From Black Power in the ’60s to Black Lives Matter today, the peacock chair is a throne in Black culture.

The massive construction marks the start of 100YR CLEANUP, an initiative to fund large-scale cleanups for the next 100 years.

A moon garden comes to life at night. Teeming with silver foliage and fragrant night-blooming plants, this type of garden actually flowers in the dark and therefore offers a unique experience for all the senses.

Famous Artist Homes You Can Still Visit

When you enter into an artist’s home is indisputably the most personal and sacred way to connect with their work, even if there is none on view.

From badly faded upholstery to uneven chair legs, sometimes older pieces of furniture require an overhaul in repairs. In cases like these, when a new coat of varnish alone won’t work, don’t just junk your old furniture. Instead, think of this as a golden opportunity to modernize it with splashes of daring paint colors, contemporary hardware, and brilliant fabrics.

The Design Museum

London

The museum was first housed in a converted 1940s banana warehouse, but in 2016 it moved into the vacant Commonwealth Institute building where it currently resides.

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Last July, as much of New York City life moved outdoors and into the streets, architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti, along with his Manhattan firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), unveiled a proposal in The New York Times: Banish most privately-owned cars from Manhattan.

Learning how to press flowers is not as difficult as you might think. The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by flattening the daisies, pansies, violets, and wildflowers that color your garden and turning them into enchanting home decor. “Bringing the outside in is always a good idea,”.

Skeleton Coast (Namibia)

There’s nothing for miles except sand dunes and shipwrecks in the Skeleton Coast, and that’s what makes it so special. It’s the most surreal escape, and everyone should experience it at least once.

Although pianos were once a symbol of wealth or upward mobility, they’re rarely considered a must-have item in the American home. Now, secondhand online marketplaces are littered with innumerable free or cheap pianos, often in need of desperate retuning or repairs. The cost to move and maintain the instrument seems to leave few interested takers. Many of these black-keyed giants end up destined for the junkyard.

Pixel Building (Melbourne Australia)

Melbourne's Pixel Building is a flashy example of green architecture. Designed by the Australian-based firm Studio505, the structure uses an intricate assembly of recycled colored panels to provide its occupants with maximized light control. It was thanks to such forward-thinking features that Pixel Building successfully became Australia's first carbon-neutral structure.

Casona Sforza

Puerto Escondido’s newest design hotel is a stitch less collaboration between entrepreneur Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza and Mexico City architect Alberto Kalach of Tax Architects. Casona Sforza’s hallmark feature is the asymmetric brick arches that oscillate like a dragon’s back. The volumes were designed to be as functional as they are visually striking: The vaulted design is earthquake-proof, and the locally sourced yellow brick reflects sunlight to keep interiors cool without the need for A.C. The clutch of buildings houses 11 individually styled guest suites with private terraces, a restaurant, and a bar that opens onto a circular swimming pool and the Pacific in the distance.

The complications of the home renovation process have been top of mind for Alyse Archer-Coité, who has owned her home in upstate New York for just two years.Photo: Hali Mason/Sotheby’s International Realty

Riders enter and exit the bike garage at Utrecht’s Central Station. Cities around the world can learn from the design techniques the Dutch have implemented with remarkable success.

Former Glee star Alex Newell recently made history as the first openly nonbinary person to win a Tony, alongside fellow actor J. Harrison Ghee. Photo: Courtesy of Alex Newell

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With his sculptures, Philadelphia-based potter Roberto Lugo has celebrated African American heroes like Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as memorialized victims of police brutality such as Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray. The work is about representation, the Afro-Latino artist explains: “The first time I sat at a pottery wheel, I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there.” He hopes his pieces can change that for others, using imagery that will mean as much to a teenager in North Philly as a collector at Design Miami. “Ceramics last thousands of years,” Lugo says. “Someday these pieces could tell the history of my community.” robertolugostudio.com

During the warm months, the glass doors largely remain open to the outdoors, creating the ultimate natural oasis for both solitude and for entertaining. Juank Paredes Photography