Allez Design! NYC's Iron Designer

Articles

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  Iron Chef

  The entire town of Solomonville, Arizona, heard their bickering, even through the thick walls of their adobe house, and they say that when my great-grandfather left my great-grandmother and lit out…

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  AWAA's Cast Iron Cookware

  There are few things nicer than cooking in cast iron (you can make everything from casseroles to cookies in such a skillet). At this year's Milan Furniture Fair, design team Angell Wyller Aarseth…

Products

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  Chain Dinner Plate

  The ring around these bone china plates from Areaware may look like a stray strand of spaghetti, but in fact it's a goldie lookin' chain. Designer Jason Miller adorned the dinnerware (which also…

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  Lodge Cast Iron Skillet

  Made since 1896 and refreshingly unattached to any celebrity chef, the 12-inch skillet from Lodge Cast Iron is a built-for-the-ages stalwart of American-made cookware. Perfect for baking, braising…

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  Iron Bottle Opener

  Our recent trip down to Los Angeles for Dwell on Design allowed us a little time to stroll around Abbot Kinney in Venice, and one of our favorite stops was a small shop called Tortoise. If you live…

Dwell Collections

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  Inspired Design

  The memory of designer Tobias Wong lived on at "Brokenoff Brokenoff," an exhibition hosted at Manhattan’s Gallery R’Pure. The show was composed of pieces interpreted by his…

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  The World's Best Public Spaces

  Here we present our favorite public places to linger, people watch, and take in nature’s bounty. We’ve gotten the ball rolling with our top picks—–expect sculpture parks and…

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  Scandinavian Designed

  Having just returned from a trip to Copenhagen, I have Scandinavian design on the brain. Though the region arguably experienced its golden era in the mid-20th century, with the work of icons like…

Videos

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  Universal Design: Public Restrooms

  In the first video of a two-part series, New York–based firm Smart Design examines the intersection between Universal Design principles and the limitations of public bathrooms.

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  Universal Design: Public Bathrooms

  For the second offering of our two-part series on Universal Design, the folks from Smart head over to some public restrooms in New York, illustrating how principles outlined in the first video could…

Events

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  Lecture: Cold War Modern—Design 1945–1970

  Dr. Pavitt will demonstrate how these aspects of Cold War modernity were manifested through objects, stressing the utopian nature of design practice in the period on both sides of the Iron Curtain. …

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  WantedDesign NYC

  WantedDesign is a creative platform bringing together international designers, architects, interior designers, craftsmen, editors, manufacturers, curators and communication specialists to showcase…

• The Go Game’s Kiva.org FUNdraiser

  The Go Game is an all-out urban adventure game using cell phones and flip cameras.Teams compete by following clues on wireless devices and hints planted in unlikely places, which guide teams to…