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Interviews
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The New Modern House
Each year loads and loads of books with splashy photos of posh houses gets published. Rare is the tour through high-design homes that has any conceptual merit, let alone a fine pair of scribblers...
written by: Aaron Britt03.04.11 -
Bjarke Ingels on 'Bigamy'
It might be an understatement to say that Bjarke Ingels' firm the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has gone gangbusters. In a climate where much new construction is being delayed indefinitely and...
written by: Diana Budds03.01.11 -
Brownstone Brooklyn
In our New York issue, on newsstands now, we take a look at all five boroughs of America's biggest, most vital city. One that ends up getting quite a bit of play in Dwell is increasingly-less...
written by: Aaron Britt03.01.11 -
An 'Epic' Container Co-op
The good folks at Epic Software are building a video production studio out of old shipping containers just outside of Houston, Texas. They're also dutifully documenting the Creative Co-op's...
written by: Diana Budds02.24.11 -
Design and History of Tahrir Square
Nezar AlSayyad is a Cairo-born professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History and the chair of Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He's also a...
written by: Aaron Britt02.21.11 -
Tokujin Yoshioka
Two million plastic drinking straws fill an exhibition space like haystacks of spun silk; a chair is “grown” from crystals in a transparent tank—Tokujin Yoshioka’s work is...
written by: Jordan Kushins02.13.11 -
Carmody Talks Typefaces
When it comes to museums, we often hear about their blockbuster exhibitions, the thousands of people who crowd their galleries to see those exhibitions, or the latest architecture firm selected to...
written by: Diana Budds02.09.11 -
Kaufmann's Unbreakable Glasses
I was recently down in Los Angeles to moderate a panel on the Swiss Design Awards at the A+D Museum. There I met a 2009 award winner for product design, Sandra Kaufmann, who heads the eyewear brand...
written by: Aaron Britt02.08.11 -
Anna von Schewen
While in Vegas for Surfaces and Las Vegas Market, I had the chance to not only take in the terrific 17 Swedish Designers exhibit but also chat with Anna von Schewen and hear her lecture. She spoke...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.07.11 -
Dostoyevsky, Meet Mendelsund
I recently picked up a copy of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's wonderful translation of War and Peace. I liked it so much—not nearly finished with those 1200 pages yet...
written by: Aaron Britt02.03.11 -
The Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
In a prolific 15-year period between 1880 and 1895, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan teamed up to produce an architecture that was stridently American—one that drew from nature for its...
written by: J. Michael Welton01.19.11 -
Sightlines and African Urbanism
Later this month the Museum for African Art will kick off a five-part lecture series at Columbia University titled Sightlines: New Perspectives on African Architecture and Urbanism. The free...
written by: Aaron Britt01.18.11 -
Three Questions for Christiane Högner
One of my favorite feature stories of all time is in the February 2011 issue of Dwell. It's about the Brussels–based furniture designer Christiane Högner who makes all manner of smart,...
written by: Aaron Britt01.13.11 -
Dan Rubinstein on The Home Front
What's wrong with American furniture design? That's the topic burning an image on the mind of Surface editor-in-chief Dan Rubinstein. "We're one of the wealthiest nations in the world, we make...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake01.09.11 -
Sam Kaufman on Breuer's B32
I moved apartments over the weekend, and in the great push to clean out the old place in anticipation of the new, I decided to finally do away with a set of (free at the time) dining...
written by: Aaron Britt12.27.10 -
Erik Thorstensson on Creatables
Earlier this month I posted a little round-up of products by the recycling mavens behind the Swedish design firm Creatables. I've had a subsequent email exchange with Erik Thorstensson, one of...
written by: Aaron Britt12.24.10 -
Anders Färdig
“I was born into this,” says Design House Stockholm CEO Anders Färdig of his work in the design industry. “I had no chance!” His father and godfather helmed venerable...
written by: Jordan Kushins12.23.10 -
Laurie Simmons on Tiny Furniture
In Lena Dunham’s hit indie comedyTiny Furniture, she plays Aura, a recently minted college grad who has come home to her art star mother, overachieved high school-aged sister and the Tribeca...
written by: Aaron Britt12.21.10 -
Robert Hammond: Chance Encounters
Robert Hammond has just returned from a year in Rome. While there he created an urban experiment called Chance Encounter on the Tiber, involving 100 chairs in public spaces in Italy. Now back in...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer12.13.10 -
Q & A with Confetti System
Confetti System is two friends—Julie Ho and Nicholas Andersen—who make their living creating festive and kaleidoscopic "party systems" out of tissue paper, sparkly mylar, and...
written by: Jaime Gillin12.01.10
