In his Bowery Hotel apartment, Richard Christiansen can work in pretty much every corner—and order room service, too.

Fashion Week ballooned over the last decade to World’s Fair size.

A Harlem rooftop garden is a one-man greenmarket.

Except it’s on lower Fifth Avenue.

MISSION STATEMENT: “Everything was about not obstructing the view.

We could have filled 1,000 pages with New York’s living design innovators, but there are space limits. Here, in brief, another 25 crucial names.

Homemaking was a dreary chore until she made it an artisanal pursuit. And built an empire.

The polymath has designed advertising, perfume bottles, magazines, and everything you see on this page.

Here, we pay tribute to nine New Yorkers who changed—and are still changing—the way we look at our world, from centenarian ceramist Eva Zeisel to graphic iconoclast Fabien Baron.

Fifty-seven years after he designed it, the house that Frank Lloyd Wright thought might be his greatest has finally been built by one determined fan.