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Here Are the World’s Most Exciting Design Destinations—and Why You Have to Visit Designers at the center of five emerging creative scenes tell us why their city should be on your radar right now—and, hopefully soon, your itinerary. Each person we interviewed pointed us to furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home that represent what’s going on in design where they live. Quito, Ecuador Daniel Moreno Flores and Marie Combette "Quito is a city with a lot of constantly transforming energy, and many of the ideas that young design teams are generating are aimed toward...

Atlanta Magazine This Morningside home is both cosmopolitan and comfortable This sophisticated family home draws from the best of European and American ingenuity 377 Johanna and Jonas Reisinger were attracted to the modern simplicity of this white house on a quiet Morningside street—as well as its structure. “Coming from Stuttgart, Germany, Jonas wanted a house made of cinder block and concrete, not wood frame and plywood, which is so common in the U.S.,” says Johanna. “Our home is basically a bunker—you can’t get a cell-phone signal unless you walk outside!” Photograph by Laur...

This punk rock–meets–wabi-sabi Reynoldstown townhouse has got game How do you fit a couple's love for Japanese and Scandinavian design, street art, punk rock, and gaming (both the video and board varieties) in a three-story townhouse? Like this. 290 “There’s so much great street art in the neighborhood, and we wanted to bring that into the house,” says homeowner Niko Rigney. Paintings by local muralist BlackCatTips punctuate the wall, featuring a half-line of Farrow & Ball “Railings” to bring down the scale of the large living room. The rug is by Annie Selke...