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Palladio and His Legacy
Next month the Morgan Library and Museum presents a rare opportunity to see original drawings from one of the most influential classical architects in history, Andrea Palladio. Principles of...
written by: Breanne Bumanlag03.11.10 -
Last Chance: Lessons from Modernism
Modern-minded New Yorkers have just a few more days to swing by Cooper Union’s Lessons From Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture, 1925-70 exhibition at the...
written by: Sara Carpenter03.20.13 -
Maharam Textiles at The Shade Store
The Shade Store just launched a new collection of window treatments featuring fabrics from the archives of renowned textile manufacturer Maharam textiles.
written by: Laure Joliet11.11.08 -
Paul Rudolph: NYC Expressway
One of New York's last large-scale urban planning initiatives, the Lower Manhattan Expressway, never came to pass. The massive transit system would have irevocably altered the face of New York City...
written by: Aaron Britt09.26.10 -
Renovate Today! Hits Newsstands
Our latest special issue, Renovate Today!, is dedicated to the finest modern renovations that the vast Dwell archive has to offer, and it's on sale now. Cruise through 168 pages of inspiration as...
written by: Aaron Britt04.01.13 -
Friday Finds 10.12.12
Archival photos, colorful toys, and more in this installment of Friday Finds.
written by: Diana Budds10.12.12 -
Critics Love Critics
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week, with the prize for commentary going to Sarah Kaufman, a dance writer, of the Washington Post. I was heartened immediately that a dance writer took...
written by: Aaron Britt04.15.10 -
Friday Finds 3.26.2010
We humbly offer our favorite links from the week, and we've got a little something for everyone: videos, archival photographs, DIY projects, sneak-attack drawings, and more.
03.26.10 -
Design Glut's Hookmaker
The entrepreneurial pair at Design Glut has been building a great archive on their site of interviews they've conducted with designers of all kinds. It's a really nice approach to giving readers an...
written by: Sarah Rich08.03.09 -
Friday Finds 4.10.09
This week on Dwell.com we had some new modular architecture, a Q&A with Sebastian Wrong of Established & Sons, and a slideshow of some of the best kitchens in our features archive. We...
written by: Sarah Rich04.10.09 -
Cover to Cover Design
The Book Cover Archive is exactly that; an online compendium of the best book cover art and design of the last few decades, as curated by Eric Jacobsen and Ben Pieratt of General Projects, the...
written by: David A. Greene01.20.09 -
Yesterday's Kitchen of Tomorrow
Did you know that you can search the archives of Life Magazine via Google? Take a look at what we used to consider a modern kitchen–the Kitchen of Tomorrow presented in Toledo Ohio in 1943.
written by: Laure Joliet11.21.08 -
2012 Curry Stone Prize Winners
For its fifth anniversary, the Curry Stone Foundation—a charitable organization that celebrates community-oriented design projects—has announced the five recipients in its annual...
written by: Diana Budds12.05.12 -
Friday Finds 07.20.12
A container commune, an apartment building designed to accommodate motorcycles, an archival look at San Francisco, and more in this installment of Friday Finds.
written by: Diana Budds07.20.12 -
Unseen Eames: Films from the Vault
One of the events I'm most excited about at this year's Dwell on Design is Unseen Eames, a half-hour screening of rare and little-seen films from the Eames family archive at 4:00 pm on Friday June...
written by: Jaime Gillin06.21.11 -
Lapham's Quarterly on the City
I fell hard for Lapham's Quarterly earlier this year when by chance I happened into a bookstore shortly before founder Lewis Lapham gave not so much a reading as a recounting of his...
written by: Aaron Britt10.05.10 -
Events this Weekend: 4.1-4.4
Though this weekend sees the last days of exhibits at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, both in New York, it also brings the beginnings of shows in London...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.01.10 -
George Smart
George Smart, executive director of Triangle Modernist Archive, is a modern-day Lorax for modern-designed houses. In early 2007, a quick Internet search for “Raleigh modernist architecture...
written by: Dwell Staff09.02.09 -
Daniel Patterson on Kitchens of the Future
According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look back to the future.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
The Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
In a prolific 15-year period between 1880 and 1895, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan teamed up to produce an architecture that was stridently American—one that drew from nature for its...
written by: J. Michael Welton01.19.11 -
Wonderwall Archives 01
Back in 2009 we ran a conversation with Masamichi Katayama about the incredible Japanese retail design outfit Wonderwall. We only showed a handful of photos to go with it, but now with the...
written by: Aaron Britt02.02.11 -
Dutch Master
Limitations—–even in choice of wardrobe—–fuel the creative fires of Dutch master Karel Martens. His influential graphic design career spans nearly half a century, and he...
written by: Amber Bravo04.26.10 -
Record Revival
As far as we know, MP3s might be the end-all musical medium. Comforting to know, yes (no more Discmans). But it leaves us feeling a little static. Where’s the fun in MP3 files? Electronic...
written by: Kelly Cooper08.26.11 -
Interview: Filmmaker Eric Bricker
A documentary screening at Dwell on Design zooms in for a close-up on 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman and his iconic images that came to define modernism and Los Angeles with...
written by: Alissa Walker05.27.09 -
Julius Shulman: 10/10/10
This Sunday, October 10, on the day that would have been architectural photographer Julius Shulman’s 100th birthday, the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House will...
written by: Erika Heet10.07.10
