https://estateanddesign.com/ The latest design stories from Estate & Design. en https://estateanddesign.com/design/the-lime-cycle/ https://estateanddesign.com/design/the-lime-cycle/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Burn limestone, slake it with water, lay it in three coats, and let the air finish the work. Lime plaster is two thousand years old and suddenly the most contemporary finish in the room. https://estateanddesign.com/design/frank-lloyd-wright-profile/ https://estateanddesign.com/design/frank-lloyd-wright-profile/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 to 1959, designed more than a thousand buildings and insisted they should grow from their sites. A life of the most consequential American architect, from the Prairie houses to the Guggenheim. https://estateanddesign.com/design/charles-rennie-mackintosh-profile/ https://estateanddesign.com/design/charles-rennie-mackintosh-profile/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868 to 1928, fused Art Nouveau, Celtic Revival, and the Arts and Crafts into the Glasgow Style, and designed houses as complete works of art down to the last detail. The Scottish master the modernists never forgot. https://estateanddesign.com/design/return-of-natural-stone/ https://estateanddesign.com/design/return-of-natural-stone/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In serious residential architecture, stone is structural and spatial again. Four buildings show what the material is teaching. https://estateanddesign.com/design/jean-prouve-demountable-house/ https://estateanddesign.com/design/jean-prouve-demountable-house/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A French metalworker with no architectural training set out to house a ruined country from a factory floor. The portal frame was his answer.