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Explore - Living Room
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Israel's Heavy Light House
Everything about this vacation home is little crazy. For starters, there’s the location. It’s in Israel. In northern Galilee. On the border with Lebanon.
written by: J. Michael Welton03.10.11 -
Crafting a Meaningful Home
Anonymous mass production is losing its mass-market appeal, and there’s a growing movement toward owning things that have origins beyond an assembly line. Handmade crafts have an inherent...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Peter Belanger03.24.11 -
Berber Ragtime
While on a trip to Marrakech late last year, Fort Street Studio owners Brad Davis and Janis Provisor came across a cache of boucherouite rugs made by Berber women most likely between the 1950s and...
written by: Erika Heet04.01.11 -
Borrego Springs' Mod Houses
I posted some of the mid-century buildings in my last Borrego Springs update, but over the course of my three days in the desert I visited a half dozen really beautiful homes. Lucky for...
written by: Aaron Britt04.18.11 -
A Fresh Angle
Surrounded on all sides by a sweeping Canadian hayfield, the 23.2 House is an angular ode to rural life. Out of “respect for the beams and their history,” Designer Omer Arbel insisted...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Jason Schmidt04.26.11 -
The Farm by Cindy Rendely
Draw a barn. Now look at the shape. It almost certainly features a triangular roof. When a Canadian couple approached Cindy Rendely to design a home for them in the Ontario countryside, however, it...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Tom Arban05.09.11 -
Suita Sofa by Antonio Citterio
I'm smitten with this modular sofa, designed by Antonio Citterio in 2010. Suita is his first non-office, non-waiting room collaboration with Vitra—that is, his first design for the home&mdash...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.20.11 -
A BoConcept Makeover
When we moved into an Edwardian apartment in San Francisco's Mission District four years ago, we trucked in our furniture, set the pieces where we thought they made sense, and haven't changed much...
written by: Jaime Gillin07.11.11 -
Jabba the Hutt Pillow
You’d be hard pressed to find someone—in this or any other galaxy, no matter how far, far away—who is not a fan of Star Wars, and the insta-classic from 1977 is now a franchise...
written by: Jordan Kushins06.28.11 -
A Place to Stand
Designed for her parents and generations to come, Amanda Yates's seaside New Zealand house is "somewhere between architecture and landscape" but firmly rooted in family life.
written by: Jeremy Hansenphotos by: Matthew Williams06.20.11 -
Rainbow Flight
In a London house that’s flooded with light, a spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor.
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: John Short06.20.11 -
Emeryville Renovation: Part 1
In our latest Backstory series, we'll be previewing the loft renovation that will be the featured My House in Dwell's November issue—our first-ever online sneak peek. Here, Emeryville,...
written by: Peter Benoitphotos by: Peter Benoit07.28.11 -
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 -
An Epic Plot
Architect Steve Bull designed a high-impact, low-maintenance home for a pair of intrepid clients in Alaska, but that was only the beginning of the adventure.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Erik Johnson09.25.11 -
A Well-Grafted Home
Working creatively to meet strict preservation codes, architect Roberto de Leon affixes a modern annex onto a historic Louisville house.
written by: William Lambphotos by: Noah Webb09.06.11 -
Float On
A once-plain floating home on Seattle’s Portage Bay receives a much-needed renovation ten years in the making.
written by: Diana Budds10.19.11 -
Row House
With a modernist palette of concrete, glass, and steel, Ziger/Snead Architects constructed an ode to rowing in rural Virginia.
written by: Jordan Kushins10.21.11 -
Social Heat
What’s the best way to warm a small studio? Ekaterina Voronova opted for a compact wood-burning stove to keep her space cozy.
written by: Jordan Kushins11.11.11 -
A Simple Plan
A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Dwight Eschliman11.23.11 -
Back Storied
Without altering its turn-of-the-20th-century facade, architect Christopher Polly transformed the rear of this Newtown, Australia, home from bleak to bright.
written by: Diana Budds01.18.12
