Horses Atelier Best friends Heidi Sopinka and Claudia Dey took a leap of faith in 2012 when they set their writing careers aside to make a line of dresses. After two years, the Toronto designers now have a roster of boutiques from Toronto to Tokyo featuring their deceptively simple pieces.

The B.M. Horse chair.

Brooms by Fredericks and Mae Design duo Fredericks and Mae contributed their quirky horsehair brooms.

Work space at Owner's Office with the wooden stacking unit, facing the entrance.

At Cuadra San Cristóbal, the water feature serves three purposes: as a drinking fountain for horses, as a reflection pond, and as a swimming pool for horses.

Milk, sugar, or oats? Bound to start a conversation, the white porcelain Ceramic Mug with Gold Hooves from Barbara Sniegula's Wrocław, Poland, studio brings surrealism to tea.

Dylan, 10, and Zoe, 13, have a lazy float down the creek, Huck Finn–style, in a steel horse-watering tank.

Grand Parquet Horse Eventing Area (Fontainbleau, France: 2012) While this horse racing track doesn’t necessarily present a blueprint for 100,000-capacity football stadiums, the incredible natural landscaping and environmental integration by Joly & Loiret make it a demonstration of less being considerably more. The gently sloping wooden structure isn't so much a building as an extension of the natural landscape. Photos by M. Denance Photographe

The Owner's room reflects the craftsmanship of the studio through the art wall behind his desk showcasing ornate horses.

Cuadra San Cristóbal is home to seven dogs, five horses, three cats, one parrot, and one rescued donkey.

Buenos Aires-based Estudio Ramos designs a concrete, wood, and iron stable that houses 44 prized horses and melds with the surrounding plains. In central Argentina, the province of La Pampa is dominated by vast, grassy plains whose fertile soil supports myriad farms and ranches. Stretching out in all directions, the flatlands resemble an ocean in its sheer horizontality. When professional polo player Nacho Figueras—a champion of the sport and a longtime Ralph Lauren model—enlisted architect Juan Ignacio Ramos of Estudio Ramos to build a stable for 44 polo horses, the architect was sure to incorporate the region’s meditative flatness into the design.

Once a horse stable, this Chicago house first got a superficial makeover from Oprah (we wonder whether Stedman likes modern) before architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang was called in for a more substantial renovation and a dazzlingly porous brick screen.

Ryan McLaughlin watches the sunset from the deck of the 160-square-foot tiny home he built, with no prior experience, at his parents’ horse ranch in Georgetown, Texas. Soon, the trailer-mounted cabin will be moved to a vineyard, where it will operate grid-free and be available to rent for short stays.

In Seattle's rapidly developing South Lake Union neighborhood, the Art Stable is a classic example of urban infill. Built on the site of a former horse stable, the seven-story mixed-use building carries its history into the future with highly adaptable live/work units.

The five-stall horse barn has been recently updated.

The design team used a prefab building system to construct the corrugated metal horse stables.

The 16-acre property includes room for the family’s horses and a portable chicken coop.

Located in a courtyard near the Copenhagen Lakes, the Stable House originally served as stables for horses that carried water from the lakes.

The home connects to the rural surroundings, reflecting the colors and textures of the scenery where horses graze and olive groves grow.

The Iron Horse is located near Milwaukee's electric downtown, offering guests plenty of opportunity for unique entertainment.

Designed in 1960, the house was originally a lodge to accommodate horse trails. Throughout the years, the house has expanded with various additions and renovations.

The O-asis house is set on an elongated 1.7-acre site on a horse property area of Phoenix, north of Piestewa Peak within the Phoenix Mountain Preserve.

The Barn is a weekend retreat for family and friends. It also allows the family to spend time with their horses, which are kept in a nearby paddock.

Horses’ Door Pulls, hand-cast brass with vermillion agate inlay, Evelyn Ackerman, 1959.

Wide, low ceilings frame views toward the horse arena, while also creating visual tension between the interiors and the lush landscape outdoors.

The owner—a ceramics artist—wanted to make the best of the topography of the lot, and also requested views of the site's nearby horse arena.

A striking compound in the 9,500-acre Galisteo Basin Preserve acts as a refuge for a retiree with her family and friends. It even has a stable for her treasured horses, too.

A wall of horse nameplates from a Belgian racetrack and white Egyptian tiles from the 1950s greet guests at the check-in area.

The guest bedrooms feature lighting by Jonathan Adler, including a Horse table lamp in the downstairs unit and an Antwerp pendant upstairs.

The Bjellandsbu, a 376-square-foot hunting cabin located in western Norway. Designed by Snøhetta, Photo by James Silverman #cabin #prefab #norway #horse #grassroof #snow

The original archway, through which horse-drawn carriages once entered, has been preserved and updated with custom glass and steel windows.

Horse/animal shelter

Books, models, and more prototypes—including the 1991 Powder Horse stool, composed of concave stainless-steel surfaces—fill Venlet’s atelier.

Discreet kitchen storage, which conceals the refrigerator, a wine cooler, the freezer, recycling, and cleaning materials, complements a view of one of the family’s five horses.

Johanna Molineus’s peripatetic childhood is reflected in the Chinese and Central Asian textiles and objects found throughout her small London apartment, including a square-patterned horse blanket.

Horse shelter and dog houses