Will Lamb is a writer and editor based in Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as a senior editor at Dwell from 2013 to 2015.

Emma is a rising high school senior at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, CA, and an editorial intern at Dwell for the summer of 2013. Her hobbies include reading, skiing, and playing soccer.

Tuft & Needle is an Arizona based mattress company. It was founded in 2013 by two software engineers from Silicon Valley who were fed up with the lack of transparency and fairness in the mattress industry.

Our work does not focus on a particular type of project but hopes to transcend use. The work does not have a style but instead focuses on critical problem-solving to produce something unique. The work resides between brackets, among actors, and within relationships. Dancing between these entities, the outcome strives for positiveness, positioned at the heart of the matter. Founded by Paul Coughlin and Annie Scheel in 2013 after working for nearly 15 years for some great firms. Paul and Annie are NCARB certified and licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and Georgia. coughlinscheel.com

Sheri Koones’ latest book is Prefabulous Small Houses which profiles 32 of the most energy efficient and sustainable small houses in North America. Her previous books include Prefabulous World: Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe, Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid, Prefabulous + Sustainable, Prefabulous, House About It, Modular Mansions, and From Sand Castles to Dream Houses. She won the prestigious Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Award from NAREE in 2008, 2011, and 2013. Sheri is also a columnist, freelance writer and speaker. Her web site www.sherikoones.com

McInturff Architects, an eight-person firm in Bethesda, Maryland, has an orientation toward small highly-crafted contemporary design for residential, commercial, and small institutional projects. Our complete architectural and interior design services involve considerable client interaction in order to tailor the projects to the needs of the users. Our work has been frequently published, both locally and nationally, and we have received more than 300 design awards, including three national AIA Honor Awards, two for Interior Architecture and one for Urban Design. The work is the subject of three monographs, In Detail: McInturff Architects (2001) and In Residence: McInturff Architects (2007), and In House: McInturff Architects (2013) by The Images Publishing Group of Australia

Olson Kundig is a full-service design firm whose work includes residences (often for art collectors), museums and exhibition design, hospitality projects, commercial design, academic buildings, interior design, visual identities, and places of worship. The firm is led by five owners—Jim Olson, Tom Kundig, Kirsten R. Murray, Alan Maskin, and Kevin Kudo-King—who are supported by eleven principals, twenty-four associates, and a staff of approximately 165 in the historic Pioneer Square neighborhood of downtown Seattle. The firm opened a workspace in New York in 2014 to better serve its expanding roster of East Coast and international clients. The in-house interiors studio, founded in 2000, provides a full range of services, including material selection, custom furniture design, and purchasing capabilities. The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit. Olson started the firm based on the essential ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, histories, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Among the firm’s accolades are the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects), national and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects, Jim Olson’s 2007 Seattle Medal of Honor and Tom Kundig’s National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt and his Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Books on the firm’s work include Tom Kundig: Works (Princeton Architectural Press); Jim Olson: Art and Architecture (August Editions, 2013); Tom Kundig Houses 2 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011); Jim Olson Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2009); and Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.) www.olsonkundig.com

Atelier SUN was founded in 2013. Situated in Toronto, Atelier SUN works with residential architecture, commercial interiors, industrial design, photography and graphics. Atelier SUN focuses on the essential meaning of the space that has a strong connection to the culture and aesthetics. We strive to cut to bone in our design to seek the balance point where there is nothing to add and nothing to take away.

AlexAllen Studio was founded in 2013 by Alexandra Burr and Allen Slamic. Based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, we work in the fields of lighting design, furniture design and architecture. www.alexallenstudio.com

At NTN we design, produce and curate collections of products. We connect these products by design rather than category. We release two collections of products per year. We are interested in how design can connect the products within a collection, and how this approach makes traditional product categories less relevant. NTN is based in Dublin, Ireland and was established in January 2013 by Ian Walton and Marcel Twohig, founders of the industrial design studio notion.

born and raised in santa monica, pascale graduated from crossroads high school then received her bachelors degree in architecture at usc school of architecture. in her fourth year of college, she studied abroad in japan, china, hong kong, cambodia, vietnam, malaysia, singapore and indonesia — collaboratively working with the iban tribe and university of malaya to develop a community center for the rural tribe. upon graduating from usc, she was presented the raymond s. kennedy award for her thesis project on the evolving structure. she continued to travel the world studying architecture, technology and culture. her love for creating symbiotic relationships between the built environment, nature and its inhabitants, along with her eye for detail, has lead her to inspiring opportunities working with oma*amo and gast architects. since 2013, she opened her own firm where she helps clients envision and execute their desired projects within their respected budgets and aesthetic design. most recently, her love for nature and wellness has inspired her to work with clients to develop designs for holistic and sustainable wellness centers and spas.

With a shared interest in exploring design across a wide range of scales, programs, and disciplines, partners Joshua Aidlin and David Darling started Aidlin Darling Design around a woodshop in 1997. With an emphasis on designing for all of the senses they have cultivated a diverse and collaborative studio that acts as the creative hub for an extended network of builders, fabricators, artists, engineers, chefs, and other collaborators. In recent years, the firm has garnered over 125 regional, national, and international awards including the Smithsonian’s Cooper- Hewitt’s 2013 National Design Award for their body of work, a James Beard Award, five American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum, two International Civic Trust Awards, and several awards from the AIA, IIDA, and ASLA.

Design21 is one of the fastest-growing interior design and architecture firms in the country. Spearheaded by the trio who got acquainted through their college days Ar. Nikita Bajaj Pathak, Ar. Gaurav Pathak and Ar. Amit Gulati, this firm aspires to combine the simple ingenuity of innovation and creativity in all its projects. Established in 2013, Design21 has already had firm roots in India, with branches in Holland and America. This firm is ready to take the world by storm with future plans to expand globally.