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Design Icon: Eva Zeisel

Hungarian designer Eva Zeisel is best known for her sculptural organic ceramic pieces.

Modern Homes Built Around Trees

Wishing to preserve existing sites and the natural beauty of original trees, these seven homes use nature as their centerpiece.

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Design Classic: Bertoia Seating Collection

A look at the history of Harry Bertoia's iconic steel wire seating collection from 1951, and a few Dwell homes that showcase the chairs to their best advantage.

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Massie Produced

Art object or machine for living in Architect William Massie’s personal prefab project takes the mass out of mass customization to create a one-of-a-kind wonder.

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A Table That Charges Your iPhone

Designer Marjan van Aubel’s Current project, based on photosynthesis, uses a solar-powered table to charge electronics.

Profiles

Smiljan Radic's Winning Design for Serpentine Pavilion

Underrated Chilean architect Smiljan Radic gets a commission that will put him on the world stage: the annual temporary pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Rooms We Love

7 Dining Room Design Ideas

Seven striking dining room arrangements to inspire high-design mealtime.

House Tours

A Modern Concrete Home in Peru

Behind a traditional colonial in Lima, an angular house attuned to its site takes shape.

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Design Icon: Eva Zeisel

Hungarian designer Eva Zeisel is best known for her sculptural organic ceramic pieces.

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Modern Homes Built Around Trees

Wishing to preserve existing sites and the natural beauty of original trees, these seven homes use nature as their centerpiece.

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Design Classic: Bertoia Seating Collection

A look at the history of Harry Bertoia's iconic steel wire seating collection from 1951, and a few Dwell homes that showcase the chairs to their best…

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Video Exclusive: The Future of Mobility

There is an inextricable link between thoughtful design and how we move through today’s modern world.

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Video Exclusive: Mobility & Technology

There’s a new generation of pioneering automotive designers who are fusing artistry, craftsmanship and technology, to create…

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Video Exclusive: Mobility & Design

There’s an evolution toward purpose-driven design, combining thoughtful vision with today’s real needs.

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Massie Produced

Art object or machine for living in Architect William Massie’s personal prefab project takes the mass out of mass customization to create a one-of-a-kind wonder.

House Tours

A Modern Concrete Home in Peru

Behind a traditional colonial in Lima, an angular house attuned to its site takes shape.

My House

Stow Aways

How do you squeeze maximum functionality out of minimal space? Rosa and Robert Garneau make it happen with multipurpose furniture, a hydraulic Murphy bed, and secret compartments galore.

Modern kitchen with Corian countertop and Heath Ceramics tiled wall

House Tours

Modern Home in a California Resort Town

A storied 1980 party house enters a mellower chapter of intimate gatherings filled with canapés, crooners, and cocktails.

House Tours

Modern Lilong House Renovation in Shanghai

Seeking a stronger connection with his adopted city, Edoardo Allegranti revamps a lilong house in China’s bustling municipality.

House Tours

A Modern House in the Forest Designed for Aging In Place

An architect creates a long-term home for his parents around a glass enclosure built to celebrate the greenery of its Northwestern site.

Green

Renovating An Aging Mill in France

In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper.

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Converted Loft Fit for a Modern Family in Copenhagen

In an up-and-coming area of Copenhagen, a pair of designers and their twin girls inhabit a converted loft, filling it with serious design savvy and a hefty dose of creativity.

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The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Modern Art Collection

Recently the Bowdoin College Museum of Art received a gift of 320 artworks from the collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel—a couple who earned under $50,000 a year but managed to amass a vast…

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From simple geometrics to a riot of patterns, this folkcraft is easily adapted to a modern aesthetic.

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12 Outdoor Furnishings for Spring

Cozy up to nature with an all-encompassing look at terrestrial life from Dwell's April 2014 issue.

Product Reviews

4 Heavy-Duty Fabrics for Indoor-Outdoor Use

Unyielding in the face of weather and backsides, the latest outdoor fabrics are as durable as they are eye-popping—in fact, each of these qualifies as heavy-duty in Martindale or Wyzenbeek abrasion…

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National Academy Honors Diller Scofidio + Renfro with the Lifetime Achievement Award

On February 5, the National Academy in New York, one of the country's oldest arts organizations, honored architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro with the Lifetime Achievement Award and…

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A Closer Look: 4 Homes by Gray Organschi Architecture

Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi, founders of the New Haven, Connecticut, architecture firm Gray Organschi, specialize in thoughtful, site-specific homes. See our favorites from the Dwell archives.

Books

Explore A Floating Fortress in 'Another Great Day At Sea'

Writers in Residence by Visual Editions goes behind closed doors to give architecture fans an intriguing longread.

Books

Best Midcentury Homes in America

Looking back at one our favorite architecture books from Assouline, Living Architecture: Greatest American Houses of the 20th Century, which shows a different perspective on some of the…

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3D Printing Documentary at SXSW

The disruptive technology is ready for a closeup, with Print the Legend, a new documentary film on 3D printing premiering this week at SXSW.

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10 Olson Kundig Houses

If there's one material Tom Kundig of Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects is known for deploying in his projects, it's steel.

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Surprisingly Subtle 300-Foot Radio Tower

The winning design for the Canakkale Antenna Tower in Turkey manages grandeur with restraint.

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Design Icon: Eva Zeisel

Hungarian designer Eva Zeisel is best known for her sculptural organic ceramic pieces.

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Modern Homes Built Around Trees

Wishing to preserve existing sites and the natural beauty of original trees, these seven homes use...

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Design Classic: Bertoia Seating Collection

A look at the history of Harry Bertoia's iconic steel wire seating collection from 1951, and a few...

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