Weekend Getaway (In The City)
Staying in the city for a holiday weekend can lend a resident an opportune moment to be a tourist in his/her hometown. One tour idea: to nature-hop the proliferation of green spaces in the city, both historic and those borne as of late.
Posted by: Jamie Waugh on Aug 29, 08 at 03:33 PM PDT
Residential Rapid Prototyping
A house built in a couple of hours? No, it's not an episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. It's an automated construction technology that just got major backing from Caterpillar and that could one day be able to build full-scale houses in hours. It's sort of like those fancy 3D printers only really, really big.
Posted by: Laure Joliet on Aug 29, 08 at 12:00 PM PDT
Democrat Design
Donkeys, delegates, and donors have descended on Denver for the Democratic National Convention, which wrapped up yesterday Thursday, August 28th. A team of local furniture shops and a team spearheaded by Heather Mourer of One Home and the Denver Film Festival partnered to see that another D was added to that list: design.
Posted by: Aaron Britt on Aug 29, 08 at 08:41 AM PDT
Stretch Your Real Estate Dollar
The LA Times recently ran a story about the early-morning move of Richard Neutra's 1941 Maxwell house from the tony environs of Brentwood to the gritty Echo Park enclave of Angeleno Heights, chockablock with Victorians in varying degrees of restoration.
Posted by: David A. Greene on Aug 28, 08 at 03:15 PM PDT
Life of Leisure
The housing development called Leisurama contributed one of the most intriguing chapters in the history of our country's love affair with modernity, vacations, and living easy.
Posted by: Laure Joliet on Aug 28, 08 at 12:00 PM PDT
The Outdoor Mod Chandelier
To mix the great outdoors with a chandelier would seem to make an odd cocktail; but Michael McHale knows how to do it. This master of the modern has invented the deconstructed chandelier; as of this month, he's just taken it outside. The new outdoor chandelier is made with rugged, outdoor lights, and the functional thing about it: it's engineered to keep water in, and to keep water out. Read: it's very suitable for outdoors. Call it industrial chic meets glamor.
Posted by: Jamie Waugh on Aug 28, 08 at 08:32 AM PDT
CaesarStone Design Competition
Think quartz is only for countertops? Neither do we. Based on the fundamental belief that good design is born from innovation and inventive use of materials, Dwell and CaesarStone are hosting a design competition. The premise is simple: Create a modern table design using any CaesarStone material. We’re looking for designs that depart from the expected, showcase a creative use of materials, and feature some element of sustainability.
Posted by: Kathryn Schulz on Aug 27, 08 at 05:00 PM PDT
Neutra's List
Time to give a shout-out to fellow Dwell blogger Andy Cruz, who peddles the Neutraface font, which was inspired by the iconic Los Angeles architect Richard Neutra. A fine use of the font can be seen on Kristin's List, a "curated guide to Los Angeles," or distilled weekly list of goings-on-about-town culled from press releases.
Posted by: David A. Greene on Aug 27, 08 at 03:06 PM PDT
Salacious Stairs
Stairs are relatively simple. They're a way for us to get from one floor to the next. They've enabled us to stack living areas on top of one another; allowing for smaller building footprints in denser areas. And for all their utilitarian applications, they've developed quite a following.
Posted by: Laure Joliet on Aug 27, 08 at 12:00 PM PDT
Driftwood for the Digital Era
Harry Allen has made his mark on product design as the eponymous God of whimsical golden piggy banks. His Munsters-worthy hands reach out of walls to serve as vases and coathooks. What next? He's taken a step back in cheekiness and a step forward in the nod to the natural: and he's launched the Blockade line of furniture, as revealed at the recent New York Gift Fair.
Posted by: Jamie Waugh on Aug 27, 08 at 08:26 AM PDT
