The north wall of the IST home functions as a cut-away, offering a peek inside an efficient yet cozy dwelling. Architect Peter Jurkovič built the home for a woman who had sold her flat in the big city of Bratislava and wanted something that reminded her of the village life of her childhood.

Built by a crew of three, the home makes a virtue out of being unfussy and straightforward. The north-facing glass wall under the gable, with a triple-glazed facade, doesn't require shading or insulation. The quick-to-build structure—which consists of just structural insulated panels (SIB) made from OSB panels with a foam core, and a concrete floor that retains heat—doesn't include any complicated systems or require much maintenance.

Inside, the custom-built casework and splashes of blue and red stand out. Jurkovič designed a central "service box" on the ground floor, so open space wraps around the plywood-encased core which contains the kitchen, bathroom, toilet, stairs, and storage.

Glass Houses Though the original plans called for a frameless wall of glass in the back, it turned out that it would eat up most of the budget. Instead, they installed three wood-framed windows made by Fecon. fecon.de Cut and Plant For the landscaping, the couple literally took a page out of somebody else’s book. Winterhalder says their garden was lifted from page 38 of Peter Janke’s Kleine Gärten (Small Gardens), published by Becker Joest Volk Verlag. bjvv.de

The kitchen and dining area benefit from the light that pours in from the glass wall. A set of Hay J77 chairs and a YES Crane Light wrap around the table.

The garden-facing "ganok," an under-roof porch, connects the home with the outdoors. A key part of traditional homes, according to Jurkovič, the ganok gives these narrow buildings on small plots of land more outdoor space.

Balanced above the central core, the office offers an ideal perch for work with a west-facing skylight that provides natural illumination for the shared desk space.

606 Universal Shelving designed by Dieter Rams for Vitsœ maximizes space in the media center of the home. The near-Tiffany blue that wraps the door frame is a traditional touch, according to Jurkovič.

The back bedroom and small bathroom benefit from warmer, more playful flooring, including the geometric black-and-white pattern below the tub.

Available in a range of colors, the Tripp Trapp comes with add-on accessories including the Baby Set, which securely seats children from 6 months to 3 years old.

Photograph by Peter Belanger

Peter Bentel is a modernist raised by modernists. The son of influential midcentury architects Frederick and Maria Bentel, Peter is a partner at Bentel & Bentel, which his parents established in 1957.

As part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., LACMA features The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, an exhibition about the proposed future of the museum's campus. Installation view, The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor reconsiders LACMA, June 9–September 15, 2013. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo ©2013 Museum Associates/LACMA

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

Peter Zumthor, the Swiss architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 2009, developed this line of condiment vessels.

Whilst on his honeymoon vacation, photographer Peter Baker decidedly snapped this photo of visitors relaxing at the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Iceland. Via Peter Baker. (Pin)

The dining room table is also from Habitat. The oak veneered plywood is from Peter Benson Plywood.

Before he was a photographer, Peter Frank Edwards worked as a sous chef in restaurant kitchens. He traveled to Virginia to capture this modern home in the woods. “One of the highlights was being invited to sit down to a meal of bibimbap with three generations of the family after a long day of photographing.” Favorite public space: “Botany Bay State Park outside of Charleston. A path and boardwalk ends at Boneyard Beach—so named becauseof the sun- and water-bleached trees still standing in the surf zone.”

From concrete lamp bases to leather poufs, Fehrentz's book Made by Yourself is a compendium of the designer's ideas. It's available in the United States as of early October.

Peter and his wife, artist Olia Feshina, relax inside their apartment in New York’s Washington Heights.

"The design intent was to calm down the geometry of the house," says Blue Truck Studio’s Peter Liang of the renovation.

Studio David Thulstrup incorporated green spaces into this old pencil factory in Copenhagen to transform it into a modern home for photographer Peter Krasilnikoff.

Resident Peter Østergaard (with Maja, 6, and Carl, 20 months) and architect and photographer Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen have been best friends since they were 13, which makes for easy collaboration. Says Bjerre-Poulsen: “There are always a lot of challenges in a renovation, but Peter and Åsa trusted my judgment and gave me a completely free hand. Usually it’s hard to push people into unconventional solutions, but Peter has all these wild and crazy ideas.” One such idea was to embed a transparent glass-and-iron door in the floor, operated by a hydraulic pump, which allows access to the subterranean wine cellar. At night, the lit-up cellar glows, lending the compact living room an increased sense of verticality.

The four-bed, four-bath home of Peter and Sarah Diamond and their two adult children is uniquely situated in one of the most remote areas of the Berkshires: Mount Washington, Massachusetts.

With the help of builder Peter Watts, the couple returned the house to its original early-1970s glory, utilizing the space beneath for both boat and car.

The bed in Olia's studio slides into the space beneath the raised floor in Peter's office. New York, New York Dwell Magazine : November / December 2017

A familiar scene in the Benoit home: Peter paints at the Steelcase desk—"I do all my work here," he says—while Ando sits nearby, waiting for attention.

Interior designer Peter Fehrentz’s pied-à-terre in Berlin has a small kitchen with rosy pink kitchen cabinets that fit right in with the rest of the apartment’s chic and eclectic décor.

Peter Wilson, Paradise Bridge, 1986. Plan, section, and isometric projection for unbuilt project.

Build a warm and inviting fire. PETER MALY TWO-PIECE ANDIRONS“I like working with clear, geometric forms: for me, they are the essential condition of their longevity,” notes designer Peter Maly. In his two-piece set of andirons, his sentiment is made visible. Distilling the form to its most fundamental, Peter Maly’s andirons are minimal and clean.

Muuto’s Peter Bonnen and Kristian Byrge at last year’s Designmuseum Danmark exhibition celebrating the company’s five-year anniversary.

This vase by Peter Marigold is made from timber-molded wax.

Peter Marigold

PETER MALY WALL-MOUNTED FIREPLACE TOOLS Peter Maly’s fireside tool set started out as a design challenge: to create the ideal pair of tongs to hold wood. The result: a trio of award-winning tools that meld high functionality with design innovation. Each stainless steel tool is wrapped in round-milled, full-grain leather bands to protect the handle from heat.

Acme Studio was founded in 1985 by husband-and-wife team Adrian Olabuenaga and Lesley Bailey. The first limited-edition collection was done in collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist and Memphis Group member Peter Shire. Shire's Skyhook brooch is especially kicky: Its two parts connect with a chain.