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Explore - Industrial Design
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2013 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Furniture Preview
Hello, sports fans! That's right: Milan's annual design fair happens next week, and it's big, bad, and enough of an endurance test to qualify as spring training. As you read back in February,...
written by: Kelsey Keith04.05.13 -
Home Swede Home
A Swedish kitchen has a nifty mix of low, high, and custom pieces under designer Mads Odgård.
written by: Olivia Martinphotos by: Åke E:son Lindman04.03.13 -
Process This
We love to break down the intricate steps that go into making our favorite furniture, products, prefabs and more. Increase your industrial-manufacturing IQ with this slideshow showcasing our...
written by: Dwell Staff02.01.13 -
'West Coast Modern' by Zahid Sardar
Frequent Dwell contributor Zahid Sardar has two new books out that would be welcome additions to any architecture or industrial-design library: West Coast Modern published by Gibbs Smith and 100...
written by: Diana Budds01.29.13 -
Moss Auction at Phillips de Pury
In our September entertaining issue, we profiled the one and only Murray Moss, New York design impresario and "ringmaster" of the over-the-top, irreverent design objects with high price tags. At...
written by: Kelsey Keith10.19.12 -
Homeland Ingenuity
How do American companies maintain handcrafted detail while producing fast enough—and in large enough quantities—to satisfy profit margins and consumers accustomed to instant...
written by: Caroline Tiger09.11.12 -
Future Classics, Circa 2050?
It's something every designer, design writer, and design collector wonders constantly: Will this piece of furniture I made/ hailed in print/ bought still be in vogue in ten (or fifty) years' time?...
written by: Kelsey Keith09.02.12 -
Tendence 2012 at Messe Frankfurt: Tabletop and Kitchen Accessories
An array of items fills up the halls at Tendence—experimental furniture, textiles, lighting, clothing, jewelry, and more—but housewares and accessories were most prevalent. Here's a...
written by: Diana Budds08.28.12 -
Tendence 2012 at Messe Frankfurt: Talents 10 + 1
Messe Frankfurt nurtures the young designers who come to its fairs—Tendence and Ambiente, namely—to exhibit their wares. From the prominent placement of the Talents exhibition (in the...
written by: Diana Budds08.27.12 -
Highlights from Dwell on Design 2012
You may have already spied our show floor recaps of Modern Lifestyle, Furniture and Accessories, Kitchen and Bath, and perennial favorite Dwell Outdoor, but here we share our greatest hits...
written by: Diana Budds06.27.12 -
Georgia Peach
Designer Barbara Hill applies her polished take on minimalism to a traditional 1920s abode in Atlanta for a transplanted Houston family.
written by: Kelsey Keithphotos by: Gregory Miller06.14.12 -
Swiss Design at Dwell on Design
It's coming up Swiss at this year's Dwell on Design. On Saturday, June 23rd, we'll be talking to two sets of panelists on the Design Innovation Stage, with additional Swiss handicraft shown on the...
written by: Kelsey Keith06.13.12 -
Joseph Joseph Prevails in Patent Lawsuit
From the glossy and the tactile to the litigous, Dwell's June issue (on newsstands now) covers every facet of interior design, including a piece that addresses the touchy subject of...
written by: Kelsey Keith05.31.12 -
ICFF 2012: Editors' Awards
Though there are hundreds of exhibitors at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), a select few were called out for their exceptional wares by a panel of judges who name the Editors'...
written by: Diana Budds05.30.12 -
ICFF 2012: Offsite Design Exhibitions
Each spring, New York Design Week gets bigger and better thanks in part to an ever-expanding roster at ICFF (more on that here) as well as the dedication of several local organizations presenting...
written by: Kelsey Keith05.24.12 -
ICFF 2012 : Design Milk Presents
"Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum" showcases a collaborative exhibition of New York's AM with Neal Feay Studio of Santa Barbara, Calif. during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair ...
written by: Sara Dierck05.22.12 -
Portland's Beam & Anchor
Painter Jocelyn Rahm and furniture reclaimer Robert Rahm are the married partners behind Beam & Anchor, a new warehouse space in Portland that provides workshop space for craftsmen as well as a...
written by: Kelsey Keith04.25.12 -
Studio Gorm
John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt named their studio after the made-up word “gorm,” an invented antonym to the real word “gormless” (meaning stupid or dull). The Eugene...
written by: Shonquis Moreno04.23.12 -
Elisa Strozyk
Elisa Strozyk was in graduate school when she came across a photo of a water-warped parquet floor. “I thought, my God, the wood came back to life and is frozen in motion,” she says.
written by: Lindsay J. Westley04.23.12 -
Ventura Lambrate Trumps in Milan
For the second year running, Milan’s Zona Tortona feels more like Zona Tortura, a nightclub dotted with big brand showrooms, than the former creative epicenter of the Salone furniture fair...
written by: Shonquis Morenophotos by: Shonquis Moreno04.20.12


















