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On this Friday, we share a residence in Whistler, a wind map of the United States, a project that pays homage to Miami's...

Pennsylvania-based Emeco is known for iterations on one theme: virtually indestructible chairs made from recycled aluminum.

In this series, Sebastian Mariscal designs a home in Venice, California, that brings the outside in. We track the project from...

Affordable furniture emporium IKEA inspires some conflicted feelings.

Jenny Wu, a partner at Oyler Wu Collaborative, documents the process from design through fabrication of their latest...

Back again in Milan this year is the ever-present Dror Benshetrit,who wowed us in years past with his Peacock Chair for Capellini...

In 1997, musician Lars Storschen started renting out rooms in his house to supplement his income.

Architect and healthcare design visionary Michael Graves shares his thoughts on how paralysis has affected his approach and...

We put the same six questions to everyone we talked to for the Now 99 issue to learn what they’re reading, rethinking, and...

Polling the personalities of our Now 99 on their greatest influences, earliest design moments, and the details that make them so...

Yet another week has flown by and the weekend is upon us. Below we share some of our favorite discoveries, which include a go-to...

I was in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week to talk at a green design conference, and in my two quick days there I was able to see a few...

Kiel Moe, assistant professor of architectural technology at Harvard University, specializes in architecture and energy issues.

Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, says that some anthropologists believe that we tamed...

Taming fire was humankind’s first and most critical step toward its mastery of the material world.

Located on a quiet suburban street in South London, the shop Colour Makes People Happy is painted in a surprisingly subtle shade...

Jenny Wu, a partner at Oyler Wu Collaborative, documents the process from design through fabrication of their latest...

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A one-of-a-kind house on a Japanese island blurs the indoor-outdoor divide.

Jenny Wu, a partner at Oyler Wu Collaborative, documents the process from design through fabrication of their latest...

In her new e-book, Design Voices, Anna Carnick puts eight designers—Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Stefan Sagmeister, Giulio...

A couple in northern Italy trade a cramped flat for a renovated farmhouse in the country.

In this installment of Friday Finds, a look at tennis's most entertaining athlete, Pantone swatches that are good enough to eat,...

It's been well-documented that architect Paul Rudolph's brutalist yet expressive aesthetic hasn't held up well to the whims of...

Set to debut in May at the Garden Festival at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, the UPO line of L.A.-made...

The legacy of midcentury designer Joe Colombo is underscored with a reissue of his plywood 4801 chair, now appearing for the...

To Frank Lloyd Wright, Ralph Walker was “the only other honest architect in America,” and to The New York Times, he was the...

I was very excited to head to Morocco for my weeklong visit with a new accessory in my back pocket: Chester Mox's Passport Cover.

The E+ Green Home, a concept house located an hour outside Seoul, not only points the way to a greener South Korea, it may well...

We at Dwell are big fans of French designer Inga Sempé's work; we've profiled her in 2007; ran a Q&A from Milan on dwell.com in...

At Dwell we know that no space is complete without the right materials.

Architect, systems designer, Cradle to Cradle founder, and sustainability guru William McDonough talks entropy, Walker Evans,...

On my last morning in Casablanca I had the good luck, and lots of local recommendations, to swing past Chez Paul for breakfast.

This courtyard house on the edge of the Berkshires offers both grand vistas and plenty of privacy, thanks to its custom rain...

Solar panels have a reputation as being unsightly, but this U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon show home sheds the...

We just firmed up our NCAA brackets in the Dwell office (Kentucky all the way!) but the one we're really curious about is Obama's.