This photo of a young Ada Louise Huxtable is from the Life Magazine Archive.

Ada Louise Huxtable. Photo by Garth Huxtable.

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change by Ada Louise Huxtable A compendium of Huxtable’s best pieces and never-before-published essays over four decades, this tome celebrates modern architecture’s scope from midcentury to now. From $10.49 via Barnes and Noble

Ada Louise Huxtable, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine, 1974.

The ADA Quilt—another Meg Callahan collaboration, though with MatterMade—features another geometric design rendered in subtle neutral tones.

The working color palettes are hues of pinks but Campbell is musing about introducing blues and indigos.

Building on her sensual flare for lighting design, Campbell’s vision for Das Haus’s gentle light will include string lighting in collaboration with Kvadrat, who will tailor print textile envelopes for the lamps. “There will be giant chains of light,” beams Campbell.

“By emphasizing the low-tech element, I am inviting house users and house guests to play,” says Campbell, “Manual cooking, saws and wrenches, surfaces to work and measure on – this house may not contain the most gorgeous Italian vase but it has every tool imaginable, even antique Japanese tools – your neighbors will want to come to borrow them all and fix everything under the sun”. Rather than being old-fashioned, Campbell insists this approach is a survival strategy for the digital age.

The maquette that Campbell is working from is a giant storage unit simulacrum, where a series of boxes come to life with their uses, which are meant to be flexible but still rational.

When the installation is up at imm Cologne, actors using tools, cooking and casually playing music will circulate through the space to emphasize the ambiance of Campbell’s Das Haus vision. “They will make noises and smells, and remind us that in the 21st century we are revising the idea of organization: organized love, organized relationships and the organized rigid interior habits that keep us from an exploration of what lays beyond.” Namely: voluptuousness and the DIY know-how essential for preservation beyond cyberspace.

“In my free time I have been exploring what I call The Love Project, an inquiry into how yin meets yang – not just in personal relationships but in qualities and values of spaces. Some of these ideas have leaked into Das Haus, where emotion comes together with function,” says Campbell.

The pale blue Ada quilt is a perfectly symmetrical pattern thanks to Callahan’s digital printing techniques. Available through the Dwell Store, $600.

Louise Campbell, Prince chair, 2001.

From this high activity area, you move to “the little bedrooms”, which is really a large room full of beds where curtains can be drawn to separate one from the other. “I love a good sofa but there is nothing more inviting in the world than a bed with soft accessories and duvets in soft linens and upholstery. In this house you can fall asleep anywhere, and you can invite 40 for dinner and they can all sleep over,” says Campbell.

Louise Campbell, LC Shutters lamp, 2012.

Louise Hederström Willow planter for Nola $880 louisehederstrom.com Based in Malmö, Sweden, Louise Hederström has a cheerful aesthetic derived from a wide array of sources, from the sheet metal she often uses (inspired by the tractors on her childhood farm) to her product names, many of them homages to Elvis Presley. This multifaceted planter is fitted with “branch” pots that can grow a variety of flora in one go. Add a wooden top in oak or birch for a ready-made seat.

“I went to university [University of New South Wales: College of Fine Arts] to study art and art history, and spent years in life drawing classes. To me the body itself is like a piece of jewelry ornamenting the earth—its intricate forms and movements have a beauty of their own. There are many crossovers between art, design and jewelry making. Adorning the body is a very primal thing to us, very fundamentally human.” “I am a bit of a people watcher. I love it! I've always been fascinated by the personal style of individuals and the way people choose to present and adorn themselves. What I love about jewelry is the way that people can take something I've created and interpret it in their own way, to fit their own style. It's great when a piece becomes a part of their own personal collage.”

Considered the finest residential example of International Style architecture in Denver, the 1951 Joshel House was in serious disrepair when Dominick Sekich and Scott Van Vleet bought it in 2013. They embarked on a major renovation to re-create the vision of the original designers, Joseph and Louise Marlow.

“When designing a small space, we start with basic human factors of emotion—the feeling of privacy, of nesting, of nourishment, of cleanliness, of proximity—and we stretch those boundaries to comfortable levels,” says Bonini, who will speak specifically to these issues in her presentation, Small Spaces, Big Design. Photo by Barry Calhoun.

Twenty-foot-wide doors from Solar Innovations offer easy access to the deck. “Solar Innovations was the only manufacturer at that time that had a pocket multi-slider with a good ADA threshold,” says architect Erick Mikiten. “They almost look like steel, but are thermally broken aluminum.”

A rope ladder accesses the loft-style bedroom in the Ada model.

Swedish designer Mary-Louise Hellgren crafts her striking Rosa poufs with upholstery made from air-bag material.

Dwell is excited to have recently added three quilts from Minneapolis-based Louise Gray. Their designs, also 100% cotton, sport these soothing, neutral colos arrayed in simple geometric formations. Hand-stitched in the USA, you can find this Louise Gray Modern Quilt No. 5 here. Her other striking designs can be found here and here.

Ekeberg Sculpture Park On a verdant hillside just above Oslo's booming waterfront, the new Ekeberg Sculpture Park is a who's who of contemporary sculpture. Buried under a tiny hillside reservoir, you can find two stunning works by James Turrell. From a tree branch dangle two shining, mysteriously entwined human forms created by Louise Bourgeois.

In another area of the Human Made exhibition, South African ceramics designer Louise Gelderblom presented her latest Vessels collection. She writes from her Cape Town studio: “The work on show here has been produced by coiling the clay, which means it has been built in layers from the bottom to the top of the piece. I try…to challenge the preconceptions of what clay is capable of and push the limits of what is possible in hand-built ceramics.”

Minneapolis, Minnesota Quilt No. 1 from Louise Gray, $425. Quilting gets a modern spin in the studio of Alexandra Gray Bennett and Jocelin Johnson, where each future heirloom passes through the hands of as many as 10 local artisans.

The tiny house community also has ADA units to accommodate people with wheelchairs.

Ada, a second design by Norske Mikrohus, measures 205 square feet and is set on wheels.

The interior of Ada, Norske Mikrohus's smaller model, is customizable and can be appointed with a wood-burning stove.

Atelier Pierre Louise Gerlier took advantage of the layout and lined up the wall of cabinetry with a structural beam.

Celebrating the tenth year of her Vancouver-based firm, Bob’s Your Uncle Design, Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) President Ada Bonini has myriad projects to her credit, including several compact units for the sustainable UniverCity community near Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Photo by Barry Calhoun.

A significant art piece by Dana Louise Kirkpatrick and Bernie Taupin anchors the living room.

New York Pavilion 1964 World's Fair The massive ring of steel and reinforced concrete piers, dubbed the “Tent of Tomorrow,” once held a cable suspension roof and was clad in a terrazzo floor featuring a Texaco highway map of the state. It was a platform for New York, and homegrown companies like Kodak and CorningWare, to show off to the world, and as critic Louise Huxtable said, “a sophisticated frivolity…seriously and beautifully constructed … a ‘carnival’ with class.”

Industrial designer Louise Hederstrom loves to play with ideas of old and new and draws inspiration from the industrial edge still visible in parts of Malmö, Sweden, where she works. Goethals loved to discover that, mixed within Hederstrom's stack of design books, sat a few volumes on Swedish Death Metal.

Settled in the late 1800s in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Snuck Farm is still run by the same family but has now transformed from a traditional farmhouse into a community-oriented organization. The farm’s mission it to promote a sustainable lifestyle and to produce fresh, organic food that benefits the entire community. Louise Hill of Louise Hill Design collaborated with Lloyd Architects studio to design a new barn which combines public, private and work spaces.

Danish-British designer Louise Campbell in her studio in Copenhagen. Photo by Neel Munte Brun.