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Stadium Game
Among America’s notable architectural ruins, few are as singular as the grandstand for Commodore Munroe Stadium, designed by Cuban-born architect Hilario Candela in 1964 and approved for...
written by: Marc Kristal04.22.10 -
Angular Architecture: 5 Modern Homes We Love
From an angled contemporary retreat in Martha's Vineyard to a German prefab metal castle, these five homes call attention to the exceptional beauty of angular architecture.
written by: Jami Smith05.21.13 -
Time Is on My Site
In Galileo’s day, men counted their pulses to tell time. In 2 A.D., Ptolemy, who understood more about the movements of the sun and the earth than most of us do today, designed a tool called...
written by: Shonquis Morenophotos by: Prakash Patel01.16.09 -
Net Assets
Argentinean materials, a roiling economy, and a pinch of personal tumult served as the recipe for furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti’s Buenos Aires oasis.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Cristóbal Palma06.17.09 -
Apartment Decorated by Gaultier
Stepping into the freshly decorated apartment by Jean-Paul Gaultier at Trocadero in Paris, I felt as if I had been transported into a quixotic dream, complete with a choppy journey through a triage...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu08.11.10 -
The Art of: 12th Avenue Iron
In our October 2012 issue, we profiled Tom Kundig's new hardware line, a collaboration between the esteemed Seattle architect ("prince of architectural gizmos," as the story branded him) and the...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.20.13 -
Folk Yeah
New additions to the collection include the long neck Crayon vase with the Crayola-esque cross-hatching (Xenia's current favorite), and the organic motifs of the Field and Wood line of tiles (all...
written by: Jordan Kushins09.30.08 -
Pieces from a Larger Puzzle
“Pieces from a Larger Puzzle,” an exhibition at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura—a 1950s building in Westwood designed by Robert Alexander, Richard Neutra’s partner—of...
written by: Erika Heet07.14.10 -
Family Matters
The open spaces and transparency of modern architecture turn out to be extremely useful when there’s a house full of relatives.
written by: Lydia Leephotos by: Justin Fantl07.18.11 -
Cutting Edge
With our airwaves packed with celebrity chefs, Americans are proving to have a solid appetite for what Julia Child would call cuisine—at least on television.
written by: Christopher Brightphotos by: Peter Belanger01.28.09 -
Perimeters
The next tool makes a perpendicular fold around the sheet’s perimeter, which allows the hard edges to be folded away from the smooth backrest. Parts of this fold will become armrests. &ldquo...
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Fitting Wood
Four straight legs and a round seat are CNC-milled out of solid beech, bolt holes and all, ready for fixing to the punched and painted steel. As the chair began production in early 2008, the...
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Drawing
Kyttänen’s designs travel straight from his imagination to the computer. “Hardly anything happens on paper anymore,” he says, “because most of the files are so complex that it’s practically...
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02 Plywood
Wrong based his designs on DIY plywood-furniture patterns from postwar Britain. “It’s a very simple message of construction using plywood and turned timber legs,” he explains.“ They’re like...
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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 -
Touring the Vitra Campus
In addition to my tour of the Freitag factory in Zurich, a huge high point of my recent trip to Switzerland involved hopping over the border from Basel to 1 Charles-Eames-Strasse in Weil am Rhein,...
written by: Aaron Britt05.18.09 -
A Note on Our Expert: Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan makes a living by helping people happily inhabit and decorate their homes. Though he started designing consumer products like wallpaper and lighting after college, it was a...
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Chris Martin of Massproductions
Massproductions is a Stockholm-based furniture company that launched last year based on the longstanding collaboration between designers Magnus Elebäck and Chris Martin. They burst onto the...
written by: Tiffany Orvet02.23.10 -
On Becoming an Artist Exhibit
On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries,1922-1960 recently opened at the Noguchi Museum. Marking the museum’s 25th anniversary, the exhibition looks at how Noguchi’s...
written by: Diana Budds11.18.10 -
Design Miami's Deconstructed Tent
Though Design Miami wrapped up a month ago, Moorhead & Moorhead's installation begs to be revisited. In a take on a standard event tent, brothers Granger and Robert Moorhead manipulated the...
written by: Diana Budds01.14.11 -
Maison & Objet 2011: Part One
Hello from Paris! Right after my flight landed, I made a beeline from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Nord Villepinte, where the famed design fair Maison & Objet is held twice a year. I had no...
written by: Jaime Gillin01.23.11 -
Milan 2011: Day One
Dwell has traveled to Milan, Italy, for the 2011 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the largest furniture fair in the world, to see firsthand the latest novelties from renowned designers and to...
written by: Amanda Dameron04.11.11 -
Salone Satellite 2011
One of the most exciting perks of being lucky enough to attend Italy's Salone Internazionale del Mobile, also known as the Milan Furniture Fair, is having the opportunity to get a glimpse of...
written by: Amanda Dameron04.13.11 -
America's Regional Design
Sure, buying American is something to get behind—we're celebrating it all month long—but if for you buying local is about makers across town, not across state lines, then these...
written by: Aaron Britt09.13.11
