Modern Angular Rural Family Home in Canada Surrounded on all sides by a sweeping Canadian hayfield, the 23.2 House is an angular ode to rural life.
A Family Goes Somewhere Over the Rainbow A spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor in this London home.
A House Worthy of James Bond and More John Lautner's beyond-groovy Elrod House is nothing short of concrete poetry.
Low-Cost, Balloon-Formed Housing Concept for Developing Countries Not many architects can say that their father invented a new way of building.
Hide and Eat In Manhattan, where space is the ultimate luxury, a clever design workaround makes a dining table disappear after supper.
Protect and Conserve Driven by “an evangelical zeal to save things,” Adam Hills and Maria Speake artfully repurpose landfill-bound materials at their...
The Wood Life Wiet Hekking’s specialty shop in the heart of Amsterdam displays the best of bent-ply furniture, past and present.
This Prefab Garden Shed Doubles as a Serene Summer Home A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.
An Asymmetrical Prefab Home in Sweden It took a mere six months—three in the factory and three on-site—for this prefab to come to fruition on the shore of Sweden’s...
Social Heat What’s the best way to warm a small studio? Ekaterina Voronova opted for a compact wood-burning stove to keep her space cozy.
Slat Happy Budget supplies become modern design gold in this Omaha home.
Reign of Terroir Nestled in the small village of Tadten, Austria, the Erich Sattler Winery takes advantage of the soil’s temperature and sun’s...
Row House With a modernist palette of concrete, glass, and steel, Ziger/Snead Architects constructed an ode to rowing in rural Virginia.
Storage Savvy Renovation in Emeryville Persistence paid off for this California couple who worked overtime for two years to tackle their all-in-one loft renovation.
Jack White: Rock and Roll Icon—and Furniture Upholsterer? We got the low down on Jack White’s Rolling Record Store, but the man had much more to say.
West Side Story A comprehensive look at midcentury California design reveals a modern coming of age for the Golden State.
Fields of Old Tatsuro Kiuchi finds beauty in the banal, even in a fleeting look at his homeland through the window of a bullet train.
Bookshelf Basics Classic or contemporary, these titles are guaranteed to appeal to burgeoning bookworms of the modernist sort.
Rebirth of the Cool The Sunshine State once yielded a bumper crop of modernist homes that—as this remodel proves—are still worth savoring.
Origin Stories Newly published monograph The Design Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby offers the inside account behind the British duo’s...
If You Build It, They Will Cluck North Carolina high schoolers take on a creating a sustainable small-scale housing solution—for hens.
Good Clean Fun Far from pandering to the whine of youth, this urban play garden fosters thoughtful interaction in a protected setting within the...
Jabba the Hutt Pillow You’d be hard pressed to find someone—in this or any other galaxy, no matter how far, far away—who is not a fan of Star Wars, and...
Pinterest, Meet Dwell on Design The Internet is good for many things, but two it does particularly well: giving people a platform to share things they find (and...
Wood-Clad Seaside Retreat in India It’s hard to believe that this idyllic house sited in a coastal coconut grove in Nandgaon, India, is a mere hour’s drive from...
Less is More in this Manhattan Beach Bungalow Matt Jacobson doesn’t just abide by the mantra “less is more,” he wholeheartedly embraces it. His Southern California home is a...
A View To A Hill Seven floors up, in an unassuming office building just shy of Chinatown, Dwell's San Francisco headquarters look out over the...
Print Workshop A blank canvas can really get the blood pumping. For some, the sight is a beacon. For others, it can be intimidating.
Crafting a Meaningful Home Anonymous mass production is losing its mass-market appeal, and there’s a growing movement toward owning things that have origins...
Green and Efficient: Boost Boxes These days, it seems like everyone is busy saving the world.
DIY Black Chalkboard Pegboard by Margaret Oomen Sometimes the pursuit of a simple accessory can result in a surprising upshot.
New York Stories Holly Hotchner knows New York.
Storage Slings For those spots where a table will take up too much space and piling your on the floor isn't exactly appealing, try hanging a...
Retail’s Details Few feelings equal the rush of shopping in the center of the universe with cold hard cash—or credit—burning a hole in the pocket.
Set in the Future When Tron raced into theaters on neon treads in 1982, the futuristic backdrops were a visual revelation for cinema geeks.
Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Midcentury Designers In Handcrafted Modern, photographer Leslie Williamson captured precisely these quiet moments in the homes of designers whose work...