Perfection is boring.

You’ve decided to join the shipping container revolution.

Experimenting with prefab elements, designer David Del Valle and architect Amalia Ramírez create a weekend retreat outside...

A new wave of devices proposes to improve how kids experience the world, striving to support everything from sleep quality to...

"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz.

From the holy grail of glassware to a fermentation crock that guarantees perfect pickles, here’s what Zach Klein swears by.

These are not your grandmother’s libraries.

With a wild approach, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick pushes the boundaries of landscaping.

Miele's new La Perla series dishwashers (available in late fall 2008) have an automatic door opening and closing system that aids...

These fiery facades aren’t for the faint of heart.

Our appetite for home design content that’s absurd, garish, and downright bad is only becoming more insatiable, and the market is...

In the 1989 comedy, the gaudy Long Island home of Meryl Streep’s character captures everything I love about romance novels in one...

In North Vancouver, Canadian architects Scott & Scott have breathed new life into an aging mid-century home.

A story I heard this morning on Morning Edition on NPR reminded me yet again of Americans' outlandish sense of what makes for a...

Make of it what you will: Welton Becket's "House of Tomorrow" is in foreclosure.

So I actually got to see (and sit in) the much-hyped, all-electric Mini E at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and there were rumors...

Posters celebrating bicycles, a Twitter persona straight from the middle ages, a stand-up performance that has us in stitches,...

It's Friday, you know what that means—our weekly round-up of art, photography, architecture, music, and design finds.

This week our internet proclivities include bookshelf porn, Star Wars dandies, museum blogs and rebooted illustrations for film...

A dancer and a retired academic restart their lives in the seaside city of Porto, where they can let their personalities shine.

With his newest book, internationally renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist brings together 20 years of his do it project: an...

An exhibition at the Polish Pavilion explores the thin line between paradise and dystopia.

I had two legs to my trip as I flew back to San Francisco from Melbourne, Australia.

Ribbons here, ribbons there, ribbons everywhere!

The Bocca sofa, the Ox chair—if you look past the franchise’s exaggerated midcentury references, its design universe includes...

The psychological drama is yet another entry in the mythology of the English stately house and its hold on our cultural...

Our editors sorted through thousands of chairs and countless other objects during Milan’s design week to spot the trends and...

A firm with a daring sense of creativity puts its stamp on Mexico City.

Do you consider yourself a cat person or a dog person? According to Hunch, the blog that Aaron found this week, that distinction...

In Vieira do Minho, a small village in northern Portugal, Guilherme Vaz designed a fortresslike retreat that embraces the natural...

In his latest exhibition, the designer glazes steel and stone tables with honey, turmeric, and milk, creating new flavors that...

Have you ever wanted to peek inside the notebooks of your favorite designers? In The Detour Book: The Moleskine notebook...

I never went to sleepaway camp—but films like “The Parent Trap” and “Wet Hot American Summer” made the rustic experience seem...

I bid the fair city of Edinburgh farewell this morning as I boarded the train at Waverley Station.