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Explore - Plastic
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6 Plastic Furniture and Accessory Designs
From an innovative toaster to a bright scratch resistant chair, check out these six designs that feature the numeours capabilities of the moldable, bendable, and wondrous material: plastic. And be...
written by: Ivane Soyombo05.01.13 -
Product Spotlight: 2of2 goods
We're smitten with the delightful world brother/sister designers, Dan and Meredith Dundin, have created with their company 2of2 goods.
written by: Megan Hamaker04.10.13 -
KOR's Kickstarter: Nava Filtering Water Bottle
KOR Water kickstarters (Is that a verb? We're making it a verb) a new filtering water bottle design. Take a look at how tap is going triple bottom line.
written by: Sara Ost04.08.13 -
Plastic Fantastic
Container is a design studio based in Australia and Shanghai. Since 2012, the firm has been creating bespoke 2D and 3D packaging design and identity for various beauty and haircare companies.
written by: Eujin Rhee03.04.13 -
A Look at Lego Bombing
You've heard of yarn bombing (as evidence of its mainstream status, yarn bombing has even shown up in a Roche Bobois ad), but have you seen Lego bombing?
written by: Sara Ost01.29.13 -
A Clever Window Treatment: Bus Graphics
From an unlikely source comes a clever privacy solution for a pair of prefabbed town houses in Los Angeles.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Sharon Risedorph01.07.13 -
Living in a Cocoon
Last month we detailed Le Van Bo's One Square Meter House—a project that explores basic living requirements. Here's another experiment in small-space habitation, the modular Cocoon from Micasa.
written by: Diana Budds11.09.12 -
Dwell Party Highlights: Celebrating Prefab Design at SXSW Eco
What better place for Dwell to host our SXSW Eco party than a prefab pop up at the design complex of the woman who founded the Austin Modern Home Tour? Go behind the scenes in our story and...
written by: Addie Broyles10.10.12 -
Future Classics, Circa 2050?
It's something every designer, design writer, and design collector wonders constantly: Will this piece of furniture I made/ hailed in print/ bought still be in vogue in ten (or fifty) years' time?...
written by: Kelsey Keith09.02.12 -
Interiors by Kathryn Tyler, Linea Studio
Judging by all the great feedback we've received on Kathryn Tyler's lovely Falmouth, England, home (Collector's Choice, June 2012), you all loved her style—and awesome collections of vintage...
written by: Jaime Gillin06.12.12 -
New Dutch Design: Aldo Bakker
Familiar objects take surprising new forms in the hands of experimental designer Aldo Bakker.
written by: Zahid Sardar05.05.12 -
Emeco Debuts Starck 'Broom' Chair
Pennsylvania-based Emeco is known for iterations on one theme: virtually indestructible chairs made from recycled aluminum. The original Navy chair produced by the company started as a...
written by: Kelsey Keith04.20.12 -
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Back to the Future
The legacy of mid-century designer Joe Colombo is underscored with a reissue of his plywood 4801 chair, now appearing for the first time in plastic from Italian furniture company Kartell.
written by: Kelsey Keith03.28.12 -
Monobloc Blues
The secret history of a plastic classic that doesn’t sit quite right.
written by: William Bostwick02.21.12 -
Retail Therapy from MoMA
If you can't get enough of design history's classics, then you're in luck: MoMA just added re-issues of six iconic pieces from their permanent collection to their store. The pieces are discounted...
written by: Diana Budds01.13.12 -
Everything is Illuminated
Searching high and low for your ideal table lamp? Brighter days are ahead.
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Peter Belanger01.03.12 -
Industrious Design
With its fresh take on minimalism, French design duo Normal Studio is ushering in a new machine age.
written by: Laetitia Wolffphotos by: Jens Passoth12.27.11 -
Less Is Amore
With its architectural history reaching back to the ancient Greeks, Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, has plenty of old bones. In 2001, while still students, native sons Francesco (now an...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Gunnar Knechtel05.08.11 -
20th-Century Fox
Eero Saarinen’s legendary Miller House opens to the public this May for the first time. Leslie Williamson gives us an intimate tour of this Columbus, Indiana, treasure.
written by: Leslie Williamsonphotos by: Leslie Williamson05.02.11
