traditional with a twist to completely conceptual, these timely wall clocks will tell the hour, impress the guests, and...

Any way you slice it, toast makes the most of any loaf. But which of these worthy appliances will make toast of the competition?

Once a blue-collar industrial port, Malmö, Sweden, now aims to be a premier design destination. It’s on its way.

Not all pictures are worth a thousand words.

Whether you want to replace your drizzly dud or indulge in a decadent deluge, these showerheads will wash your ills away.

Homes on the range are getting bigger and more expensive by the minute, but a group of progressive architects in Jackson set out...

Matthew Moore has found himself in the curious position of being both an artist and a fourth-generation farmer, working and...

Whether spanning acres or encased in amorphous glass ecospheres, Paula Hayes's singular landscapes blur the boundary between art...

Whether it’s a place to rest your saucers or your sneakers, the coffee table is the workhorse of the most leisurely room in the...

It may not be to Queen Anne's tastes, but 1234 Howard is true to its context.

This dinner guest is always invited, but doesn’t eat or drink, and never joins the conversation.

Blessed with an enviable site on the sylvan shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington state, architect Anthony...

Leonard Koren has led an enviably desultory life, first dropping out of college to paint murals with a group called the Los...

Reflections have captivated us (literally!) for as long as we've had intellect enough for self-awareness.