Sarah Medford

Just ahead of Milan’s trend-making furniture fair and its satellite events, see WSJ. Magazine’s top picks, including fuzzy armchairs, candy-colored tables and the next great sofa shape.

In Brussels, architect Bernard Dubois sorts out a new home for his art-collecting friend Mathieu Bruyns.

In a narrow lot adjacent to her Long Island home, interior designer Muriel Brandolini fashioned an enfilade of guest rooms—and let nature do the rest.

Whether transplanting forests of dying trees or moving mounds of earth, the artist is pushing into new terrain 40 years after she burst onto the scene with her Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

In Rose Kitchen, Petra Lindbergh and Rose Chalalai Singh have built a high-profile following in the art and fashion worlds around their shared passion for the flavors of South and Southeast Asia. Tracing their thoughtful cuisine and elite client list.

Designer David Weeks and his wife, Georgie Stout, turned a miners’ cottage and adjacent foundry in the Hudson River Valley into a creative refuge.

New York design studio Apparatus debuts an imaginative collection that expands the scope of its holistic vision.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden is among the most famous in the world. For designer Dan Pearson, a forgotten corner proved fertile ground for reinvention.

Fashion executive Barbara Boccara, known for French-girl flair, tapped Belgian architect Nicolas Schuybroek to bring a quiet minimalism to her Paris apartment.

A sweeping show of 20th-century artist Barbara Hepworth’s sculptural work brings her life-affirming vision into focus.

Botswana-based furniture maker Peter Mabeo takes a well-crafted approach to innovation.

After launching Salon 94 out of her family home, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn hopes to realize grander ambitions in a new Manhattan gallery space.

For a capsule collection, Loewe’s designer Jonathan Anderson takes as a starting point the escapist drawings of artist Ken Price.

From Spotify’s Daniel Ek to young royals, many prominent Swedes have chosen Andreas Martin-Löf to design their interiors. The architect’s own apartment, in a restored 1936 building, shows his talent for bridging historic and contemporary design.

In a 1929 house near a bohemian arts colony, photographer Martyn Thompson has fashioned a moody refuge showcasing his eclectic, homemade style.

Two of the city’s most forward-looking creative forces—art dealer David Kordansky and architect Kulapat Yantrasast—continue their dynamic collaboration on a new scale

From a new base in Mexico, the artist has created ever larger examples of the charged, abstract sculpture he’s become known for—some of which go on view in New York this winter.

Chairs by the iconic Swiss designer Pierre Jeanneret fetch tens of thousands at auction. But which are real? With no foundation to police his trademark, provenance (and who’s profiting) are often blurry. A wild design caper that touches on issues of authenticity, integrity and legacy

Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele’s new Perroquets porcelain collection with Richard Ginori celebrates the wonders of nature—and the romance of the past

With high-profile commissions from Google and Diane von Frustenberg, Thomas Heatherwick, WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Design Innovator, is having a breakout moment—and applying his imaginative vision to projects of vast scope and ambition.