Inside Vatican City! It felt like a different plane of reality. In this rarefied world, the only Western theocracy, ... enjoying the organic texture under my fingertips.

The Vatican City seeks to question the meaning of the chapel in the 21st century with its debut at the Venice Architecture Biennale. ... creating a honeycomb-like texture inside.

Young glassmaker Anna Preziosi’s play with texture and color makes for a style as eye-catching as it is contemporary—platters overlaid with rose-gold petals, bowls piled with gold-leafed glass ...