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The door to the street boasts a graffiti-resistant paint, rendering even the most tempermental tags temporary.

Here, a picture of host Greg Storey's name tag.

The Sandwhich tags by Yuse Design look like tasty toppings for sandwiches.

Stool 60s, from Artek’s 2nd Cycle series, are embedded with coded RFID tags. The tags contain a link to records of the furniture’s history and origin.

Yoly and Mandi in the living room full of Tag Front–designed furniture. “The loft also functions as our showroom,” Mandi says, “which works well for me.”

The living room fireplace is tiled with military-issue dog tags.

No matter the destination, the couple's poodle, Riley, always tags along.

Here's a detail shot of the stool. The leather comes in four options—black, chocolate, tobacco, and saddle—and the brightly hued backing fabric comes in ten—sky, radish, egg yolk, cream, camel, charchol, sand, mocha, chocolate, and black.

No matter the destination, the couple's poodle, Riley, always tags along for the ride.

Tag Front designed a rectangular mahogany table with four ottomans nestling underneath, creating a simple brown block when not in use. When guests arrive, the ottomans slide out and there’s plenty of room for four. “I like to have people over and entertain,” Mandi says, “so it was important to have a dinner table that doesn’t take up much space.”

Ichiro Iwasaki's Tag stool for Discipline.

With a push of the sliding door, the bedroom morphs into an extension of the living room, adding much-appreciated square feet during dinner parties and other gatherings. The platform bed and backrest are both Tag Front designs.

The Bach House, built in 1915 for a brick maker’s son in Rogers Park, Chicago, is a 2,700-square-foot, two-story home that offers beauty and practicality at an approachable price tag.

Epic Sail To reduce heat load and provide shade, DeSalvo initially tracked down a sail system from Sun Shade Australia. But the $6,000 price tag had the architect and contractor designing their own version out of Mermet solar screen fabric. It was fabricated by Covers Unlimited for $1,800. coversunlimitedinc.com

Inspirational spaces

A Children’s chair N65, also from Artek’s 2nd Cycle series and also embedded with coded RFID tags.

The Jensen 3-Speed Stereo Turntable.

The foremost Amarose Skin Tag Remover elements are scientifically validated to be powerful in eliminating pores and skin tags, moles, and warts.

Honka prepares their building system so that logs arrive on site pre-cut to their exact sizes, drilled for electrical wiring, sealed, and tagged with an ID that notes the assembly location.

Native Union's TAG Cable

Native Union's TAG Cable

Native Union's TAG Cable

Native Union's TAG Cable

The producer says that Amarose Skin Tag Remover skin care drops are appropriate for all pores and skin sorts and do away with pores and skin tags or moles out of your frame without inflicting any pain.

Hanging name tags as dividers of illustrations

Hanging name tags as dividers of illustrations

Architect Ulrich Hamann's rendering of the new addition to the Lenbachhaus Museum and Gallery; the Stadtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus. Image courtesy of Lenbachhaus Gallery and Museum.

Local sailboat shops wanted thousands to make the 13-by-13-foot curtain that hides the Wall of Storage. "We we called my parents in Bangkok, gave them the dimensions, and they got it made for 150 bucks." says Im.

Dating back to 1961, the refreshed dwelling is an architectural jewel box, with a price tag to match.

Conceptual art pioneer Michael Asher's billboard was tagged by graffiti artists and had to be moved. You can see it now at Sunset Boulevard, east of Micheltorena. Photo by Patricia Parinejad.

Because their loft is a rental, David and Im Schafer built everything to be removable.

Carefree, Arizona, has strict rules about preserving native plants and maintaining the integrity of the Sonoran Desert. Before any construction, Michelle had to have the property surveyed and tagged by a specialist to ensure compliance—particularly for the Saguaro cacti that surround the property. “The preservation of the Sonoran native plants and cacti in this area was important to me,” says Michelle. “We welcome all the local wildlife too—including tarantulas.”