In 1888, the Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, were given a remote log cottage in the village of Sundborn, 140 miles north of Stockholm, by her father. Over three decades, the couple transformed the house, which they named Lilla Hyttnäs, into an elaborate meta-art project, a hand-embellished 14-room home for their eight children.... See more

Walking along West Broadway one day about a year after he’d arrived in New York, Matthias Kaiser (@matthiasjosefkaiser) came across a stall where a group of potters were selling traditional, handcrafted Pennsylvanian ceramics and, though simple, the blue-and-white spongeware vessels captivated him. The experience compelled Kaiser, now 51, to enroll... See more