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Explore - Art
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04 Groove
Once the pieces are assembled, their stepped miter joints are glued together and clamped to dry. Wrong routs a three-millimeter perpendicular groove along every 90-degree corner of each piece. The...
01.01.09 -
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 -
101 Art Collecting
Want to be the next Henry Clay Frick or Isabella Stewart Gardner? Dwell offers some pointers on starting your own collection.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
Curating Your Thoughts
“The act of collecting is about looking, studying, sorting, sifting, concentrating, weighing, and making decisions. It’s a lot of work. I got better at it by being rigorous. I couldn’t buy...
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
Exhibiting Interest
Get your information from curators, professors of contemporary art, critics, and other collectors through your local arts organizations, newspapers, and art schools.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
FAQs About Art
Once you’ve purchased a piece, you’ll need to get it home and onto your wall.
written by: Natasha Boas02.01.09 -
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Chipping Away
Most designers, be they graphic or interior, consult their Pantone fan guide when considering hues.
written by: Fred A. Bernstein02.02.09 -
Brand New Color
The fact that your car is tinted a subtle silver or that your running shoes have vibrant orange stripes flaring up their sides is hardly a design afterthought.
written by: Fred A. Bernstein02.02.09 -
Created from Color
There are endless choices to be made in the world of color, as anyone who has tried to paint a room plain white knows. Even more variation is introduced when materials, use, and application are all...
written by: Fred A. Bernstein02.02.09 -
Re-Opening: The Museum of Arts and Design
Two Columbus Circle once was a stout-yet-hip white building with black porthole-esque forms around it: channeling 1960s mod better than any building could, courtesy of architect Edward Durell Stone...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.14.08 -
Mixed Signals
Leave it to the French to have fun with something extraordinarily mundane.
written by: Laure Joliet09.18.08 -
London Design Festival
The London Design Festival party last night was full of hedge-funders seeking free drinks and nibbles. The city, reeling from this week's events, seemed to turn up in force at the down-at-heel arts...
written by: Sam Jacob09.18.08 -
London Design Festival: Kanittha Mairaing
Goldsmiths' postgraduate design community have a show at The Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery, on Brick Lane as part of the London Design Festival. Amongst the work shown is the 'Unfortunates'...
written by: Sam Jacob09.23.08 -
California Academy of Sciences Preview
The grand opening of the new California Academy of Sciences, one of the year’s most anticipated events, is taking place this weekend. To help you make it through the last few days until the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.23.08 -
Systematic Landscapes exhibit at the de Young Museum
Maya Lin’s newly opened exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, titled Systematic Landscapes, depicts a stunning collection of recent and brand-new works that explore what the New...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.04.08 -
Marc Tetro
Not only was MOS Archtiects’ Floating House (featured on the cover of our November 2008 issue) a big hit, so was the art hung on their walls.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.06.08 -
Prospect.1
New Orleans is known for its sultry jazz and tasty po-boys, but it’s also developing a reputation as a center for modern and contemporary design. This was particularly evident when I was in...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.21.08 -
My Paradise: A Hundred Years of Finnish Architects’ Summer Homes Exhibit at AIA San Francisco gallery
Summer houses have always held a special place in Finnish culture—and in the careers of its architects, who have used them not only for catching up on rest and relaxation, but as experimental...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.16.08 -
Interview with Jürgen Mayer H.: Part II
Last week I sat down over an Anchor Steam with Jurgen Mayer H. of the Berlin-based architecture firm J. Mayer H. at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's cafe. In the first part of my...
written by: Aaron Britt02.12.09
