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Explore - Design 101
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Italian Design: Il Futuro
As impressive as Italy’s design legacy is, it’s the future that moves this lot. Get the inside track on what’s next.
written by: Virginia Gardiner06.17.11 -
Italian Design: La Mappa
You know where your Parmesan cheese comes from: Parma. But which region offers the best chairs? We've mapped it out for you.
written by: Virginia Gardiner06.17.11 -
Italian Design: Passato al Presente
A look at the greats of Italian design, from past untill present.
written by: Virginia Gardiner06.15.11 -
Un'Introduzione al Disegno Italiano
From Marble to mobili, Italy has been a, if not the, design mecca for the last century. Here's why.
written by: Virginia Gardiner06.15.11 -
An Introduction to Home Gardening
Ever since Adam and Eve’s unfortunate eviction, their descendants have been plunging hands and seeds into the earth in hopes of bringing forth food, beauty, and the satisfaction of taming...
written by: Sara Carnochan03.15.11 -
20/200 Vision
What if you could get a real work of art for as little as $20? And it’s not a coffeehouse portrait of Neil Young?
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10 -
Collection Reform
Regional and world-class museums alike must daily contend with the same pedestrian woe: How can we show all this art? Limited by space, most museums manage to show only a tiny fraction of what they...
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10 -
An Introduction to Art Collecting
For millennia, kings and clerics alike have understood that little inspires awe and confers power better than a battalion of marble statues, an epic tapestry, or an exquisitely rendered portrait....
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10 -
Curator: Zoe Ryan
Call her the wild card (or the green card) in this U.S.–focused roundup, but London-born Zoë Ryan has graced our shores for the past 14 years and in the process has brought a sharp...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: David Robert Elliot12.15.10 -
Young Designers
Branching out and doing your own thing is a brave and bold move at any time and any age. That said, the 21 visionaries we profile here—–designers of interiors, graphics, architecture,...
written by: Dwell Staff12.15.10 -
An Introduction to Retail Design
The ancient Greeks did it in the agora; the Romans did it in the forum; Persians did it in the bazaar (“the place of prices”); and Arabs and Berbers did it in the labyrinthine souk....
written by: Shonquis Moreno11.06.10 -
An Introduction to Architects
Aside from that mischievous caveperson in France who used a piece of charcoal to draw a line around some stick figures that suggested some kind of manmade shelter, it is generally acknowledged that...
written by: Dan Maginn10.12.10 -
An Introduction to Lighting
One of the oldest proclamations in Western literature—maybe the very oldest, depending on how you see things—is “Let there be light.” And for most of human history, whether...
written by: Patrick Di Justo08.26.10 -
Linear City
Designers everywhere are eyeing the Interstate Highway system's bounteous and boundless real estate with ideas from tiny turbines to maglev rail lines. Mid-century urban idealism may not be dead...
written by: Karrie Jacobs06.10.10 -
An Introduction to City Parks
An afternoon in the park has evolved from picnicking in the local cemetery to sun-bathing atop a retrofitted railroad trestle. Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron walks us...
written by: Inga Saffron06.09.10 -
Shine and Rise
The catalog of smart textiles for the future is teeming with cognitive intelligence—fabrics that serve as interactive surfaces or are embedded with sheets of tiny microprocessors, little solar...
04.27.10 -
The Wrong Impression
Going for the hand touch isn’t exactly foolproof. An easy way to miss: embossed wall coverings. Lincrusta was originally invented in 1877 as a kind of textile-linoleum hybrid by linoleum...
04.27.10 -
An Introduction to Modern Textiles
If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin it all. Take a look at how leading manufacturers make what they make...
written by: Akiko Bush04.27.10 -
Tech Styles
Matilda McQuaid is the head of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Textiles Department: ...
03.27.10 -
Sew Awesome
“Who we are arises directly from what our bodies can do,” writes Richard Sennett in his recent book, The Craftsman. In his spirited defense of how making material things can enlarge...
03.26.10
