Design
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Off the wall
Would you trust a student with a masterpiece? Oberlin College in the US has been renting out its collection since 1940.
Baltic beauty
Finland’s capital boasts magnificent architecture, quirky drinking venues and dashing design.
Clean canvas
A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.
Pressing issue
Leipzig's printing heritage and post-reunification reinvention have quietly made it Germany's most compelling creative city — drawing designers, publishers and thinkers to its unhurried, typography-rich streets.
Swede dream
A wooden house made in Sweden but set in a Japanese forest. What could be more idyllic?
Hidden talents
Tokyo furniture shop Bullpen is one of the few outlets focusing on handmade pieces by lesser-known design talent.
In safe hands
The home of one of Portugal’s leading architects now belongs to a family friend and is a much-treasured modernist masterpiece.
My house is your house
On an area of parkland in central Warsaw stands a small settlement of wooden Finnish homes. A legacy of postwar hardship, these days they stand as a striking symbol of peace and friendship.
How a childhood RM Schindler-designed LA home has been brought back to its modernist glory
For Noel Osheroff, a ceramic artist who turns 89 in December, home is a small hilltop house overlooking Los Angeles’ Silver Lake Reservoir. It’s where her parents brought her and her brother in 1934…
