There’s another type of floor plan in between these two extremes. Enter broken floor plans. “The 'broken floor plan' is a ...

For more than a decade, companies have been on a slow march away from traditional floor plans composed of private offices and cubicle “farms” of individual modules with six-foot-high wall panels.

But as apartments and modern Western-style houses grow in popularity, traditional flooring is disappearing. Artisan Kenji Yamada is transforming tatami into dazzling floor designs that might just ...

the Festival of Lights also sees many households decorating their courtyards with the traditional Indian art form called Rangoli. Rangoli designs are created with colourful powders and are used to ...

Five years later, I watched an Indian film in which a scene showed Bengali women drawing designs on the doorsteps. That’s when it struck me that traditional floor paintings in India should be an ...