Design and architecture inspiration for modern homes from Dwell.

At Home in the Modern World

2010 Issues

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Make It New!

Renovations in Action

February 2010, Vol. 10 Issue 03,

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Off the Grid

Best in Snow

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Most homeowners would avoid living within striking distance of an avalanche, but Marcell Strolz and Uli Alber embrace Alpine extremes. They built a house that could weather even the fiercest storm.

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Shelf Life

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Though he appears to live alone, this graphically inclined Parisian commissioned an apartment that deftly houses his many roommates—–scores of beloved comics—–as well.

Detour

San Diego, CA

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Nestled on the Pacific coastline, between Los Angeles’s sprawl and the Mexican border, San Diego is a surprisingly design-forward town with a handful of modern masterpieces to prove it.

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Night Shift

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Once a locker for a midnight loo, the bedside table has taken on a far sweeter function—and a score of forms for holding big dreams, and small specs, till the morning light.

Finishing Touch

Loo & Improved

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When Pamela Butz and Jeffrey Klug, principals of Butz + Klug Architecture, began renovating the master bathroom of a nearly 120-year-old home in Brookline, Massachusetts, they made “all sorts…

Conversation

Stephen Burks

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For years there’s been a divide between manufactured first-world luxury items and handmade third-world crafts, but industrial designer Stephen Burks believes that the future of design lies…

My House

Composite Index

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Corporate high-flyers and admitted neat freaks Bruce Thatcher and Kirsty Leighton couldn’t handle the chaos anymore. With two small boys and demanding jobs (he works in hedge funds…

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Mod Men

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Todd Goddard and Andrew Mandolene have a spring in their step since completing their restoration of the near-derelict 1957 home of architect Arthur Witthoefft, who says, “I can’t get…

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Campbells' Coup

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Modernist furniture may signal worldly tastes, but its American origins lie in Michigan’s humble reaches. It’s here that Keith and Mary Campbell renovated a lakeside cottage into a…

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An Introduction to Contractors

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Architect-author, Dan Maginn of El Dorado Inc., in Kansas City, Missouri, gives us the inside track on one of his favorite subjects: contractors. Learn what makes them tick, how to work with them…

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