This House Promises Eternal Life — at a Cost
For a pair of avant-garde artists, immortality wasn’t just a dream — it was a possibility. As long, that is, as you were committed to an uncomfortable existence.
In Malibu, an Inflatable Bungalow for Robert Downey Jr.
The actor’s thin-shell home is at once an aerodynamic oddity and, perhaps, a harbinger of environmentally conscious architecture.
A Derelict Townhouse Becomes a D.I.Y. Wonderland
How a collective of artists turned a crumbling Brussels building into their own creative playground.
A Paris Apartment With Boxer-Brief Bedding and Rugs Made From Socks
There wasn’t a style that reflected his approach to design. So Harry Nuriev made up his own.
In Barcelona, a House That Was Remade by Taking It Apart
For a home with an unassuming facade, the architect Guillermo Santomà has ignored spatial logic in favor of color, light and cultivated chaos.
A Designer Who Lives With ‘Pickled’ Balloons and a Jellyfish-Shaped Lamp
Bethan Laura Wood has made her name dreaming up transporting rainbow-hued furniture and housewares. Her own London home is just as fantastical.
An Eccentric Upstate Home That Some People Confuse for a Restaurant
Cary Leibowitz and Simon Lince’s New York retreat brims with bright streamers, a faux fireplace by Robert Venturi — and royal commemorative mugs.
This St. Louis House Is a Pattern-Filled Time Portal to the ’80s
In her home, the artist Katherine Bernhardt conjures the giddy heyday of the Memphis design group.
Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House
The designer gives T a tour of her pretty but punk home in one of California’s most scenic trailer parks.
An Artist’s Gothic Townhouse, Filled With Octopus-Shaped Lamps
Adam Wallacavage’s fascinations with period architecture and the sea converge in his maximalist Philadelphia brownstone.
Inside the Surreal Home of a Celebrated Milan Design Family
Barnaba Fornasetti has kept the fantastical spirit of his father’s namesake business alive in the clan’s house and offices, where whimsy and surprises abound.
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