The City Life: Apartments We Love

Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste. While the beer and candy aisles of the store were heavily trafficked, the back “household goods” section was not.

The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm.

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

From sitting and sleeping to lolling and loitering, these new sleeper sofas are workaholics of relaxation—on either the day or the night shift.

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

When graphic designers Jeanette and Mike Abbink left behind their loft in San Francisco—with collected ephemera, a voluminous library, and a parcel of paintings in tow—they didn’t...

In Ørestad—Copenhagen’s tiny but buzzing new hub of urban development—a mountain rises from the flatlands.

Best friends since middle school, Casey Patten and David Mazza have a passion for their up-and-coming slice of Washington, DC, matched only by their commitment to making you the...

Good design isn’t inextricably wed to a high price tag. These classic designs run the gamut of types and prices.

When it comes to great product design, the material is often the message. Matuse’s wetsuits prove why.

We asked three product designers from three different fields what the future holds. Oddly, none of them mentioned crystal balls.