Zahid Sardar

Two linked 1,000-square-foot pavilions are greater than a sum of their parts.

An off-the-grid house that is little more than a decked campsite—albeit with a roof—includes a swimming pool for a family that loves to enjoy the elements.

A pair of designers in Oslo, armed with tricks for introducing color and daylight, remake their compact late-19th-century apartment.

An art-filled retreat fits right into the landscape.

A skylit conservatory doubles as a verdant dining parlor in Sonoma County, California.

This backyard is its own modern retreat in the Berkeley Hills.

A see-through pool wall is just one element of this vibrant home.

An exhibition heralds a new wave of Dutch designers plying technology and craft.

Jamie Hayon takes us on a personal tour of his home in Valencia, Spain and shares some design tips along the way.

A new spin on rammed-earth construction aims to bring the method to the masses.

In an unusual collaboration among birds, wind, and one of San Francisco’s leading landscape architects, a California designer has made a pair of unique outdoor living spaces—one low and one high.

The latest class of Dutch designers is creating poetic yet practical furniture, lighting, and goods that go way beyond wry humor.

Lotty Lindeman and Wouter Scheublin's wood and ceramics workshop is located within designer Piet Hein Eek’s building, a former Philips factory in Eindhoven that was remodeled in 2010 into a furniture…

Dirk Vander Kooij's furniture is inspired by a form created with a 30-year-old 3-D printer.

Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf and Laurens Manders label their collaborative oeuvre Daphna Laurens because they work so closely “It’s like finishing each other’s sentences,” says Manders.

Frank Tjepkema founded his industrial design firm, Tjep., in Amsterdam in 2001 and has since produced objects in scales from minute to massive.

Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eijk—known as Joost & Kiki—have gained a following for their conceptual art–based furniture, but recent pieces signal a change.

Amsterdam-based Mara Skujeniece is a product designer whose work often narrates an underlying story: Porcelain candleholders have felt coasters that mimic the containers’ shadows; ceramic vases for a…

Industrial designers Frederik Roijé and Victor le Noble founded New—a manufacturer of contemporary pieces by young Dutch designers—less than a year ago in an unlikely creative hot spot: Duivendrecht,…

An American architect in Paris experiments with Corbusian perceptions of interior and exterior space.

San Francisco philanthropist Ann Hatch has long dedicated herself to the making of artful objects.

Familiar objects take surprising new forms in the hands of experimental designer Aldo Bakker.

What do you get when you give a couple of designers unlimited creative license on a very limited budget? For Andrew Dunbar and Zoee Astrakhan, the possibilities were limitless.