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From the Archive: When Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Your Home, You Never Want to Leave
Despite being in their 80s and 90s, many of the trailblazing architect’s clients never gave up on the dream.
A Radically Efficient Memphis Home Raises the Bar for Sustainability
Architect Barry Alan Yoakum draws on decades of experience to build what, by one measure, is the first zero-energy, zero-carbon...
An A. Quincy Jones Home in Crestwood Hills Retains Its Midcentury Bones—With Some 21st-Century Flair
A couple return their house in the historic Los Angeles neighborhood to its former glory—and add some soul of their own.
A Cor-Ten-and-Concrete Home Joins a Storied Site on the Pacific Ocean
At Sea Ranch, the famed modernist enclave of rugged residences on the Northern California coast, a new house captures the spirit...
The Hill Bathroom
When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare...
Color 101: Chipping Away
Most designers, be they graphic or interior, consult their Pantone fan guide when considering hues.
Color 101: Hueless
Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors.
Stripped Ease
All of the money Barbara Hill poured into remodeling her 1960s condo in Houston was spent taking things out—and she couldn’t be...
Universal Appeal
When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to...
Light Box
For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out.
Double Time
The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes...