Mid-century modern designers loved to use materials in a stand-out way, and this bathroom shows how ‘now’ the effect can look. (Image credit: Yoshihiro Makino.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Biophilic design is great for people who want to get back in touch with nature. It subscribes to the idea that humans are meant to be close to the natural world ...

“Contemporary design came out after the midcentury-modern movement,” Sander says. Starting in the 1970s, the style was first seen as more of an amalgamation of various popular aesthetics of ...

“For me, modern architecture is most succinctly summarized by Peter Blake, who was the former chief curator of architecture design at MoMA, in the introduction to a book he wrote in the 1970s ...