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Webshop We Love: Rodale's

Look no further than online shop Rodale's for a well-edited selection of eco-friendly items.

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Design Idea of the Week: High-Gloss

Glossy pieces make the perfect statement for summer: they are low-maintenance and ready to party. From cutlery to chairs, we share some of our favorites.
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Six More Modern Sofas

Our June Furniture issue features a handy guide to shopping for sofas. Here, we've corralled six more designs we love.
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Factory Direct

Ask anybody who has held so much as a bud vase from Heath Ceramics about the pottery’s charms, and you’re likely to encounter the kind of adoration reserved for treasured family…
Multi-colored modular storage.

5 Fancy Storage Furniture Solutions

You know the stuff, the stuff that is necessary but not so pretty. Here are five fancy storage suggestions to hide your not-so-fancy stuff.
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Eero Dynamic

Eero Aarnio’s persistent quest for functional forms and manufacturing processes has been at the center of his iconic and prolific career.

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Kantan II Occasional Table/Stacking Stool

Kantan II Occasional Table/Stacking Stool by Brown Jordan, $605 Brown Jordan has reintroduced its…
StickBulb by Rux Design

Stickbulb

Wood scraps—including some Coney Island boardwalk—left over from another project…

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Beyond the Barrio: Alfredo Brillembourg

Venezuela is known worldwide as a hotbed of stellar baseball shortstops. But now, the Caracas Think Tank is making its case for recognition as a leader in urban theory.
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How they make it

04 Groove

Once the pieces are assembled, their stepped miter joints are glued together and clamped to dry. Wrong routs a three-millimeter perpendicular groove along every 90-degree corner of each piece.
DIY electrical wall cord art by Maisie Broadhead
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Striking a Cord

British artist Maisie Broadhead elevates the nuisance of an unsightly lamp cord to over-the-mantel art with this clever bit of DIY design.
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Design 101

Think Volume

Creatively separating your functional needs is a key component of Good Small Design—it’s all about overlap, nesting, and double duty.
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Interviews

Dan Pink: Three Ideas Changing Design

In our October story "A New Beginning," we toured the home of speechwriter, author, and former Dwell on Design keynote speaker Daniel Pink.
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Dwell on Design

Christopher Puzio at Dwell on Design

We editors have started to put together the panels and programming for Dwell on Design 09 in Los Angeles, and I'm very excited to report that San Diego-based artist, gallerist, educator, builder and…
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Exhibition Snapshot: Ernsdorf Design

Fourth-generation stoneworker Seth Ernsdorf presents his custom concrete creations on the showroom floor of Dwell on Design.
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Design 101

101 Art Collecting

Want to be the next Henry Clay Frick or Isabella Stewart Gardner? Dwell offers some pointers on starting your own collection.

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Dwell and Nate Berkus Tackle Small Space

Dwell Executive Editor Amanda Dameron appeared on The Nate Berkus Show, November 3rd, to share modern design tips with Nate’s viewers. The show was devoted to our November Issue theme, Small Spaces.
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