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Explore - Outdoor
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Beyond the Ficus
Q: I enjoy plants' form, color, and positive impact, but what frustrates me is the lack of interesting houseplants available today. Are houseplants old-fashioned and out of place in the modern home...
01.01.09 -
A Note on Our Experts: Richard and Peter Schultz
After 20 years working for Knoll and collaborating with modern furniture titans like Harry Bertoia, Richard Schultz went into business for himself.
01.01.09 -
Not Just Another Plant in the Wall
“Technically it’s a cinch,” Patrick Blanc says, and with a wave of the hand ticks off the ingredients needed to build a plant wall: ten-millimeter-thick waterproof PVC slabs...
written by: Michelle Hoffman01.01.09 -
The Yard Zone
The space outside your walls should be as thoughtfully considered as the space within. Aside from contributing to pleasant, functioning outdoor space, well-placed landscaping can protect your house...
written by: Dan Maginn01.01.09 -
Structured Play
Two of the country’s most creative and thoughtful playground designers—architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg—spent countless hours observing how...
written by: Deborah Bishop01.01.09 -
Picket Double Low Back Bench
Not every chair needs or even should have arms. Resting in the Loll Picket Double Low Back Bench you can face any way you choose. No maintenance, 100% recycled HDPE, and made in the U.S.A.
$740.00
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Terra Ephemera
Whether spanning acres or encased in amorphous glass ecospheres, Paula Hayes's singular landscapes blur the boundary between art and nature—and redefine the relationship between art and...
written by: Amber Bravophotos by: Raimund Koch01.23.09 -
Indoor Garden Kits
Dear Dwell, I'd like to grow edible herbs and plants, but since I live in a tiny apartment with no outdoor space, I'm looking for a garden I can grow on my kitchen counter. Can you help?
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Peter Belanger01.26.09 -
TBWA/Hakuhodo
In Shibaura, this former bowling alley is now the shared offices of international advertising agency TBWA and Japanese agency Hakuhodo.
written by: Sarah Rich01.28.09 -
Pod Lens
20 watts / Fluorescent / Available as a suspended, wall-mounted, or floor lamp
$300.00
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Dioscuri Wall / Ceiling Series
100 and 150 watts / Incandescent
$190.00
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Uto
60 watts / Incandescent or fluorescent
$500.00
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All Light Closed Wall Sconce
24-watt mini bi-pin fluorescent bulb / Stainless steel cover
$530.00
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Ibiza
20 watts / Fluorescent / Available with or without speakers, and as a standing light or a wall sconce
$722.00
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Superdelta Ovale Series
40 or 60 watts / Fluorescent or incandescent / White, gray, or black
$130.00
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Park 'N Play
It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural respect.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: David Duncan Livingston02.04.09 -
On the Fence
This “landscaped outdoor room” near Farrar Pond, Massachusetts, uses simple construction to create complex effects.
written by: Michael Grozikphotos by: Charles Mayer02.04.09 -
Thibault’s Follies
Quebec City architect Pierre Thibault has designed three Habitats Légers, or Light Habitats—small structures installed in the landscape and meant as creative retreats. The first...
written by: Aaron Britt02.04.09 -
Nature’s Graces
With the lightness and imagination of origami and the mathematical exactitude of digital design, this open-air chapel invites all creatures into its folds.
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Sarah Rich02.04.09 -
Ich Bin Ein Mulcher
When, at cocktail parties, the conversation turns from the fleeting news of the day to the subject of sublime beauty, Dan Maginn often find himself smiling, for soon, he will speak of mulch.
written by: Dan Maginn02.04.09
