Meichi Peng always loved to draw. As a child in Taiwan, she took figure-drawing classes, studied calligraphy and traditional Chinese watercolor, and taught herself knitting and leather crafting. When she…

“I always used to say that in another lifetime I’d want to be an interior designer,” says former teacher Alison Hammatt. As luck would have it, she decided to be…

A trip to Paris, global table accents, and handfuls of rose petals make a dining room feel less formal and more fun.

A passion for preservation and a wealth of horticultural knowledge define Jen Stephens—the person and the accomplished landscape designer. Stephens, who’ll be forty in November, is a principal at Matthew…