Furniture designer Paris Renfroe endured a couple of harsh reality checks before landing firmly in the curious niche of dollhouse miniatures. The Syracuse, N.Y., native - who began his design business ...

Michael Yurkovic‘s studio has all the trappings of a typical craftsman’s workshop–soldering irons, exacto knives, a lathe, strips of wood veneer, and swaths of leather. But there’s one big difference: ...

While big box retailers churn out cheap knock-offs of Eames rockers and Saarinen tulip chairs to meet consumers’ growing demands, Chicago collector and craftsman Michael Yurkovic has his eyes on a ...

So far this year, Michael Hogan has spent more than $5,000 on metal bar stools, a curved sofa and other modern décor to furnish a newly built home he’ll never live in. That is because the dwelling is ...

There is something slightly mysterious about the allure of small things. A suitcase-sized dollhouse is more captivating than the room-sized room it mimics. A model train chugging through a landscape ...

CHRISTINE FERRARA, a 39-year-old public affairs director for the Institute for Advanced Study, a research center in Princeton, N.J., has a passion for modern architecture and design. It began in 2008, ...

Shahzia Sikander is one of the contemporary art world's most celebrated stars. She's projecting her hypnotic video installations onto Times Square billboards; she's led exhibitions at major art ...

Shahzia Sikander, pictured here, created the film Parallax (also pictured) to explore the layers of history and change that are remaking parts of the Middle East and South Asia. Shahzia Sikander is ...