Stephen Treffinger
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Are Floating Cities the Solution to Rising Seas?
Is living on the water our future? Floating developments, including a project in progress in South Korea, suggest that it’s more than a pipe dream.
Some Product Ideas to Consider
Advice on personal pinball machines, the long life of bonsais, homemade curtains and outdoor lamps.
These Legacy Design Brands Honor Generations of Expectations
Scions of their family businesses are embracing legacies, whether lost or lasting, while tackling a future that their forebears would barely recognize.
Design Advice for Making the Practical Pretty
On feel-good desk chairs, stylish laundry rooms and game tables you don’t have to banish to the basement.
Design Advice for a Less Toxic Life
Advice on healthy candles, purging kitchen plastic and the art of dyeing fabric naturally.
Harnessing Earth and Fire to Create Natural Vessels
Mitch Iburg, a ceramic artist, goes to great lengths to ensure that his pieces are easier on the environment.
An Interior Designer’s Love Letter to the Sky
Shalini Misra designed her Lexington Avenue apartment as an aerie filled with treasures that celebrates the feeling of “floating in the clouds.”
How to Decorate an Empty Space
Questions on filling a home, carving out guest quarters, deciding whether to choose marble and finding a decent-looking light switch.
In Milan Eric Egan Has a Taste for ‘Sprezzatura’
Eric Egan’s interior design studio upholds couture traditions with exquisite — but far from stodgy — details for the home.
And There Was Light. And It Was Brutal.
The British designer Lee Broom shared how he turned a passion for postwar architecture into Divine Inspiration.