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Explore - Wood
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New Nordic
Make way, Arne and Eero. Forward-looking furniture company Muuto turns the spotlight on 21st-century Scandinavian design.
written by: Jaime Gillin10.27.12 -
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 -
Elisa Strozyk
Elisa Strozyk was in graduate school when she came across a photo of a water-warped parquet floor. “I thought, my God, the wood came back to life and is frozen in motion,” she says.
written by: Lindsay J. Westley04.23.12 -
Hometown Hero
Dow Chemical put Midland on the map, but architect and local scion Alden B. Dow made it the most modern town in Michigan.
written by: Aaron Britt08.29.11 -
Hella Cool
In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the mass-produced in surprising new ways.
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Oliver Mark06.20.11 -
Landscape Architecture: Marcel Wilson
Landscape architect and urban designer Marcel Wilson describes his practice as “combining things that are made with things that are alive.” Hence the superhuman name of his firm, Bionic...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Katie Shapiro12.15.10 -
Furniture Design: Misewell
Growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, Vincent and Paul Georgeson used to hang out in their father’s basement woodshop, fascinated by the process of building things. It was a formative...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Daniel Shea12.15.10 -
Industrial Design: Atelier Takagi
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a degree in furniture design, Jonah Takagi traveled the world for four years with indie-rock musician Benjy Ferree. When he had...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Elizabeth Weinberg12.15.10 -
Design Within Research
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has done it all, from spoons to umbrellas to lights, but he’s best known for his data-driven chairs. We dropped in on his Munich studio to sit...
written by: Sally McGranephotos by: Oliver Mark06.18.10 -
Eero Dynamic
Eero Aarnio’s persistent quest for functional forms and manufacturing processes has been at the center of his iconic and prolific career.
written by: Asko Ahokasphotos by: Joanna Moorhouse01.12.10 -
George Smart
George Smart, executive director of Triangle Modernist Archive, is a modern-day Lorax for modern-designed houses. In early 2007, a quick Internet search for “Raleigh modernist architecture...
written by: Dwell Staff09.02.09 -
Fascinating Risom
Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of mid-century furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great contemporary designer. At 93, he shows no sign of putting down the...
written by: Amber Bravo08.04.09 -
True Hollywood Story
For over seventy years, through 7,000 photography sessions, and with 70,000 negatives, Julius Shulman captured the elusive spirit of architecture with an unerring eye and indefatigable character....
written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Catherine Ledner07.16.09 -
Fjord Focus
As Jarmund/Vigsnæs’s growing crop of small, smart houses have garnered increasing attention, their equally prolific civic works have them poised to be Norway’s next big export.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Pia Ulin05.13.09 -
Piet Hein Eek
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek is best known for his intricately composed scrap wood furniture—each piece a one-of-a-kind creation that merges artisan handcraft with skilled design processes....
written by: Sam Grawe04.30.09 -
The Exhibitionists
In Los Angeles, Materials & Applications puts design theory into open-to-the-public practice.http://dwell-stage.pingv.net/node/17158/edit?destination=admin/content%3Ffield_legacycontentid_value...
written by: Chris Rubin04.27.09 -
Paul Donald
When we peruse the carefully curated products in a great design shop, one of the most intriguing discoveries—more than any one particular object or accessory—is the entrepreneur behind...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.27.09 -
Terunobu Fujimori
A modern eccentric with an architectural sensibility drawn from ancient Japanese traditions, Terunobu Fujimori designs projects that are exercises in playful experimentation and sophisticated craft.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Adam Friedberg04.14.09 -
Everyone Deserves a Richard Hutten
With an impressive body of work behind him, Richard Hutten is one of the Netherlands’s most internationally successful designers.
written by: Jane Szita03.12.09 -
Brooklyn Renaissance
Thanks to a group of young Brooklyn architects, an immigrant neighborhood untouched by gentrification gets low-income housing with high ideals.
written by: Michael Cannell02.26.09
