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  1. 10 Minute Interview: Renzo Piano
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    10 Minute Interview: Renzo Piano

    I met with Italian architect and Pritzker Prize winner Renzo Piano one week before the official opening of his latest museum project, an addition to the historic Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston,...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    01.19.12

  2. 10 Minutes with Karim Rashid
    Interviews

    10 Minutes with Karim Rashid

    Tuesday evening, Danish design company Bo Concept debuted its newest collection, created by designer-about-town Karim Rashid. I walked up the pink carpet (a favorite color of the Egypt-born, Canada...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    03.08.12

  3. 10 Modern Gables
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    10 Modern Gables

    You'll never tear us away from the flat-roof modernism so prevalent in Dwell's pages over the last 12 years; nor would we try to eschew touting the glory of mid-century housing typologies. That...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    02.15.13

  4. 2012 Color of the Year: Tangerine
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    2012 Color of the Year: Tangerine

    Pantone, no longer relegated to color wheels for art directors, makes a splash each December with the company's pick for imminent Color of the Year. For 2012, the shade that will "provide the...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    12.09.11

  5. 2013 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Furniture Preview
    Travel Reports

    2013 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Furniture Preview

    Hello, sports fans! That's right: Milan's annual design fair happens next week, and it's big, bad, and enough of an endurance test to qualify as spring training. As you read back in February,...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.05.13

  6. 3 New Book Releases: The Life and Work of Le Corbusier
    Books

    3 New Book Releases: The Life and Work of Le Corbusier

    2012 marked what would have been the 125th birthday of the great French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known to the world as Le Corbusier.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    05.22.13

  7. 5 Surprising Vignelli Designs
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    5 Surprising Vignelli Designs

    Industrial and graphic designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli are giants in their field. (You may know them for any number of instantly recognizable design objects, from the New York City transit...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.02.13

  8. 6 Low-VOC Pink Paint Colors
    We Recommend

    6 Low-VOC Pink Paint Colors

    Cover bare walls with any of these six rose-colored options from Sherwin-Williams, Devine Colors, and Glidden.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    05.21.13

  9. 7 Facts About Moooi Designer Lorenza Bozzoli
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    7 Facts About Moooi Designer Lorenza Bozzoli

    Milan-based designer Lorenza Bozzoli has a background in fashion and an aesthetic to match: colorful, poppy, and au courant. You last saw her work in Dwell's April Indoor-Outdoor issue in the form...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.08.13

  10. 7 Little Lamps We Love
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    7 Little Lamps We Love

    This week, Dwell took a whirl around the Javits Convention Center to check out the goods at the New York International Gift Fair. We spotted a few tasty design morsels (more on that in the coming...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    08.23.12

  11. 7 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Designs We Love
    Product Reviews

    7 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Designs We Love

    Each spring, Dwell hits the ground running to scout furniture, lighting, and accessories during the design industry's biggest fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Here are just a few of the...

    05.15.13

  12. 8 Libraries We Love
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    8 Libraries We Love

    Who says libraries must be dusty, solemn affairs? Libraries of today can be big, small, architecturally-placed, temporary, or hidden away behind a rolling track door. Here we've rounded up a few...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    03.21.13

  13. A Lakeside Prefab in New Jersey
    My House

    A Lakeside Prefab in New Jersey

    A New Zealand expat and her son use their prefabricated lakeside New Jersey retreat as an outdoorsy counterpoint to city life.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    photos by: Mark Mahaney
    12.20.12

  14. ABCs of Bathroom Design with the Brothers Sieger
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    ABCs of Bathroom Design with the Brothers Sieger

    At Duravit's biennial conference Duravit Design Days, we had the opportunity to chat with two of Germany's hardest-working design firms, Sieger Design. The principals and brothers Michael and...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    02.11.13

  15. An Industrial Loft in Belgium
    House Tours

    An Industrial Loft in Belgium

    Globetrotting Belgian architect Julien De Smedt carves out a space to call his own in a converted industrial loft building in Brussels.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.16.13

  16. Anne Tyng, 1920-2011
    Profiles

    Anne Tyng, 1920-2011

    Just before the new year, architect and theorist Anne Tyng died at the age of 91 at her home in Marin County, California. Her extensive writings about geometric architecture explored ways to apply...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    01.17.12

  17. Anti-Demolition Petition in Goshen
    House Tours

    Anti-Demolition Petition in Goshen

    It's been well-documented that architect Paul Rudolph's brutalist yet expressive aesthetic hasn't held up well to the whims of fashion. Popular in the 1960s, Rudolph completed a spate of...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    03.30.12

  18. Aussie Living Room We Love
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    Aussie Living Room We Love

    A mix of warm Brazilian furniture, refined antiques, period furniture, and contemporary lighting turn this renovation project in a hip suburb of Melbourne, Australia, into a family home for the...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    03.29.13

  19. Back to the Future
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    Back to the Future

    The legacy of mid-century designer Joe Colombo is underscored with a reissue of his plywood 4801 chair, now appearing for the first time in plastic from Italian furniture company Kartell.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    03.28.12

  20. Balthazar Korab, 1926-2013
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    Balthazar Korab, 1926-2013

    Balthazar Korab—whose work and career we profiled in Dwell's Dec/Jan 2013 issue—passed away this week in Troy, Michigan, his hometown of many years. Korab was born in Hungary, escaped Budapest at...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    01.16.13

  21. Best Booth Designs at Salone 2013
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    Best Booth Designs at Salone 2013

    As you may have noticed, Dwell is in Milan this week to scout for new furniture, accessories, and lighting at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and the various satellite fairs around town. It's...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.12.13

  22. Best of Paris: 2012 Maison & Objet
    Travel Reports

    Best of Paris: 2012 Maison & Objet

    Maison & Objet, the annual winter design show in Paris, ended last week, and it's taken seven whole days to catch our collective breath and clean off our camera's memory card. The immeubles...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    02.01.12

  23. Brooklyn Botanic's New 'Do
    Outdoor

    Brooklyn Botanic's New 'Do

    Last week, as spring's balmy temperatures took a temporary dip into glacier territory, the two founding partners of architecture and urbanism firm Weiss/Manfredi led a hard hat tour of their new...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.05.12

  24. Carl Hansen + Maharam x 20
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    Carl Hansen + Maharam x 20

    See all twenty iterations of the classic Hans Wegner Shell chair for Carl Hansen & Son, remade with Maharam fabric.

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    05.17.13

  25. Color Story: La Vie en Rose at Salone Internazionale del Mobile
    Travel Reports

    Color Story: La Vie en Rose at Salone Internazionale del Mobile

    Over the past year or so, we've noticed a pink trend happening in furniture and textiles (and it's not just our rose-colored glasses). The traditionally feminine hue has staked its claim on all...

    written by: Kelsey Keith
    04.11.13

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