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Interviews
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Ambra Medda
Before the melee of Design Miami got underway I had a chance to chat with the show’s director, Ambra Medda, about the Designer of the Year, and what we could expect from this year’s...
written by: Aaron Britt12.05.09 -
Tom Dixon at Design Miami 2009
I happened to catch up with British furniture designer Tom Dixon yesterday on his way over to the Audi Pavilion here on Miami Beach. Audi has just launched their new A8 sedan and Tom was tapped to...
written by: Aaron Britt12.02.09 -
Arik Levy at Design Miami
Amidst the Design Miami tumult, in which many are wandering about on insect-like stilettos, I had a chance to sit down with designer Arik Levy. At the little café at the far end of...
written by: Aaron Britt12.03.09 -
Rich Brilliant Willing
When Senior Editor Aaron Britt was at Design Miami in December, he met the three RISD chaps behind the young industrial design firm Rich Brilliant Willing. Theo Richardson, Charles Brill, and...
written by: Aaron Britt02.01.10 -
Architect Matthew Hufft
Matthew Hufft is the principal and founder of Hufft Projects and the fabrication stuido MAKE, both young Kansas City, Missouri, firms that we've been keeping an eye on here at Dwell. After a phone...
written by: Aaron Britt02.02.10 -
Belt Buckles by Kiel Mead
Senior Editor Aaron Britt talked to Kiel Mead the other day, after an initial cruise through his site yeilded the Birdie Light, which he promptly posted. A closer look yielded a handful of men's...
written by: Aaron Britt02.23.10 -
Eight Questions for Frank Muytjens
Yesterday Frank Muytjens, head designer of menswear at J. Crew, came to San Francisco and we met up down at Sam's Grill for lunch. Though mass-market menswear isn't exactly Dwell's standard design...
written by: Aaron Britt03.26.10 -
Artist Maira Kalman at the CJM
I've long loved her New Yorker covers, and am still over the moon about the illustrated version of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style from 2005, so I leapt at the chance to meet...
written by: Aaron Britt07.01.10 -
Crocker Art Museum Expansion
On October 10, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento—the art museum of my boyhood, I should note—will repoen both it's 1871-built gallery space, the old Crocker mansion, and a new...
written by: Aaron Britt07.15.10 -
Evil People in Modern Homes
I was wandering around William Stout's architectural bookstore the other day when I came across Yale University graphic design student Benjamin Critton's wonderful tabloid treatise Evil...
written by: Aaron Britt10.21.10 -
Camper's Miguel Fluxa
I've long been a fan of the Spanish shoemaker Camper (I have two pairs, I'll confess) and in recent years their strong sense of design has translated off the foot and into the retail...
written by: Aaron Britt10.30.10 -
Talking with Matteo Alessi
Last week the family-owned Italian design powerhouse Alessi held a party here in San Francisco to celebrate its local shop's tenth anniversary. I wasn't able to attend the party, but I ...
written by: Aaron Britt11.05.10 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
