Open to the valley, the home lets the Shopes fully experience the seasons, even the sound of the Hudson River’s ice cracking in winter.

Don’t be afraid to invest in organization systems for your office, closet, and bedroom. They can make all the difference!

House Christmas Calendar This modern yet magical countdown calendar allows you the fun of celebrating the anticipation of Christmas in a stylish way. No cardboard and cheap chocolate here folks.

Jonas R. Stokke and Øystein Austad, who work in Oslo, Norway, under the name StokkeAustad, created this Dayboard calendar in order to give people more freedom to arrange the year as they see fit. Each individual date is affixed to the steel base with magnets, allowing users to move the days around.

Another view of the pair, with pup Pip underfoot.

2011: Peter Zumthor Wrapped in stark, black wood, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine scheme presented a frame for Piet Oudolf’s lush garden, a use of color and space that manages to create a secret garden in an already outdoor space. Photograph © 2011 Walter Herfst

StokkeAustad’s Dayboard offers a uniquely personal approach to time-keeping.

The Timor Perpetual Desk Calendar was designed in 1967 by Enzo Mari, and has remained in production by Danese Milano since its launch. The cleverly designed calendar is designed for tabletop or desk placement, and includes rotating cards that include the date, month, and day of the week.

ISAM with Amon Tobin (2011) V-Squared Labs and Leviathan created this cutting-edge concert setup, which surrounds the Brazilian-born producer and DJ with real-time projection mapping and generative imagery. Image courtesy of Calder Wilson

Hundreds attended the kick-off party at New Center Park for the inaugural Detroit Design Festival in 2011. Photo by Noah Stephens.

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

Composed of walnut, ramin, beech, and maple, this slim Danese Milano Bilanca Perpetual Calendar was designed by Enzo Mari in 1959. Like any good small living accessory, it does double duty: from afar, it looks like an abstract work of art.

Their products, like the calendar seen here, are mostly available in Argentine musuem shops and select stores, though they plan to expand to online sales in February.

Woodblock calendar that Eiland helped create for Fossil, based on vintage woodtype.

Poketo’s Stick-Up Weekly Calendar is both a sticky pad and calendar, in one slim pad. The pad includes seven sections, each for a day of the week and each section includes lines for writing as well as small boxes for checking off completed tasks.

The Viking range and Bosch refrigerator in the kitchen are paired with Ikea lights and cabinets.

The Trattoria—a near-perfect chair.

"Check out The Future Perfect's GALLERY installation at 55 Great Jones Street."

Sideshow! textiles by Richard Saja at The Future Perfect.

In Japan Style we explore the proliferation of Japanese design and how it's been folded into the story of modernism. Our cover story is actually in San Diego, and we hit a Japanese-inspired home in Edinburgh, Scotland too. Photo by: Daniel Hennessy

Untitled. From series "Funktionsorte," 2011.

Inspiration for the new season, Garden Furniture 2011, shot by Petra Bindel for Elle Interior.

In our 2011 small spaces issue we checked out the home of a pair of design-savvy Portlanders. And in the cover story we check out a small New York spot remade with 36 commercial doors. Photo by: Nicholas Calcott

A pair of re-tooled bedside tables.

Keener's bedroom contains a bed, a pair of boots, and a selection of books—and nothing else.

The broad deck and seating area are perfect for the Mediterranean climate and invite guests outdoors.

Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has curated a selection of art and design at the Future Perfect, including pieces by Bec Brittain and Michael Anastassiades. (55 Great Jones Street)

Lindsey Adelman Studio and Future Perfect, 55 Great Jones, New York, NY November 23, 2009 PHOTO CREDIT: Kate Glicksberg

Pair's database includes over 400 3D models, each of which can be placed into your room within a half-inch of precision. You can insert multiple models and snap screenshots for future reference. The best part? The app is free for users; it's the manufacturers who pay to make their products available to you. And how does Pair recognize and remember your room's dimensions? Complex visual algorithms place points around the room and track their location, allowing the program to dynamically understand the space even as you move through it. (For the technologically inclined, it's called SLAM: simultaneous localization and mapping).

Untitled. From series "Studie Eins," 2011.

Untitled. From series "Snow Blind," 2011.

Untitled. From series "Studie Eins," 2011.

2011, Studio Cerri & Associatti / Pierluigi Cerri and Allessandro Colombo.

Iwan Baan: Torre David #1 (2011)