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Scandinavian Design on the Docket
Peep a few of our favorite finds in a major Scandinavian design auction happening in Chicago on May 16, 2013.
written by: Kelsey Keith05.06.13 -
Dwell & DDG Holiday Party at 345meatpacking
This Monday, Dwell co-hosted a holiday celebration of design at DDG's newly unveiled 345meatpacking condoplex in New York City. The 37-unit condo building was shrouded in a Yayoi Kusama covering...
written by: Sara Carpenter12.12.12 -
Pratt Institute at 125
Last week marked the opening of a new Pratt Institute exhibition celebrating 125 iconic works of art and design made by the school's alumni and faculty over the last 125 years. At turns...
written by: Kelsey Keith12.03.12 -
Antibodies: The Campanas in Palm Springs
Making its only West Coast stop before shipping out to Mexico and Japan, Antibodies: The Works of Fernando and Humberto Campana, 1999-2009 is currently on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum in...
written by: Aaron Britt11.29.12 -
Light My Way, Stranger
On Friday, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture held its first Day of the Dead auction featuring custom-designed lamps by architects and artists from Los Angeles and beyond. The proceeds from...
written by: Linda Taalmanphotos by: Patricia Parinejad11.08.12 -
Electrolux: Designing for the Senses
The Electrolux Design Lab Competition, an annual event staged yearly by the giant home appliances company, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with a brief that challenged students to create...
written by: Arlene Hirst11.02.12 -
Dwell Party Highlights: Celebrating Prefab Design at SXSW Eco
What better place for Dwell to host our SXSW Eco party than a prefab pop up at the design complex of the woman who founded the Austin Modern Home Tour? Go behind the scenes in our story and...
written by: Addie Broyles10.10.12 -
City Modern Home Tours: Manhattan
The weeklong City Modern festival concluded with a bang over the weekend with the Manhattan Home Tours. The five destinations on the Saturday afternoon tour spanned from Chelsea to Union...
written by: Emily Nonko10.08.12 -
'Design through the Ages' Kicks off City Modern
City Modern—Dwell and New York Magazine's collaborative week-long collection of talks, studio and home tours showcasing New York architecture and design—began Monday evening with the...
written by: Sara Dierckphotos by: Sara Dierck10.02.12 -
Fashion's Night Out: Dinosaur Designs
In their light-filled studio in Sydney Australia’s Strawberry Hills, Louise Olsen and Steve Ormandy fashion resin destined for landfill into jewelry and home wares of rare beauty. Their...
written by: Caia Hagel09.06.12 -
MoMA's 'Toy Story'
MoMA’s Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 may be the world’s most engrossing toy box. Sadly, you can’t play with the 500+ items on exhibit July 29 through November...
written by: Sara Carpenter07.25.12 -
Alex Katz: Give Me Tomorrow
The American painter Alex Katz is one of my favorites. His flat, graphic realism, and paintings of the windswept coast of Maine recall Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, and the cover of some sun...
written by: Aaron Britt05.04.12 -
Dwell Light & Energy Issue Launch
On Wednesday April 25, 2012, Dwell Media celebrated its Light & Energy issue with a spectacular lighting exhibition and party held at Industria Superstudio. Dwell’s April issue looks at...
written by: Alexandra Polier05.02.12 -
Salone Satellite 2012
This year marks the 15-year anniversary of SaloneSatellite, the portion of Salone Internazionale del Mobile dedicated to young designers under the age of 35.
written by: Amanda Dameron04.22.12 -
Dwell Lounge at Sundance
Dwell brought its modern design prowess to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last weekend by kitting out a happening lounge at 427 Main Street. With the help of San Francisco interior...
written by: Aaron Britt01.27.12 -
Massimo Scolari's Drawings at Yale
Visit the website of the Italian architect, designer, and artist Massimo Scolari and you'll be surprised to see how many drawings and paintings are lumped in with his more three-dimensional work....
written by: Aaron Britt01.16.12 -
OK Gallery's SF Pop-Up
On November 17th, I went to the launch party of a very exciting collaboration between two great shops, Los Angeles design destination OK Gallery and the tightly edited San Francisco menswear...
written by: Aaron Britt11.21.11 -
Ralph Rapson's Chairs
Though plenty of architects turn their attentions to furniture, few can claim authorship of a proper classic. Ralph Rapson, the Minnesotan modernist who designed the original Guthrie Theater and...
written by: Aaron Britt11.01.11 -
Dwell Design Lab Recap
Over the weekend of October 29th and 30th, Dwell hosted its first ever Design Lab in San Francisco. Bay Area-based designers, architects, and landscape architects gathered at the Millennium Tower...
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Tammy Vinson10.31.11 -
Design with the Other 90%: CITIES
The second in a series of themed exhibitions by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, "Design with the Other...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.18.11 -
Eames Words
The A+D Museum on L.A.’s Museum Row has just opened "Eames Words," named for its highly conceptual, and lexical, approach to the Eames legacy. “The whole idea is based on an...
written by: Erika Heet10.12.11 -
"Living in a Modern Way" at LACMA
For their part in the citywide "Pacific Standard Time" exhibition, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just opened “California Design 1930–1965: Living in a...
written by: Erika Heet10.06.11 -
Rams: Less and More
Making its only American stop in San Francisco, the wonderful show Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams opened this week at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I got a chance to...
written by: Aaron Britt09.01.11 -
Behind the Scenes: Knoll Textiles
Many a modern-design enthusiast can spot a Cesca side chair and say it was designed by Marcel Breuer. But, were it upholstered in Digit fabric, few could name the textile designer. (Answer: Suzanne...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.26.11 -
New Olds at Israeli Design Museum
There's an interesting new museum in Israel, just south of Tel Aviv, with a corkscrewing exterior of rust-red Cor-Ten steel: Design Museum Holon, designed by Ron Arad. Their forthcoming exhibition...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.13.11
