How interior designers are lending a classic design detail a more personal, contemporary twist—one plate at a time.

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them.

There’s a bachelor pad wet bar that would make Dean Martin raise his martini in approval, stocked with highball glasses etched with gold geometric patterns and ice buckets that haven’t chilled a cube ...