Arranging a Room Full of Possibilities
Sleeping on a tatami mattress, which could be endlessly repositioned, allowed Justin Zhuang to turn his childhood bedroom into a space of possibilities.
Essay
Poppy Red, Poppy Patois
Bryn Smith reflects on the paradox of a now-fashionable hue that we also use to commemorate the first Great War.
Bubblegum Pink, Bubblegum Popped
Amanda Vallance meets the gal pal of Barbie and Paris Hilton.
Edith Wharton’s Houses
Architecture critic Alexandra Lange extolls on Edith Wharton’s fluency as a decorator and architect of the domestic milieu
A Life in Lacquer
Katya Mezhibovskaya on the color that puts the world at our fingertips.
If These Walls Could Talk: the Fraught Interiors of The Hours
Katya Mezhibovskaya considers the 2002 Stephen Daldry film, The Hours, as a study of interiors and interiorities.
Rockwood Revisited
Zachary Sachs conjures a (fateful) day in the life of his childhood home on Rockwood Street, Dallas.
Blue Walls
Metropolis magazine associate editor Avinash Rajagopal on the most comforting shade of pastel blue known to mankind.
An Uphill Struggle
R/GA Executive Creative Director David Womack weighs up survival versus comfort as he assembles a home-away-from-home in his backpack.
The Hand Up Project: Attempting to Meet the New Needs of Natural Life-Forms
Artist Elizabeth Demaray sets out to solve a severe housing shortage among the hermit crab population of North Eastern America.