The home of the chocolate laxative, Ex-Lax, was formerly housed in a Romanesque revival–style factory on New York’s Atlantic Avenue. Some of the style remains today despite the building being converted to a co-op in the late 1970s. A...

Adults can always use more play in their lives. Trisse, created by Nanna Ditzel in 1962, was originally conceived as children’s furniture, the lack of strict definition allowing users to move the spool-shape units around and change their function as needed, from perch...