April 2008
Modern Wood Homes; Green and Great; Scrap Wood Furniture; Tom Dixon's Bamboo Furniture.
Modern Wood Homes; Green and Great; Scrap Wood Furniture; Tom Dixon's Bamboo Furniture.
Features
Raising the Barn
Heart of the Country
All Clad
A Custom Concern
A Mama's Touch
Wood Gone Wild
Can't abide your adobe? Find stucco yucko? We swing the lumber in this examination of the highlights and lowlights of wood au naturel.
Raising the Barn
Arnold and Elise Goodman caught a mean case of hay fever, nesting a sturdy new steel frame into their turn-of-the-19th-century barn. The distinguished gray of the cedar cladding makes this Dutchess County, New York, residence the local silver fox. Story by Marc Kristal / Photos by Raimund Koch
Heart of the Country
Anna and John Carver did what most of us only talk about–they never came back from vacation. The cheeky Brits ditched their London digs and took up permanent residence in their refurbished getaway house in rural Peasmarsh, England. Story by Iain Aitch / Photos by Nigel Shafran
All Clad
Wood is good to photographer Ed Reeve, whose David Adjaye-designed house in North London has us wondering if his neighborhood won't be rechristened Knotty Hill. Story by Max Fraser / Photos by Ed Reeve
A Custom Concern
George Nakashima was an inspired woodworker, and with his daughter Mira ably carrying on at his studio, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Story by Marc Kristal / Photos by Leslie Williamson
A Mama's Touch
Nina Tolstrup, the industrious Dane behind Studiomama (named for partner Jack Mama, not her maternal status), proves design can be serious with a smile. Story by Grant Gibson / Photos by Ben Anders
Departments
My House
Off the Grid
Archive
Conversation
Detour
In the Modern World
Now that Super Duper Tuesday has passed, allow some capitol design to usher you down that long, dusty road to the national conventions. Rekindle your presidential awe with our monumental take on Lincoln Logs, or avoid those April showers under our picks for best umbrella.
My House
Londoner Marcus Lee turned a narrow lot next to a pickle works into a high-flying wood retreat with a garden out back and plenty of soaring space upstairs. Story by Dominic Bradbury / Photos by Jeremy Murch
Off the Grid
We huffed and puffed, but we couldn't blow off the compressed straw bale panels of the supersustainable Swiss Strohhaus. Story by Emily Gertz
Dwell Reports
We'll leave it to Congress to table legislation while we sit down with the hard work of electing our primary favorite from a delegation of dining tables. Design wonk Richard Hansen helps keep us on message. Story by Michael Grozik / Photos by Todd Hido
Archive
Occasionally dubbed "the British Eameses," Robin and Lucienne Day are far more: a pair of innovative furniture and textile designers worth their weight in gold–or, better yet, pounds sterling. Story by Sarah Rich
Conversation
Tom Dixon has cribbed a page from the Jay-Z playbook: taking a seat at the helm of the venerable firm Artek while still continuing his reign as Britain's design don. Dwell sits down with Dixon to separate the player from the hustle. Story by Amber Bravo
Outside
The perpetually ecstatic architect Dan Maginn turns his quill to the vagaries of sublime beauty, Ernest Borgnine and the mother of all ground covers: mulch. Story by Dan Maginn / Photos by Mike Perry
The Pi Table
No strangers to the junkyard, Scrapile's scrappy woodpickers handily salvage everything from discarded Steinways to unused bamboo, refashion it as a new wood hybrid material, and produce everything from sideboards to hanging lamps to tables.
Detour
Gundrún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir of Studio Bility takes us on a guided tour of the city by the smoky bay: Reykjavík, Iceland. She tells us about the local fascination with fairies, why we should keep an eye on the city's small but burgeoning design scene, and how, with all the collaboration going on, no man is an Iceland. Story by Sean LeBrun / Photos by Jesse Chehak
Sourcing
Nuts for Nakashima, bewitched by Bertoia? Our sourcing page will help you lay hands on anything and everything in this issue.
Loyal Loot
We turn our back page to the clothing makers and designers of the Canadian collective Loyal Loot, who give more thought to maples than the Maple Leafs.
