In my mother’s kitchen, in the cabinet above the stove, lives a rectangle baking pan. It is chestnut brown, true to the 1970s, the decade she bought it as a young wife and new mother. It has knife scrapes along the bottom, spatula scratches along the sides, a few dents here and there from being…
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that coincides with global events in March celebrating the accomplishments of women. This conversation has been edited and condensed. Madison Marsh was a teenager when she started wondering about the fragility of life. Her mother, Whitney Marsh, had just died of pancreatic cancer at…
You could almost see the gears in Adam Neeley’s head turning. The jeweler from Laguna Beach, Calif., was holding a transparent case containing more than 38 carats of gemstones — bright green peridots and pale pink morganites — cut into large, tapered baguettes. It was late January, Day 2 of GemFair, a wholesale event at…
Rie Harui’s name may not ring a bell among fashion watchers, but her fledgling jewelry brand, Riefe, certainly does. A longtime protégée of Yohji Yamamoto, Ms. Harui, 42, is one of the few jewelry designers in the fashion world to co-sign pieces produced for a leading designer in addition to running her own independent brand.…
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that coincides with global events in March celebrating the accomplishments of women. This conversation has been edited and condensed. Lynne Hughes, 59, a Detroit-area native, lost both of her parents by the time she was 12 years old. When she was 9, her mother…
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This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. Lucía Cano and José Selgas are architects who have no fear of color. Founders of the studio SelgasCano in Madrid, they designed a conference center in Cartagena, Spain, that looks like a translucent organ glowing orange from within…
To sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on vacation. Is that too much to ask? For many people, yes. The United States is tired, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health,…
Shattering the glass ceiling isn’t always a goal — not if you’re a certain beloved lemon tree growing in a Victorian-era greenhouse. The tree in question, a Ponderosa lemon planted almost 125 years ago by the founder of Logee’s nursery, in Danielson, Conn., has been pruned to stay within bounds by three generations of his…
Since the late 19th century, more than a third of the work force in the Swiss watch industry has been women, according to statistics from the Swiss government. Yet you wouldn’t know it from exploring the Musée International d’Horlogerie, a brutalist architecture monument with wavelike walls in the watchmaking city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Four women…