Before & After: This $57K Ranch House Revamp Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Plants RJ Guillermo and Francis Aquino outfit their 1951 L.A. home with a backyard oasis—and roughly 350 potted plants.
Sometimes Building Your Dream Home Means Putting a Pole Through Your Pool A designer and his client tell us about the compromises required to create a home worthy of being on the cover of an architecture...
The Uncanny Joy of Gawking at Ugly Things Our appetite for home design content that’s absurd, garish, and downright bad is only becoming more insatiable, and the market is...
A Trash Bag Sofa, a Big Hairy Chandelier, and More Tactile Treasures From Design Miami 2022 The best objects at this year’s fair beckoned visitors to tune into their sense of touch.
Construction Diary: A Ceramicist Gets Hands On While Renovating Her Midcentury Home Ren von Hasseln polishes up a run-down ranch house in Ojai with colorful brick, handcrafted tile, and glazing galore.
A Composer and Fashion Designer Add an Inspiring Creative Space to Their Los Angeles Backyard The two-level ADU is decked out with a light-filled recording studio for him, and for her, a luminous design space with soaring...
The Story of Scandinavian Design Isn’t What You Think It Is A new LACMA exhibit explores the influence of the region on American design, setting aside greige minimalism and celebrating...
L.A. Roaster Canyon Coffee’s First Storefront Serves Up a Warm, Woody Vibe Espresso impresarios Ally Walsh and Casey Wojtalewicz found inspiration in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch, Donald Judd, and Sea...
In L.A.’s Silver Lake Neighborhood, a Renovation Takes Advantage of Enviable Views The view was incredible—the house not so much—but a couple saw the potential in a hillside fixer-upper.
An 11-Year Renovation Helps a Couple Grow Simpatico With the Original Homeowner’s Quirky Vision An inspired, if poorly constructed, Los Angeles home gets a proper retrofit that preserves its many idiosyncrasies.
An L.A. Family Gets Creative With Materials to Make Their Net-Zero Home Undeniably Their Own A couple enlist their architect parents to build a wonderfully eclectic house, taking on the challenges of a precipitous site and...
A Multimedia Polymath Across platforms, artist and designer Martine Syms makes use of publications, installations, and social media to convey her...
Gardens Will Grow Over Water Thomas Heatherwick combines infrastructure with public space to make the world a little greener.
Bike Sharing’s Growing Pains As many cities’ rental programs suffer, Paris rides ahead.
Why Your Next Prefab May Be by a World-Famous Designer Revolution, a new design platform that commissions the likes of Daniel Libeskind and Ron Arad to build collectible,...