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At Home in the Modern World

2012 Issues

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Prefab Perfected

December/January 2012, Vol. 12 Issue 02,

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Everything is Illuminated

attractive table lamps for different budgets

Searching high and low for your ideal table lamp? Brighter days are ahead.

Design Finder

The Wood Life

Wiet Hekking of WonderWood store in Amsterdam

Wiet Hekking’s specialty shop in the heart of Amsterdam displays the best of bent-ply furniture, past and present.

Profile

Industrious Design

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With its fresh take on minimalism, French design duo Normal Studio is ushering in a new machine age.

Finishing Touch

Shedded Bliss

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A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.

Off the Grid

A Sweetheart Deal

sustainable Prefab beach house retreat in Long Island

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a sustainable second home together.

Houses We Love

This Fold House

prefab climate-specific constructed home in Sweden

It took a mere six months—three in the factory and three on-site—for this prefab to come to fruition on the shore of Sweden’s Müsko Island.

Architecture

Top Dror

interlocking frame modules for QuaDror prefab house

Industrial designer Dror Benshetrit’s new building system, QuaDror, can be applied to make just about anything from architecture to table bases.

Houses We Love

Superior Logic

Prefab summer home in northern Wisconsin

Prefab construction simplified the building process of this northern Wisconsin summer home, where all materials required ferrying across Lake Superior.

My House

Looking Inward

newly designed prefab home with modernist classics

For Paul and Shoko Shozi, a pair of retiring Angelenos, the goal was to shut out the neighborhood but bring in the sunny skies. Their new prefab home, the Tatami House, designed by Swiss architect…

Archive

Return to Render

Carlos Diniz 1961 rendering of the Monarch Bay Homes

Carlos Diniz’s astounding hand-done renderings, illustrations, and screen-prints helped to push more than just a handful of buildings—they sold the very idea of modernism itself.

Dwellings

A Simple Plan

simple prefab weekend home in Ukiah

A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.

Dwellings

Contained

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Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their collection and reflect their passions.

Square Meal

Sert du Soleil

Clover Food Lab in Harvard Square

The revamp of Clover—a new fast-food joint in Harvard Square—complements the original interior and hidden skylight of the Josep Lluís Sert–designed building from 1966.

Event Spotlight

Men About Town

Max Fraser illustration by Riccardo Vecchio

Whilst in London, we met three talents who are making their marks on the local design scene. Soon you’ll be uttering their names along side Morrison, Dixon, and Adjaye.

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