The Andersen Architectural Collection’s Eagle windows and doors provide the panes and passageways of the home.

"Fish Tales: Between Earth and Ice," Peregrine Design/Build Where water and land meet along the rocky shores of Lake Champlain, the winds and currents wash up sharpened slabs of ice, a phenomenon this shanty by Peregrine Design/Build recreates with its jagged, glistening roof.

This "local prefab" home on the Isle of Skye is made mostly from materials sourced in northern Scotland. The timber-framed model, meant to evoke the simple agrarian barns of the area, can be constructed on-site in as little as a day and is designed for affordability.

A collection of flea-market finds and personal keepsakes sit perched upon a shelf in Austin’s studio.

The Victorian Collection, part of Porcelanosa's Design Series, features several design options, with many donning a reflective surface.

Black and white kitchen cabinets painted with a triangular pattern add a whimsical touch to this funky kitchen.

It’s a good idea to read reviews about specific pieces before buying them, which can help prepare you for the unexpected.

Lara and Ethan Pagnier have hosted over 40 travelers since joining Airbnb, and it's easy to see what attracts them. Apart from owning a spotless home in San Francisco's coveted Mission district, the pair are natural hosts.

Much of the 1950s and '60s furniture collection comes from Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland and the Netherlands.

Urbem lighting collection by Jenner Studio at Area Sciesa.

Distinguished crystal manufacturer Saint-Louis charged three female designers (Paola Navone, Kiki Van Eijk, and Ioanna Vautrin) to design a lighting collection. The designers visited the Saint Louis archives to draw inspiration. Here, Kiki Van Eijk used a former mold to develop an interactive light that opens and closes to your desired brightness.

Designed by Renzo Piano, the Menil Collection contains some 17,000 works by a wide-array of 20th-century modernists, from Man Ray to Mark Rothko.

Eales tells us the Sealand products are headed to France and New Zealand in 2016, and that he has been working on designs for some hemp and cotton apparel.

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Eales, a 2013 Design Indaba Emerging Creative whose surfboard rack won Most Beautiful Object in South Africa two years ago, is a product designer with a focus on the integrity of the raw materials he uses. Together, with a shared passion for the water and creating environmentally friendly products, he and Schlebach hope that Sealand will help keep litter from South Africa’s shores.

Bedroom: There is nothing like going to sleep in new bed linens to make you feel refreshed and ready to face a new day in the morning. We love the Heather collection designed by Anki Spets for Area. The sheets combine mélange ring spun yarns into a soft and sumptuous cotton percale that will only become more supple with use.

Esperanto collection by Monica Graffeo for Rexa Design, price upon request Concealed plumbing and wall brackets belie the appearance of casually freestanding modules, including cabinet shelving, a low-slung stand, and a tall washbasin.

Best dazzle: Lladró's new black-and-white collection is based on "razzle dazzle" camouflage motifs used by ships in the British Admiralty and U.S. Navy in World War I.

Another Sieger Design collection for Duravit, X-Large, incorporates oversized furniture components for the bathroom. A detail we especially like is the knife edge along the top of the vanity: very sleek.

The Rian Collection end table by Semigood Design.

When Abbie and Bill Burton hired Marmol Radziner to design their prefab weekend home, their two requests were “simple-simple, replaceable materials,” says Abbie—such as concrete floors (poured offsite in Marmol Radziner's factory) and metal panel siding—and “the ability to be indoors or outdoors with ease.” Deep overhangs provide shade and protection from rain, so the Burtons can leave their doors open year-round and hang out on their 70-foot-long deck even in inclement weather. They visit the house once a month, usually for a week at a time, with Vinnie and Stella, their rescue Bernese Mountain dogs. Their two adult children occasionally join them. The couple hopes to one day retire here.

Sottsass designed a shelving unit around the couple’s large collection of vintage radios. “We have lots of collections,” says Lesley. “A Pez collection, a chair collection, a perfume collection...Ettore gave us a choice and said we could pick one to have up on display.” A series of the late designer’s Mini Totem earthenware sculptures sit atop the unit. The neon green light accent was inspired by the fluorescent works of artist Dan Flavin. To the right is a First chair from 1983 by designer Michele De Lucchi, who cofounded Memphis.

Montague arranges his objects with a sense of humor. Custom shelves display his collection of salt and pepper shakers.

Note Design Studio incorporates Kvadrat fabric into a series of lighting for Zero. The Elements collection draws on the quality of "soft and gentle" light in Nordic mountains and includes a floor, wall, table, and pendant version.

100% California’s curated collection of furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and more, is definitely one of the most noticeable booths.

"New @sorenrose collection for @fermliving at #maisonetobjet."

The Food Zone Fine-tuning your cooking and dining areas pays off in more ways than just saving resources. As in other functional zones, their success starts with awareness: Where exactly does your food come from? Where exactly does your trash go after you haul it to the curb? Playing an active role in your family’s food cycle can be eye-opening, and it often helps spark an interest in improving other house zones.

How House, the site of the May 17, 2014 reception and talk, and included on the May 18 tour. Photo by Tim Street-Porter.

The concrete wall mimics the slope of the hill outside as a reference to early Maori structures that were dug into the land. The simple kitchen has strandboard cabinetry and an MDF island that conceals a fireplace at one end. The ceramic works on the built-in seat at right are by Raewyn Atkinson and Robyn Lewis.

After living on and studying a woodsy acre of land in North Zealand, Denmark, architect Jesper Brask cleared a stand of pine trees and, from the timber, built a getaway open to its surroundings. The house, which Brask shares with his wife, Lene, and sons, Kristian, Jens, and Niels, is used mainly in summer, when the weather is optimal for throwing open the glass doors.

The first thing visitors see as they enter the house is Bornstein’s impressive collection of architecture and design books. The sofa and chair were designed by Bornstein for Swedese.

Ionescu’s room has built in shelving for his eclectic collections. “We embrace everything—new, old, anything that embraces the truth in architecture,” says Ionescu. “We’ve been compared to the Deconstructivists, but we like things that are decorative or made by hand—16th century objects, Art Nouveau, anything that has an aesthetic truth to it.”

Created by one of Japan's oldest porcelain manufacturers Scholten & Baijings, this tea set is both modern and timeless.