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9 Amazing Modern Houses by Paul Archer
We're big fans of British architect Paul Archer, so much so that we ran a story on the incredible Green Orchard house he designed for his parents in our June 2013 issue. Naturally we were thrilled...
written by: Aaron Britt06.14.13 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Paris Versus New York
It's rare that a series of visual puns has much of a shelf life, but Paris Versus New York, a punchy book of illustrations comparing and contrasting the two cities from Vahram Muratyan merits...
written by: Aaron Britt01.06.12 -
Men About Town
Whilst in London, we met three talents who are making their marks on the local design scene. Soon you’ll be uttering their names along side Morrison, Dixon, and Adjaye.
written by: Aaron Britt12.11.11 -
The Story of De Stijl
The threads of turn-of-the-20th century radicalism in the arts and design have by now pretty much been woven into one broad yarn: capital-M Modernism. But the new book The Story of De Stijl:...
written by: Aaron Britt11.22.11 -
Movie Posters of Soy Cuba
If movie posters are essentially advertisements to get you into the theater, the Hollywood versions splashed with matinee-idol close-ups and 100-point typefaces, then the moody, highly graphic...
written by: Aaron Britt10.06.11 -
Japanese Book Binding
I quite liked the video my colleague Miyoko Ohtake posted earlier this week on Japanese joinery and thought I'd do my bit to shed a bit of light on Japanese style handcrafts as well. Here's a great...
written by: Aaron Britt08.25.11 -
Knoll Textiles
The roster of furniture designers who have graced the factories of Knoll is startling: Saarinen, Platner, Bertoia, Breuer. But the textile designers like Marianne Strengell, Evelyn Hill...
written by: Aaron Britt08.22.11 -
Kickstart Some Design II
Around this time last year I cruised through the fundraising site Kickstarter in search of a few design-related projects that seemed interesting. I found a furniture company, a photo...
written by: Aaron Britt08.11.11 -
City Notes: San Francisco
A very unusual guide book came across my desk last week. And though City Notes: San Francisco by Jesse Coburn from Terry Warner Press is certainly a beautiful object (dig the clean design by Martin...
written by: Aaron Britt08.09.11 -
Future Beauty
Because the September 2011 issue is dedicated to the influence of Japanese design (architecture, craft, and industrial design primarily), we'd be utterly remiss if we didn't give a nod to the...
written by: Aaron Britt08.03.11 -
Beer Craft Winners
In anticipation of the talk at Dwell on Design given by writer William Bostwick and designer Jessi Rymill of the excellent home brew/beer nerd book Beer Craft, we decided to give away a handful of...
written by: Aaron Britt07.06.11 -
Cityscapes: SF's Buildings
The San Francisco Chronicle boasts one of our nation's best architecture critics in John King. We happy citizens of the City by the Bay look out for his column in each Tuesday's paper, though his...
written by: Aaron Britt05.12.11 -
Design in Uniform at CCA
The degree to which modernist design came to the fore of Western life—both aesthetically, in its reliance on mechanized production—at mid-century had everything to do with World War II....
written by: Aaron Britt04.06.11 -
Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
At Dwell we've long been fans of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang Architects. Headed up by the nation's fastest rising female architect Jeanne Gang, the company is responsible not just for...
written by: Aaron Britt03.31.11 -
Marc Kristal on Immaterial World
One of my favorite writers in Dwell is our contributing editor Marc Kristal. His latest story for us—the centerpiece of the issue, if you ask me—is a mad dash around New York City...
written by: Aaron Britt03.15.11
