Architects and Artisans

One of the most comfortable and revealing rooms at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. is not really a room at all, but a passageway nearly open on three sides, filled with low-slung, upholstered easy chairs and a series of writing tables.
The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in [...]

After three years of politics (and 35 years of a distinguished practice in Europe and the United State), Richard Meier is moving forward with his first residence for Great Britain.
The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August 25 by the South Oxfordshire [...]

When first discovered in the early 20th century, Europeans thought that the brass sculptures they found buried in various sites in Nigeria must certainly have been Greek or Roman in origin.
They were wrong.
“There’s been a tradition of metal casting in Western Africa in one city known as Ife,” said Enid Schildkrout, chief curator and director [...]

When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni.
There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a century [...]

Twenty minutes northeast of Louisville, near Crestwood, Ky., Yew Dell Gardens were established in 1941 by Theodore and Martha Lee Klein as a commercial nursery with an extensive collection of unusual plants and outstanding gardens.
After Theodore’s death in 1998, a volunteer group banded together to purchase and save his work from development, and to restore [...]

An innovative architecture firm in a transitional midtown St. Louis neighborhood has turned a former plumbing supply building into a state-of-the art tutorial on thermal heating and cooling – and paid for it with nearly every tax credit available under the sun.
“The Grove in St. Louis was an area in the 1970s and ‘80s that [...]

Frustrated with the state of sustainable, affordable housing in Seattle, designer Johnny Hartsfield quit his job, holed up in his basement, took out a home equity loan and didn’t come up for air until he’d developed a solution.
It took two years.
“I wanted to design homes with better values, with better health and with environmental responsibility,” [...]

Michael Carlson of Carlson Studio Architects faced one of the most sensitive of challenges in Sarasota, when the Wellness Community of Southwest Florida asked his firm to design a center for patients affected by a diagnosis of cancer.
“It’s not a medical facility,” he said. “It’s a place where people go to learn – a [...]

By day it’ll be a good neighbor, with form, line and warm brown tones striving for harmony alongside its early 20th century counterparts next door, around the corner and down the block.
By night it’ll be a transparent lantern inviting all that pass on foot or wheels to bask in its glow and celebrate the wealth [...]

Lisa Jackson is an interior designer who sees herself as an editor.
She doesn’t like precious – she doesn’t understand it. She’s not an antique dealer, though she loves and sells the occasional piece. She simply believes, like Hemingway, that what she leaves out is just as important as what she leaves in.
And she’s [...]