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Friday Finds 05.10.13
It's that time again! This week's fresh crop of findings include everything from typography cake to a video of a Russian cargo craft docking to station, lawn chair paintings to a four year old...
written by: Eujin Rhee05.10.13 -
Designer Close-Up: Superpool
Supercerebral, that is. Turkish, scarf-covered Selva Gürdoğan, 33, and tall, pale Dane Gregers Tang Thomsen, 38, founded architecture firm Superpool in 2006. A 2003 graduate of SCI-Arc and an alum...
05.08.13 -
Creative Agency We Love: Ill-Studio
Founded in 2007 by Léonard Vernhet and Thomas Subreville, Ill-Studio is a multidisciplinary design agency based in Paris, France. Whether for personal or commission, the duo along with luminaries...
written by: Eujin Rhee04.25.13 -
Product Spotlight: Sketchbooks by Makr
A good sketchbook journal is always by your side, ready to take any notes and documentations of all sorts. Ready to set all hearts aflutter, Florida-based Makr Carry Goods has just released their...
written by: Eujin Rhee04.23.13 -
Book Designs by Atelier Dyakova
London-based Russian graphic designer Sonya Dyakova is making us rethink the notion of judging a book by its cover. After studying in San Francisco, the typography specialist moved to London to...
written by: Eujin Rhee04.18.13 -
Stacked
As English writer G. K. Chesterton once declared, "A room without books is like a body without a soul." As we previously explored in Shelf Life, these five homeowners from Japan to Barcelona each...
written by: Jami Smith02.26.13 -
Editor’s Choice: Amanda Dameron’s Book List
What books does the editor of a high-profile modern home design magazine read? Designers & Books went to Amanda Dameron, editor in chief of Dwell Media, to find out. “Last year I moved from the...
02.22.13 -
L.A. Art Book Fair 2013
Last weekend, Printed Matter, Inc. presented the first annual L.A. Art Book Fair, the West Coast companion to the NY Art Book Fair held every fall in New York, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in...
written by: Cortney Cassidyphotos by: Torrey Jay02.05.13 -
Celebrating 100 Years of Grand Central Station
In celebration of Grand Central's one-hundredth anniversary this month, W. W. Norton has reissued the incredible photographic tribute Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives, by John Belle and...
written by: Amanda Dameron02.01.13 -
Picture Perfect
A new biography highlights the rich, black-and-white photography of Balthazar Korab, whose sharp imagery helped give a face to modernist architecture in mid-century America.
written by: Kelsey Keith12.18.12 -
Phaidon's 20th Century World Architecture Atlas
On November 1st, Phaidon debuted 20th Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas. It's a huge book with some 750 works of last century's architecture that range from homes to civic structures to...
written by: Aaron Britt11.13.12 -
Designers and Book Fair 2012
The first-ever Designers and Book Fair was held last weekend at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The two-day fair featured 35 publishers and around 1,500 books ranging in...
written by: Emily Nonko11.02.12 -
Nate Berkus's One Two Punch
Nate Berkus fans will have plenty to take in this month as the designer just released a book and a Target collaboration, both in stores now. ...
written by: Sara Carpenter10.24.12 -
By the Book
Architect Deborah Berke has maintained a ledger full of ephemera that details memories of every dinner party she’s hosted for the past fourteen years. Here she shares a few pages and...
written by: Dwell Staffphotos by: Tom Schierlitz08.17.12 -
This Way, Gentlemen
A killer bachelor pad in Hollywood, the manliest chair of the 20th century, and expert advice from a king of interiors: This is our guide to the best in masculine design. Men, you now have no...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Justin Fantl06.30.12 -
Man Up
So you’ve thrown out the St. Pauli Girl sign, but how can you create an elegant masculine home without going space-age bachelor pad? Interior designer Kyle Schuneman, whose new guide, The...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Jon Snyder06.30.12 -
Ron Tanner: From Animal House to Our House
The San Jose Women’s Club and the San Jose Preservation Action Council of San Jose’s new event "Ron Tanner: From Animal House to Our House" explains the importance of...
06.29.12 -
Friday Finds 06.01.12
Wrap up the week with our collection of design, architecture, music, and literature finds.
written by: Diana Budds06.01.12 -
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Works
Design fans, get ready to add a hot new monograph to the bookshelf—Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Works by Anniia Koivu is out from Phaidon Press this month. A handsome, large-format tome,...
written by: Aaron Britt05.10.12 -
Houses of the Sundown Sea
Way back in our Dec/Jan issue that kicked off 2008, we told the story of the super groovy, surf bum-cum-architectural genius Harry Gesner. The man was a true California original, one who found a...
written by: Aaron Britt04.02.12




















