TACOMA, Wash. — In a small store window on South Ninth Street in downtown Tacoma, Wash., there’s an unusual landscape. Strewn across hot white sand like abandoned objects on a “Star Wars” planet sit a ...

IT was an unseasonably hot Saturday in April, and the three dozen terrariums on display in a booth at the Brooklyn Flea were sweating, the moisture turning into beads on their glass containers. Katy ...

The glass-encased universes called terrariums are back on the scene from the 1970s. Whether they were giant brandy snifters or dangled from macrame hangers, those ’70s versions definitely tended to ...