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At Home in the Modern World

2011 Issues

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A New Slant on Family Fun

July/August 2011, Vol. 11 Issue 08,

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Bookshelf

Bookshelf Basics

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Classic or contemporary, these titles are guaranteed to appeal to burgeoning bookworms of the modernist sort.

Houses We Love

Rebirth of the Cool

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The Sunshine State once yielded a bumper crop of modernist homes that—as this remodel proves—are still worth savoring.

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Spicing Things Up

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Chipotle’s recent approach to restaurant design aims to transform the traditionally tasteless experience of eating fast food into something more refined.

Dwell Reports

House Party!

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

Conversation

Young at Any Age

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Japanese designer Mikiko Endo lets her wild imagination go to work—–so we can play.

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Family Matters

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The open spaces and transparency of modern architecture turn out to be extremely useful when there’s a house full of relatives.

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An Introduction to Restaurant Design

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Eating has always been a sociable event, from primitive campfire cooking to reclining on lectuli at lavish Greek and Roman banquets. However, although taverns and inns had always existed, the…

We Recommend

Origin Stories

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Newly published monograph The Design 
Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby 
offers the inside account behind the British 
duo’s expansive portfolio.

Design Finder

Hecho en Oaxaca

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An experimental shop in Oaxaca, Mexico, is resuscitating the region’s ancient crafts traditions and bringing indigenous artisans’ designs into the 21st century.

R and D

If You Build It, They Will Cluck

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North Carolina high schoolers take on a creating a sustainable small-scale housing solution—for hens.

Houses We Love

Shutter Island

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Lowering the shutters on this small writer’s retreat completely exposes the interior to the site’s impressive island views.

Houses We Love

Lautners Are Forever

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Quintessential California architect John Lautner would have been 100 this July. Set high above Palm Springs, his beyond-groovy Elrod House is nothing short of concrete poetry.

Outside

Good Clean Fun

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Far from pandering to the whine of youth, this urban play garden fosters thoughtful interaction in a protected setting within the bustle of San Francisco.

My House

Play's the Thing

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With ingenuity and plenty of elbow grease, architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse.

Off the Grid

L is for Longevity

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Though tricked out with high-tech touches, this house’s greenest feature is decidedly low tech: the family’s intention to make it their lifelong home.

Dwellings

A Place to Stand

Modern house design in New Zealand featuring concrete as a primary building material.

Designed for her parents and generations to come, Amanda Yates's seaside New Zealand house is "somewhere between architecture and landscape" but firmly rooted in family life.

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Hella Cool

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In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the mass-produced in surprising new ways.

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Rainbow Flight

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In a London house that’s flooded with light, a spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor.

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