Mary Henning and Ann Wansbrough's renovation of a semidetached cottage enables them to use 75 percent less town water than the average two-person home.
Standing at 19" x 19" x 34", the Houndstooth Valet by designer Jonathan Dorthe of Atelier-D in Montreal plays home to whatever gentlemanly accoutrements you may need it to house.
The houndstooth in the Houndstooth Valet comes in the perforations of the acrylic panels. It's a nice nod to menswear while also lightening up what could be a flat black surface.
The two primary components of the Houndstooth Valet are its maple frame and acrylic shelves.
We're big fans of Hans Wegner's Valet chair because it marries two pieces of furniture. Here, Dorthe seems to have taken a step ladder as his point of departure, another functional move for this handy piece.
Think Small features a nautically inspired New York home and a little red house with a lot of character in Seattle. Photo by: Adam Friedberg
The Boxhome is a great example of small Scandinavian simplicity and this Austin, Texas, bungalow gets a modern update without exploding its tiny footprint in our Small Wonders issue. Photo by: Pia Ulin
Lest you think the suburbs are breed only outsized homes, this Palo Alto abode proves otherwise in our 2005 issue Small is the New Big. Our cover story is about a San Francisco home built on a 20-foot-wide lot. Photo by: Todd Hido
Check out this issue of sweet small spots, including our cover story on arhitect Per Bornstein's diminutive home in Sweden. Photo by: Pia Ulin
In our 2011 small spaces issue we checked out the home of a pair of design-savvy Portlanders. And in the cover story we check out a small New York spot remade with 36 commercial doors. Photo by: Nicholas Calcott
Smaller is Smarter features this awesome, space-saving, 426-square-foot loft in San Diego, California. Photo by: Misha Gravenor
Dwell June 2009 cover
We visited a pair of glass pavilions in Sonoma, California, and a 240-square-foot apartment in New York City. Photo by: Matthew Millman
Wilkin and Pini hired Longma Joinery to build custom cedar windows and doors for their 270-square-foot addition.
The rear facade. A system of sliding glass windows and doors underscore the indoor/outdoor nature of the house.
The rear of the Chistopher Polly-designed Elliott Ripper house shows the most impactful design moves—windows that allow light and air to enter the house. Breezway Altair louvers, Viridian Comfort Plus low-e glass, and Western Red Cedar–framed sliding glass doors on the ground floor and pivot stay windows on the second story allow residents to control how open or closed the house is. Photo by: Brett Boardman
Langston-Jones works tucked in his office beneath the stairs.
Limitations—even in choice of wardrobe—fuel the creative fires of Dutch master Karel Martens. His influential graphic design career spans nearly half a century, and he continues to explore new ground.
A second bedroom was converted into a home office/dining room. A Dieter Rams 606 Universal Shelving System (below and opposite) lines the wall. The “Ziggy Diamond” wallpaper (behind the surreal Erle Loran painting) comes from Flavor Paper, a New Orleans firm that prints wall coverings to order, and the ingenious folding table is by Swedish designer Bruno Matthson.
Project Projects is helmed by Rob Giampietro (on left), Adam Michaels (on right), and Prem Krishnamurthy (not pictured).
Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company, but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design-centric blog, SwissMiss. The self described Swiss designer gone NYC covers everything from typography to eyebrow dances, curating a specific cross-section of humor, design and inspiration.
Spiekermann and Dulkinys agree that their house—the first they’ve built from the ground up—is definitely different.
The concrete wall mimics the slope of the hill outside as a reference to early Maori structures that were dug into the land. The simple kitchen has strandboard cabinetry and an MDF island that conceals a fireplace at one end. The ceramic works on the built-in seat at right are by Raewyn Atkinson and Robyn Lewis.
The exterior of the Popadich residence is modeled after boat storage sheds, while the interior is outfitted with industrial concrete and ply.
In the suburb on the mountain’s lower slopes, Michael O’Sullivan and his sons Seamus and Finbar exchange motorcycle tips outside the compact, innovative home O’Sullivan designed.
Kayak in hand, Tom and Will make a break for the beach.
The sunny side of the home is clad in cedar weatherboards and features sleeping quarters on the upper level with living spaces below.
In the kitchen, the showstopping ceiling’s herringbone pattern is echoed by the terra-cotta tiles on the floor. Architect Michael O’Sullivan, who designed the steel-and-glass kitchen cabinets, the table, and the pendant lights (made by Lava Glass), further amped up the richness of the room by specifying an onyx kitchen island. Interior designer Yvette Jay, a collaborator and classmate of O’Sullivan, kept her material palette “tight and limited. I had to restrict myself so that everything here ties in with the architecture.”
The outdoor room is backed by a gabion wall made of stone. Rainwater runs off the roofs into a channel before being funneled through pipes concealed within it to an underground concrete tank.
The standing-seam metal siding was rolled on site in an effort to reduce waste. It was prefinished with Kynar paint in the color Preweathered Galvalume.
Though the Cook Inlet is nearby, from the street, the house’s simple facade gives little indication of the sights that await a visitor.
Perched on top of a hill, the house is accessed by a long staircase that runs up to the exterior courtyard. The dogs, naturally, take their own route.
In the summer of 2010, photographer Eirik Johnson adventured to the most northern stretch of the United States to capture several hunting cabins in Barrow, Alaska. He returned in winter 2012 during the frigid Arctic Winter Solstice to photograph the same cabins at the precise angle and position, as he did that one summer. With only a brief four hour window of dusk-like light during this recent winter trip, he still managed to succeed in a complete visual contrast, especially when the images are viewed side by side.
A bona fide classic of contemporary design, Grcic's Myto chair for Plank is a winner in the injection-molded plastic chair camp.
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic designed the Accento series for Italian kitchen and tableware company Serafino Zani. The designer noted that the company exposed him to a culture that is "especially attentive to contemporary design and technology while at the same time having strong links with artisan traditions." From left to right: Servine Lifter, Cheese Knife, and Risotto Spoon
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic in his Munich studio. Photo by Oliver Mark.
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