Wanting to use spare wood around his home, Bill Hornecker transformed unused and unneeded scraps into a hobby — building miniature houses. “I knew I loved wood,” Hornecker said. “I never knew it would ...

In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park, artist Yukihiro Akama fashions a whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. In his ...