Live/Work: Mixing Business with Pleasure

Design iconoclast Matali Crasset—notably bespectacled and bowl-cutted—spent her youth in the French countryside before finding her creative feet in college.

For American Apparel honcho Michael Pozner, making his compact Manhattan living quarters double as his office was no small feat.

Versatile like an accent pillow or throw, a pouffe need not match your living-room set to settle in and look right at home.

Off the coast of British Columbia—on a site accessible only by boat—a family of Vancouver urbanites commissioned a sustainable cabin for weekend getaways that feels a world away.

Switching coasts from Brooklyn to Portland gave architects Mitchell Snyder and Shelley Martin a new set of unexpected clients: three young hens.

The city is home to one of history’s most important buildings, the Parthenon. But how does it fare architecturally today?

In Toronto, a painter accustomed to crashing in his studio created an airy artistic haven with both working and living quarters for a more balanced and polished picture.

The late architect David Boone was always one to take his work home with him—he just kept it in the home’s office.

Fitting the private and public spaces into 1,115 square feet prompted Japanese avant-garde architect Makoto Tanijiri to think outside the box.

For the architect and interior designer, whose modernist pedigree would make any contemporary designer squeal, design was all about the right groovy palette for the right glitzy...

The ancient Greeks did it in the agora; the Romans did it in the forum; Persians did it in the bazaar (“the place of prices”); and Arabs and Berbers did it in the labyrinthine...

There’s a fine art to getting you to gape—one that shop-window designers of all stripes must learn.

Even high-design dressing rooms, rare as they are, rarely function or inspire as the shop floor can. That may be changing, though.

Rescued from its long tenure as the home of processed snacks, the vending machine is enjoying a moment of unprecedented glitz.

Personal devices are the new frontier for shops peddling their wares. Have a look at how your toddler will shop.

When your house includes an industrial design studio, architecture office, and metalwork shop, what more do you need?