“Design is such an enormous topic that it takes multiple voices to address it,” Zoe Ryan says. “You never know what ideas you’ll ignite by creating a safe place for people to come and talk and ask questions that seem simple but which open up huge areas of discussion. So I see myself as the facilitator.”

Andres Janser curated the Good Design, Good Business show at the Design Museum Zurich.

Curator Zoe Ryan, posing for our December/January 2011 Young Guns feature.

Asked her age recently, curator and author Zoe Ryan admitted to 30; she was actually only 29.

Windows and glazing were one of the largest overall costs, setting Geo and Zoe back €10,306.

Going Vintage The shape is what really matters here. The fabric, in 99 percent of cases, will be changed, and the insides will be replaced with fresh down and foam. If the shape is good, a little work and the sofa is like new. Narrow Arm sofa by Calvin Klein Curator Collection, $4,400.

A view from Gadanho’s home office and library and the apartment’s entry hall typify the architect’s interior approach: bright plus white.

The home of Ryan Willms

Michael Kubo, designer, scholar, and guest curator at Pinkcomma Gallery.

Ryan Mastro, "Iceland."

When designer Hilton Carter furnished the industrial-style Baltimore apartment and work studio he shares with his wife Fiona, their dog Charlie and two cats Zoe and Isabella, he created a wondrous indoor woodland that offers all the benefits of being outdoors without leaving home.

Merlin Eayrs and Zoe Chan Eayrs with their daughter.

Ryan Anderson of RAD Furniture designed the stools as well as the table and benches on the pool deck.

Art by Zoe Pawlak sits on the mantle with an Eames Bird from Herman Miller.

Montreal designer Zoë Mowat offers a geometric take on the traditional desk in this colorful, sculptural piece.

Chief curator Nicholas Baume in the ICA’s digital media room.

The built-in cabinets at the entry include special storage for Ryan and Rory's running shoes. (They're both long-distance runners.)

Method cofounder Eric Ryan helps us investigate the mystery of the sock-eating dryer. Though none of the machines we reviewed have pair-preservers, we discovered their many other merits in the process.

Named Atelierhouse, for contemporary art museum Museion as a temporary home for visiting artists and curators, Harry Thaler Studio employed wooden boxes on wheels fold open to reveal beds inside.

Zoe Chan and her child relax on a Danish banana sofa that Chan + Eayrs reupholstered in Cream Pierre Frey velvet.

Workstead sconces and artwork by Zoe Bios Creative add more drama to the feature wall in the master bedroom, which is completed with a bench from Design Within Reach.

Dylan, 10, and Zoe, 13, have a lazy float down the creek, Huck Finn–style, in a steel horse-watering tank.

Ryan McLaughlin watches the sunset from the deck of the 160-square-foot tiny home he built, with no prior experience, at his parents’ horse ranch in Georgetown, Texas. Soon, the trailer-mounted cabin will be moved to a vineyard, where it will operate grid-free and be available to rent for short stays.

“Putting all the detail and quality of a full-size building into a mini playhouse takes skill and time,” says Zoe. “There are also some fairly complex joints, for example where the roof and the walls meet.”

The living area has a PK22 chair by Poul Kjaerholm and a Float sofa and Zoe rug from Paola Lenti’s outdoor collection. Pietre Del Nord porcelain stoneware from Emser Tile runs from the patio through the house.

Zoe and Jake horse around in their parents’ new master bedroom. Issa says he vaulted the ceiling to fit under the addition’s angular roofline for “spatial impact.” Paint is Extra White by Sherwin-Williams.

The living area has a PK22 chair by Poul Kjaerholm and a Float sofa and Zoe rug from Paola Lenti’s outdoor collection. Pietre Del Nord porcelain stoneware from Emser Tile runs from the patio through the house.

“The darker, midnight blue exterior paint color was used on all of the existing building elements to create more of a dynamic contrast with the new structure, which was painted white," says Ryan. Tomatoes, little gem lettuce, green beans, a tobacco plant, and a few strawberry bushes (tended by the kids) grow in the courtyard.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

Ryan fit a washing machine and plenty of storage in the bath.

“My grandfather, George Fasullo, was an architect who died before I was born,” says architect Ryan Bollom. “My mom used both of our drawings as wallpaper in the secondary living space.” During the lockdown, Bollom formed an extended bubble with his parents, and he and his wife, also an architect, used the space as an office.

Floor Plan of Casa Punta Mujeres by Georgina Giner Gallardo and Zoe Barceló Vicedo

Step by step, Georgina “Geo” Giner Gallardo and Zoe Barceló Vicedo converted a Lanzarote farm into a place to live, work, and surf.