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Canadian Beacon
When most people think of locations for a holiday home, they have visions of beaches, golf courses, spas, and chalets. But few have the mettle to choose the sort of place that architects André...
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Paul Orenstein02.01.09 -
Exhibiting Interest
Get your information from curators, professors of contemporary art, critics, and other collectors through your local arts organizations, newspapers, and art schools.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
Curating Your Thoughts
“The act of collecting is about looking, studying, sorting, sifting, concentrating, weighing, and making decisions. It’s a lot of work. I got better at it by being rigorous. I couldn’t buy...
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
101 Art Collecting
Want to be the next Henry Clay Frick or Isabella Stewart Gardner? Dwell offers some pointers on starting your own collection.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
The Country's Best Yurt
Lakes of ink have been spilled over a peculiarly American wanderlust, whether it’s our ancestors’ push westward or our current penchant for cross-country moves at the drop of a...
written by: Aaron Britt02.01.09 -
Moleskine’s New Folio Collection – It’s BIG!
The iconic little black book gets big with the introduction of Moleskine’s new Folio collection. They’re the same smart notebooks you know and love, same classic shape, and same elastic...
written by: Jordan Kushins02.01.09 -
Collecting Case Studies: Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence Rinder is a San Francisco–based collector and dean of graduate studies at California College of the Arts. He was formerly the curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of...
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
SchubLaden's Modern Salvage
The use of salvaged material in design has become such a strong sign of responsibility and sustainability that it sometimes becomes the sole crutch for products that otherwise have little aesthetic...
written by: Sarah Rich02.01.09 -
Turning the Tide on Table Design
San Francisco-based designer Adrien Segal has taken data visualization to new heights with her tidal datum table, a wood-and-metal creation that physicalizes the patterns of tidal flow, as recorded...
written by: Sarah Rich02.01.09 -
Jeffrey Bernett on the Landscape Chaise for B&B Italia
B&B Italia, which was founded in the mid-’60s, developed the first injection-molded polyurethane-foam seating, which today is still the basis of its upholstered seating.
written by: Virginia Gardiner01.31.09 -
Emiliano Godoy on Knitted Pieces
I am really interested in pieces made using vegetable-based, biodegradable materials.
written by: Virginia Gardiner01.31.09 -
Chris Kabel on The Shady Lace Parasol
In early 2003 Droog Design invited me and several other Dutch designers to collaborate with the local industries around Lille to design products for the Lille 2004 Cultural Capital of Europe ...
written by: Virginia Gardiner01.31.09 -
Marimekko Tour
Beyond a shining white foyer and a canteen infused with fragrant lunchtime aromas, Marimekko’s Helsinki headquarters hides a textile factory in its belly.
written by: Shonquis Moreno01.31.09 -
Moroso Factory Tour
Moroso, the Italian furniture company known for discovering remarkable designers such as Ron Arad and Patricia Urquiola, assembles between 100 and 150 pieces per day in a factory outside Udine.
written by: Virginia Gardiner01.31.09 -
LG Factory Tour
It is an overcast morning in Gumi. Contrary to a name that evokes cute rainbows of fruit flavor, the view from the hotel window consists of a salvage yard, a river with wide, sandy banks, and a...
written by: Sam Grawe01.31.09 -
A Three-Factory Tour
Inside vast concrete buildings all over the world, gizmos and gears (assisted by human hands, of course) assemble everything from enormous plasma TVs to endless rolls of colorful fabric to high-end...
written by: Sam Grawe01.31.09 -
Making the Future
We live in a manufactured world. But is it some kind of utopia, full of iPods, Swiffers, and pre-cut fruit? Or is it a proverbial hell on earth, physically destroying half the planet while eating...
written by: Andrew Blum01.31.09 -
Do It Yourself Bibles
If lean times mean better design, smarter design, then we're already feeling the benefits. A whole slew of new books brings smart practical design to the realm of crafting and doing-it-yourself.
written by: Laure Joliet01.31.09 -
The Thin Green Line
For years, as the author of books on eco-home design and a founder of two environmental general stores, I’ve been advocating sustainable design to others.
written by: Jennifer Roberts01.31.09 -
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Greased Lightning
Thirty years from now, there will be no more oil. But that’s, like, 30 years from now, and by then we’ll all be driving hydrogen cars, teleporting to space hotels, and eating blue foods while...
written by: James Nestor01.31.09 -
A New Standard of Living
Sustainability may be the buzzword du jour, but how can you tell if a product is as green as it’s cracked up to be?
written by: Jennifer Roberts01.31.09 -
Structural Panels
Bees have always been admired for their industrious nature and intricate honeycomb architecture; Charles Darwin called the honeycomb “absolutely perfect” as a feat of engineering, symmetry, and...
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Hunter Freeman01.31.09 -
Lotusan Paint
Product design that takes cues from nature, known as biomimicry, has produced a num- ber of ingenious and popular products we use every day.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Hunter Freeman01.31.09
