Latest Articles
-
Marimekko at Crate & Barrel
This week, Marimekko launched its fourth and fifth shops at Crate & Barrel in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The two companies have collaborated for four decades so it makes sense that...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake05.27.11 -
Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
At Dwell we've long been fans of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang Architects. Headed up by the nation's fastest rising female architect Jeanne Gang, the company is responsible not just for...
written by: Aaron Britt03.31.11 -
Plow Restaurant: Local Dishes, Design
In San Francisco, local food rules. Before seasoned chefs Joel Bleskacek and Maxine Siu opened the doors of their new Potrero Hill restaurant Plow last month, they did more than just source...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Peter Belanger10.07.10 -
Sanaa at the DAC: A Retrospective
This summer, the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen opened an exhibition celebrating the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese design studio Sanaa. Though originally scheduled to close this...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.30.10 -
Israel's Heavy Light House
Everything about this vacation home is little crazy. For starters, there’s the location. It’s in Israel. In northern Galilee. On the border with Lebanon.
written by: J. Michael Welton03.10.11 -
Building the Maxon House: Week 2
In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property, and designing and building a modern house with Tom Kundig of Olson...
written by: Lou Maxon03.09.11 -
Highly Accessible
Having lived in, and loved, a modern house built in 1954 in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood since buying it in 1996, architect Karen Braitmayer and her husband, marine mechanic David Erskine,...
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Kathryn Barnard09.14.10 -
An Architect's Pop-Up Book
One of the perks of being a Dwell editor are the various fun surprises that appear in the mail—newly published books, the occasional small product, even the random staple gun (yes, really)....
written by: Jaime Gillin02.15.11 -
Butterfly Roof Meditation Hut
Illinois resident Mary Kalanzis rises every morning with a view worthy of the next world. "I wake up to the vision of the hut everyday," she says. "There's something about the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.11.11 -
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 the insta-classic from 1977 is now a franchise...
written by: Jordan Kushins06.28.11 -
Three Questions for Christiane Högner
One of my favorite feature stories of all time is in the February 2011 issue of Dwell. It's about the Brussels–based furniture designer Christiane Högner who makes all manner of smart,...
written by: Aaron Britt01.13.11 -
Texas Bunkhouse
A film writer and director asked Austin, Texas–based architect Henry Panton to build a bunkhouse with a huge screen porch for family and guests on his 40-acre property in Bastrop, Texas,...
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Greg Hursley07.02.10 -
Jakarta, Indonesia
In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Ahmad Djuhara is on a one-man crusade to blow away the conservative cobwebs of the city’s dowdy suburban architecture.
written by: Simon Pitchforthphotos by: Matthew Williams05.14.10 -
Cottage Life
Fall has settled in and there's nothing we'd rather do than curl up next to a warm fire. Here we take a look a some of our favorite cozy cottages and cabins from issues past as we get ready to...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.12.10 -
Soho Row House Renovation
The New York City-based firm Delson or Sherman Architects assembled this duplex apartment in a Soho row house from two stacked apartments and a new rear extension. Their clients were a single...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.06.10 -
Glass Jar Terrariums
Terrariums have once again taken off--just like Indie Mart founder Kelly Malone's San Francisco craft space Workshop. Malone opened Workshop in September 2009 and has since been selling out classes...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.02.10 -
A Pilgrimage to Zumthor's Chapel
I recently made a Peter Zumthor pilgrimage to Switzerland, where many of his seminal works sit within a 40 mile radius one another in the northeastern part of the country. An architectural journey...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu10.05.10 -
New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors
The Media Lab at MIT is an unmatched incubator of unlikely partnerships -- where academia and industry hold hands, and where art and technology are inseparable. Designed by Prtizker Prize-winning...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu03.09.10 -
Medlock Ames' New Tasting Room
When I was in Healdsburg checking out H2Hotel, I took a little detour to Medlock Ames' recently opened tasting room and bar, which is on the site and in the footprint of the century-old...
written by: Jaime Gillin09.27.10 -
Czech Trek at the Biennale
Out of all of the exhibits at the Venice Biennale this year, I spent the most time sitting and playing inside the pavilion of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Along with being interactive, dynamic,...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu09.16.10 -
A Fine Vintage
At age 34, Philip M. Isaacson commissioned architect F. Frederick Bruck to design a home for him and his wife. That was 1959. Five decades later, he still lives in his ideal home—and very...
written by: Chelsea Holden Bakerphotos by: Eric Roth09.15.10 -
Shelter Island Retreat
Architect Cary Tamarkin designed his family's summer house for snoozing. “It lends itself to massive relaxing,” he says of the 2,800-square-foot cottage on Shelter Island overlooking...
written by: J. Michael Weltonphotos by: Bart Michiels06.30.10 -
From the Floor: Asia Now Exhibition
Last year at Dwell on Design our pals at Italian website designboom curated the wonderful show Kitchen Ecology. This year they’re back with a passel of new domestic products from all over...
written by: Aaron Britt06.26.10 -
Live from the Show Floor: Wallter
We've always admired the metal Slat Rack coat hanger by Wallter. At Dwell on Design, the Richmond, California–based design company debuted a new series of products: the Post, Wall, and Hang...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Peter Williams06.26.10 -
Dwell on Design 2010, Day One
We're off to the races at the fifth-annual Dwell on Design conference, currently underway at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Friday was open to the trade only, while Saturday's doors open to any...
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Peter Williams06.26.10
