Known as the creative force behind the New York City-based design firm Libby Langdon Interiors, Langdon also travels the country presenting her home décor seminars about all things design to consumers ...

Since the birth of modernism more than a century ago, the ethos of “less is more” — a motto famously adopted by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — has become synonymous with sophistication.

LET ME introduce you to the least-cool name for a suburb ever: Pleasantview. That’s where I grew up, in 1970s Canada, in a split-level with an uncool fake fireplace in which my parents proudly ...