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Explore - Design Ideas
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Urban Hens
In our 2008 sustainability issue, we featured the Boulder residence of Rob Pyatt and Heather Kahn-Pyatt. The project was a renovation of a 1940s bungalow that Pyatt undertook with his own hands ...
written by: Sarah Rich04.13.09 -
Fitzsu at Dwell on Design 09
At this year's Dwell on Design, we’re taking to the stage our new Design Finder section (premiering in our May 2009 issue). I’m excited to announce that joining the panel will be one...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.12.09 -
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 -
Grand Prix Chair
In 1957, Danish designer Arne Jacobsen created the Grand Prix chair for Fritz Hansen—two years after rising to furniture-design fame with his Series 7 chair and five years after his Ant chair...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.11.09 -
Driving the Peapod
It's no secret that the American automotive industry is in dire straights. Can good design do what billions of dollars in government money couldn't? Chrysler's "Chief Innovation Officer"...
04.11.09 -
A+R Owners at DoD 2009
Dwell has a new section called Design Finder, which premieres soon in our May 2009 issue and will come to life in June at Dwell on Design 2009. For the magazine and the show, we pick our favorite...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.09.09 -
Dwell Design Competition Phase II
The time has come, folks. Phase One of Dwell's Innovate It! Contest is over and we've selected the winning submissions that will launch us into Phase Two. We chose three excellent suggestions for...
written by: Sarah Rich04.09.09 -
Urban PUMA
One of the wonderful things about living in an unhinged time is that no one has any clue what's cool anymore. When we're all trying to keep our heads above water, any idea for making life better is...
written by: David A. Greene04.09.09 -
Time To Design: Young Talent Award
Attention, young designers! Here's a very cool opportunity from the Danish National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, Normann-Copenhagen and Link UP. It's an award called Time To Design, now in its...
written by: Sarah Rich04.08.09 -
Michael Gainer
When Michael Gainer moved from Boston to the Rust Belt city of Buffalo, New York, he had no idea he’d end up in “deconstruction”—not the collected works of Jacques Derrida...
written by: Dwell Staff04.07.09 -
Quistgaard Pepper Mills
If you dig through your parents’ kitchen cupboards, chances are you’ll find a Jens Quistgaard design. Although “Quistgaard” never became a household name, the company he...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.07.09 -
Virtual National Architecture Week
The American Institute of Architects kicks off National Architecture Week next week, April 13-19, to continue the public dialogue about architecture in the US. This year they’ve further...
written by: Aaron Britt04.07.09 -
Student Project: Open Pollen
High school students at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall school in Massachusetts got an early lesson in architecture and design when they built a site-specific sculpture on the grounds of their school last...
written by: Drew Himmelstein04.07.09 -
Lili Lite
In small spaces, furniture that can multi-task is key, and in the current economy, it’s also a much-needed budget saver. Which is why I love Studio Smeets Design’s product Lili Lite: It...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.06.09 -
Q&A with Sebastian Wrong
Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Sebastian Wrong, Design Development Director for the UK-based Established & Sons. He was in San Francisco to introduce his work at DZINE, a...
written by: Jordan Kushins04.06.09 -
Sierra Club Green Home
In 1892, when John Muir founded the Sierra Club, the only "web" he knew about was the kind spun by spiders, and social networking was something people did by riding horse-drawn buggies...
written by: Sarah Rich04.04.09 -
Friday Finds 4.3.09
This week with spring settling in, the Dwell editors took inspiration from flowers made of leather and wood, and architectural landmarks made of fruity gelatininous desserts, among other things.
written by: Sarah Rich04.03.09 -
Loft Table Tools
Any good modernist will want his share of tools for living, but for me, if that tool kit doesn't come with a cheese knife forget about it. Imagine my delight at seeing Teroforma's new Loft Table...
written by: Aaron Britt04.02.09 -
Meat Stephanie Hensle
With all the pork belly, lardo and bacon-in-everything flying around these days, it was only a matter of time before swine made it into the realm of high fashion. For Stephanie Hensle, a recent...
written by: Aaron Britt04.02.09 -
Sample's Example
“I’ve had my share of so-called glamorous architecture and I found it more boring than this. You can only do so much to an office building. Here, no matter how tedious the job is from a...
written by: Chelsea Holden Baker04.01.09
