In the guest bathroom, Givone installed a hand-chiseled sink made of 17th-century marble quarried from the hills outside of Rome.

Cody, 17, and Dylan jam in the kitchen with Yogi, the Welsh corgi.

Just beyond the open-plan kitchen and dining room is the living room with a Gelderland sofa and JOV rug.

Black accent pieces create the illusion of a black and white kitchen in the home of San Francisco architect Cass Calder Smith. A black reading nook coordinates perfectly with the stainless steel countertops and white cabinetry.

Thomas used a rake to score the concrete path to the front door. Holes occurred when the rake caught a stone. “It’s a fabric of mistakes,” he says.

Hexagonal Pavers glisten in a drought-tolerant garden, creating a stunning contrast against the turf.

In search of a Bay Area retreat, Jeff Waldman and Molly Fiffer purchased a piece of land on which to experiment and gain new skills, one task at a time.

The IWI also contains a range of utilities, like a sink, lighting, electrical outlets, electrical switches, etc, which can be adapted for the user's needs. It can also be used on or off-grid, depending on where it's located.

This custom spiral wood staircase comes from the mind of architect Fred Babcock. His redesign of this modern log cabin in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributes to the home’s bright interior without blocking any natural light. The stairs’ organic light-toned wood blends beautifully with the cabin’s interior colors, flooring, and stonework.

The acclaimed Italian designers Ludovica + Roberto Palomba carved a serene retreat out of a 17th-century oil mill in Salento.

The black-stained wood siding of the Crossfield St House references London’s timber-clad houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.

"A double-gated motor court and six-foot perimeter wall bordering the property further enhances the sense of a private oasis,

Mirror Mirror by Maria Bruun is a design that questions human reflection. A series of angled mirrors clings onto corners, ceilings, edges, and surfaces, reflecting multiple sides of both the space and the beholder. The mirror is made of high polished stainless steel and oak.

This rounded, three-legged oak trestle by Jonas Klein can be used to support a dining table or a work table.

The arched walls and thresholds of this former 17th-century oil mill residence in Salento, Puglia serves as a dramatic backdrop for its Italian designer owners to showcase their contemporary custom creations and iconic, modern Italian furniture.

AnonymDesign is the studio of Lene Munthe and Karen Wibroe, both architects and industrial designers. The toolbox is a wall-mounted storage piece that keeps necessary items in plain sight in a simple ash and oak wood cabinet.

One vertical unit fully looped with yarn. There are 17 lines at every section of frame.

"Knot 2," Anni Albers, 1947. Both Anni and Josef Albers pushed students to consider how line, color, and form could communicate ideas to the viewer, and pursued these concepts in their own work.

The 17th-century farmhouse is made entirely of natural stone.

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Mette Duedahl wanted to take the best elements of two everyday items (stoneware and the traditional, glass French coffee press) and transfer them to a contemporary context. He updated the materials with a shell made of dyed stoneware casting slip, an extraordinarily tactile, smooth-to-the-touch material. The coffee jugs have a plunger in stainless steel and a Plexiglas lid with a beech wood knob.

The crumbling stone walls of a 17th-century farmhouse in the remote countryside of Dumfries, Scotland, presented a unique renovation opportunity for Lily Jencks Studio and Nathanael Dorent Architecture, the teams behind this project. Rather than demolish the old walls, they inserted a crisp, modern home within them, so as to emphasize the site's history and passage of time.

The restored 17th-century farmhouse in the Baix Empordà region of Spain.

Before renovations, the farm had been abandoned for some 17 years.

Wexler and Harrison's original plan was to create affordable vacation homes for a growing middle class. When this home first went on the market with the others in 1962, it was competitively priced between $13,000 and $17,000. Today, the kitchen has been restored following guidelines from its original configuration, and the landscaping was updated in 2001 with Wexler's oversight.

The largest single piece of steel in the staircase is 17 feet long and 10 feet tall.

Will Gamble Architects revives a crumbling, 17th-century structure with a svelte addition of steel, brick, and glass.

The F-Shop is comprised of 17 shipping containers and was opened in 2006. The architects are Annette Spillmann and Harald Echsle.

Gather Greene's luxury campsite includes 17 cabins that are available to rent for individual stays during the off-season.

The midcentury modern home is located on 1.7 acres of land and features bluestone terraces, fieldstone walls, and elevated views of the countryside.