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Let the Dwell staff do your Internet wanderings for you, as they present their favorite links from the week.

Week in Review

Friday Finds 3.12.2010

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…

Event Spotlight

Palladio and His Legacy

Breanne Bumanlag

Yesterday 1 comment

The action this weekend is in New York and the Midwest, with our favorite events and exhibitions taking place in the Big Apple and around lower Lake Michigan.

Out and About

Events this Weekend: 3.11-3.14

Miyoko Ohtake

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Considering what a blight billboards can be on the urban landscape--São Paulo banned them in 2007, as have states like Maine--especially in car-centric spot like Los Angeles, it's little…

Event Spotlight

How Many Billboards? in LA

Aaron Britt

03/10/2010 Leave a comment

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…

What We Saw

New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors

Tiffany Chu

03/09/2010 Leave a comment

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What is a home? There's the obvious answer of a place of residence or--at an even more elementary level--a structure that provides shelter. But "home" carries a bigger meaning than just…

Event Spotlight

Imagining Home

Miyoko Ohtake

03/09/2010 Leave a comment

My favorite book as a kid was unquestionably D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths. I took it out of every branch of the Sacramento library, renewed it a hundred times and basically absorbed every story…

Bookshelf

Ramayana by Sanjay Patel

Aaron Britt

03/09/2010 1 comment

On dwell.com, we recently featured atelier KS's Sunset District Renovation--a disaster turned modern-design beauty that we loved. Now, we asked the designers behind the renovation, Kelli Franz and…

Three Buildings

atelier KS

Miyoko Ohtake

03/08/2010 1 comment

“Prolific” is a weighty designation to assign to a living designer, but few contemporaries have produced the caliber and portfolio of Piero Lissoni. Since the start of his career in…

Conversation

Piero LIssoni

Jordan Kushins

03/08/2010 Leave a comment

Though the East Coast has been in the grip of serious winter weather, we here out west have been pummeled by quite a wet 2010. Naturally rubber boots of all stripes have carried the rainy day, as…

Product Spotlight

Camper Covers by Alfredo Häberli

Aaron Britt

03/05/2010 4 comments

The weekend beckons, people. Cruise through the rest of your Friday afternoon with this series of links from your friendly Dwell staff.

Week in Review

Friday Finds 3.5.2010

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This weekend features two hands-on events and exhibitions demonstrating high-tech, energy-effiencent systems you can install in your home as well as the closing of some of the season's top design…

Out and About

Events this Weekend: 3.4-3.7

Miyoko Ohtake

03/04/2010 Leave a comment

I was perusing the perpetually well done output of Working Class Studio, a division of the Savannah College of Art and Design, the other day and came across a lovely lamp by furniture designer and…

Product Spotlight

Tucker Lamp by Tucker Waugh

Aaron Britt

03/04/2010 6 comments

Recognized for his architecture and interior design, Brazilian modernist Sergio Rodrigues is renown for his furniture, often executed with humor and whimsy: His Mole chair and sofa is exaggeratedly…

Profile

Sergio Rodrigues

Erika Heet

03/02/2010 Leave a comment

Dave Brown founded Holiday Matinee after agreeing to be the publicist for his friends in Jimmy Eat World--without even known what a publicist did. After a two-year hiatus from the company, during…

Conversation

Dave Brown of Holiday Matinee

Miyoko Ohtake

03/02/2010 3 comments

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Eric Baker and Tyler Blik are a pair of noted graphic and identity designers, though perhaps their greatest legacy in American design will come not from their work as designers, but as design…

Bookshelf

American Trademarks

Aaron Britt

03/02/2010 1 comment

At a party last year I was chatting with Mike Simonian of the San Francisco design firm Mike and Maaike. We were talking about a project of his from 2006: Juxtaposed:Religion, a curated, deftly…

Bookshelf

The Philosophy of Juxtaposed:Power

Aaron Britt

02/26/2010 1 comment

We continue, undaunted, braving the wilds of the Internet, to bring you these hard-won links.

Week in Review

Friday Finds 2.26.2010

Amanda Dameron

02/26/2010 Leave a comment

During my jaunt to Cambodia last month, when I was not hauling bricks to build an outdoor school kitchen with my studio, I had the chance to see a multitude of informal building in both urban and…

Postcard

Living on Water: Floating Villages

Tiffany Chu

02/25/2010 2 comments

This weekend features openings and closing around the globe--from Toronto to Pittsburgh to Beijing--plus a one-day program we couldn't be more excited about: Edible Geography blogger Nicola Twilley…

Out and About

Events this Weekend: 2.25-28

Miyoko Ohtake

02/25/2010 Leave a comment

Friday Finds 3.12.2010

Palladio and His Legacy

Events this Weekend: 3.11-3.14

How Many Billboards? in LA

New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors

Imagining Home

Ramayana by Sanjay Patel

atelier KS

Piero LIssoni

Camper Covers by Alfredo Häberli

Friday Finds 3.5.2010

Events this Weekend: 3.4-3.7

Tucker Lamp by Tucker Waugh

Sergio Rodrigues

Dave Brown of Holiday Matinee

American Trademarks

The Philosophy of Juxtaposed:Power

Friday Finds 2.26.2010

Living on Water: Floating Villages

Events this Weekend: 2.25-28

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