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A Great Idea
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The Big Easy
Most prefab manufacturing facilities house loads of heavy machinery, but not every design must be constructed on the factory line.
written by: Michael Sylvester01.28.09 -
Lunch Boxes
With its updated version of the old walk-in hearth, Bulthaup deconstructs the kitchen into a freestanding system fit for a modern ascetic.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Remade Wasteland
As the United States moves into the post-industrial era, it’s the rare city that doesn’t find itself with too many abandoned factory-age relics and too few parks. After fits and starts...
06.09.10 -
Houses We Love Winner Announced
The votes have been cast, and the winner has been selected—congratulations to Zurich–based firm Nimmrichter CDA for designing an exemplary House We Love.
written by: Amanda Dameron06.27.10 -
Runners Up, Color Me Impressed Round Two
We loved perusing the entries from the latest round of the Glidden Paint and Dwell.com Color Me Impressed Design Competition - so we decided to post our favorites! Check out our final four. First...
written by: Ralston O'Neill10.19.10 -
Introducing SEMIHandmade
Eight years ago John McDonald had never picked up a woodworking tool in his life. An aspiring screenwriter in Los Angeles with a day job waiting tables, the frustrated 34 year old decided to try...
written by: Laure Joliet11.04.10 -
Dwell Holiday Giveaway 2010
Are you checking the Dwell Holiday Giveaway daily? There are 13 days left and plenty more prizes coming down the pike. Keep entering for a chance to win the giveaway of the day.
written by: Ralston O'Neill12.13.10 -
Edward Fields Iconics
Edward Fields—an American carpet maker whose rugs dress the floors in the Glass House, Hollyhock House, and Lever House—recently released "Iconics," a collection of eleven...
written by: Diana Budds02.04.11 -
Honey Pie Natural Shampoo Bar
I made a glorious discovery in the shower last night: shampoo in bar form. I'm in Toronto serving on the curatorial committee for the third Twenty+Change design exhibition and publication and...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.11.11 -
Buffalo's "Blank Snow" Park
A few weeks ago, the possibility of snow at sea level here in the San Francisco Bay Area raised quite a stir. Will it? Won't it? Should we ready our toboggans and show shoes? Nary a flake has...
written by: Diana Budds03.16.11 -
HelioTrace Robotic Facade
I was intrigued by a rendering featured in the latest newsletter from SOM, which came across my desk a few weeks ago. So I wrote the firm for more information. Turns out this new invention—a...
written by: Jaime Gillin04.11.11 -
A Tree Grows in the Dogpatch
Located in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, Treehouse Gallery is part of a movement of contemporary artistic practice that reconsiders the gallery space as a place for community dialogue...
written by: Meredith MacKenzie04.11.11 -
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 -
And the World Views Winners Are...
In our World Views photography competition, we teamed up with Blurb and challenged Dwellers everywhere to take a shot and share their view of the modern world. You answered our call and now,...
written by: Ralston O'Neill07.15.11 -
Yerba Buena Street Life Plan
Recently in San Francisco, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District and CMG Landscape Architecture unveiled the Yerba Buena Street Life Plan. The plan is meant to serve as a master plan for the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake08.08.11 -
Bar, Desk, NewYorker
The NewYorker is a savvy bit of furniture by designer Jen Turner that is at once a desk and a bar. We featured it in the November 2011 issue's 101 story on renting and here we present the fine bit...
written by: Aaron Britt10.06.11 -
Clever Kitchen Storage Trick
What to do if you want a small, minimalist kitchen—but, like any normal person, you have lots of stuff you need to stash away? In this farmhouse in Outgaarden, Belgian architects 51n4e devised a...
written by: Jaime Gillin04.03.13 -
Family House with a Secret Room
This house on Lake Wenatchee in Washington was designed to be "cozy for two and comfortable for a crowd," as architect John DeForest puts it—thanks in part to a hidden media room.
written by: Jaime Gillin05.03.13 -
Hideaway Cachet
A quirky mountain refuge by French designer Charlotte Perriand is an ingenious take on small-space living.
written by: Kelsey Keith11.01.12 -
Modern Sharecropping
For every well-tended backyard garden there’s another gone to seed, and for every happy horticulturalist noodling with the begonias out front there’s a cooped-up apartment dweller...
written by: Sara Carnochan03.15.11
