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Nowhere Resort in Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura

Several years ago, when architect Michiyo Yoshimura was looking for a quick escape with her husband and her infant son, she realized there was a dearth of child-friendly vacation options. She and her...

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Tamiser Antiques in Tokyo

Discovered via Myles Henry: Tamiser Antiques in Tokyo, specializing in rustic artifacts from around the world, as well as glass pieces by Tokyo-based American glassworker Peter Ivy. To see more, go to...

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10 Easy Pieces: Basic White Bath Towels

Winter is a good time to stockpile essentials; here are our picks for basic (and not-so-basic) white bath towels. N.B.: Prices listed are for standard-size bath towels, unless otherwise noted. Above:...

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Come to Eat, Stay to Shop

Located in Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando District, Farmer's Table is a cafe with an upstairs shop specializing in everyday objects for the home. The brainchild of Hiroko and Minato Ishikawa (she's a...

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Surprisingly Elegant Space Heaters

We have our eye on these demure space heaters by famed Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa for Plus Minus Zero. Infrared electric heaters send out heat waves to be absorbed by nearby objects...

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Required Reading: Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren

The New York Times calls Leonard Koren "a maker of deceptively modest books about deceptively modest subjects"; his topics include gravel and sand gardens, tea ceremonies, and flower shops. His book,...

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Indigo Matt in San Francisco

San Francisco-based designer and creative director Matt Dick is known around town as Indigo Matt—possibly because his hands are perpetually stained blue, or maybe it's because he's frequently attired...

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Show Us Your Indigo

Our current design obsession is indigo in all its forms. You too? Share your inspirations with us on Pinterest for a chance to win a Remodelista Gift Box. Here's how to triumph: Follow Remodelista on...

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Origami Lights from Holland

Wouldn't these light-hearted origami paper lights be lovely in a children's room? Cachette is a brand-new online shop started by an Anglo-French couple, Stephen Rogan and Delphine de Chabalier, who...

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Modular Furniture from Japan

Furniture maker Yosuke Kimura is a devotee of the belief that "form follows function," and his modular pieces are a perfect expression of the modernist creed. Last year, Kimura opened Building...

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Expert Advice: Eve Ashcraft's Indigo Palette

We asked celebrated "paint whisperer" Eve Ashcraft (see Required Reading: The Right Color by Eve Ashcraft) to analyze our favorite indigo room. "Indigo was once a guarded pigment, used as a dye by...

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Rakuko and Tadaaki's Studio in Chelsea

My neighbors in Chelsea are both from Japan: Their loft is truly a work/live space, where they have been creating their art since the 1970s. He is Tadaaki Kuwayama, a Minimalist artist; his work is...

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Foraged Ikebana Floral Arrangements

SF-based renaissance woman Louesa Roebuck is all about "breaking the rules of floral arranging," as she says. "I find imperfection so much more interesting and beautiful." On an unseasonably...

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Moving Up on Potrero Hill

When the client moved into a 1900s cottage in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, he was a bachelor; when his life expanded to include a wife and three young children, the house took the leap...

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A Parisian Apartment with a Summery Spirit

Midcentury enthusiasts Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet first met over a Colonel, a vermouth-and-lime cocktail—a momentous drink that would end up supplying the name of their company. The two started...

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Instant Ikea Upgrade

We've done our fair number of Ikea hacks, but nothing as thrillingly transformative as these slipcovers from Swedish company Bemz. Lesley Pennington, the mastermind behind the company, came up with...

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Comparison Shopping: Panoramic Wall Murals

Today's Parisian flat (see Parisian Apartment with a Summery Spirit) got us thinking about wall murals that add an arboreal feel to an interior—here's a trio of options at different ends of the price...

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Vanessa Bruno's Stacked Paper Lanterns

When I spotted this sculptural display in fashion designer Vanessa Bruno's Paris apartment, I was inspired to rush over to Ikea and buy up some rice-paper lanterns. Bruno's apartment features the...

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World's Most Expensive Snowdrop (and an Alternate)

After a lifetime spent acquainting herself with the flowers outside her cottage in the Perthshire hills of Scotland, one day Elizabeth Harrison bent to get a closer look at an unusual seedling—and was...

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High/Low Springlike Canvas Tote

Spotted in the fashion-aggressive elevators of Condé Nast: a canvas tote that whispered utilitarian charm. Its owner said it was a recent gift from a friend in Tokyo, so we eyeballed the label and did...

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