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Mexico City: Day 3
My third day of Mexico City design tourism was one fraught with camera woes. Not only did many of the photos I took on my daylong wander not come through a vexing download (goodbye morning...
written by: Aaron Britt12.01.10 -
In and Around Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland seems more remote than the four-and-a-half-hour flight from Boston feels. But Reykjavik, a city closer to Boston than San Francisco, is a world apart. The prime minister is in the phonebook...
written by: Chelsea Holden Baker11.30.10 -
Mexico City: Day 2
My second day of design tourism in Mexico City was as good as the first, in no small part because I had what may have been the best meal of my life at the restaurant Pujol. Chef Enrique Olvera...
written by: Aaron Britt11.29.10 -
NC Museum of Art Expansion
The North Carolina Museum of Art recently unveiled a new building to house its permanent collection: a 127,000-square-foot, light-filled structure designed by New York-based architects Thomas...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.24.10 -
Mexico City: Day 1
On Thursday I headed down to Mexico City for four days of sheer design tourism. Things got underway that night with a molecular gastronomy feast the Polanco restaurant Oca. Parsley foam, man....
written by: Aaron Britt11.24.10 -
Heading to Mexico City
I'm headed to Mexico City tomorrow—I've never been—and I wanted to reach out to the Dwell community to get an inside track on what I should see and where I should go. At...
written by: Aaron Britt11.17.10 -
A Pantone Hotel for the Color-Obsessed
Pantone has been on a licensing kick for a while now—witness the Pantone chip mugs, messenger bags, cufflinks—but they recently unveiled their most ambitious project to date: the...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.15.10 -
Athens, Greece
Athens is home to one of history’s most important buildings, the Parthenon, but how does the city fare architecturally today? A spate of modern development, particularly a new museum that...
written by: Dan Hawaleshkaphotos by: Alex Subrizi11.15.10 -
Alejandro Sticotti's Teahouse
I met with the Argentinian architect and furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti a few months ago while he was in San Francisco, and he showed me photos he'd snapped the previous week, while on...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.04.10 -
Free City Shop, Los Angeles
Nina Garduno recently opened her shop Free City—a mix between an actual store and a design commune–on Highland Avenue in Hollywood. She started the company in 2002, inspired by her ...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.01.10 -
Olympic Sculpture Park
One of the highlights of my trip to Seattle was taking an early morning photo jog from downtown over to—and through—the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. Designed by Weiss...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake11.01.10 -
Seattle, Part Two
Earlier this week, I headed to Seattle to report a story for an upcoming issue and to run around town to find the best food, furnishings, and other local favorites. Part one of my trip was...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake10.28.10 -
A Week at the Airport: Part II
Earlier this week I had a go at the first half of Alain de Botton's new book A Week at the Airport, where he reports on a week spent at Heathrow's Terminal 5 as the airport's writer-in...
written by: Aaron Britt10.28.10 -
Seattle, Part One
Seattle did nothing to cast away its stereotype as the country's wettest city earlier this week. I traveled north from our Dwell headquarters in San Francisco to visit a house that will be featured...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake10.27.10 -
Living in Laos
In August 2008 I moved with my family to Laos for a year. We wanted to give our children—and ourselves—a break from American, or Western culture, and experience something new and...
written by: Marc Henrichphotos by: Marc Henrich10.26.10 -
A Week at the Airport: Part I
Not so long ago I read the English pop philospher and writer Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness. It was a middling book, one that took great pains to make the case that the...
written by: Aaron Britt10.26.10 -
W New York Downtown
While in New York City last month, I spent a night at the new W New York hotel, downtown in Wall Street. Like all W's, this one was peppered with self-consciously 'cool' design-y touches, some of...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.21.10 -
The Foundry at Domus Orsoni
While in Italy checking out the latest in tiles at Cersaie in Bologna, we took a day to train over to Venice and roam the waterways and were given the opportunity to visit the only foundry in the...
written by: Jordan Kushins10.13.10 -
Listening There: Scenes From Ghana
Two years ago, Mabel O. Wilson and Peter Tolkin traveled through Ghana, visiting the cities and documenting the architecture that had been erected over a thirty-year period, beginning in the late...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.05.10 -
A Whirlwind New York Visit
Last week I spent a few days running around Manhattan (sometimes literally) reporting a handful of upcoming stories for Dwell. In addition to seeing many inspiring projects and meeting many...
written by: Jaime Gillin09.28.10
