“Rosewood never shows wear,” said designer Charles Eames upon the launch of his Eames Lounge Chair. The chair, with a molded Brazilian rosewood frame and black leather upholstery, was accompanied by a ...

Jian Zhong Wang’s home in the southern Chinese city of Nanning is an inviting place. Light spills in through large bay windows, which offer a stunning view of the garden of thick-stemmed banana plants ...

If you’ve lived in or around the Indian subcontinent, you would have seen this tree: tall, often with a sharp fork in the trunk and a series of twists and turns, culminating in dense, disperse foliage ...