Sarah Medford

For Rafael de Cárdenas and Cale Harrison, a home in a rural town became a backdrop for a mix of traditional and experimental décor.

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.

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.

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.

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.