Thanks to Matthew Hufft, their envelope-pushing architect and longtime friend, Hannah and Paul Catlett have a new home in southwestern Missouri that’s a fresh, unconventional take on the traditional farmhouse.

The dining room table is often used for rousing games of cribbage, but cleans up nicely when it's time to eat. The small balcony outside is home to a collection of plants (which get watered more often than the succulents inside).

Young’s <5_MY chair for Coalesse, $1,700, is a cutting-edge carbon-fiber design that weighs in at less than five pounds. The chair was inspired by his work with bicycles, is stackable for easy storage, and can be customized to match any color using an app.

Brogan’s home overlooking Lake Michigan is clad in tongue-and-groove new-growth cypress. Vertical basswood slats follow the stairs to the second floor and into the master bedroom, extending outside to serve as the railing for a small balcony.

A scenic view from dinner at the Ship in the Desert, home of Trina Turk and Jonathan Skow.

The bed in Sara’s room has been in the family since the early 1900s.

This photograph shows a young Walter Gropius in 1919, the year that Gropius became the successor to the master of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts, the school which, under Gropius' guidance, became the Staatliches Bauhaus.

Young lauched his EOQ line at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, showcasing material-driven pieces like the Shindo chair, $2,775, a lightweight creation made from 20 layers of carbon-fiber twill weaves.

Curator Zoe Ryan, posing for our December/January 2011 Young Guns feature.

For Kevin Murphy's Young.Again, the designers cut the corners of the eggplant bottle to give the form a jewel-like surface.

Jeglinska established her firm, Office for Design & Research, in 2010.

After graduating from the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Scherer established his own studio in Berlin in 2010.

This Carbon Fiber chair by Michael Young for Coalesse was developed in collaboration with a company that builds high-performance bicycles. The result, a lightweight stacking chair, guarantees exceptional performance.

"The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done."

The young danish designer Søren Rose shot by Canziani for our May 2012 issue.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

The line also includes side tables and stools that are wrapped in colorful bands.

Ian Walton (who comes from a long line of physicists) and Marcel Twohig (the son of an artist and sculptor) met at an overlapping stint at Design Partners, an international consultancy headquartered in Ireland.

For the -ISH series, de Allegri collaborated with Fogale, with whom she collaborates.

Chelsea Boy, a protoype gin-and-tonic glass dedicated to his late friend, designer James Irvine, was presented at Bar Basso during the Milan Furniture Fair.

While the clients were away, David Noordhoff lived at the house for three months with his wife and young child.

Francis and RJ relax at home with their two young children.

Alterstudio Architecture of Austin designed this house in the Texas capital for a young family of four.

The cover of Murakami Versailles.

During the winter, the Youngs go on long ski tours and warm up in the sauna.

Parisian designer Benjamin Graindorge is completely content in his chosen métier, professing that “learning is freedom.”

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshizawa has studied textile design in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where she is currently finishing her master’s degree at Helsinki’s Aalto University.

A Southern California native, Casey Lurie honed his aesthetic in art programs at Cal Arts and Northwestern University, but it wasn’t until he met Teruo Kurosaki, founder of the influential Japanese furniture brand Idée, that his true purpose took root.

Italian designer Daniele Bortotto has worked with a number of masters, including glassblower Massimo Lunardon, perfumer Lorenzo Dante Ferro, and 125-year-old textiles company Rubelli.

Swiss designer Margaux Keller is currently working on a line of home goods for SIA and pieces for Roche Bobois.

Stockholm-based designer Nick Ross calls on historical events for inspiration for his works.

“Part of the story of why we became designers is because we saw what the masters did.”—Søren Rose

German designer Karoline Fesser aims to create customizable works that owners can put their own stamp on.

ORIGAMI TABLE Designers Jaime Salm and Young Jin Chung translated the beauty of origami to this small side table. The two laser-cut steel sheets ship flat, then the simple folds will slot them together.

Calen Knauf and Conrad Brown are simpatico in a way that only best friends can be.