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  1. Product Spotlight: 2of2 goods
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    Product Spotlight: 2of2 goods

    We're smitten with the delightful world brother/sister designers, Dan and Meredith Dundin, have created with their company 2of2 goods.

    written by: Megan Hamaker
    04.10.13

  2. Product Spotlight: Streamliner Classic by Playsam
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    Product Spotlight: Streamliner Classic by Playsam

    Help develop and tune your child's fine motor skills with the sleek Streamliner Classic by Scandinavian design company, Playsam. Designed by Ulf Hanses, this non-toxic lacquer painted wooden toy...

    written by: Eujin Rhee
    04.04.13

  3. Loll Swing

    Loll Swing

    A modern interpretation of the iconic swing, created by "lollygaggers" Greg Benson and Jeff Taly. Like all Loll products, the Swing is made of recycled plastic reclaimed from post-consumer waste...

    $250.00

  4. Groovie™ Math Blocks

    Groovie™ Math Blocks

    Teach your little ones to sort, order, and recognize patterns and opposites in style. Made from sustainable Michigan bassword, this set from Uncle Goose contains 28 colorful blocks with debossed...

    $43.00

  5. Wood Play
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    Wood Play

    Inspired by LEGO®, and committed to using renewable resources, Japanese company Mokurokku has introduced a modern, green alternative to the nostalgic, plastic toy.

    written by: Eujin Rhee
    02.27.13

  6. A Look at Lego Bombing
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    A Look at Lego Bombing

    You've heard of yarn bombing (as evidence of its mainstream status, yarn bombing has even shown up in a Roche Bobois ad), but have you seen Lego bombing?

    written by: Sara Ost
    01.29.13

  7. Dwell 2012 Holiday Gift Guides at a Glance
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    Dwell 2012 Holiday Gift Guides at a Glance

    Welcome to the Dwell Holiday Gift Guides! There are seven special product assortments hand-selected by our editors, and we've rounded them all up here for your convenience. Our guides cover gifts...

    written by: Dwell Staff
    12.05.12

  8. Emma Wooden Boat

    Emma Wooden Boat

    The real Emma Maersk is the longest container ship in the world and carries 11,000 containers from China to Europe every seven weeks. This finely crafted wood model is a tribute to this feat of...

    $180.00

  9. Eco Dough

    Eco Dough

    Foster creative play with this set of prismatic and environmentally friendly modeling dough.

    $23.99

  10. Dacha Playhouse

    Dacha Playhouse

    Transport your mini modernist to a place where imagination is king with this durable, no-tools-needed playhouse set. Made from wipe-clean, 100 percent post-industrial and post-consumer recycled...

    $1400.00

  11. Dovetail Alligator

    Dovetail Alligator

    Karl Zahn added a playful alligator to his line of toys made from sustainably harvested new growth beech wood. The tripartite puzzle-like design is held together with dovetails—baby's first...

    $19.00

  12. MoMA's 'Toy Story'
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    MoMA's 'Toy Story'

    MoMA’s Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 may be the world’s most engrossing toy box. Sadly, you can’t play with the 500+ items on exhibit July 29 through November...

    written by: Sara Carpenter
    07.25.12

  13. Girl Talk
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    Girl Talk

    The world’s most popular doll, dressed in architect’s garb: friend or foe to a profession already suffering from a pronounced gender gap?

    written by: Alexandra Lange
    06.27.12

  14. LEGO® Design Competition Finalists
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    LEGO® Design Competition Finalists

    Dwell joined forces with Pacific Standard Time to appeal to the architect—and child—within us all. The challenge was to construct a model of an original home inspired by iconic...

    written by: Ralston O'Neill
    05.14.12

  15. A Visit to HAY Copenhagen
    Travel Reports

    A Visit to HAY Copenhagen

    I just returned to the office from a trip to Copenhagen spent reporting a handful of stories for the magazine and scouting future projects. A highlight of the trip was my visit to HAY, a fantastic...

    written by: Jaime Gillin
    11.15.11

  16. 7 London Products We Love

    7 London Products We Love

    The London Design Festival kicked off Saturday, and we, like the rest of the design world, is waiting with bated breath to see who shows up and what comes out of this year's events. Our own Dwell...

    written by: Miyoko Ohtake
    09.20.11

  17. Ostheimer Wooden Bears

    Ostheimer Wooden Bears

    We'll cop to spending (a little too much?) time clicking around on Shelf's online site yesterday, in lieu of visiting the little London shop in person. There was a ton of stuff we loved, but these...

  18. Tic Tac Toe Set

    Tic Tac Toe Set

    Now this classic game that has stood the test of time can also endure the elements, thanks to its composition of recycled plastic bags.

    $29.95

  19. ProStock Ash Wood Bat

    ProStock Ash Wood Bat

    As potent today as when the Great Bambino swung one. Nothing screams “America” louder or with such verve as a Louisville Slugger. They’re still made in downtown Louisville, and...

    $54.95

  20. Pin-hole Solargraphy Camera

    Pin-hole Solargraphy Camera

    Digital film has dramatically changed the point-and-shoot strategy, as there's not so much riding on every pic when you can take them ad infinitum. When's the last time you actually held a 4x6...

    $10.00

  21. House Party!
    Product Reviews

    House Party!

    All it takes to play is a healthy imagination, 
but a modern playhouse adds to the fun.

    written by: Sam Grawe
    photos by: Peter Belanger
    07.15.11

  22. Villa Julia

    Villa Julia

    Pros Anyone who’s ever played in a household appliance box knows that cardboard is perhaps the most kid-friendly building material around—and it’s used here to great effect. Preci...

    $274.00

  23. Circle House

    Circle House

    Pros We wish more grown-up homes had the simple, no-frills good looks of Royce’s design—–but then again, most American houses aren’t “inspired by Scandinavian fishing ...

    $1299.00

  24. TrueModern Playhouse

    TrueModern Playhouse

    Pros Durable and dependable, the TrueModern Playhouse has great genes. Blazona has been designing grown-up backyard prefabs for over a decade at Modular Dwellings. Although our testers seemed to...

    $1350.00

  25. House Blanket

    House Blanket

    Pros Donna Wilson has a playful, universally good-humored approach to design (and the fandom of a certain associate editor). Her House Blanket typifies this fun-loving, anything-goes attitude. Ther...

    $408.00

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