The Now 99

When it came time to partake in rituals like lighting the Shabbat candles or setting the seder plate, designer Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects, Inc., saw nothing but a sea...

A pair of designers dream up a fresh way of knitting pixelated fabric, powered by a 21st-century sewing machine.

Danish designer Søren Rose debuted eight pieces of his Park Avenue furniture collection for De La Espada at the London Design Festival last year, and though the line is for sale...

A self-taught designer embarks upon a solo mission to resuscitate a 19th-century homestead.

Architect and healthcare design visionary Michael Graves shares his thoughts on how paralysis has affected his approach and practice.

For the street-facing front of a house in Belgium, a local firm uses a classic material in a fresh way.

Two homes combine under one roof in this unique lakeside structure.

Max Lipsey always begins his design process by holding a material in his bare hands. He then pushes it, massages it, and experiments with it. “Before I even sketch, I need to get...

Pia Wüstenberg, a young German-Finnish designer based in London, graduated just last year from the Royal College of Art (RCA).

If 28-year-old Henry Wilson were not a designer, he would be a skipper.

Renée Rossouw funneled her various fixations into a single focus when she spent 2010 pursuing the Master of European Design Labs, an interdisciplinary degree program directed by...

Federico Churba graduated from the industrial design program at the University of Buenos Aires in 2001, right on the cusp of Argentina’s economic crisis and the collapse of its...

Fredrik Färg originally wanted to be an interior architect, but the urge to create objects with his hands won out.

A self-proclaimed “collector of old stuff,” designer Yota Kakuda finds inspiration in vintage objects found in junk shops and flea markets.

Jonas R. Stokke and Øystein Austad met in a portfolio review at the Oslo School of Architecture in 2004 and have worked together ever since.

John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt named their studio after the made-up word “gorm,” an invented antonym to the real word “gormless” (meaning stupid or dull).

Familiar objects take surprising new forms in the hands of experimental designer Aldo Bakker.

A striated addition to a brick neo-Georgian near Boston addresses the owners’ primary goal: to engage with the outdoors year-round.

Creative projects get a leg up and their word out at gatherings that serve donations with a side of social capital. Move over, Kickstarter.

Eager for public space, communities re-create their streets as temporary cafes, playgrounds, and bike lanes.