Anna Fixsen

Laurence Frank was enjoying a quiet dinner at his brother’s home in San Mateo, Calif., one summer evening in 2022 when he got a call: His house was on fire.Fortunately for Dr. Frank, the small blaze had been extinguished by the time he arrived at the scene. Unfortunately for the house, a 1939 design by

The answer is a resounding ‘Yes’ in many instances, but exceptions can creep in based on professional education, geography and the scope of a project.When Noz Nozawa first opened her San Francisco interiors firm in 2014, she faced an existential crisis: Was she a designer or was she a decorator?“I was brand-new to this universe,”

Sara Sugihara is always on the move. In her 71 years, she has travelled the world, learned seven languages and danced at Studio 54. But one thing she never got around to doing was actually move: Shortly after arriving in New York in 1972, Ms. Sugihara landed in a rent-stabilized studio on the Upper West