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Open House

From Lake Garda to a quaint Finnish town, Majorca to the California coast, we highlight 10 Iconic Houses—a network of 20th-century-design treasures—worth visiting

Scooting Through Scotland

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beloved MG, our car columnist takes the company’s new E.V. offering on a grand tour of the British motherland

Roughing It

Today’s drivers are hungry for vehicles that look like they’re ready to play in the mud. Our car columnist asks, Can Toyota’s re-released Land Cruiser actually off-road?

The Picasso of Point A to Point B

Harry Beck never got recognition for designing the celebrated London Underground’s 1930s-era map. A new play seeks to boost his profile

The Big Light Haunting Italy

The food is divine. The architecture is exquisite. So why is it lit like a hospital room?

The World Weird Web

A global network of graphic designers gave Big Tech’s most ubiquitous logos a Surrealist spin

Camelot for Cars

One of the world’s largest car museums is in the middle of nowhere in Germany, and it holds an unlikely piece of American-presidential history

Turning Back the Odometer

Restoring and customizing old Land Rovers has become a big business. But there’s no competing with Commonwealth Classics

A Class of Their Own

As the price of vintage Ferraris continues to climb, the Italian car-maker, which has historically gone to great pains to preserve its legacy and exclusivity, is making sure that owners actually know how to drive them

Pot Heads and Basket Cases

The Loewe Foundation’s Craft Prize brings together the best practitioners of the decorative arts from across the globe

Amicus Thief

Some interior designers are known for knocking off museum-quality furnishings—often without consequences. Will a recent lawsuit by the Donald Judd Foundation change all that?

The House That Modernism Built

The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, in Northern California, offers an unprecedented look inside Ray and Charles’s design universe

State of the Art

For more than five decades, architect James Wines has pushed for public art to be less self-serious. His first visit to Manhattan’s Hudson Yards suggests why

Helen Rice

The creative consultant and owner of Charleston’s most stylish housewares shop discusses remaking her favorite city in her own image

The Ultimate Baby Driver

The Little Car Company makes scaled-down replicas of Ferraris and Bentleys that retail for six figures. But their target audience is larger than you’d think

Young Inside

Vishaan Chakrabarti’s reimagining of the old Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn is the building New York didn’t know it needed

The Power of Compromise

In a world where internal-combustion engines are becoming untenable, and battery electric vehicles are not yet entirely practical, makers such as Toyota, Volvo, and BMW are embracing a hybrid approach

By the Board

Melbourne-based filmmaker and artist Daniel Agdag’s medium of choice is cardboard, and his sculptures are sure to shock and delight

Jean-Paul Vaugoin

The sixth-generation heir to Vienna’s last remaining silver manufacturer is innovating and sticking to tradition in equal measure

Built from the Ground Up

At 87, the architect Norman Foster has survived cancer and a heart attack. Now he is being honored with a new retrospective and is planning homes in outer space

David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem

Even after an explosion destroyed their Beirut studio, the young design duo is building bespoke furniture that’s captured the art world’s attention

Better by Design

A new coffee-table book celebrates 50 years of Pentagram, the world’s largest independent design consultancy

The Picasso of Automobiles

When it comes to Ferraris, the best time to buy is always now

Musical Chairs

Thierry Barbier-Mueller’s collection of more than 650 chairs, by designers including Ron Arad and André Dubreuil, is celebrated in a dazzling coffee-table book