Peek Inside the Homes of Famous Architects and Designers

Internationally known industrial designer Karim Rashid, dubbed "the Prince of Plastic", is known for his Woopy Chair and the Bobble water flask and over 3,000 pop, colorful designs for companies like Umbra and Alessi, in addition to restaurants and subway stations. Unsurprisingly, his four-bedroom townhouse in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood is a study in high design and color. Rashid's is one of the many homes of creatives featured in the Phaidon book Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World's Most Creative People.

Midcentury Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl is known for introducing Danish Modern to an American audience. The Finn Juhl House north of Copenhagen, which he designed himself, is a light-filled space where Juhl's art collection, objects created by him and designer friends, and his organic, sensual furniture, take center stage.

A pillar of modernist architecture, Richard Neutra imprinted Southern California with his open, multifunctional style of architecture. His homes were owned by clients from early Hollywood film director Josef von Sternberg to novelist Ayn Rand. The Neutra VDL Research House is considered Neutra's most famous home, which is situated at the edge of LA's Silver Lake Reservoir, alongside a cluster of other midcentury homes, many of them designed by Neutra.

A well-known Australian contemporary architect, John Wardle created his weekend getaway Shearers Quarters on Bruny Island near Tasmania, with extensive views of the sea and the sheep farm where it is located. Partly covered in corrugated iron, the home is clad in golden cypress and in some cases recycled apple crates. It's a home where the movement of light over the course of the day, as it interacts with surfaces and windows, is a key element of the design.