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LA's Restored Overlook Park
This week LA unveiled its newest park, a 50-acre greenspace that sits 500 feet above the city just southwest of Downtown, on a plot of land that was historically part of the Baldwin Hills oil...
written by: Laure Joliet04.29.09 -
Knibb Modular Showcase Garden
In a new space on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, landscape designer Sean Knibb has unveiled an environmentally-friendly furniture line and a fresh approach to sustainable gardening. Knibb...
written by: Laure Joliet04.16.09 -
Robin Wilson Green Cabinets
At this point it's hard to take the term "eco-friendly" at face value. Greenwashing has, unfortunately, become a marketing gimmick as strong as some companies' sincere goal to be...
written by: Laure Joliet04.12.09 -
On Greener Turf
With new laws limiting water consumption in many places, it shouldn't be a surprise that drought-tolerant and native landscaping is continuing to flourish, replacing expansive and expensive lawns. ...
written by: Laure Joliet03.30.09 -
Corbusier's Cabanon at RIBA
The only structure that famed architect Le Corbusier ever designed for himself has been reconstructed inside the Royal Institute of British Architects in the UK for the exhibition "Le...
written by: Laure Joliet03.20.09 -
Paperfold Lamps
Architects are notorious for being sticklers for detail. Often, and in the best cases, this leads to beautifully uncomplicated structures and well thought out product design.
written by: Laure Joliet03.17.09 -
Islands of LA
On my commute last week I noticed a sign posted on a traffic island declaring the narrow grassy strip an 'Island of LA Nat'l Park.' Intrigued, I took a look on the internet and found that for the...
written by: Laure Joliet03.10.09 -
Pleats-Pleats Sofa
In accordance with the old saying, March has come in like a lion from coast to coast. If we're lucky, by the end of the month, we'll be ready for lawn chairs and lemonade (or at least some spring...
written by: Laure Joliet03.03.09 -
Matryoshka: Public Art in West LA
As the LA Times attempts a controversial mapping of LA neighborhoods, which appears to be creating more divisions in the city than anything else, a public art show in West Hollywood is embracing...
written by: Laure Joliet02.26.09 -
Modernica's 20th Anniversary Eames Chair
In honor of Modernica's 20th anniversary, the company is releasing a new iteration on the classic mid-century fiberglass shell chair originally designed by the Eameses.
written by: Laure Joliet02.25.09 -
Ferm Living Washable Wallpaper
Living with kids and living in style can often feel like a catch-22. If it isn't the clutter of all the stuff that seems to tag along with them then it's the messes that inevitably get made...
written by: Laure Joliet02.25.09 -
Melissa Manfull's Tesseracts
The term Tesseract was coined in the 19th century by science fiction writer Charles Howard Hinton to describe the 4-dimensional, convex-sided geometric form related to a cube. A new exhibition of...
written by: Laure Joliet02.23.09 -
New Marimekko Spring Line
The famed Finnish textile brand Marimekko, renowned for simple, bright prints (and owing their original popularity in the US to Jackie Kennedy's Marimekko shift dresses in the 60's) has released...
written by: Laure Joliet02.17.09 -
7 Questions For Mark Allen of Machine Project
I met Mark Allen about 10 years ago when he was getting his MFA, and even back then he was a connector. Sure he made great art installations (one composed of slowly rotating organically shaped...
written by: Laure Joliet02.10.09 -
Cable Camouflage
Now that laptops and iPods have become like extra appendages for most of us, tangled cords and unsightly nests of cables are a constant problem. Even with the myriad systems for keeping them...
written by: Laure Joliet02.06.09 -
French Adbusters
There's some citizen adbusting going on in France where groups describing themselves as "deboulonneurs" or "unscrewers," are fighting against the visual pollution they see...
written by: Laure Joliet02.05.09 -
8 Questions For Tina Roth Eisenberg
Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design centric blog, SwissMiss. The self described Swiss designer gone NYC...
written by: Laure Joliet02.04.09 -
Marmol Radziner's Rincon 5 Live in LA
If you read Dwell's February 2009 Process section, you saw the inner workings of the Marmol Radziner prefab factory, where they construct their loved and lauded modern homes. Those of you in...
written by: Laure Joliet02.03.09 -
Do It Yourself Bibles
If lean times mean better design, smarter design, then we're already feeling the benefits. A whole slew of new books brings smart practical design to the realm of crafting and doing-it-yourself.
written by: Laure Joliet01.31.09 -
The Puti Trees
The Puti Trees series of posters look like a cross between a modern subway map and children's book illustrations, so you probably wouldn't guess that they're actually all about Buddhism.
written by: Laure Joliet01.29.09
