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Aaron writes the men’s style column “The Pocket Square” for the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.

Learning from Iran
Sustainability-minded San Diegans should head over to the La Jolla Library today for what looks to be a fascinating talk from...
Maine Modern
I am very excited to announce that Philip M. Isaacson, owner and resident of the house we featured in our October Off the Grid...
A Week at the Airport: Part II
Earlier this week I had a go at the first half of Alain de Botton's new book A Week at the Airport, where he reports on a week...
A Week at the Airport: Part I
Not so long ago I read the English pop philospher and writer Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness.
Herbert Matter at Design Philadelphia
Last night I stopped into one of the many Design Philadelphia events going on this week: a screening of Reto Caduff's new...
Stream A Necessary Ruin
We screened it at Dwell on Design this year and I was part of another screening last month here for the San Francisco AIA's...
Handicapping Design Philadelphia
Last night Design Philadelphia kicked off its 6th annual festival of art, architecture, and design.
Mondaine Desk Clocks
Any traveller blessed enough to have zipped through the hills and dales of Switzerland has assuredly been faced with Mondaine's...
Lapham's Quarterly on the City
I fell hard for Lapham's Quarterly earlier this year when by chance I happened into a bookstore shortly before founder Lewis...
Parsing Levi's Plaza
I had lunch yesterday with Charles Birnbaum, president and founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Postertext's Literary Wall Art
What bibliophile, understanding that he maybe ought not cover all the walls of his apartment with shelves of books and stacks of...
Rick Moreland Reads a Building
One of the joys of visiting Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to see Rick and Susan Moreland's house for one of our October features was...
Dwell at Architecture and the City
Indian summer is all well and good, though in San Francisco the real treat of September is the SF AIA's Architecture and the City...
Podcast: Green Design with the Climate Desk
Dwell talks to The Climate Desk on the Subject of Green Design.
SFMOMA talks Olivetti's Design
Earlier this year SFMOMA hosted a big extravaganza marking the opening of it's 75th anniversary show 75 Years of Looking Forward.
Leather Fly Swatter
I was in Maine last week for my yearly vacation back East, and was happy to discover a new shop in Camden called Sugar Tools.
10 Sturdy Desk Chairs
Whether wrought from molded aluminum or the latest techno-mesh, few seats work harder than the sturdy desk chair.
Art of the Novella Series
I'm something of a sucker for graphically clever series of paperbacks.
Michigan or Bust
I'm quite happy to report that I'm off for Michigan for the first time in all my days on Wednesday.
Parsing Perec
A few months back I received a pair of new books from the small Wakefield Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and have come to...
Kickstart Some Design
If you've ever complained about the dearth of good design in our world, but as you're not a designer yourself felt like you could...
John Madin: Birmingham Mod
Continuing in the vein of highlighting the modern design of yesteryear in the north of England, here is a BBC documentary from...
Manchester Modernist Society
I was out walking with some friends this weekend and trying very hard to think of the name of a certain mid-century Manchester,...
Shelved By Color
I went to the Dwell bookcase today to look for the tome Mutations by Rem Koolhaas and others.
An 1860s Stable Modernized in Melbourne
On a shady street just off the main drag of Melbourne, Australia’s hippest inner suburb, a pair of creative types and their two...
Glass House Conversations
Philip Johnson and David Whitney used to invite great minds from the architecture, design, and art worlds to the Johnson-designed...
Jason Pontius on Blog Themes
Recently I had the idea of asking a well-placed, well-respected web designer who understands the vagaries of design, branding,...
Video: Reimagining SFMOMA
I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this weekend to see the recently installed Fisher Collection show Calder to...
Artist Maira Kalman at the CJM
I've long loved her New Yorker covers, and am still over the moon about the illustrated version of Strunk and White's classic The...
Live from the Show Floor: Taylor Stitch
What began as a chat over a beer about how great mid-century architects looked in their sharp shirts and bow ties has finally...
Screening: A Necessary Ruin
Of my seven panels at Dwell on Design this weekend, one that I am really happy to be doing is a screening of filmmaker Evan...
Paul Goldberger at AIA SF
Last week I had lunch at the AIA San Francisco to hear New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger discuss his new book Why...
Crazy Sexy Wool
I was in New York earlier this week, and stopped into the very charming and hip Bond St. bistro The Smile for lunch.
Yves Klein's Air Architecture
In conjunction with the massive retrospective "Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers" that the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
Scotland: Day 5
On my final day in Glasgow, and alas my final day in Scotland, I got straight up, tossed a handful of dirty clothes into my now...
Scotland: Day 4
Today was my second full day in Glasgow and now that I've become an ace navigating the City Center and Merchant City...
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