Laure Joliet
Laure is a Los Angeles–based photographer and design enthusiast. When not contributing to Dwell and Apartment Therapy, she's opening too many tabs in Firefox, baking, gardening and exploring the great outdoors.
Introducing SEMIHandmade
Eight years ago John McDonald had never picked up a woodworking tool in his life. An aspiring screenwriter in Los Angeles with a day job waiting tables, the frustrated 34 year old decided to try something new: making furniture.
Adam Silverman of Heath Ceramics
The artist and potter, and now Studio Director at Heath Ceramics in Los Angeles, talks with Dwell about his work and inspiration, as well as the personal odyssey that took him from architecture to the kiln.
LA's Restored Overlook Park
This week LA unveiled its newest park, a 50-acre greenspace that sits 500 feet above the city just southwest of Downtown, on a plot of land that was historically part of the Baldwin Hills oil fields and more recently narrowly avoided becoming a housing development.
Knibb Modular Showcase Garden
In a new space on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, landscape designer Sean Knibb has unveiled an environmentally-friendly furniture line and a fresh approach to sustainable gardening. Knibb jumped at the chance to buy the unkempt 100-year-old bungalow next door to his modern studio and proceeded to gut the place, stripping it down to its original wood beams and flooring and displaying its history and character.
Robin Wilson Green Cabinets
At this point it's hard to take the term "eco-friendly" at face value. Greenwashing has, unfortunately, become a marketing gimmick as strong as some companies' sincere goal to be sustainable. Understanding what makes a product green can go a long way towards feeling confident that you're making responsible purchasing decisions.
On Greener Turf
With new laws limiting water consumption in many places, it shouldn't be a surprise that drought-tolerant and native landscaping is continuing to flourish, replacing expansive and expensive lawns. But what might come as a shock is that when a garden does call for grass, some designers are embracing a revised version of artificial turf.
Corbusier's Cabanon at RIBA
The only structure that famed architect Le Corbusier ever designed for himself has been reconstructed inside the Royal Institute of British Architects in the UK for the exhibition "Le Corbusier’s Cabanon 1952/2006 - The Interior 1:1," presented in partnership with Cassina.
Paperfold Lamps
Architects are notorious for being sticklers for detail. Often, and in the best cases, this leads to beautifully uncomplicated structures and well thought out product design.
Domestic Construction
Brooklyn design duo Domestic Construction have been hard at work turning found objects, fabric and paint into imaginative installations, one-of-a-kind fashion, and repurposed interior design.
Formosa 1140: Density in LA
Although it's not a 'green' space specifically, the new Formosa 1140 building in West Hollywood, by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA), embraces community living and gives back some public green to the city around it.
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Dwell Outdoor, 2010
It’s quite a feat to transform the interior of a convention hall—vast and fluorescently lit—into a feel-good lounge-y space that truly brings the outside in. The Dwell on Design booths were bustling, but the Outdoor area was a popular spot to sit and feel the (artificial) grass beneath your feet and admire the vertical gardens. Here are a few shots of the greenest show floor you ever did see.
